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News in recent years, i imagine that you, like me, have found it difficult to ignore the topic of refugees. This is an image of a refugees experience fleeing communist vietnam in 1975. But in many ways, it reminds us of images that we might see on the news today. It is hard to ignore the human stories of families perishing it see. Refugees are suffocating in meat trucks. They are crowding onto leaky boats. They are drowning. The bodies of those who are unable to cross to safety are washing up on mediterranean beaches. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years. Particularly related to the crisis in syria. But refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. Were not just talking about refugees coming from syria, but from other war torn regions. Especially in the past couple of years, it has also been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. And Refugee Resettlement, like so many o ....
Very often if you look through the past to catch up. The military thinking and strategy. It tends to stay in the past war and Technology Goes ahead and the military thinking has to catch up with technology. What we see in the American Civil War is that most military was along the lines of the American Revolution. In other words, warfare that had happened decades earlier or even napoleon just a few years earlier. That was a hero. A lot of the american generals, their hero was napoleon bonaparte. They thought was the greatest general in the world. And the strategist. But the problem was they had you up and where they were planning, making their planning, based on old weapons. That is one thing im going to get to. The advanced weaponry that goes into the Amer ....
Traveled to california, the physical geography of the area and evolving Technology Used to mine gold. Good morning everybody. The topic of our lecture is the history of the gold rush and i will talk mainly about california in the years following 1848. But gold played a very, very Important Role in American History. Think back to the conquistadors, one of the things they were fascinating about was the quest for gold. An unquenchable desire for Precious Metals, gold above all, but also silver. When the first settlers came to jamestown they were hoping to find the same supplies of gold found by the spaniards and bitter disappointment not to find gold in the whats now virginia and brought with them jewelers and gold smiths. Americas first gold rush took place in geo ....
Muskets, carbines and revolvers. The professor describes technological advances that allowed soldiers to fire faster and with more accuracy. All right, guys. How are yall doing today . Welcome to class. Today as i talked about a little bit earlier this week we have a special lecturer here. You may have a class with him. He is the chair of our history and Political Science here at gillford Technical Community college. What you may not know about the doctor is that hes a military historian. Hes an expert in military history. He has published at least four books on anything from weaponry, he collects a host of artifacts which he has brought and will share with us today. He is a phd. Earned his dockerate from texas christian fort worth. It was a while ago but hes an expert. If you get an opportunity to take a class with him, take a class. So were going to continue to and ....
Constitutional rights given to africanamericans or as a failure because Racial Discrimination was legal and africanamericans remain unequal. So today, we are going to be talking about reconstruction. Right . So what is reconstruction . Its really the period immediately after the civil war. The period of reconstruction. Why is it called reconstruction . Because we are talking about the reconstruction of the union. Right . Of the seceded states that had formed the confederacy, theyre now defeated and the question then becomes is how do they reenter the union . How do we reconstruct the union . And that is why this period is known as reconstruction. It is not that well known in American History. As the civil war, so so far, we have been talking about the civil war, right, before the midterms, we covered the civil war. And everyone knows about the civil war. It has kind ....