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Good evening. First of all, thank you, all, for coming out on this rainy evening. I know its a little bit of a channel. I think its going to be well worth your time to be here this evening for this discussion. Its my pleasure to welcome you to tonights program entitled historically speaking we return fighting world war i and the shaping of the modern black identity. Published by smithsonian books, we return fighting is a collection of essays that chronicle the experiences of men and women who se...

Test. Test test. Test test test. Much of that afternoon, i do not remember. Im positive that fear wiped a lot of that memory out. Im convinced of that. How did you handle the fear . It sayed with you all of the time i imagine. I dont think there was a time when there was not fear there. I cant answer that eblgs september to say that you come to the point that you believe you have a job to do for which youre trained. You have to do it for the people around you. For the other marines. They didnt h...

Joining us as the executive director. Of 1995, from april these words by president bill clinton. His first comments about the bombing. [video clip] citye bombing in oklahoma was an attack on innocent children and defenseless citizens. Andas an act of cowardice it was evil. States will not tolerate it. I will not allow the people of this country to be intimidated by evil cowards. With our team, which we assembled to deal with this bombing, and i have determined to take the following steps to ensu...

Another indicator specific to , businesses, schools and child care facilities. First i want to remind all of you what the six indicaters are. Mentioned testing as one of the principal indicators. We have made progress in that space. Not nearly where we want to go and need to be but Real Progress we are now see in the space. 578,000 tests have been conducted in the state of california. We are averaging over 20,000 tests a day. And we are well on our way to meeting our 25,000 testing goal and gett...

Give up their role to protect our students. Sod why are they giving up their position to the Ohio Governor at the time. Demonstrations and universities across the country. And they may be as much as 10,000 students deciding to march downtown and they marched out on to interstate 5 and shut down the freeway. But to you, in effect, said and certainly implied that it was not unusual for universities to insist public as well as private to insist on their police forces, the university splis, retainin...

Interesting things in nearly two thirds of families, and i argue this is because of the men and their families sticking together and caring for each other after the war just as they had during it. Thank you very much. They saw fundamentally who they are, what it s happening, it is troubprobably just rumors. So almost not quite logical ability to bounce back like that. Those are the other factors that im talking about. Thank you. Youre washing a special edition of American History tv. During the ...

Studies, Johns Hopkins university, in d. C. Ambassador edelman has served in senior positions at the department of state and defense as well as the white house. Hes served as u. S. Ambassador to finland and turkey and was Vice President dick cheneys Principal Deputy assistant for National Security affairs. Ambassador edelman has received several awards including a department of defense medal for distinguished public service, a distinguished civilian Service Award from the chairman of the joint c...

Casts. Next on American History tv Richard Belle talks about the declaration of independence. The Smithsonian Associates hosted this event. Dr. Bell presented many outstanding programs for us on topics relating to early American History and the American Revolutionary period in the course of the past several years. He got his degree from the university of cambridge. He is an associate professor of history in college park where he specializes in early American History. The American Society of 18th...

This event. Tonight we are very pleased to welcome to the smithsonian tony, australian born perpetual explorer, travel, writer and author of six books including napoleons privates 21 years of history unzipped, the centers grand tour, a journey through the underbelly of europe, and most recently the improbable revolution that changed world history. As a College Student tony regularly disappeared to hitchhike through the outback and travel through rural india where he briefly enjoyed an inglorious...

8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan 3. Each week, american artifacts taking viewers into archives, museums and historic sights around the country. The library of congress the largest collection of political cartoons of herbert block known as herblock. Herblocks career spanned 20 years. 72 yores. Years. The librarys sarah duke talked to us about his influence and legacy and showed us many of his exhibits in the herblock gallery. Herb block was a midwestern born cartoonist. He began his career in 1929, si...