In world war ii. Whoral mason was a veteran served in the european theater in George Pattons third army and went on to have a long career in the military. Several retiring, held highranking positions in the pentagon, including assistant deputy chief of all operations and special assistant to the deputy chief of logistics. So it is a very special night any time we have a mason lecture at the museum. Thanks to the generosity of general mason and his family, we are proud to host tonights by one, a Public Lecture of the worlds most distinguished holocaust scholars. Museum,to think, at the we tell the story of the entire experience of world war ii and feel that too often the holocaust and world war ii are studied as separate, almost isolated topics. We believe it is our role to help our audiences understand the broader context surrounding the holocaust and the legacies it continues to impact on her world. We have one more exhibition to come. Believe it or not, there is room for one more bui
People are serving. Good evening everyone we are happy you are here tonight happy to have me again kate nelson with us the three cornered war. This is an engrossing narrative account to show the civil war and indian war and the western expansion are all interconnected and rightsetteors specifically about selfdetermination and fight for control of the region summer very well known to us orhers like juanita a navajo rito reader who stories were lost to history until now. With those individualal actions in the midst of a larger conflict. And indeed it is history keeping the reader turning the pages a writer and historian living in lincoln is written about the civil war and American Culture for several publications including the New York Times and smithsonian magazineor ba in history of literature from harvard and phd in american studies from the university of iowa. From texas tech and cal state fullerton also the author of ruination. And then to read a passage or two please help me to giv
Her primary Source Research involved letters and diaries, military records and oral histories and photographs and maps from that time and nestor i specifically about nine individuals who worked towards it selfdetermination and fight for control of the region. Some of these people are generally well known to us like frontier carson. Others, like wanting to a navajo late weaver who is now, their stories were lost in history until now. And noticing under their stories show the importance of individual actions even in the midst of a larger military conflict. In the book learning start reviewing Library Journals and indeed it is history that keeps the reader turning the pages. Megan cates nelson is a writer and historian living in lincoln and she has written about the civil war from u. S. Western history and American Culture several publications including the New York Times and the Washington Post and the smithsonian magazine. She and her ba in history and literature from Harvard University
This is an engrossing narrative account which shows the civil war, the indian wars, and western expansion, were all interconnected. The 1860s were truly at times, National Conflict which involve not only the more pleasant south but also the american west. Her primary Source Research involved letters and diaries, military records and oral histories and photographs and maps from that time and nestor i specifically about nine individuals who worked towards it selfdetermination and fight for control of the region. Some of these people are generally well known to us like frontier carson. Others, like wanting to a navajo late weaver who is now, their stories were lost in history until now. And noticing under their stories show the importance of individual actions even in the midst of a larger military conflict. In the book learning start reviewing Library Journals and indeed it is history that keeps the reader turning the pages. Megan cates nelson is a writer and historian living in lincoln
Some of these authors have appeared on booktv. You can watch online, booktv. Org. Later story of hello girls of world war i. We begin the special features of the mayors of bryan and college station. One of the wonderful things of bryan, college station, you have two cities, the city of bryan started a couple of years before, really right after the civil war. There was a railroad coming from houston that was marching its way here. Stopped before the civil war and after civil warred and it continued on and bryan for the first few years after the civil war struggled to get itself created and was able to do that. The University Got its first six students and city of bryan was getting going and the area that you see around us today are still some of the first buildings that were being built at the time, 25 years ago this was a ghosttown. Because of area of state, geographically blurred too. Texas a m was one of the land grant institutions and over time it grew but it was 5 miles from a town