What artifacts reveal about americas past. Historys bookshelf. The presidency, looking at the policies and legacies of our commanders in chief. And our new series, reel america, featuring archival government and educational films. Cable 3, created by the and tv industry and funded by her local cable or satellite tv provider. Watch us on tv, follow us on facebook. August 29th marks the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina. One of the five deadliest storms and u. S. History. Cspan coverage begins life monday at 10 00 a. M. Et. During an allday event featuring officials, authors and community leaders. That evening at 8 00, more from poets, activists and others. 9 30, a 2005 house hearing featuring new orleans citizens describing their experiences before and after. They told us they would take us to shelters where we could get help and get the seniors to help. They loaded us up on these military trucks, then they declare the city of new orleans, Orleans Parish and Jefferson Parish a war z
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
Engendering america, and most recently relentless reformer, Josephine Roche and progressivism in 20th Century America, published in 2015. That book is available for purchase in signing after the session. It is on that subject, Josephine Roche, we will hear from robyn muncy today. Robyn . Thank you so much to christian and eric and the Woodrow Wilson center for inviting me to speak and thank you to amanda and peter for taking care of the logistics. Im delighted by the opportunity to launch this biography of Josephine Roche at the Wilson Center because i spent an absolutely glorious year of fellowship here in 20072008. Came back in the summer of 2009, spent that summer is a Public Policy scholar. It feels really good to bring this finally completed work to an institution that did so much to nurture it. I thought i would begin by explaining how it happened that i spent a decade of my life researching and writing the biography of a woman nobody has ever heard of. [laughter] it all started
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
Reformer, Josephine Roche and progressivism in 20th Century America, published in 2015. That book is available for purchase and signing outside these doors after the session. It is on that subject, Josephine Roche, we will hear from robyn muncy today. Robyn . Thank you so much to christian and eric and the Woodrow Wilson center for inviting me to speak and thank you to amanda and peter for taking care of the logistics. Im delighted by the opportunity to launch this biography of Josephine Roche at the Wilson Center because i spent an absolutely glorious year of fellowship here in 20072008. Came back in the summer of 2009, because i could not get enough, spent that summer as a Public Policy scholar. It feels really good to bring this finally completed work to an institution that did so much to nurture it. I thought i would begin by explaining how it happened that i spent a decade of my life researching and writing the biography of a woman nobody has ever heard of. [laughter] it all start