Taking time to be here we are so delighted to have professor Margaret Mcmillon with us today. It really is a delight. Thank you so much for traveling to be with us on this important conversation and who will help us with that is better equipped than Margaret Mcmillon, americas Professor International history at oxford, professor of history at the university of toronto, she serves in a many and varied roles. Trustee of the Central European university and more recently, at the Imperial War Museum. We are second only here at the National World War One Museum and memorial to the Imperial War Museum in terms of history. They began collecting a 1917 and we began collecting in 1920. We are further delighted that they are having their world war ii gatherings reinstalled by the gallery designs over the World War One Museum so they are very wise, i might say. Margarets research specializes in British Imperial history and the International History of the 19th and 20th centuries and she is written
Those popular backyard inflatables today. Wednesday, may 14th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today 7 00 on the west coast. We have a lot to talk about. Later this morning, we will take you to the Memorial Museum which is opening tomorrow, the site of the 9 11 museum. Its going to be an incredibly Emotional Experience for a lot of people there, who will see some of the artifacts that are housed in that museum for the very first time. We look forward to a sneak peek on that. We have the top story. Residents in san diego are returning home overnight after evacuation calls are going out to thousands of homeowners. We have Nbcs Joe Fryer on the scene there. What is the latest . Reporter good morning, savannah. We learned the fire is 25 contained after burning 1,600 acres. All of the Evacuation Orders have been listed. The fire danger is high in Southern California. Smoke and fl
Homes, and it got nasty. So i dont know what clip we have, but lets just take a little sneak peek of what happened yesterday. More than 10,000. About 35,000. At least im honest about what i say. I was told we could spend 10,000 thats kathie lees house. I spent 10,000. Because it was 10,000. Not 35,000. Definitely the wraparound porch. Bad idea. Mine is much nicer and neater, much better. More expensive. Exactly. So one for barbara. Yeah. Hoda got involved. Lets put it that way. I was just i was an innocent bystander while those two by the way, it just escalated. And it was tense on the set. It wasnt like a normal segment. We could feel it. So anyway, we decided wed ask the viewers what they thought. And people really chimed in with facebook comments. Okay. Jan lang said, im sorry, but kathie was the automatic winner this morning on the redos of yards. Christina taylor said kathie lee has much better taste in updating homes. Jennifer rich said, i enjoyed the segment with barbara. It mad
The official founding of the university of virginia, Thomas Jefferson wrote to artist Charles Wilson peale in 1802. I have our considerable amount of time a plan for a general university for the state of University One of the most liberal scale that our circumstances were called. For jefferson considered the university to beat one of his three greatest achievements, the declaration of independence and the virginia statute of freedom. In his post president ial years, he was able to devote himself to fulfilling that dream of an academic village. Today, we will hear from Andrew Oshaughnessy about his aspirations for his university. His book is a twin biography of jefferson in retirement and and seeking to understand figures from the, past the ability to read it their own recorded shot is immensely valuable. Todays author used founders online, in researching this book. By the National Archives, to the National Historical publications and records commissions. Its can transcriptions of thous
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