100 years have been followed. That women have been an integral part of the electorate system doing Little Things that have made voting a privilege that many of us have as a habit. Youre exactly right. We need to create that habit because in the United States were still 35 is a very good turn out and thats not right zmip. We still have a ways to go. I think youre absolutely right. I cant answer all of your questions but i certainly hope that conversations like this are a good place for to us start and i think youre exactly right. Suffrage was just a means to an end. It was one part of it. Then 100 years of work thats happened since then and certainly as weve discovered not discovered tonight but mentioned tonight there are plenty of other things we as women are interested in, we want to learn about, we want to educate ourselves and we want to make sure were telling those stories of the women that we just again arent at the tip of our tongues most definitely and i certainly hope as we mo
Of course, allied american cover in particular is far too strong for it, but its kind of their last gasp. The idea is they have to have the American Fleet in a place where they know they can find it. They dont have enough fuel to sail around the ocean. Even if American Power werent an issue. Yes . Also right here they launched 355 kamikazes. Although we did some back and sink the yamato and escort ships as well. Absolutely. The American Navy suffers more deaths at okinawa than they did in their whole previous rest of the pacific war. Now how does that play into the japanese strategy . Got to cause the pain, right . Thats the whole idea. Wear down the american will by causing casualties. Okinawa is almost ideal from the Japanese Point of view. They cause horrific casualties to the American Land forces, the length of the battle forces, American Navy to stay off okinawan waters, especially the kamikazes. But okinawa does fall. And the japanese high command very quickly realizes whats most
Coming up, American History tv on cspan 3 looks at the dropping of the atomic bomb during world war ii. Next grant weller teaching a class on american and japanese strategies leading up to the dropping of the bomb. Then a debate on president trumans decision to use the atomic bomb. Later president trumans zbroond join survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki to consider the legacy of the atomic bombs. Next u. S. Air force Academy History professor grant weller teaches a class on americas use of the atomic bombs against japan at the end of world war ii and examines japanese social and political attitudes. This is just under an hour. Outside standing. Take yo outstanding. Well finish your survey of the Second World War with ten of the asiapacific war. Before next week launching into a more detailed discussion about the war without mercy. We start off with the surrender ceremony on the 2nd of september, 1945, with the demonstration of air and naval strength that macarthur and others arranged t
Later by monty. It was the first in a three volume work. American president s have long been a subject of professor haltons research and writing. He authored the critically acclaimed jf k Reckless Youth which inspired a television miniseries. Former president bill clinton was the focus of a twovolume caesarsy and american. That examined 12 u. S. President s. Professor hamiltons keen interest in biography led to the of publishers on the biography bookshop in the mid80s. Through his efforts, the British Institute of biography and the first center for biography in britain was established. Two of his books reflect his great enthusiasm for the study of biography. Not only has he written or cowritten, by my count, at least 25 books, but professor hamilton has won numerous awards for his writing. Among them, the award for biography, the templar medal for best contribution to military history. Today, reddish foreign Nigel Hamilton is an american citizen and his most recent work, the was releas
Thank you very much. Youre watching American History tv, 48 hours of rogramming on American History every weekend on cspan 3. Cspan s on twitter at history for information on our programs, andoming keep one the latest history news. 1944 amidst in world war ii, president franklin campaigned for the fourth and final term as president. Weintraub ley discusses the wartime election and deteriorating health. His book is final victory. This was recorded in the National Portrait gallery in and itss a little under an hour. My book is called final victory. It suggests there was nothing victories in his life. Actually, that was not the case. State two terms as a senator from new york state. He became assistant secretary of world war i. Ng he then was chosen to be the Vice President ial candidate when democratic ticket in 1920 when the democrats were sure to lose. And they lost. He lost with them. Ut he he thought that this would only energize his career. He had national visibility. And do oing to