And political impulses caused americans to consider americans a larger role in the world for their nation. Professor smith details the actions they took such as pursuing missionary work, arguing for the expansion of the navy and searching for new economic markets. This is just over an hour and 10 minutes. What were going to do today is start something very new and very distinct in the evolution of the story were telling. The 1890s becomes a distinct beginning of the way america thinks of itself in the world. In a very different way. If you want to understand the 20th century, if you want to understand the role that the United States assumes for itself and plays in the 20th century, the 1890s is the place to start. Because the transformation, listen, the transformation that you see among the people and their attitudes in the 1890s is little short of kind of amazing. Remember this. Remember that as far as you want to go in American History, okay, the idea has been that the United States
Dearborn, michigan. Were standing in the midst of railroad exhibit. Just as automobiles and airplanes were key technologies of 20th century, railroad was the key trmgs for 19th century. The steam engineer was thought of as equivalent to astronaut today. Its important we have a modest but important collection of railroad vehicles. What we have here are Railroad Locomotives that tell the story of railroaded in the 1830s up to the early days of electric locomotives in the 1920s. Behind me is our earliest example. This is a replica of 1831 locomotive cars used oppose hudson railroad. The replica built in 1982. It in and of itself is historic now. This gives us an idea of Steam Locomotives and trains looked like when railroads first come out of the scene in the 1830s. Mohawk located in new york state and became part of the railroad known as u. S. Central, one of the largest railroads in the United States. Railroads in the 1830s were very small, very local affairs. They might run perhaps 15,
James good evening. I hope you will excuse all of this, but i have been taking time off from my job to look into something important to all of us that seems to be confused. What i mean is missiles, highperformance airplanes. Why do we have so many . Why do we need both . Where are we going with all of this . A fellow asked me that question in london not so long ago. It is not a simple question, and i couldnt get him a simple answer. That is the reason for all this homework. It seems to me that weve got to understand just what we are building, how each of these missiles and airplanes add to our deterrence strengths, and why we have developed them and what they do. I would like to tell you what i wish i had been able to tell that fellow in london not very long ago. Some of you may remember i was a bomber pilot in world war ii. That was back when the air force inventory was a relatively simple one. There were longrange heavy bombers like this one. I flew one of these, a b24. This is some
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