York. A look at the Civil Rights Movement in new york. Greetings. With the book of Historical Society as of today the brooklyn Historical Society is the new center for brooklyn history i am marsha eli i wanted to welcome you all and say that those of you that have enjoyed the Public Program at this one. We will keep presenting about the issues of our times. In the history that needs to be told more freely. Visit our programs page at the center for brooklyn history website. It is such a pleasure to be partnering with the brooklyn book festival on this. A long history of yankee racism. I have unfortunate news that one of our speakers have a sudden family emergency this morning. He will not be with us today. It is my pleasure to introduce to scholars who have done an enormous amount of work to correct a misguided narrative about racism in the north i urge you to buy their book by clicking on the buy bulk button and the books well also continue to be for sale on the festival website afterw
The National History center cohosted this event. Once more, welcome everyone. Welcome to the Wilson Center, welcome to this washington history seminar. A seminar through which we try to provide at the Wilson Center in connection with our partners at the National History center, historical perspectives on international and national affairs. Im christiane offerman, i direct the history and Public Policy program here at the Wilson Center and i have the privilege to cochair with my College Professor eric carlson of George Washington university. This is a joint enterprise by the National History center and initiative of the American Historical Association, directed by professor dane kennedy, i dont know if dane is with us today. Joint initiative between the National History center and the history and Public Policy program here. Were in our ninth year of holding these sessions every week during the semester, mondays at 4 00 p. M. And i hope to see many of you again for future sessions. Let m
World war ii. Scholars talk about the many ways people engage and learn about the holocaust on the internet. The we pa Lepage Center hosts the event. The previously United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Historian Daniel Greene gave us a tour of the exhibit he curated americans and the holocaust. Part one focused on the 1930s. In part two, we learn about the America First movement and how the United States responded to nazi persecution and murder of jews as some of the atrocities became public knowledge. This is about 45 minutes. In 1939, on september 1, germany invades poland. World war ii breaks out that week. Whats on americans minds in 1939 is staying out of war. You see in this section of the exhibition deep concern in the United States about spies, about nazi spies in the United States. At the time, called a fifth column. Americans are asked by gallop, do you believe germany started to organize a fifth column of spies . 71 of americans say yes. You see this fear of spies played
Collaboration between the college of science and department of history and our mission is to bring history on conpeople to rather issues and we do that through a variety of means. We host a variety of programs. We have a blog about contemporary issue from a historical perspective. Were in the midst of a collaboration with the philadelphia enquirer to infuse more journalism and do a number of Different Things here on campus and out in the Community Sponsorship if youre joining us for the first time welcome. Were delighted that youre here. We hope you stay connected with us. You have a newsletter list you can sign up for outside. We have other events you can attend. We hope its the beginning of a long relationship with villanova university. For those of you who are new as well and those tuning in on cspan or on our live stream i should let you know this program is the fourth in a seer that we have done this year on the subject of revisionist history. Now you may be thinking to your self
President and not their dictator who offers commentator on how its going, note of optimism, he note that they would retaliate if the United States wants to wage a trade war, i dont know, there was a bloomberg report that lee ho, reformer, trade negotiator expressing optimism, as you said, weve been hearing this a lot for what seems many, many months, years, but maria sure has, take the tariffs off the table or we will not buy the 50 billion in ag products. The warning comes with i want to do a phase 1 deal. I think what james alluded to, this is the longest soap opera now since general hospital. [laughter] thats positive, oh, but we have to do this, i actually see the ball having not moved forward at all. I think this is just more negotiations, i hope this gets resolved in 2020, if not, here is the great thing, the markets have seemed to have been inoculated, the markets are doing great in the absence of anything happening. Dagen in absence of escalation. Yes. Dagen again, President Tr