It has been a exciting for us to see how engaged history educators are even when they cant either. Im grace leatherman, executive director of the National Council for history education. We are loving doing this online conference with you. Mr. Hochschild it is a pleasure to be with you because there is no kind of person i more enjoy talking with ben teachers of history. Teachers of history have been tremendously important in my life from high school, from college, and also people who are involved in teaching public history by working in museums and historical sites. All of that has had a huge influence on my life. I dont think i would be writing History Today were it not for two very good history teachers i had when i was in high school. Let me tell you a little bit about how i came to the subject that im going to talk about today. I have, for a long time, as long as long as i can remember, been obsessed with the First World War. I had relatives on both sides of my family who fought in
National conference for History Education move their Conference Online because of the coronavirus outbreak. The session up next features to mystic unrest during and after world war i, including antigerman sentiment, race riots and arrest of suspected communists. Hes the author of to end all wars. It is 11 00, so i think we know you are excited to be here and to hear about the legacy of the First World War today. Thank you for being with us over these past three days stop it has been a exciting for us to see how engaged history educators are even when they cant either. Im the executive director of the National Council for History Education. We are loving doing this online conference with you. It is a pleasure to be with you because there is no kind of person i more enjoy talking with ben teachers of history. Teachers of history have been tremendously important in my life from high school, from areege, and also people who involved in teaching public history while by working in museums an
Group Islamic State says it carried out friday stabbing in Central London 2 people were killed in that attack 3 others badly injured perpetrator had served time in prison for previous terrorist offenses before being freed early on license last year british Prime Minister has criticised that practice of automatic really. Clear to me that. This guy was out. Half of the sentence he was out on automatic Early Release and i have long said that this system simply isnt working it does not make sense for us as a society to be putting terrorist people convicted of terrorist offenses a serious offenses out on Early Release. 28 year old was released from prison in december he was jailed for planning a bomb attack on the London Stock Exchange in 2010 his other targets back then reportedly included the u. S. Embassy and Boris Johnson who at the time was mary of london was still wearing his electronic tag when he carried out fridays assault video showing the aftermath of the stabbing of been put on
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Im a fellow here at the hudson institute. And because we have a short amount of time, im going to pivot as quickly as we can to our excellent panel. Luckily, i do not have to give out reminders about Chatham House rules. We are on the record. Thank you for joining us about the discussion of future u. S. Africa relations. Im delighted to be joined by a really outstanding panel. Ill just go ahead and introduce them and dive into questions. We have about 40 minutes. Ill try to reserve 10 to 15 of those for questions from the audience. We have ambassador, nonresident senior fellow and teacher of african affairs. She had a very distinguished career in Public Service in france including as deputy minister for Foreign Affairs and human rights and ambassador of france to unesco. We are happy to have her in washington and sharing insights with us. Next to her, joshua is a senior policy analyst on africa and the middle east at the heritage found egg. He was previously at the Africa Center and sp