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Author of fighting for hope. The National WorldWar Ii Museum in new orleans hosted this discussion and provided the video. Greetings, everyone. I am senior director of programs at the National WorldWar Ii Museum in new orleans and it is my pleasure to welcome all of you to what promises to be a Great Program on the history of africanamericans in combat in the United States from world war i to world war ii with everything in between and in the immediate postworld war ii years, and i am joined by three of our nations preeminent scholars on this subject. Whohost is dr. John morrow, is franklin professor of history at the university of georgia and is coauthor wi ....
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A phone call with a. Deeply concerned about whats going on right now. Were concerned by the attempt to exploit the internal challenges facing by the troops to interfere in them from. Direct from our studios in moscow this is R T International im john thomas certainly glad to have you with us we start in belarus where a sharp divide is emerging in the wake of august 9th election both supporters of president look and those opposing his leadership are flooding the streets now these are 2 contrasting scenes from day 11 of the rest on the right of your screen you can see thousands of people gathering in central minutes waving at the historic red and white flag which has become a symbol of the. And on the left a crowd of the president s backers carrying the official red and Green National flag their main message is that the country cannot afford chaos right now. Lets start right ....
American history. Well, joining us now on booktv is long time yale professor david blight. Hes also an author and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Professor blight, what do you teach at yale . Well, i teach about slavery. The civil war and reconstruction. How long have you been teaching that . Well, ive been teaching about that all of my career. Ive been doing it at yale about 20 years. But weve invited you on to talk about a new series that you are editing or producing called the black lives series. What is that . Well, its a series that Yale University press has just begun in the past few years. The three series editors are Henry Louis Gates jr and jacqueline goldsby. Jackie is here at yale and the english department. Skip is course up at harvard. Its a series modeled on another that yale press does called jewish lives, wh ....