Tv, Wake Forest University Professor John curley teaches a class on how the cold war infliei influenced and was influenced by photography. This is about an hour ten minutes. So last time we were talking about world war ii photography and the ways that photographers interacted with the cwar. We ended looking at this image last year. The Mushroom Cloud that emerged after the dropping of the atomic bomb on nagasaki. This image, of course, marks the end of world war ii. In many ways it marks the beginning of the cold war. Of course, nuclear dread and Nuclear Anxiety hovered over the conflict during the 1950s and 1960s and up through the 1980s to the end of the conflict. Its a fitting image to begin our class today. We will think a lot about photography during the cold war. Specifically, american photography during the cold war. This is a massive topic. One could imagine a course on the subject. General themes as well as case studies and in the meantime, along the way, talk about some advan
She was pregnant. Approximate her husband had recently traveled to europe where he acquired a drug. It had not been approved yet for use in the United States of america but it was available many european countries. It was used to treat a number of Different Things. Women began taking it to aleave morning sickness and her husband had been in europe. He had acquired some of these pills and brought it back home for her and she takes about 40 of them early on in her pregnancy. They did not know that it causes birth defects. She read an article about the drug, she found out a little bit more and she called her doctor. She started to learn more about what the medicine can do. For children, it can cause brain damage, damage the eyes, nose, ears, face, damage the growth of limbs. And many cases, the children who had been affected by it did not survive at all. In england about half of the babies died within a few months. Somewhere around 10,000 of these children were born. Most in western europ
Hysteria taking over the country. What you got . At creepy clowns are taking over the nation and its unclear why its happening. Is it a copycat prankster . Or is it more than that . Trickortreat. Smell my feet. Give me something good to eat [laughter] i have been chasing this phenomenon since it first appeared in our region when i clown was seen riding on a hood of a first drive into the parking lot. Now, reports of the sightings have happened and 32 states. It is not only sightings but it is also threatening post on my. In philadelphia i chased a chased a story where police a 13yearold girl in an Instagram Post threatened to shoot out teachers and schools at a local school. The creepy clown sightings have had a negative effect on the cloud entertainment industry. They are not going to take it anymore. The. The Cloud Community in tucson, arizona have organized a clown life matters march. It it will take place on october 15. This is all because of this strange phenomena that is popping
Light. Afterwards airs every saturday at 10 00 p. M. And sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. You can watch all previous afterwards programs on our website at booktv. Org. As 2015 comes to a close many publications offer their recommendations for the best books of the year. Here is a look at some of the book the wall street journal suggests to its readers. Jonathan bordens american war lords looks at Franklin Roosevelts relationship with generals who helped win world war ii. In the fall of the ottomans, examines the middle east during the first world war. A manual jarrett, recalled the 1960 murder of the Prime Minister of the newly formed republic of the call and go. Although it was a cold war, the threat of military conflict throughout its existence, it was the non war, the single non war, the third world war which could have obliterated human and animal life on the entire planet. That is a look at some of the books the wall street journal recommends from over the past year. Booktv covered m
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. BookTv Television for serious readers. From my father i inherited my confidence my resilience, my passion, and my audacity, looking back although it was never explained to me in this way, he taught me the spirit of which is greek idea of honor and doing the right thing, even when ones own interests or even ones own life is in peril. Growing up while i never fought anything but australian there were two stories about the Second World War and greece that i always kept close to my heart. The first was in 1940 when Benito Mussolini italys Prime Minister asked the greek Prime Minister for free passage through greece and on the spot at 3 00 in the morning without hesitation, without consultation he said oy he said no. It was spirited defiance and quite incredible when considering just how vastly outnumbered the greeks were by the italians. It prompted sir winston churchhill, the greatest figure of the 20th c