Kentucky university, as well as several years in the history departments Bates College and ucla. She finished her phd at ucla std she has spoken here on a numerous occasion, and spoke about euleulysses s. Grant. And now, fiona has written a book about thomas mast, the author of political cartoons published in 2013. It is my pleasure to welcome fiona. [ applause ] hi. I want to thank peter for invitinging me here, and ashley for all of the help she provided as i prepared to come and spend this hour with you. Im here to talk about thomas nas and what i want to do is to introduce him to you broadly at first and then talk a little bit more specifically about what the civil war did for thomas nast, because i think that it refined him in ways which were essential to his success later in life. So we will begin with the introduction and then move into three things that i think that the war really did for him. At lunchtime, i had a conversation with the attendee who observed that he found that
Host who were the swimmers. Guest they were children, really children from nine to the age of 15 at the most, when they began. Some were a little bit younger. They were japanese americans the children of who were immigrants from japan. Host first generation. Guest fir generation, who had come to hawaii in search of a better life, working on the sugar plantation, and in particular on maui. Maui was one of the largest suggest has one of the largest sugar plantations at that time, starting at the turn of the 20th century. These children grew up in housing that looked not unlike the ticky tacky houses, and the conditions of internment camps that later many of their relatives were living. The plantation was a place where you signed in. You had to sign in and out to get in and out. People lived in segregated camps, so over the years as sugar developed, as a commodity in hawaii it there was a really interesting shift from the first set of workers who came those who were portuguese workers, an
Sisi, he has done a fantasticjob and a very difficult situation. Also today there will be no Armada Heading to gibraltar. The british Prime Minister restores some calm, laughing off the diplomatic row over the rock, which would always be resolved through dialogue. Jared kushner arrives in iraq. The president s envoy and son in law is quickly becoming one of the president most trusted lieutenants. Im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. Today we start in russia, ten people have been killed in an explosion between two underground stations in St Petersburg. President Vladimir Putin said all causes, especially terrorism, were being investigated. The head of russias National Anti terrorist Committee Says another explosive device was later found and made safe at Ploshchad Vosstaniya station. St petersburg metro system sees more than two million passengers travel on the system each day this is the first time its been targeted. Richard galpin has the latest. In the immediate
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