thank you everybody for tuning in tonight. hello everyone. thank you so much for joining us. i m marcia eli from the brooklyn public library s center for brooklyn history and the arts and culture team bpl presents. this year brooklyn public library celebrates, its 125th anniversary. our birthday is a chance to talk about all the library does and one important part of that work is stewarding the extraordinary special collections at the center for brooklyn history. these are archives are the combined materials from the brooklyn public libraries special collections. and those of the former brooklyn historical society, and they are literally the most comprehensive collection of brooklyn related materials in the world. so we are celebrating these amazing collections and a 125th anniversary series titled out of the box. five programs that put just few of the most important or most frequently used or beloved materials center stage clearly the dodgers and robinson have to be part of
Morning about the wars causes and about sort of how the three years that most americans think of when they think of the korean war fit into a longer and a broader history. For our second part, well try to focus in a little bit on how the war played out in the lives of the individuals that were affected by it. As war in south and north korea, it ravaged the homes of millions, sometimes more than once. And we were talking about the yo yo effect of the war means war moves through your home once and then then again. It drew 6 million military personnel, not only from both north and south korea, but also from china, the United States, the soviet union and other United Nations countries, including britain, canada, australia, france, the netherlands and many others. More than two and a half Million People lost their lives, and millions more found their lives forever changed by the war. So im honored to introduce four historians whose work centers, individuals in their in the history of war an
We spent some time talking this morning about the wars causes and about sort of how the three years that most americans think of when they think of the korean war fit into a longer and a broader history. For our second part, well try to focus in a little bit on how the war played out in the lives of the individuals that were affected by it. As war in south and north korea, it ravaged the homes of millions, sometimes more than once. And we were talking about the yo yo effect of the war means war moves through your home once and then then again. It drew 6 million military personnel, not only from both north and south korea, but also from china, the United States, the soviet union and other United Nations countries, including britain, canada, australia, france, the netherlands and many others. More than two and a half Million People lost their lives, and millions more found their lives forever changed by the war. So im honored to introduce four historians whose work centers, individuals i
Tv. Were going to take a close look at the u. S. History advanced placement tests. We have to guess who are also coauthors. Jason stacey is a history professor at Southern Illinois university and edwards, phil and Matt Ellington is a High School Teacher at Iowa High School in chino hills, california. These two gentlemen are all also the coauthors of this book, fabric of a nation a history with skills and sources for the ap us history course. Matt ellington what is advanced placement history . Well, hello, thanks for having us on again. Peter advanced placement. Us history is a Program Designed by the College Board in coordination with universities and School Districts, and its an opportunity for students in high school to push themselves by taking a course that is equivalent in terms of the skills and the rigor to the kind of course they would take in college. So ap was history is fundamentally designed to be similar to in terms of the scope of the content and the skills that students
Writers conference. It is such a pleasure to be today. This afternoon, in conversation with Patricia Spears Jones merida, golden and kevin powell, we can give them a round of applause, please. I am just going to briefly read each of our authors bios and these are condensed kind of in the effort for us to have enough time, a very brief word about each writer. And then, as you know as you will do there is room that contains their wonderful books and i hope you will spend time picking up their books and spending with all of their words. As i have done for many, many years. So to begin we have Marita Golden. She is the Award Winning author over 20 works of fiction and nonfiction. Her most book is the new black woman herself has boundaries heals every day. She cofounder and present president emerita of the Hurston Wright foundation and teaches workshops and is a literary consult tim Patricia Spears Jones is an arkansas born and raised playwright cultural and author of the beloved community