Or through our social media feeds. The cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. For six days in early october 1918, more than 500 u. S. Soldiers were surrounded by germans in the argon forest in northeastern france. At the time, the story of the lost battalion became front page news back home and it continues to be remembered as one of world war is most dramatic stories. Up next, on american artifacts, we travel to france with a battlefield guide and a historian who explain what happened and show us century old trenches and a memorial to the lost battalion in the argon forest. Where are we standing . We are int the middle of the forest. Were standing close by to a mine crater. A big mine exploding here. You look at the size of the crater, its probably nowadays one century after world still around 25 feet deep and Something Like 80 feet wide. So such a big mine exploding here. We have to imagine cloud
Styles. Visit our website. Cspan. Org thepresident s. To learn more about each president and his historian feature and order your copy today wherever books and ebooks are sold. For six days in early october, 1918, more than 500 u. S. Soldiers were surrounded by germans in the argon forest in northeastern france. At the time, the story of the lost battalion became frontpage news back home. And it continues to be remembered as one of world war i is most dramatic stories. Up next on american artifacts we travel to france with a battlefield guy and a historian who explained what happened and show us centuryold trenches and a memorial to the lost battalion in the argon forest. So here, where we are standing. We are in the middle of the forest, in fact. We are standing close by a mine crater. Such big mine exploding here. If you look at the size of the crater, its probably nowadays one century, still around 25 feet deep and Something Like 80 feet wide. A mine exploding here. We have up in th
Own. That is what started my historical brain in thinking, how did we get to this point and did it exist historically . So i started to do that project. This project now is sort of a sequel to the first project. Because i discovered in my first book that the history of miscarriage i stopped right around 1900. I realized there was a lot more to the story because by 1900, we still will were not going to a doctor during pregnancy. I was really curious as to win that started, because i thought it was going to happen earlier. That is why i started looking at the development of prenatal care and why exactly women thought that was a good idea. It was not just doctors saying you should come to us. Historically doctors have tried that for many centuries for a variety of reasons and it does not always convince people. I wanted to investigate why women started going to the doctors while pregnant. Steve they did not go to doctors in the 19th century . Shannon no and doctors were not , even trying
Next historian , Rudolph Daniels talks about his book, the Great Railroad war United States Railway Operations during world war i. He argues that the ability to move troops, equipment and ammunition at an accelerated rate helped allied forces win wwi. The National World war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri hosted the event. Hello, welcome everyone to your National World war i museum and memorial. Im camille kulig, program specialist. And i am thrilled to have everyone joining us here this afternoon, whether you have braved the rain, congratulations you made it. Or whether you are warm at home watching through our livestream. Today, we have the pleasure of hosting dr. Rudy daniels , who is going to present his lecture, the Great Railroad war United States Railway Operations during wwi. Today, we also have the pleasure of being joined by one of the museum and memorials esteemed board members, dave ebbrecht. And he is going to speak more about his ample experiences with rail
is losing support within his own political party. one analyst says the numbers could not be worse for the democrat commander-in-chief who wants america to hire him again. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the president last night dismissed the truth. mr. president, why are you losing to trump in the polls? they are the wrong polls. harris: hum. among democrat voters a majority want a different presidential nominee. you ve heard me say it over and over. anybody but biden. a panel of dem contracts from michigan aren t enthusiastic. i want the candidate that i vote for to earn my vote. i will probably agonize again once i m in the ballot box about what to do. so are you saying that you at this point are planning to vote for president biden but reluctantly? very reluctantly. there is no way i will vote republican but reluctantly yes, i will vote biden. harris: on the other side of the political aisle presidential candidates hoping to capital