for its headquarters from 1944 to 1946. [applause] thank you very much. thanks for coming, everyone. while we change the slides in the front, let me say thanks to all of you. those of us who write and do research are dependent on a vast network of support, and i want to express a public thanks to archivists, to historians, colleagues and friends and the editors and publishers who helped me on the journey that i m going to be speaking with you about tonight. um, and i want to start out by saying something you probably have never heard at the beginning of a history lecture which is that it s okay to laugh. as the cartoon on the screen suggests, there are some laughable moment toss the story moments to the story that we re going to be thinking together about tonight. some of it is going to strike you as a little bit funny, and it is from our vantage point. tonight we re thinking back to the years 1944- 46, the end of the second world war and the transition to peace. and in t
i have a daughter who is a contra vagsists. we love your work. that just gave us a short glimpse of everything you will be able to see? that s the beautiful parks. this is not a nature film, per se, but a history of the ideas. for the first time in human history, land was set aside not for kings or the royalty or rich, but for everybody. it s not just a top down story of famous white guys like rockefeller jr. and theodore roosevelt, but a story of red, white, unknown, and it s a sense of an emotional transformation. each one of the people we interviewed to tell a story
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