Complicated and controversial building of a memorial to president James Garfield on the u. S. Capitol grounds. Well hear from Matthew Gilmore who edits a washington, d. C. History blog. Those of you probably know matt by name, if not in person. He runs a blog, the matthew b. Gilmore press blog and also hes an author of the column of the intowner. If you follow d. C. History, hes been integrally involved. Anything history in d. C. Oh, you also run the d. C. History list. Thank you for that on behalf of the city. Today hes going to talk about James Garfield, his death and efforts to commemorate his life and death here in washington, d. C. I wont say too much more about it. I dont want to steal his steam. Please join me in welcoming matt. [ applause ] thank you very much. The story im going to tell might be ripped from todays or recent headlines. There was a president ial memorial delayed for years caught up in congressional infighting. Legislation pending. A powerful lobby behind the mem
Albion, im a curator historian here at the International Spy museum in washington d. C. We have the largest collection of espionage and intelligence related artifacts in the world. Today, we are going to be looking at cold war berlin. After world war ii ended, germany was divided between the victors. That is the united states, france, the United Kingdom and this soviet union. The soviet union occupied the east and the other three countries occupied the west. That included the capital city of berlin which was also divided into four sectors. One for each of the victors. The soviets occupied the eastern zone of berlin and the three western powers occupying the western zone of berlin. This was the start of the division of germany and the division of berlin after the war. That division became concrete with the erection of the berlin wall in 1961. The wall was put up by the east germans ostensibly to keep people out. In the years after world war ii and with the occupation of east germany and
At the International Spy museum in washington, d. C. We have the largest collection of espionage and intelligencerelated artifacts in the world, and today were going to be looking at cold war berlin. Now, after world war ii end ed, germany was divided between victors. Thats the united states, france, united kingdom, and the soviet union. Soviet union occupied the east and the other three countries the west. And that included the capital city of berlin, which was also divided into four sectors, one for each of the victors, again, with the soviets occupying the eastern zone of berlin, and the three western powers occupying the western zones of berlin. And this start of the division of germany, and the division of ber ly berlin after the war. Now, that division became concrete with the erection of the berlin wall in 1961. Now, the wall was put up by the eastern germans offensively to keep people out. In the years after world war ii and with the occupation of east germany and east berlin b
And im a curator historian here at the International Spy museum in washington, d. C. We have the largest collection of espionage and intelligencerelated artifacts in the world, and today were going to be looking at cold war berlin. Now, after world war ii ended, germany was divided between victors. Thats the united states, france, united kingdom, and the soviet union. Soviet union occupied the east and the other three countries the west. And that included the capital city of berlin, which was also divided into four sectors, one for each of the victors, again, with the soviets occupying the eastern zone of berlin, and the three western powers occupying the western zones of berlin. And this start of the division of germany, and the division of berlin after the war. Now, that division became concrete with the erection of the berlin wall in 1961. Now, the wall was put up by the eastern germans offensively to keep people out. In the years after world war ii and with the occupation of east g
Please welcome our guest speaker. [applause] hello, guess who i am. [laughter] if i have to give you an introduction about tara, you need to just get out of the whole you have been living in for a while because her book has just celebrated the hundredth consecutive week ahead of michelle malcolm, michelle, down there thats very cool. Im assuming that a lot of people are familiar with the narrative, and thats why youre so interested and youre s still here for the last lecture on the second day. I thought we would still go through some of her story because its so gripping and it starts in idaho, and actually to me at such a beautiful setting, there must be a lot of beautiful memories you still have from that. Yes. It was a really Beautiful Mountain that i grew up on. I still have really fond memories of being on that mountain and of playing on that mountain, i think its an incredible, we had this entire ground and wonderful space and a lot of great things that can happen. I guess we were