Interpreters out on the street of old city philadelphia, and imagine what life was like under british rule. One of the big agendas of this event is to present the fall of 1777 in a complicated way. To show that for many of the people who remain in the city that winter, this was an occupation, but maybe it was a liberation from many in their perspective. They read about in the period being liberated from the tyrannical usurpation of an arbitrary congress, which is maybe something we could all aspire to. laughs so we do this with Living History Program in part because people come to museums to learn in all different ways, to encounter the real things of history, to have a Human Experience and connect with it, and one way that we bring it to life is with Living History Programming, with first person programming like some of you might have witnessed in our new theatrical programme where richard st. George stormed into the room, guns blazing in the spring of perhaps 1798, at the end of his
Phil graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in history from Wheeling Jesuit University and great degree in American History from george mason university. He is currently a supervisory park ranger with the National Park service in florida. You can ask him about fun snakes he might have seen recently. With that, lets learn why someone would want to burn down boston. So, yeah, im a park ranger in the everglades. So i do not bring any snakes. Everyone can stay in the first or second rows. I know that was a big concern by rob and liz. But todays talk is centered on something further north. And being a Baltimore Orioles fan, there is multiple reasons why i want to see boston burn, especially fenway. Today is the road to revolution. And boston epicenter of that early colonial opposition to the parliament, to the british, to being in existence. I figure i would summit up in three dates, march 5th, 1770, april 17th, 1775. So thanks for coming. Well take questions. Theyre all important dates t
Americans still missing. Since moved into a new role as Research Historian where he spent the majority of his time helping family members discover their loved ones world war ii stories throughout our services. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome james dausey. [applause] thank you, pete. It is a great honor to be a part of this incredible conference. It is my third of these and a great delight to moderate a panel with such esteemed unfamiliar speakers. Twoink you know our speakers very well. I will keep the introductions brief for both of them. First, going in the order of presentation first, james , holland. Historian, writer, and broadcaster. We have seen him on countless tv shows and documentaries. Hes led many of our tours here at the museum. There are too many books i would take 10 minutes going through all of his books. Just to mention a few of them italys sorrow, a year of war, 194445, fortress malta, the battle of britain. Hes working through a threevolume new history of the Se
The book in the name of god the khomeini decade, how much influence do you think the iran relationship with this country has had on this country in the last 10 years . Robin oh, i think its had not only an Immediate Impact of the trauma of the hostage ordeal the impact of the confrontation between the u. S. And iran in the persian gulf, the shooting down of the iranian aircraft i think its had a much broader impact, and that is it, along with vietnam, proved that the United States was not invincible; was, indeed, very vulnerable, and that third world powers could not only stand up to us and defy us, but occasionally could even defeat us. And so i think its had an impact on our National Psyche and on our policymaking apparatus. Brian did they laugh at us behind the scenes over there . Robin no. I think theyve always been a little bit frightened of us. Theyve always given us credit for having more power and more planning, more conspiracies than we deserve. I think that they were proud an
Toure cspan cities theludes its look to we are here at the deerwood ranch near centennial, wyoming, 4700 acres, elevation 8000 feet, 62 frostfree days a year. Mustangs,nd me as the the herd of horses. We now have 370 of them that we , feedand take care of them 365 days a year, and whether we are physically taking food out to them or they are just grazing, it is all part of the program. In 2010 the bureau of Land Management had the solicitation to apply,e landowners or write a grant, to take wild mustangs, the horses, off public lands and put them on private lands. Basically all we do is grow grass and sell grass, so we applied and fortunately, we were accepted out of 20 people. We are unique right here four other sanctuaries around that were at limitedt kind of a time, so to speak, during the summertime. The other sanctuaries are unique, but here we are in the and actual habitat with a lot of wild animals to begin with. We applied. We wrote a grant, and then we were accepted, basically