Senior historian here at the national World War ii museum and also our executive director for the institute for the study of warren democracy. Hes also a pretty marvelous Guitar Player and his jealous of the display that john partial has behind him. But rob the show is yours. Thank you, jeremy now the whole world knows and so im happy. Its great to be with John Parshall and and Neil Barr to really outstanding scholars on on the history of great battles in World War ii as well as some other things the the theme for this this get together. This final session is jeremy says, you know, weve been rocking in the free world now for nearly two straight days and its time to bring the conference to a close. We really wanted to do go out with as he said with the bang and we thought a good way to end would be with this concept. That is so beloved of military historians called Turning Points now before i introduce the two principal speakers, let me say i have some experience in this field as well a
And the conference home. Its my pleasure to introduce dr. Rob setino. Rob is the samuels amuri stone senior historian here at the national World War ii museum and also our executive director for the institute for the study of warren democracy. Hes also a pretty marvelous Guitar Player and his jealous of the display that john partial has behind him. But rob the show is yours. Thank you, jeremy now the whole world knows and so im happy. Its great to be with John Parshall and and Neil Barr to really outstanding scholars on on the history of great battles in World War ii as well as some other things the the theme for this this get together. This final session is jeremy says, you know, weve been rocking in the free world now for nearly two straight days and its time to bring the conference to a close. We really wanted to do go out with as he said with the bang and we thought a good way to end would be with this concept. That is so beloved of military historians called Turning Points now bef
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Soldiers who took up arms to fight for their freedom. Using photographs and the written record she examines not only the individual stories of the soldiers, but also the importance of africanamerican communities during and after the war. Deborah willis is University Professor and chair of the department of photography and imaging at the Tisch School of the arts at new York University and has an affiliated appointment with the college of arts and Sciences Department of social and cultural Analysis And Africanus studies. Well, this is the author of envisioning Emancipation And Michelle obama. Both of which received naacp image awards as well as posing beauty now, lets hear from deborah willis. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you. Welcome and good afternoon everyone. Im excited to be here and i thank the national archives for this invitation and to share my work and inviting me. Its really exciting to consider the work a place where i that a lot of work in terms of research at the n
Sense of immediacy that we dont have with paintings and prints from the revolutionary war are other earlier conflicts. We can identify individual faces and we can imagine ourselves on the actual battlefields in the aftermath of the fighting. Thousands of those images are now in the national archives but photos of black soldiers are rare. In her book the black civil War Soldier Deborah Willis shows us the faces of a number of black soldiers who took up arms to fight for their freedom. Using photographs and the written record she examines not only the individual stories of the soldiers, but also the importance of africanamerican communities during and after the war. Deborah willis is University Professor and chair of the department of photography and imaging at the Tisch School of the arts at new York University and has an affiliated appointment with the college of arts and Sciences Department of social and cultural Analysis And Africanus studies. Well, this is the author of envisioning