part program, we travel to new orleans to visit the national world war ii museum s road to berlin exhibit. this program continues the story of the american experience in the european theater beginning with the june 6th, 1944, d day invasion. within the first hour, the shoreline is littered with men and wounded soldiers and the debris of we re actually in the normandie landings gallery, d day at normandie. a very special gallery for us here because our museum was originally founded back in the 1990s as the national d day museum by a congressional charter. we were charged with telling the story of the entire american experience in world war ii while it was fought, thou how it was and what it means today. so in this gallery, we get to the big moment where the united states and her allies had to win this particular day, d day, june 6th, 1944. behind me is our film narrated by tom brokaw which gives our visitors the overarching story of d day at normandie. but next to me ove
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . seated next to her is devin pendis w srks pendas. he focuses on war crime trials. and next to him is our fault director of the la paige center, paul steege. paul is focused on history, of every day life. foe k focusing on germany, and we re going to begin by learning about our scholars and where they come from on this question and topic and then we will dive into the conversation. so for now i will go back to jen for, allow me to welcome you to the la paige center. tell me about your research and area of study. i m the executive director for the rowan center for holocaust research and human rights. we have multiple foci. one of the questions that we re asked very often is so what. we re learning about other genocides, and what can we do about it now. so we made a decision to switch our emphasis so we could thans so what question that so many students have. my own research focuses on transgenerational holiday, and i came by way of educat
in next, the final program from the miami book fair. [inaudible conversations] hello. hello, good evening. welcome to the 35th edition of the miami book fair. welcome. and welcome to the session. my name is patrick here to work here at the college and i have to say a word or two about the book fair. how many of you have been two previous sessions at a book fair today? we could probably do this together. sort of like the miranda rights. give me a hand. let s thank our premier sponsors, royal caribbean, north america, the bachelor foundation and the group foundation without which we would not be able to hold the fair. friends in miami book fair. we have many in the crowd? let s give him a big round of applause. [applause] please consider joining the friends of miami and be a friend of the book fair. i hope you re enjoying your day here in the friendly con winds of miami dade college. this is one of our eight campuses we serve the entire county. where 165,000 students and we
really rich white christian men and their wives, many with inherited wealth, a small merchant class and lots and lots of poor people and people of color, mainly black people who were de facto unequal. indeed until the 20th century which many consider to be the great american century. women couldn t vote, black men could vote on paper but faced everything from local trickery to lynching to stop them. immigrants were routinely routed to urban ghettos and ramped segregation and a free for all for industrialests to exploit ununionized workers and drill and mine and pollute at will. by the end of that century, largely due to progressive democratic presidents, democratic legislative super majorities despite the dixie cats and forward looking supreme court justices a lot about america changed. and most people think it changed for the better. but not everyone agrees that the new deal, the end of child labor, the ability of american workers to unionize and expanded women s liberty and
is that even though so much has been looked at, a steady drip of what we know might be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the ex-president s efforts to overturn the election result. the latest bombshell coming from conspiracy theorist, alex jones, who was at the capitol on january 6th. during his broadcast monday, he said he took the fifth more than 100 times in his interview with the select committee. politico reports on what jones referred to as the quote, unofficial testimony that he delivered on his show, quote, jones described the questions the committee asked him about his contacts with gop fund-raiser, carolyn wren. who he described as a liaison for logistics relating to trump s rally. quote, my contact for the fifth and sixth was carolyn wrenn, he said. all this comes as focus by the committee on recently revealed plans to get the u.s. military to seize voting machines. plans that resulted in an executive order being crafted. one that was not signed and ultimatel