The secret diary of mary thorpe, 2017s gender and the great war, and 2017s world war i a short history. That really is a spectacular book. I consistently get asked questions if theres a short book, great for teaching at an introductory point. If youd have not seen proctors short history on world war i, that is a nice entry point. Also clearly, she was very busy in 2017. [laughter] she is presently working on a study of American Humanitarian aid in the u. S. From 1914 to 1924, which you will be hearing about more in a few seconds. Ladies and gentlemen, please help me in welcoming dr. Tammy proctor. [applause] dr. Proctor to test this out, is it working . Yes . Ok. Good. There you go. Dr. Proctor all right, we are good. Thank you to laura for that nice introduction and to camille for all the work she did. Its great to come to kansas city. As laura said, it is my hometown. Its always wonderful to be here. I would also like to thank dr. Kuhn for setting up my talk by mentioning famine reli
Us. I would like to acknowledge some very important people who are with us this evening. Matts parents, tim and debbie costello, and his wife, kristen. And the two most important, his two little wonderful kids, i guess they are at home, sophia and theodore. Welcomealso like to some members of the board of directors who are with us tonight. Nan stock. [applause] and bob mcgee. [applause] and we have two that are coming, Anita Mcbride and gail west. Both will be with us tonight. Steve strong is the national cochair of our white house, National Council on white house history. He and his wife andrea are here with us tonight. This is one of our most important groups here at the White House Historical association. Their support, their encouragement, their inspiration and their wisdom really puts the wind in the sails of so much of what we do. We are grateful to have you with us here tonight, steve. The program tonight, dr. Matt costello, is going to share with us about his brandnew book hot