Campus color line College President s and the struggle for black freedom. Its out on september 29. If you havent yet preordered a copy of the book please consider grabbing one from book depot, we ship nationally, internationally, we have Curbside Pickup and we are actually open at a limited capacity. Just a heads up, weekends are busy so your best luck is swinging by monday or tuesday. Will share some guidelines in our chats and share some links to the book so you have easy access to purchases. Remember that your purchase goes to our supporting arts bookstore and staff. With that i would like to give a walkthrough of our platform and event after the introduction our guests for the night will be joining us up on the screen. We will be taking questions from the audience, please submit your questions in the q a photo below. If you are looking at the art below to the right you will see two bubbles that say q a thats where you should put them i would avoid the chat so we can keep track of a
Happy may day. Thank you for joining us this afternoon in helping us make this program a great success. We have had over 350 people register for this from across the country and from places as far away as japan. I think it is about 4 00 a. M. In japan, so im not sure if that person made it, but still impressive that program has that much reachle i has that much reach. I would like to extend a special welcome to anyone who might be attending Virtual Program for the first time. Considering the size of the virtual crowd and the geographic spread, im sure there are some that are interacting for the first time. If you are not familiar with us, we are the oldest Historical Society in america. Were founded in 1791 and have been an independent Nonprofit Institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, publishing and sharing our state and nations history for the past 229 years. In these days of social distancing, we have been we have taken to hosting Virtual Events. We have Online Events planne
Other stops on our tour at www. Cspan. Org citiestour. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. Next come historians discuss u. S. Foreignpolicy on human rights during the latter half of the cold war. Chileters focus on iran, and cuba. They also examined the american stance on womens rights, torture and oppression in the developing world from the 1960s on. This session was hosted by the American Historical Association at their annual meeting. Its about an hour and a half. Thank you for coming to this session on human rights in the late cold war era. My name is amanda moniz. On the curator of philanthropy at the Smithsonian National museum of American History. Until recently, i was associate director of the National History center of the American Historical Association, which sponsored this afternoons panel. Amanda perry is the new assistant director. We are grateful to sarah snyder for organizing this panel. Panelistsroduce our all together and then we will hear their papers, wh
When old man depression came along at the last to get them back. We struggled to regain our bearings while depression stopped the nation. 1 10 of the population, one out of every four of us was on relief. In vain, we sought for some to restore our confidence and courage. Without jobs, we had no money. Without money, we could not purchase food. Our only hope lay in charity. Hunger drove our people to the bread lines. We waited for better days. Then came the federal work program. The gave us a new chance to take a normal place in the life of our community. It made a selfsupporting. He changed the haggard faces of the bread line into of hope and happiness because now we work again. Unskilled laborers, the forgotten minute past generations, now worked steadily at decent wages. They are working to repair schools, public buildings, and airports to meet the changing needs of our modern world. Monday night, the f. C. C. Commissioner on net neutrality, reclassifying broadband as a utility, and
Concentration camp, where more than one million people, mostly jews, were killed nazi concentration camp. Each week, American History tvs american artifacts takes you to museums, archives, and historic basis. The Amelia Ehrhardt collection at Purdue University houses the Worlds Largest assemblage of papers related to the pioneer. She shows us selected items of the collection including poems and letters she wrote to her family as well as a letter she wrote to her husband on their wedding day. She worked at lafayette for the last two years of her life as she prepared for an around the world flight funded by purdue. It was during this flight she disappeared in 1937. from an airplane, even the watchful purple hills could not see so well as i the stain of evening. She would have been 23 whenever she was writing these. But you can see that she has a romanticized view of the height, being able to see nature below her. When she became an aviation editor for cosmopolitan she would write about t