Think of themselves in the world, in a very different way. If you want to understand the 20th century, if you want to understand the role that the United States plays, the 1890s is the place to start because the transformation that you see among the people and their attitudes in the 1890s is little short of amazing. Remember this. Remember that as far back as you want to go in American History, the idea has been that the United States and before that, the american colonies we are over here and the rest of the world is the rest of the world. There is this purposeful sense that we are us, and the rest of the world can do whatever it wants. Whatever it is going to do, it is not going to affect us. I am dancing around the word isolation because that has a lot of baggage around it. But that is part of it. We were an isolated country. Or it is not isolated, if you dont want to use isolation. We can pick and choose however much involvement we wanted, and we usually did not want any involvemen
Provider. [applause] thank you, ladies and gentlemen, meese be seated. It is my distinct honor to introduce a special guest and a good friend, this is the second of our jack brennan distinguished Leadership Series. The first member of that series was general james mattis who was here two months. Jack brennan was the first president of president nixon, Lieutenant Colonel in the marine corps, retired from the marines rather than leave nixons side and when he had a gift of the library we thought we would name the series for and we had a distinguished we remind people that jack brennan served and continued to serve and could glad youre here. I youre a veteran or member of active duty. Would you stand and allow to us thank you. [applause] now, our guest is admiral james stavridis. From the United States Naval Academy in 1976. He went on a 37 year career and some extraordinary duty stations along the way, including, as the combat Southern Command from 2006 to 2009, and of course, nato allied
Now lets see on this little model of their quarter acre garden the plan they work out. Heres the early garden. Here, four rows of early potatoes. Then, two double rows of peas early, medium, and late. One row of cabbage. Double row of carrots and beets. Half a row of each. One double row of greens, spinach, mustard and chard. Late, wiltarly and resistant. Peppers, half a roll. Radishes, lettuces and on onions next to the house. Asparagus and rhubarb beds at the side. Four rows of sweet corn along the fence. And finally, two rows of lima beans complete the early garden. Now for the late garden. After each of the early crops is harvested, a planting of another crop is to be made so as to have a succession. For convenience of illustration, all early crops except tomatoes and chard are removed from the model. Here are the later crops. Four rows of u. S. Number five beans. Two rows of squash along the fence. Three rows of late potatoes. Late cabbage. Carrots and beets, half double rows each
American maritime history in newport, rhode island, it is one of the deepest natural in closed ports in the world. For that reason the United States navy chose it as one of its key anchorages during the prime of American Naval seapower in the early 20th century. Arguably the origins of the Naval War College began. The germans were ahead of the game, literally, in techniques of wargaming. During the wars of german unification, they came up with an idea called the general staff. The general staff was an organization that enabled all the different principalities to fall in line with their regiments under this centralized Organization Called the general staff. There was a guy named emory upton, a greater general. He said look at what the germans did with that general staff. He went over to germany and studied the german methods. He brought them back. Upton basically made the argument what we needed to do was create a federally regulated army. That idea ran against some of the traditional t
From spain and portugal, they fled to where they could worship, where they could work. Us 10 people left barb betos, but instead of going to new york or wanted to go they to rhode island. In 1636, a gentleman by the name of Roger Williams founded rhode island. He had come to the colonies from england seeking religious freedom, and 20 years after the founding of rhode island, those people in barbados said this is where they wanted to come. She was the most famous woman lighthouse keeper in the United States, but more importantly, she was the most famous lighthouse keeper in the United States. It is likely that she saved 35. Een 25 and she was a slip of a woman. She weighed 103 pounds and she was fearless. Welcome to newport, rhode island. Located on the south easternmost part of the state, newport is the home of the u. S. War college and the breakers, the vanderbilt summer home. We begin with the story of the slave trade in newport, which was once the most active slave port in north ame