Uniforms and acute ma. So, civil war fashion. This series has been investigating the power of objects to be emblem mattic of historical events. I work alongside these treasures every day and it is my great privilege to use them in exhibitions as well. But, harold, lets tell the audience a bit about the inspiration for the program, the book civil war in 50 objects. How can only 50 objects tell such a sweeping story . Well, as the cover shows, we managed to vary messages, tactile objects, images. Probably as you force us to describe this as civil war fashion ill get you for that later the hardest thing is to preserve the textiles. The objects were going to discuss today, some of them are really extraordinary in term of how theyve survived. Yeah, absolutely. And without further ado, lets get to our four things this evening. Right. We have uniform, military buttons, a foot locker, and a drum. Very interesting. Fashion . Maybe, maybe not. But an aggregate, they tell the story of uniform cou
Iam simply trying to say that have been standing for a number of things for quite a while, and themnk do now to desert and say we do nothing about, merely because congress saw fit to recess and have what they say is a short session. Say that just simply politicking is more important than governing the nations business, and i do not think it is. The nation comes first aid we should do what we can about it. Volunteers in katanga take carefully to military training as the province prepares for the worst and it threatens to take over by force if necessary. Be necessarynot with militant groups parting peacefully and with the president of katanga allowing u. S. Forces to come in, led by the general himself. Trading continues as the United Nations tries to hurtle another obstacle to world peace. [indiscernible] the belongs to the american lectern Electric Company along with the Telephone Company also american of. This is definitely a probe castro crowd. Id after this demonstration, senior cas
What is your birthday . Six month, eight day, 1926 are. 26 . How old are you today . I will be 91 this friday. You look too young. What is the secret . Having a good wife and a Good Relationship help tremendously. How long are you married . Will be 66 years on july 16. 66 years, where were you born . I was born in the state of washington. In 1926. Family me about your growing up. Came from North Carolina. I came from North Carolina area i have been in two states. How about schools . Highonne school. It has been torn down, it is gone. In the state of washington . It is in North Carolina. When did you graduate . 1945. Since you are born in 1926, you went through the Great Depression. You were four years old when the Great Depression occurs, how was it . My dad was working for the railroad. He got laid off. We lived on a farm in North Carolina. Must be hard. I didnt hear you. Must be hard. It was. Later got a tractor but it was after i left. Im the middle kid of two brothers, one older an
Now, i will start off with a word of warning. When i compiled all the information i wanted to share with you all this evening the first time i went through it and timed it i spoke for an hour and a half. So i hope yall are comfortable. We might be here for a while. Last year when josie was compiling this topics for this year she called me into her Office One Day and pitched me this idea as she mentioned and she ended up when i told her i probably did know somebody interested in this topic and she said when i think about it theres only one person that comes immediately to mind, and i said im so touched. Those are exactly the type of characters every girl longs to be associated with so before you can really start looking at the outlaw gangs civil war spun off you kind of have to take a flip back and see kind of understand the guerilla warfare that was going on during the during the civil war to kind of understand how that same mindset continued on after the war and kind of manifested its
Members of World Affairs i want to welcome the viewers from cspan and members of World Affairs councils from across the country. I think you are going to especially enjoy todays conversation with Jia Lynn Yang, the author of a new book, a mighty and irresistible tide, the epic struggle over American Immigration. The nation continues to be a nation that welcomes immigrants on one hand and then turns some away dependent on the shifting political mode. Today is laura collins, director of the Bush Institute Economic Growth initiative based here in dallas at the george w. Bush institute. Todays program is sponsored by Paige Hendricks of public relations. I hope you will purchase a copy of jias book. You can purchase a book that interrabankbooks. Com and you can get a 10 discount if you type in the discount code. I hope you will support the bookstore. I want to tell you a little bit about Jia Lynn Yang, Deputy Editor at the new york times. She has been there about three years, joined in sept