Half of our conference, starting off this afternoon is a paper by dr. Lisa ossian, who is a professor of history at Des Moines Area Community college. She received her masters degree in womens studies from Eastern Michigan University and her doctorate from Iowa State University in agricultural history and rural study, author of three books, the homefronts of iowa 19301945, the forgotten generation American Children in world war ii and the the depression dilemmas in rural iowa. Ossian has now directed her Research Interests in exploring hoovers post war food relief efforts. Her next book is tentatively titled to the grimmest spector, the world famine emergency, Herbert Hoovers mission and the invisible years 19467 she serves on the Editorial Board of economic war and culture and as editor of a forthcoming volume, american women and war 18521945. Her talk today is entitled a kind and understanding heart the politics of friendship between harry truman and Herbert Hoover 19461964. Please w
Americans and thousands of europeans who formed the boots on the ground for the commission of relief of belgium. These people had studied those thousands of studies, and these quarter have been a study of north america to share that with you today. Our first speaker is branden little. He was working the tracing different files and found an early history of the crv. This led, as all good stories, to further research, further inquiry. He has written a book called band of crusaders. His book covers 50 years of humanitarian relief and explains what i call this creation story of the crv in the context of many competing agencies, difficulties of feeding people during world war i. It makes clear the special role, the pivotal role played by the crv and shaping later humanitarian efforts. I added, thanks to brandon, a new phrase what i do my tours and i speak of this band of crusaders. Jeff miller, our second speaker, came to hoover some time ago, to discuss the possibility of donating his gran
All of the people he dealt with he knew personally. He knew people of integrity, he knew the ones to watch out for. They were neighbors. Bing crosby, for the rest of his life, treated people like neighbors. That is why the neighborhood is so important to understanding the rest of his life. Our cities tour staffers at we travel to spokane, washington, to learn about its history. Learn more about spokane and other stops at our tour on cspan. Org tour. Cspan. Org citi. Americane watching history tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. We continue with our look at spokane. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies, and is brought to you today by your satellite or cable provider. Up next, on American History tv, lisa ocean of Des Moines Area Community college uses photographs and diary entries to describe the enduring friendship between republican Herbert Hoover and democrat harry truman. Part of theas Herber
Ocean,y dr. Luisa payne a professor of history at Des Moines Area Community college. She received her masters degree in womens studies from Eastern University and a doctorate from Iowa State University in agricultural history and rural studies. , ther of three books forgotten generation, american , andren in world war ii the depression dilemmas of rural iowa, 19291933. Ocean has now direct did her Research Interests in exploring overs hoovers postwar food relief efforts. Her next book is tentatively specter, theimmest world famine emergency. And thehoovers mission invisible years, 1946or seven. Ocean serves on the board of war and culture, and is the editor of a fourth coming forthcoming volume. Her talk today is entitled a kind and understanding heart, the politics and friendship between harry truman and Herbert Hoover. These welcome lisa ocean. [applause] lisa i changed my title a little bit. They changed my slides. I have the after lunch crowd. I hope you did not eat too much in tha
Ocean has now direct did her Research Interests in exploring hoovers postwar food relief efforts. Ocean serves on the board of war and culture, and is the editor of a forthcoming volume. Her talk today is entitled a kind and understanding heart, the politics and friendship between harry truman and Herbert Hoover. These welcome lisa ocean. [applause] lisa i changed my title a little bit. They changed my slides. I have the after lunch crowd. I hope you did not eat too much in that warm weather. What qualities should a president possess . A reporter asked Eleanor Roosevelt in the spring of 1946. She quickly responded a kind and understanding heart. And perhaps this was the quality that Herbert Hoover and harry truman had throughout their friendship which began in this ping of 1945, a little over 72 years ago. Hoover and truman were, on paper and on surface, very different men. Hoover was a republican. He was the depression era president. He was an engineer. And he was also a humanitarian.