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Good evening. I am Lauren Rosenberg with smithsonian associates. I would like to welcome you to this program. To our members, its your support that makes events like this possible. If you are joining for the first time, and equally warm welcome and invitation to explore the wide range of programs we offer. Now is the perfect time to talk off your cell phone or anything that may make noise. This past march marked the 50th anniversary of the u. S. Navy fighter weapon program. We welcome the progra...

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Discussing his book top gun an american story, Aerial Combat and how his book inspired the 1986 movie to the gun. Good evening. Im Lauren Rosenberg with smithsonian associates. Welcome to tonights program. To our members, im so glad youre here. Its your support that makes events like this possible. And if youre joining us for the first time, an equally warm welcome and open invitation to explore the wide range of programs we offer at smithsonian associates. Now is the perfect time to turn off yo...

From 1917 to 1974. It features an interview with wwi and wwii veteran captain joy hancock. Who is pictured here. The second half of the film explores how contributions by navy women increased beginning in the mid1960s. As restrictions were removed, opportunities opened up in a variety of fields. music music music music music it was a dramatic first, the first time in navy history women wear assigned to the crew of a ship. In 1972, at Hunters Point naval shipyard, the uss sanctuary was recommissi...

Before that particular wanted ad, 8,000 people worked for the company and then nearly a quarter million, and they were capable of working collaboratively in fluid networks. We still talk about language, and keeping the females in mind serving the infrastructure of the technological age. Connections that are now patched electronically by digital assistanasi assistan assistants, bots, and ai many of which still speak by default in female voices. It started to disappear in the. She was at 40 female...

It was a dramatic first. The first time in American Naval history that women were assigned to the crew of a ship. On a soggy november 18, 1972, at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in california the uss sanctuary was recommissioned. The first woman admiral elaine dirk gave the commissioning address. The sanctuary is being recommissioned as a new and unusual type of ship with a new mission to assist the navy effort to improve moral and flexibility by home porting combatant ships overseas to provide me...

It was a dramatic first, the first time in navy history women wear assigned it the crew of a ship. In 1972, at Hunters Point naval shipyard, in california, the uss sanctuary was recommissioned. The navys first woman admiral gave the commissioning address. The sanctuary is being recommissioned as a new, unusual type of ship with a new mission to assist the efforts to improve morale and flexibility by home boarding compact and ships overseas. It will provide services to deploy dependence wherever ...

Actually exactly. We returned fighting, the africanamerican experience in world war i, the key to that title is number one, you dont see the word military because its not just about soldiers its about soldiers and civilians, men and women, young and old, black and white. So that is the long title. But the short title we return fighting speaks what happened after the war and how africanamericans used world war i as a transformative event for them as it was a transformative event throughout the gl...

Gettysburg won the james j. Roberts award for best civil war book that year and his book on confederate goliath earned the prestigious award on Civil War History given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. Lets give rod gragg a warm welcome. [applause] thank you. Pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned that i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. And i appreciate th...

You dont see the word military. It is not just about soldiers. It is about civilians. Men and women. Soldiers and civilians. Young and old. White and black. That is the long title. The short title, we return fighting, speaks to what happened after the war and how africanamericans use world war i as a transformative event for them, just like it was a transformative event throughout the globe. We explore that story throughout this hour of washington journal, day five of museum week on washington j...