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the secret diary of mary thorpe, 2017 s gender and the great war, and 2017 s world war i: a short history. that really is a spectacular book. i consistently get asked questions if there s a short book, great for teaching at an introductory point. if you d have not seen proctor s short history on world war i, that is a nice entry point. also clearly, she was very busy in 2017. [laughter] she is presently working on a study of american humanitarian aid in the u.s. from 1914 to 1924, which you will be hearing about more in a few seconds. ladies and gentlemen, please help me in welcoming dr. tammy proctor. [applause] dr. proctor: to test this out, is it working? yes? ok. good. there you go. dr. proctor: all right, we are good. thank you to laura for that nice introduction and to camille for all the work she did. it s great to come to kansas city. as laura said, it is my hometown. it s always wonderful to be here. i would also like to thank dr. kuhn for setting up my ....
i would like to welcome our friends who are joining us by c-span and those who are here with us tonight who are the really smart people in ashington because you have chosen to be above the nationals game and about the presidential debate. we re glad you chose to be with us tonight. i d like to acknowledge some very important people who are with us this evening. matt s parents tim and debbie costello who are here with us tonight and his wife kristen who is here tonight. and of course, in my book, the two most important costello are sofia and theodore. and they re at hope. they can come next time. they re matt and kristen s wonderful little kids. i d also like to welcome the members of our board of director who are with us tonight. we have anne stock. give anne a hand. [applause] and bob mcgee. and we have two that are enroute, anita mcbride and gayle west. both will be a little bit late. but will be with us tonight. steve restaurant is the national co-chair of the white ....
modern european and world history. a native of kansas city, missouri, proctor holds degrees in journalism and history from the university of missouri and a phd from rutgers university. thet publications include secret diary of mary thorpe, 2017 s gender and the great war, and 2017 s world war i: a short history. book.s a spectacular i consistently get asked questions if there s a short brooke book great for teaching at an introductory point. if you have not seen her short history on world war i, that is a nice entry point. also clearly, she was very busy and 2017. on as presently working study of american humanitarian aid in the u.s. from 1914 to 1924, which you will be hearing about more in a few seconds. ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcoming dr. tammy proctor. [applause] dr. proctor: to test this out, is it working? yes? ok. good. we are good. for that to lora nice introduction and to camille for all the work she did. it s great to come to kansas city ....
us. i would like to acknowledge some very important people who are with us this evening. matt s parents, tim and debbie costello, and his wife, kristen. and the two most important, his two little wonderful kids, i guess they are at home, sophia and theodore. welcomealso like to some members of the board of directors who are with us tonight. nan stock. [applause] and bob mcgee. [applause] and we have two that are coming, anita mcbride and gail west. both will be with us tonight. steve strong is the national cochair of our white house, national council on white house history. he and his wife andrea are here with us tonight. this is one of our most important groups here at the white house historical association. their support, their encouragement, their inspiration and their wisdom really puts the wind in the sails of so much of what we do. we are grateful to have you with us here tonight, steve. the program tonight, dr. matt costello, is going to share with us about his b ....
devastated areas and cultural properties as well. i will talk about three different examples today it is food aid and it s physical reconstruction and the third is cultural reconstruction. this outpouring of u.s. relief and development helped provide a measure of stability, it created a president for what happened in world war ii so i can talk about many of the personnel involved world war one go to be heavily involved with the u.s. and the united nations development aid. it also forged the connection between europe and the united states that continues today. spring of 20 night spring was a big time in the capital cities and woodrow wilson and in the spring of 1919 to the political feature here and the populations of several european countries had critical food shortages. a deep concern over the possibility of activity and post war society, wilson in november of 1918 appointed herbert hoover to be i d call him a food saar for europe and part of the reason he was chose ....