It was november 12 1927 when the pioneer mothers sculpture was dedicated in valley park. It not only celebrates kansas citys pioneer history, but is also a tribute to those who suffered great hardship and loss while traveling across the plains in search of a better life. In her new book, pioneer mother monuments, constructing cultural identity, historian cynthia press scott walks through more than a century of recognition and rediscovering the Pioneer Monuments erected across the nation, including those in the kansas city region. We are honored to have you here today to discuss her research. Doctor press caught is an associate professor of history at the university of north dakota. Her research focuses on gender in the American West specifically intersections of gender, social class and historical memory. Her work in these areas have been published in journal of the west, Pacific Historical review and other publications. Prescotts first book was published in 2007. It traces generals an
A lasting deal can be reached. What was interesting also was the fact that for example. The u. N. Envoy on libya. Said that this process the berlin conference was a combination of meetings that had triggered or started off some 9 months ago why is this interesting because throughout that 9 months all weve seen on the ground in libya is actually an escalation of fighting primarily triggered by the side of Khalifa Haftar and thats where maybe the skepticism is coming again from is that there are people who would say that whilst these agreements conferences discussions are taking place be described one in iraq will be its moscow be its here in berlin thats all well and good but theres been very little implementation facts on the ground whats happening is one side has been gaining more and more ground gaining more and more territory getting more and more state institutions on the rates and thats whats making any agreements very unlikely to be achieved least not in the framework of the time
The last couple of hours we have been hearing live fire being used against the closure. That you says its considering ways to support a ceasefire in libya including a possible military led mission on the Ground Fighting broke out of the capital hours after a peace summit aimed at ending the conflict wrapped up in berlin but has more. The you in particular now is under pressure to show that it is determined to implement the cease fire agreement and also the stem the flow of arms into libya as has been agreed on here in berlin but this is going to be an extremely delicate task of this explains why the e. U. Policy chief. Is talking about implementing the ceasefire looking at whatever means to ensure that that is going to be implemented on the ground including the possibility of a military force operating on the ground at least 6 people have been killed in a series of russian air strikes in syria the attacks were carried out in western aleppo nearly 30000 civilians have been displaced ove
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The cspan cities tour travels the country exploring the american story as we c takec booktv and American History tv on the road with the support of local Cable Television provider we visited 24 cities in the last year and over the next two hours we will looknd at highlights frm some of these stops we began our special feature in milwaukee. So this is a photograph of the lynching that occurred august 7, 1930 in marion, indiana. James cameron to a 16 was supposed be the third person hanging from the tree but he survived the lynching. His friends, abe and tommy, were killed that day by a mob estimate between ten ten and 10 angry whites. Often misidentified as 1000 lynching. It it was a northcentral indiana when the lynching took place. So y we ended up writing a book that he called a time of he actually started to write those when he was in jail awaiting his trial and then when he is finally convicted and sent to prison he finished writing the book. James cameron was born in wisconsin in