greetings everyone we have the distinct pleasure to welcome our to guest today author of the furious sky of the hurricanes in america. louisiana was blasted this week and our thoughts and goes out to the whole area speaking earlier to say many weeks or months to have trouble with the water system and with shreveport and monroe is still without power. so with jack davis today in conversation with our author who is a professor of history specializing in sustainability studies. the new york times book review calls it a beautiful homage and with the pulitzer prize the notable book for 2017 and several other best of list including washington post , npr and forbes. welcome. it s a pleasure to have you here with us today. we will turn the floor over to jack and let s start the conversation. if people have questions they can bring into the chat room and also to encourage people to have signed copies here at the bookshop they can go to the website we will be happy to ship boo
back. we had a great session last night. this of course is the 2019 international conference on the american revolution. we re meeting at the museum of the american revolution in philadelphia. we re very thankful to our sponsors. richard c von hess foundation, and john am jeanne roe. there s a long genie all itchy to this topic. it goes back more than a quarter century. very personal for me. it starts with insight that s brought out in the exhibition that is celebrated, here the life and death of a irish soldier. this explores connections between the american revolution and ireland through the eyes of st. george, both a soldier and. artist not a fine artist, a caricaturist. of course we know that satire and mockery, something we use a lot here among the staff at the museum can reveal a lot about culture. this is certainly a theme that comes up. about 30 years ago when i was a graduate student doing research for a dissertation chapter in edinburgh, there was another graduate s
this program was part of the 2019 national world war i museum and memorial symposium. lora: next, talking a little bit about stuff going on in russia. again, i feel like everything is relevant in the world today that connects back to world war i. our next speaker is james carl nelson. he is the author of four books about the american experience in world war i. the remains of company d, five lieutenants, i will hold. he is the winner of the colonel joseph alexander award for biography from the marine corps heritage foundation and the polar bear expedition: the heroes of america s forgotten invasion of russia, 1918 to 1919, which you will be learning more about in his lecture today. a graduate in journalism from the university of minnesota, nelson has worked as a staff writer for the miami herald and has covered some of the last three decades major stories, so he can expand even further on that concept. he is an active member of the western front association and currently
learning more about in his lecture today. a graduate in journalism from the university of minnesota, nelson has worked as a staff writer for the miami herald and has covered some of the last three decades major stories, so he can expand even further on that concept. he is an active member of the western front association and currently lives in eden prairie, minnesota, where he is working on his fifth book of world war i nonfiction. ladies and gentlemen, if you would please please join me in giving a round of applause for james carl nelson. [applause] james: wow. what a warm up. is this thing on? oh, good. i have my swag here. thanks for coming. i m going to talk about the polar bears. that s a lonely photo, isn t it? in theme with the 1919 piece, i am going to start off with a story of a guy named kerry mead. he was a lieutenant, commander of the fourth platoon, company a, 339th infantry regiment. the morning of january 19, 1919, he and his men were stationed on a river 25
about the american experience in world war i. , fivemains of company d lieutenants, i will hold. he is the winner of the colonel joseph alexander award for biography from the marine corps heritage foundation and the polar bear expedition: the heroes of america s forgotten invasion of russia, 1918 to 1919, which you will be learning more about in his lecture today. a graduate in journalism from the university of minnesota, nelson has worked as a staff writer for the miami herald of the lastred some three decades major stories, so he can expand even further on that concept. he is an active member of the western front association and currently lives in eden prairie, minnesota, where he is working on his fifth book of world war i nonfiction. please join me in giving a round of applause for james carl nelson. [applause] james: is this thing on? oh, good. i have my swag here. thanks for coming. i m going to talk about the polar bears. that s a lonely photo, isn t it? in theme