For guy stuck in berlin houses germanys parliament the building is steeped in history. And 9451 of the last great battles of world war 2 raged here the red army did everything in its power to capture the vice talk building on may 1st 945 the last defenders withdrew shortly afterwards on may 8th germany surrendered. But. That was 75 years ago a long time but even today the city is still full of reminders. And today im going to visit some of these places i would like to learn more about the end of the war here in berlin and also more about the people of that time about the victims and the perpetrators about the victors and the defeated well join me in the search for traces here in the capital. I take a look at the building where the German Family signed the surrender. Visit the epicenter of the security and terror correctness of the 3rd reich. And go down into berlins underworld the ruins of a bunker in one but kind of hard. To see the inside of that i stopped building you have to regist
The library has a collection of color photographs from the 1930s and 1940s. They started as an experiment with color film. Kodak was just putting its color film on the market. Sent it out to photographers at institutions to give it a try, to see if they could create a market for it. The pictures were free. So they were appealing to newspapers, magazines, publishing agencies, book publishers. That kind of thing. I was familiar already with the black and white photographs. There are about 171,000 Farm Security administration and office of war information blackandwhite photographs. And i had been working with those for a few years. There was not much emphasis placed on the color transparencies, because they were hard to handle. They were unique items. Theres only one of each. At the time, in the 1970s, it was really difficult to make a copy. It was very expensive to make a photograph. You had to make another print from the color transparency. People did not want to pay that extra money. S
This year, just to drop a name or two to impress you. Gary joined the William Jewell College Faculty in 1992 and now serves chair of the department of Political Science. And director of the International Relations major. The William Jewell student body has voted him professor of the year, an amazing four times. Gary is also a longtime supporter of the National World war i museum and memorial and for that we are very appreciative. Please, give a warm welcome to dr. Gary armstrong. [ applause ] good evening and thank you for coming tonight. Should be lots of interesting questions on the 100th anniversary of the senates first rejection of the versailles peace treaty. What a great moment to talk about americas place in the world it was a time of growing polarization and radicalization. There had been a serious of res riots and the current estimate between probably summer of 19 and 21 about 1,000 americans killed. Get the worst in tulsa the race riots which led i think to the first bombing
Screen at any time during the talk. We will respond to as many as possible during the final part of the program. And now, modern Major Generals. Some of our viewers have commented on our approach to the civil war and using 50 objects that while the multilayered social and political history seen through objects takes in the totality of the context of the war, it doesnt really consider the military history or the sequence of the battle. Harold, what do you think about that . Its a fair enough comment, of course. The objects that were discussing are all in some way related to new york history. So it relates to the soldiers who served, the leaders who helped or hindered the union war effort, the relics that they brought back from battle. I think along the way here, over these last seven weeks, weve touched on battles. Those who experienced them and certainly the battle for new york city because early on we dealt with the draft riots which almost [ inaudible ]. Indeed. Indeed. So were doing
Memorial park. Ill be with you for lectures. And the topic today is going to be on general James Longstreet at couple of timappomattox. May 6, 1864. On october 7, he reports back to richmond and writes a letter to lee suggesting hes ready to come back for active duty but that at least with the army in northern major, lee might want a more vigorous person to take charge. Hell never recover the use of his right arm at this point because of the bullet exiting through his throat, he cant speak above a whisperer. He orders longstreet to return and resume command of the first corps of the army of northern virginia. And the confederate defenses north of the james river. So longstreet has everything from bermuda up through the north. By march 29th, it was going on since june 18th, 1864. And lees lines run about 37 miles. His last railing to the south, the southside railroad, is going to be controlled by Confederate Forces at five forks. On april 1st of 1965 union troops were captured at five f