Up next, author and National Parks service historian Jerome Greene talks about his book, american carnage, wounded knee, 1890. The book takes a comprehensive look at south dakota massacre, the causes and the aftermath. Talk, he recounts firsthand recollections from lakota indians about the day in which the u. S. Cavalry fired on their camp. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this program. I am curious how many of you have heard of wounded knee before today . It is wellknown next to the battle of the little bighorn. My first knowledge came from school, probably junior high school. I grew up in Northern New York state. I remember reading in the magazines of the day, this is way back in 1958, 1959, probably most of you were not even around then. I remember reading in the pulp magazines of the day that provided fodder for my interests. I know they carried articles on wounded knee. I remember asking my grandmother, who was born in 1881, she was a young girl, nine years old when wounded k
I appreciate that. I can just look at kevin if i need. Kevin, you teach, right . In addition to blogging. Er, in sorry, pete. Blo and so,gg youre used to being front of unruly crowds. G and you may also have some experience with a particularly nerve wracking speaking engagement. One of those engagements wrote youre not quite sure where the subject matter of your talk fits with the event at hand. And then, adding to that, you learn that perhaps, i dont know, cspan is going to broadcast your talk live on television because, hey, you know, live television. Ppen this stills, happens apparently. But if youve done any public ae speaking, you also know that yu moment where a that sense of re calm settles over you. I know that pete knows that because ive now watched him speak beautifully a number of times in the past couple of days. I just want to let you know, e thiss not happening to me right now. And so, without further ado. As many of you may know, on november 29th, 1864, approximately 700
What did general dwight d. Eisenhower say when he gave the final order to launch the attack . Its puzzling to me, anyway, that perhaps the most important decision of the 20th century did not bequeath to history and posterity a quote to mark the occasion, something to live up to the magnitude of ikes decision. Something iconic like macarthurs vow to the people of the philippines, i shall return. The stakes of the invasion certainly merited verbal splendor, if not eloquence, if the the overlord operation had failed the allies might never have won the war and yet eyewitnesses to eisenhowers great moment of decisions could not agree on what he said and as for eisenhower he could not even agree with himself. He related five versions of his fateful words to journalists and biographers over the years that perhaps even more mysteriously he wrote five different versions of the statement in a 1964 article commemorating the 20th anniversary of dday. To put those words, whatever they might have be
Historic building. Someone asked me before how i moved from American History to jewish history to jewish womens history and back to colonial American History, and it reminded me what really launched me in my career in history was the trip i took many, many years ago as a freshman in college to the new york city historical society. I was given an assignment to do a paper on loyalists in the American Revolution in new york, and, really, to my astonishment, when i went into the society, i asked for some materials, and they handed me a packet of original letters written by loyalists. In those days, no one handed you gloves, that tells you how long ago its been, and i fell in love, the idea that i had papers in my hands that had endured for hundreds of years was really thrilling to me and started a love affair with primary sources and really the colonial and Early National period. Ive gone in a round about way, but 40 years later, i was back to working on american colonial history and combi
Remind your children in this by centennial year, when we are the first generation of the americans who have experienced attacks on the continental united states, we are the first generation of americans to have felt what it was like to have our government buildings attacked. Remind your children freedom is not free. And that our countrys greatness is found in one another. Thats what the starspangled banner is about. Thats what this commemoration year is about. To tell that story, and to lift every voice, and to sing. A threeday fourth of july weekend starts friday on American History tv, including the 200th anniversary of the starspangled banner 8 30 p. M. Eastern on friday. Visit the College Classroom of joel howell as he talks about u. S. Government human radiation experiments conducted after world war ii through the cold war. Sunday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, a preview of president ial historian Jeffrey Engels manuscript on george w. Bush and the peaceful end to the cold war. Next, on A