Chad williams is the author of torchbearers of democracy, African American soldiers in the world war i era. Next, he talks about the postwar activism of the soldiers, explaining how after fighting with the idea of democracy abroad, many return to join movements to secure more rights and better social standing for African American here at home. National world War One Museum, in kansas missouri of 2019. Now id like to introduce our first speaker for this morning. Doctor chad williams, he is a agus this professor and history at african and African American studies at brandon university. He specializes in African American and modern United States history, world war i and African American intellectual history. He is the author of torchbearers of democracy, African American soldiers in the world war i era, which received the 2011 liberty, legacy, Foundation Awards from the organization of american historian and the 2011 distinguish book of war society of military history. He is also a part o
She hated politics, hated it with a passion. She did not move in to the white house with pierce. This couch is one piece that they took to the white house. They had eight rooms that they had to furnish with their personal furniture. When she did arrive, she basically holed up and spent much of her time writing letters to her dead son. In her great grief, she calls him, my precious child, i must write to you, although you are never to see it or know it. A very poignant letter written by a grieving mother. They were on a train from boston to concord and there was a terrible accident. The train ride was very devastating for the family. An axle rod broke on the train and benny did not survive the crash. She concluded that this was gods judgment, that the loss of her son was gods punishment. The house was too much for jane to take care of. I dont think she was interested in housekeeping particularly. She just wasnt capable of taking care of a house. Most would regard that pierce himself as
14,246 americans are buried outside a quiet village in northeastern france at the meuseargonne American Cemetery. I American History tv visited there with french battlefield guide Guillaume Moizan and historian mitchell a. Yockelson to learn about the 47 they world war one battle that ended with the armistice november 11 1918 and resulted in over 26,000 american deaths. There are more than 14,200 graves here. Many of them who died in meuseargonne American Cemetery area. But there are also some civilians another soldiers that were brought from other areas . Yes. Most of the soldiers here died at the meuseargonne. 96,000 wounded more or less. Almost half percent of the soldiers are buried here in front of that cemetery. We have few civilians. Maybe we will see some of the graves later on. Especially nurses, people from the american red cross, from the ymca also. Special graves that we will see walking in the graveyard. The cemetery itself were graves that were consolidated from smaller c
Nice start. Yesterday, highway 4 was a mess. Were hoping for a better day. The bay bridge toll plaza, you can see traffic is okay. The fog is not an issue, but a little way it is. This is northbound 280 in san jose. Not foggy here and traffic is very light on northbound and southbound 280 through downtown san jose. At 4 31. Lets go back to the desk. Thank you, sal. If you from overnight, several cars caught fire at a tow yard in martinez. It looked like one car exploded and the fire spread to another car and several other cars were burned as well. Fire crews rushed to that junction yard near the highway 4, 680 interchange to put out the fire and an investigation will try to determine what caused the fire in the first place. Time is 4 31. Today theyll be an autopsy on a man shot to death by napa police. The man was russell. Authorities says he was shot by police near the Home Depot Store after Police Received several calls about a man with a knife. The callers told police the man was ac
The recent startling advance of Russian forces in northeastern Ukraine has dampened quite a bit of the enthusiasm in the pro-Kiev camp following passage in the US Congress of the supplemental aid bill in April.