I wont bore you with the biographies of the panel members. You can find the information for yourself there in the programs. Dr. William rodneer will chair and moderate this discussion. I know hes looking forward to having a good discussion with the audience. At this point, dr. Rodner, its all yours. Thank you very much. Welcome. Im here as sort of we have four odu professors. I guess its really 3 1 2. I am a professor at ttc, Tidewater Community college. Im a specialist in british history and british cultural history. I am i wear a hat at odu. I am an editor of the journal scotia, which is the journal of scottish studies at old dough minimum yan. To put a plug in for that we are planning a future issue on scotland and the First World War, so if anybody has submissions, please see me after the presentation. We hope to make this mostly q a and discussion between us and the audience or members of the audience. Ill start out with a general introduction. The legacies of the First World War
Why does this matter . How does this matter . How does this relate to what we see in headlines today. Its with that in mind and that spirit we decided to construct our final discussion which is a Panel Discussion of scholars from Old Dominion University department of history and theyll reflect on the legacy and impact of the First World War on today. I wont bore you with the biographies of the panel members. You can find the information for yourself there in the programs. Dr. William rodneer will chair and moderate this discussion. I know hes looking forward to having a good discussion with the audience. At this point, dr. Rodner, its all yours. Thank you very much. Welcome. Im here as sort of we have four odu professors. I guess its really 3 1 2. I am a professor at ttc, Tidewater Community college. Im a specialist in british history and british cultural history. I am i wear a hat at odu. I am an editor of the journal scotia, which is the journal of scottish studies at old dough minim
Have this kind of thing. My democratic colleagues are because thereing whopeople in their district are democrats in name only. I dont know what it amounts to. I found this from the longtime challenger. Quacks her mother was my eighth grade science teacher, and her a High School Gym teacher and basketball coach, so i have known the family since i was a little kid. Had something to say. He is one of those kinds of oldschool republicans who has an appreciation for ever and meant and its institutions and recognizes that getting along with people with different views is a way in which you can make government that are. Is that oldschool . Wax i dont think that oldschool. I think that trying to do your job. Eople say, i am so partisan well, tell that to some of the backe involved in congress in the 1830s to the 1860s. These people were struggling to try to work out compromises to keep the union of float and avoid splitting up on issues like abolition and slavery and tariffs and a and theof ot
Stiff keep an upper lip is a much more appropriate response. What happened during 9 11 was very human. If they have these drills and they make you go out on the street and they did this repeatedly after 9 11 who are we saying, what do we do . We are all standing on the street naked sniper us and shoe people on the street. . Where could they go where could they go . The first one is the major outcomes of that which is the iraq war. That has been a great success. Voted. Have initially i was wrong on that. I was also probably wrong to have voted for the authorization as we all were told this business about weapons of mass destruction and joy to the u. N. And all the rest of that, and it turned out that they never found much. Of course and his baath party was a communist era movement. But there were things that they dont particularly certainly not religious fanatic type thing. Ntryo where does the cou stand now that we have gone through all of this . We are about to have another debate her
Editorinchief of the dalia color. Host Allan Ryskind author of blacklist screenwriters agents of stalin allies of hitler. That kind of sums it up. Thanks for coming on. Its certainly jarring. Agents of stalin allies of hitler. But its true. When i talk about it each and every one of them but im talking about are members of the communist party in the United States that you have to be loyal to the soviet union. So when hitler decided to make his alliance in the soviet union not only was it to be pro hitler but the members in the United States in hollywood as well and they are going to be making a movie picture of it by the way. He was one of the greatest apologists in this time. Have which i go into in some detail. Host in and the forgotten chapter i think guest the fourth american writers which were held i guess it was in new york that they had these conferences and i go into detail and show how they were on the side of adolf hitler. What they did was be a demonize and it was a pariah c