And his talk today entitled Josephus Daniels in world war i will share the research from his most recent book. Please join me in welcoming dr. Lee craig. Well, as as dr. Orr informs you during the introduction, i am a college professor, and we are scheduled to do q and a at the end of my presentation, and so i always know, as a professor, what the first question will be, and what the answer to that is. And the answer is, yes, and the question is, will this material be on the final exam. So, yes, it will be on the final exam. In fact, anything i say is potentially material for the final exam, so i expect to see a lot of note taking. So my talk today is about Josephus Daniels and his role during the First World War. While you were enjoying lunch i was being interviewed on cspan. First world war. And while you are enjoying lunch i was being interviews on cspan and the first question that i got was, why why would Josephus Daniels, a small town newspaper editor, be secretary of the navy dur
That is today at 6 00 and 10 00 pm eastern here on cspan3. Each week, American History tv brings you archival films that help tell the story of the 20th century. November 6, 1961, a fire broke out near bel air, los angeles. It destroyed 484 homes, it damaged 190 others. This is a 1962 documentary that tells the story of the fire, examines the causes and proposes actions to prevent such destruction in the future. Now the fire is below them, sweeping south, coming up on both sides of the ridges they stand on. Longer aheadre no of the fire. Commanders request more and more help as the flames spread. We have companies that can lay into these individual houses. We are going to begin losing more houses. There are houses on both sides of this street. We are dispersing everything we have. Everything is not enough. Badly needed help coming from county firefighting units. Operators work ahead of the flames. 23 surrounding municipalities. Fire officials decide where residents may remain and where
Followed another four years of carnage. Weve got time for one or two more calls. The symposium resumes at 1 00. We can siad jens members start to trickle in behind you. Marvin in ann arbor, michigan. Good morning, marvin. Hi. I was wondering why you dont put more blame upon the germans for the war on the western front when the germans were preparing for war for about a dozen years and using a pretext to invade france. You would assume that the germans would require more blame than the french. Well thank you for the question, marvin. Youre absolutely right the germans had been preparing for war for not simply 12 years but even longer than that. The problem with many accounts of the outbreak of the First World War, however, is they focused only on one power or possibly two. If you look on the other side of the lens youll see france and russia signed a military alliance in 1894 specifically targeting germany, the terms of which stipulated that france and russia were supposed to invade ger
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From the mcarthur memorial in norfolk, virginia, where the world war i centennial symposium is on its lunch break. Until they return were joined by Sean Mcmeekin, author of july 1914 countdown to war. Mr. Mcmeekin appreciate you joining us on American History tv. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to be here. A century since world war i, there continues to be a debate about which nation was responsible for the start of the First World War. Take us back to america in 1914. 1915, 1916. Was that debate about who was responsible taking place in the United States at that time . It was not necessarily the most important question in u. S. Politics. I think probably for the Woodrow Wilson administration, the key thing was to keep the United States out of the war. I think certainly if there had been a different president in the white house, possibly theodore roosevelt, might have taken a different line. He was quite clear about the fact in 1914 that i think he saw the germans as, if not ne