Very compelling not only reflects the history of the army. But the history of the United States as well. And today we are standing in the Army Society Gallery which focuses on the relationship between the American Public and the army. Or this is a very unique gallery and it is a standalone gallery separate from our fighting for the nation galleries, which gives insight on the wars and the battles and the campaigns soldiers have fought since the revolutionary war up in afghanistan the military tactics the weapons the type of uniforms they were punctuated with individual soldier stories that not only talk about what the soldiers went through but also more context about the battles and or wars that they fall in kind of complementing that and strut, you know, the theme we stress here at the museum is the army values. These are seven values that soldiers today live by or live up to from loyalty duty respect selfish Service Honor integrity personal courage, youll find that in the stories tha
Narrative sweep of the civil war and only 50 objects . About when i was asked to undertake the project for the Historical Society and that was a lucky day for me. Threemember we got to see arrayed befores us on a conference table and the Historical Society. That was a matter of picking representative objects which stand in for a big history of the civil war, item by item, personal story by personal story. It was remarkable at the end that we constructed the history of the war from the Abolitionist Movement to the 13th amendment which abolished slavery. And it was great fun to work with you on that project. Yes. Our topic this evening as fighting slavery, the bumpy road to black freedom. This evening we will be looking at three objects related to the topics and theyre all paperbased objects. Petition to Abraham Lincoln for the recruitment of black troops. A broadside by Frederick Douglass. And a sketch, the arrival of slaves to chickasaw bio. Bayou. Petition toe is a ever handling and f
A powder to the person who is most easily offended that she would never get again or its all if you go to your local coffee shop and youre offended by something where you think somethings wrong with it you have the right to say you know thats wrong. Marks the seventy fourth anniversary of nazi germanys capitulation with military parades and memorial ceremonies coming up weve got the highlights from thursdays commemorations but later in the program. Good morning tony and friday here this is out international with me kevin now in thanks for watching this latest news update from moscow then suddenly this the french government has pledged to continue selling arms to saudi arabia despite mounting evidence its weapons are being used against yemeni civilians it comes as the ministration faces a growing backlash from human rights act. This suit on thursday tried to prevent the loading of french weapons onto a saudi cargo ship shall do but. Its a war thats left thousands dead and pushed some te