American history. First ladies, Inspiring Stories of fascinating women who survived the scrutiny of the white house. A great summertime read available as a hardcover or an ebook to your favorite bookstore or online bookseller. Through your favorite bookstore or online bookseller. Each week we bring you archival films that help to tell the story of the 20th century. A day in old milwaukee is a documentary sponsored by schlitz brewing, depicting the restoration of the elaborate circus wagons from the brewery for their museum. It concludes with the july 4 parade of the restored wagons and performers. Hi. Im joey brown. You know the good old days of people are always talking about . What are some good things in those good old days. Most of the good memories was this. Something many of you have never seen. A circus parade. This was the spectacular, i guess today youd call it a commercial, to let everyone in town know that the big top was being raised. And the everyday hum drum world would s
Next week, we look at lucretia garfield. This isnt American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Each week, American History tv reel america brings the archival films. Again all the lucky is a 1960 documentary depicting the restoration of elaborate surface wagons by the brewery for the museum. The film concludes with a circus july 4 parade of the newly restored wagons and circus animals and performers. Hi. Im joey brown. You know the good old days of people are always talking about . What are some good things in those good old days. Most of the good memories was this. Something many of you have never seen. A circus parade. This was the spectacular, i guess today youd call it a commercial, to let everyone in town know that the big top was being raised. And the everyday hum drum world would soon be trance filled into transformed into one filled with exotic animals. Pretty girls filling pretty costumes and that daring young man on the flying trapeze. It was a wonderful world,
Soon be transformed into one filled with exotic animals. Pretty girls filling pretty costumes and that daring young man on the flying trapeze. It was a wonderful world, i know because i lad the good fortune to start my show Business Career in the circus. I was an arielist, one of the five marvelous ashtons. The marvelous was our own idea. Unfortunately, there hasnt been one of these circus parades for more years than some of us care to remember. So it was natural for the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company to decide to recreate this wonderful bit of americana for milwaukees celebration of the fourth of july. These are the streets of milwaukee on the morning of july 4th. In a matter of hour, they will be the site of the biggest circus parade held anywhere anytime. But it takes a lot of work to bring a memory back to larger than life and the schitz people joined hands with a team of experts at the Circus World Museum. Wisconsin is known as the mother circuses, having been the birth place of m
The American Farmer has fed us for 200 years. War, peace, oppression or prosperity. Its been a hard, plodding job, butt the former has kept us alive. Not only that, but made is the best fed nation in the world. Hundred 30 Million People ask a lot of us farmers. A lot of us take it for granted. But in the 10 years before the war, hes been having a hard time making both ends meet. Sometimes he wonders if he could make it good. Yes, he wondered why he was working. Thats thunder youre hearing, farmer. That is hitler. He wants power. Will be given to him, or will be Lightning Strike . Because if this does, its going farmer. You have a job to do. While it is not your war, not yet, you never can tell. 1940 tomatoes. 900 million bushels. Eggs, 37 billion. Hogs, 16 billion pounds. Milk, 107 billion pounds. That thunder you heard is falling on london and plymouth and coventry. Hungry, hungry. Shes talking to you. Never heard of before, huh . She is enlighs, shes hungry and she needs you. Dig, fa
And that these books were written in part out of desperation. I was having to think earlier with a grad student and we were reflecting on how we struggled in some of our economic stat classes. Naked economics was written almost by accident in the sense that ive been assigned a class to teach economics to journalist. I called my i was unsuccessfully trying to sell a book on the gambling industry. Never got that went in. It was a good book to be written and i said to her, i have to teach this economics cost a bunch of journalists. The textbook would be inappropriate. I cant find anything that would convey why they should care about this. That wouldnt consume with the math and the questions. It was a long pause and she said, you are going to write it and its going to be called economics for poets and im going to read it. So thats a naked economics was born. And wants that kind of found a niche among people who been scared away, or bored to death, but economic classes, we said lets go back