American women in three ways, were going to talk about women at home. Women at work and women at war. Were just going to kind of organize our ideas this way, and were going to look at a lot of the propaganda, weve been talking about propaganda this semester, well get a chance to talk about everybody found that video okay, the all right, its a good one on women at work during world war ii. You can find it on the National Archives website. Well talk about that in this portion, well talk about that in these different parts of american women during world war ii, were just hitting the survey of this, theres so much we could talk about throughout the entire semester. And we do all of u. S. And world war ii, except we cant do all of it, we do our bits and pieces. Weve already talked about some of these things. Some of it will be familiar, especially when we get to the women at work part. Be sure to stop me if you have any questions and well do our thi thing. Sew women at home. When we think a
Scotland yard, canadian police, the fbi, that sort of thing. They have been around longer than any state Law Enforcement organization in the United States. And they have this worldwide image. That is what i am going to explore a little bit tonight. How they got this image, what this image is, but i think we all have some idea of what a texas ranger is. Maybe from tvs and movies, if nothing else. That was my first exposure to the rangers. Growing up in florida, i watched this disney show called texas john slaughter. Some of you may have seen that. The theme song was texas john slaughter, made them do what they outta, because if they didnt, they would die. The lone ranger may be the most famous cinematic and tv, radio rangers that started in 1933. Out of wxyz in detroit. The script was originally called the war on lester man hunter. But then they changed it to lone ranger. We would still be talking about it today. The rangers have been in hundreds of movies. There have been hundreds of b
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It was. What we are politics and 71 . I think a martian left would be the easiest way to sum it up. I was a leftwinger but it didnt make sense to be a communist. Went to the transformational kerr . It was gradual. It took place, in fact i just wrote about this. There is a book coming out from the Hoover Institute of why i turned right and its a story of a bunch of us. And it is a long story and i wont tell you but i will give the short version. I was a radical leftist in a search of marxist socialist thing in america and i got a job i got a job paying 150 a week. I was the messenger in new york. That was a lot of money as far as i was concerned. I was very broke and i was paid every two weeks. I was really looking forward to that 300 and so was my landlord. And my drug dealer. [laughter] and other people. I got my first paycheck it was 178. It was supposed to be 300 but after taxes and Social Security and Health Care Retirement fund i said wait. I have been advocating socialism marxism
Tom on berkshire mountain there did dwell Norman Rockwell narrator stockbridge is in massachusetts in an area called berkshire county. A pretty place that used to be isolated, surrounded by hills and mountains. Not big like the alps or the rockies, but big enough to discourage traveling in the olden days. Going west from boston, you had to head over the passes on the old mohawk trail. Then you got into an area maybe 20 miles wide and 50 miles long. Like a lot of new england towns, there are the traditional white houses and neat gardens and picket fences. That is the oldest house. Then there are the churches. And the town hall. The country around stockbridge farms, water in good supply. They tell me it is much like the lake country in england, including the writers to go along with the scenery. Hermann melville, the author of moby dick, lived here. In the summertime, the quiet of the town changes to a bustle of summer visitors, who come to enjoy the countryside, the theater, the ballet