Im next on American History tv. Author Donald Miller interviews Jessica Shattuck about her novel, the women in the castle. She explains how her familys connection to nazi germany influenced her work, and how her research informed her understanding of german citizens during world war ii. This when our top was part of a three Day Conference hosted by the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans. So, welcome back. This next session is a unique one for our conference. For those of you who come here regularly, you are used to seeing the best and brightest minds in the field of world war ii history. This normally means the best selling authors of history books, leading professors and documentarians. But when we were planning this years program, we decided to mix it up by inviting a novelist, and only the second one that weve hosted in the conferences for the entire time that weve been doing these. Don miller, authors of masters at the air is also one of our longest standing advisers and c
You can cherry picked certain things, but later on during his presidency he gains quite deep respect and affection even springfield. He lived in the neighborhood, this was back in illinois, a neighborhood that was full of africanericans. He became friendly to them and he kept corresponding with several of them while he was in the wte house. While he was in the white house Frederick Douglass who was at first thought he was quite conservative of slary that in a couple of timesn the white house and really was astounded. He came out of this thing, this is the least prejudiced white person i think ive ever met. The same thing with sojourner truth. She was an oer africanamerican feminist and she said before i die i want to et this guy, this president abraham lincoln. Sh had a delightful time with him and felt very, very close to hi Martin Delaney who was, we would call him beyond black lives matter. Heas like a black nationalist. Very militant. He became at the end of the war, lioln appointe
A moment use of welcome to the show we begin in australia where a record heat wave is fueling fears of another scorching brush fire season. The Southeastern State of New South Wales, seeing temperatures topping 40 degrees. Wildfires are already burning and officials have put residents on high alert for more. The big fear is of a repeat of last years black summer in which dozens perished in blazes. This fires in the sydney suburb of north me to its just one of dozens of wildfires that have been burning across the state of New South Wales. Its also reminiscent of the scenes the played out during the devastating bushfires in australia last summer. Huge swathes of londra destroyed then on the authorities are warning australians not to complacent this time around. We cannot fall into a false sense of security. The community at there unfortunately thinks that after the last season, we are not at risk. The reality is 90 percent of the state is still untouched by heat. Waves are not unusual in
Im gay. Richards and welcome to the show. U. N. Officials in a nigeria say more than 40 people have been killed in a brutal massacre in the countrys northwest. Eye. Witnesses said militants on motorcycles rounded up until farmers who were bringing in their harvest in Northern Borno state, where no one has claimed responsibility. But jihadist groups have attacked the area in recent years. The victims of the gruesome are laid to rest in a mass burial. With reports, say the farm workers were attacked by armed insurgents on motorbikes. While they were harvesting rice, someone shot others with their throats cut. It is that there were 6 of us in the bush. Then we headed back into the village. We were shocked when we got there micah, we found the bodies and that was where the main killings took place. Then we went through a nearby village called good though. We met so many people fleeing from our village without knowing where they were going. The huge amounts of harvested rice was set on fire
Outrage over chinese official tweeting the fake image of an australian allegedly killing a child throws Prime Minister calls to morris and calls the chinese repugnant and demands an official apology from beijing office. Welcome to the program. More than 100 people have been killed in the what the un calls a massacre in the countrys northern bonos states. I witness is saying militants on motorcycles rounded up and killed farmers who were bringing in their harvest. No one has claimed responsibility, but the hardest groups have attacked the area. In recent years. The victims of a gruesome massacre laid to rest in a mass burial. The reports say the farm workers were attacked by armed insurgents on motorbikes. While they were harvesting rice, someone shot others with their throats cut. It is that there were 6 of us in the bush. Then we headed back into the village. We were shocked when we got there, micah. We found the bodies and that was where the main killings took place. Then we went thr