Moved me in equal measure. Iifather fought in world war on the canal and absolutely magnificent work. Of anthe author authoritative look at the end game of the pacific war, and most recently macarthur. I asked if there was a subtitle, and he said no, the man stands alone, in need of no subtitle. I am currently working on a narrative, a trilogy to the so lets give him encouragement. He was in the historical consultant in the hbo series. Richard will be speaking today macarthur, and drooling postwar japan. I give you Richard Frank. [applause] Richard Frank thank you. Thank you, rob, for that generous introduction. Pleased thatlarly he did not accuse me of the dignified. [applause] [laughter] i was at the Conference Center a couple days ago, at the end of the conference, there were certain remarks and the explained that at centers, the british army trains lieutenants and he told us about how they have various tactical and other problems that they gave him, but the also like to talk about
From eddie murphy movies. So, of course, everyone who lived in brooklyn were vampires, and if you wanted to find the clean, you would go to queens, of course. , we are going to export more about flushing, queens, is community, its microcosm of world religions. Before we begin, just a little bit about our author. Has lang r. Scott hanson a phd from the university of chicago. He is but most of his adult life thinking about pluralism in the world, but most of it from the neighborhood of flushing, queens, in new york city of course. He has studied acting and the university, sunni, the university of pennsylvania. Inis currently a lecturer history at the university of pennsylvania. He has studied at the the universityy, of pennsylvania. Ladies and german, please join ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming ruth tonight. Cott hanson [applause] all right. Good evening and welcome. That i should add tonights talk will be filmed by American History tv on cspan3. So, during the question
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] this week, cspan is in fresno learning more about the citys history. Right now we are in kearney park. Gamed for one of the citys an pioneers. We are in the kearney mansion. This was the managers residence. Mr. Kearney did not intend to live here or mentally. He at plans for a grander chateau to be built on the property. For years until he died. Mr. Kearney was really a selfmade man. He was not born here in california. He was born in liverpool, england. His family immigrated. They settled in a suburb of boston. Commercial to college, learned how to be a businessman. And he worked for a Manufacturing Company there. He started as a clerk, and before he knew it, he was a manager of the business they are in boston. Sometime in a kasich yunnan, he decided to come out here to california. It was a per
A panel of historians talk about antivice campaigns through the first halftime 1900s. Like crusadse against oipium and prostitution. Reform groups often had competing tactics. This was hosted by the american historical association. It is about an hour1 2. Welcome. It is my great privilege to be the moderater of this panel. We have three really fine papers and a comment today. Well just go in the order in the program and i will introduce each person before they speak. So if were ready, well get going. Our first presentation is by harle fisher, professor of modern global history at the Swiss Federal Institute of technology. The author of many wonderful stories including san scrist sociology ant zpw peerism. Race class. And the editor of limits of british control in south asia. The title of the talk today is eradicating the scourge of drink and the unpardonnable sin f inleaget sexual enjoyment. Thank you for these kind words. Thanks to the audience for coming out in this weather. As the t
Home and learn more about his vision for this area. Ruth lang we are located here in the kearney mansion. This is built in 1903. This was the managers residence. Mr. Kearney did not intend to live here permanently. He had plans for a grander chateau to be built on the property. Hes lived here for years until he died in 1906. Mr. Kearney was really a selfmade man. He was not born here in california. He was born in liverpool, england. When he was 12 his family immigrated to america. They settled in a suburb of boston. And he went to commercial college, learned how to be a businessman. He worked for a truck Manufacturing Company there. He started as a clerk, worked his way up and before he knew it, he was a manager of the business there in boston. He eventually decided to come out here to california. It was a perfect time because the Transcontinental Railroad was coming through. They understood the people buying the land out here, this was the perfect opportunity to grow crops in this reg