Taking time to be here we are so delighted to have professor Margaret Mcmillon with us today. It really is a delight. Thank you so much for traveling to be with us on this important conversation and who will help us with that is better equipped than Margaret Mcmillon, americas Professor International history at oxford, professor of history at the university of toronto, she serves in a many and varied roles. Trustee of the Central European university and more recently, at the Imperial War Museum. We are second only here at the National World War One Museum and memorial to the Imperial War Museum in terms of history. They began collecting a 1917 and we began collecting in 1920. We are further delighted that they are having their world war ii gatherings reinstalled by the gallery designs over the World War One Museum so they are very wise, i might say. Margarets research specializes in British Imperial history and the International History of the 19th and 20th centuries and she is written
Really a terrific event we have had so far and thank you for being with us. I know there is a lot of excitement, as there ought be about this evenings conversation, so thank you for taking time to be here. We are so delighted to have professor Margaret Mcmillan with us. Thank you so much for traveling to be with us. Who else but to help us with that is better equipped than Margaret Mcmillan, emmert as professor of history at the university of toronto. She serves in many and varied roles. Trustee at the Central University and more recently at the Imperial War Museum. Might i offer that we are second only here at the National World war i museum to the Imperial War Museum in terms of history. They began collecting in 1917. We began collecting in 1920. We are further delighted they are having their world war ii galleries reinstalled by the gallery designers of the National World war i museum and memorial. They are very wise i might say. Margarets research specializes in British Imperial hi
Event we havefic had so far and thank you for being with us. I know there is a lot of excitement, as there ought be about this evenings conversation, so thank you for taking time to be here. We are so delighted to have professor Margaret Mcmillan with us. Thank you so much for traveling to be with us. Who else but to help us with that is better equipped than Margaret Mcmillan, emmert as professor of history at the university of toronto. Many and varied roles. Trustee at the Central University and more recently at the Imperial War Museum. Might i offer that we are second only here at the National World war i museum to the Imperial War Museum in terms of history. They began collecting in 1917. We began collecting in 1920. We are further delighted they are having their world war ii galleries reinstalled by the gallery designers of the National World war i museum and memorial. They are very wise i might say. Research specializes in British Imperial history and the International History of
Of our programming season for the Academic Year of 2019 and 2020. My name is jason steinhauer. Im director of the Lepage Center at villanova, a relatively new center created in 2016. It opened its doors in 2017. Our mission is to bring history to bear on contemporary issues. That is what we do all yearround. Some of the issues we have examined in the past have been the issue of fake news and historical perspective, stuff on endless war. Last year we did a series on democracy and the history of democracy and credit participation. Democratic process evasion. This year is revisionist history. We will talk about that over six events and through the lens of various topics revising early america. Before i go further i want to make you aware it is being filmed both by the university and by cspans American History tv. This event will be on cspans Video Library and a couple of weeks. We are not going live, dont worry. For the benefit of the cspan viewers in the future, we are glad you were with
Wilmington, the train was moving along and made a sudden jerk like it was going to make an abrupt stop. This isnt the slowdown during the a curve. It came to a complete stop, there was smoke, smelt like the brakes were smoldering so we sat there wondering what had happened. The electricity was knocked out so there was no pa system. So the rumors started to fly but after about 25 minutes one of the crew came back and started to explain what happened. The first two cars were hit badly but we were lucky to be in the next to last car of the train so we felt the impact obviously but didnt get to smashup that the first two cars had. They hit, it was explained, a device on the track. They were doing maintenance and of course an investigation will be to be looked into why that was on the tracks while the train was coming. You are taught at an early age in science that when an object like a train is moving 80 Miles Per Hour it takes a long time to come to a halt. Host this is around the identif