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
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That it was gone forever but they were wrong. Today the British Labour party which had moved to an embrace of market capitalism promises to nationalize great swaths of the british economy could in latin america a socialist dictator grabbed power in venezuela winging that country to the brink of ruin and igniting a regional crisis. China has grown prosperous by introducing private enterprise even while the communist Party Tightens its grip over the people creating a surveillance state that former authoritarians could only dream of. All in the name of socialism. Here in the United States politicians who probably proclaim themselves socialists have scaled to the very heights of the Democratic Party reigniting the debate that many thought was over. We traced the trajectory of an idea that came to war and whose appeal is once more on the rise. This is the unauthorized history of socialism. Bret i knew my latest project for fox nation, three hour six part series about socialism would be time
Transmission of the virus in Hong Kong Sarah Clarke says there is growing skepticism about the data coming out of china earlier this week we had a pipe that was published in the lancet a scientific journal and it was written by a group of scientists at the Health Department public Health Department at the Hong Kong University and they questioned chinas numbers and their modeling and they said that more than 232000 people might have been infected in chinas 1st wave of this particular crowd of us out back that this is actually 4 times higher than the what china actually officially reported china said on february 5th they said 55000. 00 cases of the crowd a virus infection were reporting more had in the early days now the latest number of cases we have coming out of china weve got 83000 cases of infection of course thats very low when you compare them to the lights of the United States and parts of europe. India has begun easing its nationwide locked on some of the small Neighborhood Stor