Next on American History tv, the discussion on policymaking commissions inl American History. This talk from Purdue University was part of the conference called making American History. I am the associate professor of instructions, a legal historian who has written about president ial commissions and Administrative Law from law reform. We look forward to you can tell, todays session is being filmed by cspan, so do with that information as you will. Frank will be first. Yes, my name is frank popper. I teach city planning. Increasingly i take an historical approach to city planning. I do that with rutgers. The reason i am here, nearly half a century ago i wrote a small book for the 20th entry fund, now the Century Foundation in new york city, on president ial commissions and its one of the very few sources, i think, on them, and a they dug my ago, 49 yearold book they dug my 49yearold book. They asked if i would participate. President ial commissions have a long history in the United Sta
Vietnam war and beyond when military service eventually became voluntary. The National World war i museum and memorial hosted this event. Its about an hour 10 minutes. Good evening and welcome to the National World war i museum and memorial. My name is laura vote. Im the curator of education. And it is my absolute pleasure to be welcoming you here this evening for a riveting conversation on the anniversary, the 100th anniversary, of a piece of legislation that completely changes the United States. Now, your National World war i museum and memorial opened here in kansas city in 1926 because the wonderful folks of kansas city wanted to create a memorial for those who lived through and those who died in the world war. The war itself began in 1914, and yet the United States remained neutral until 1917. With a volunteer army of about 120,000, on april 6th, Congress Declared war against germany in 1917 and they decided to move on on may 18th of 1917 to exponentially increase that army. Now,
Vietnam war and beyond when military service eventually became voluntary. The National World war i museum and memorial hosted this event. Its about an hour 10 minutes. Good evening and welcome to the National World war i museum and memorial. My name is laura vote. Im the curator of education. And it is my absolute pleasure to be welcoming you here this evening for a riveting conversation on the anniversary, the 100th anniversary, of a piece of legislation that completely changes the United States. Now, your National World war i museum and memorial opened here in kansas city in 1926 because the wonderful folks of kansas city wanted to create a memorial for those who lived through and those who died in the world war. The war itself began in 1914, and yet the United States remained neutral until 1917. With a volunteer army of about 120,000, on april 6th, Congress Declared war against germany in 1917 and they decided to move on on may 18th of 1917 to exponentially increase that army. Now,
To be welcoming you here this evening for a riveting conversation on the anniversary the 100th anniversary on of a piece of legislation that completely changes the United States. Your National World war i museum and memorial opened here in kansas city in 1926 because the wonderful folks of kansas city wanted to create a memorial for those who lived through and those who died in the world war. The war itself began in 1914, and, yet, the United States remained neutral until 1917. With a volunteer army of about 120,000, on april 6, Congress Declared war against germany in 1917. They decided to move on may 18, 1917, to exponentially increase that army. Weve got a wonderful panel of experts who will be here to bring light to world war i and up through today, so i would like to go ahead and invite them to come up to our diets here our dais here. Dr. Faulkner is a professor of military history in fort leavenworth, kansas. For 23 years, he served in the u. S. Army as an armor, officer, and ret
I was just thinking of other first ladies in my lifetime to be followed around like that was Jackie Kennedy. Why were they so interested . Did she have that kind of charisma . Dementia did. That created the phenomenon of people got a big kick out of eleanor because she was inexhaustible. She was a story. You are right to like Jackie Kennedy been a very different kind of woman. [applause] [inaudible conversations] host the attention merchants you take is on quite a journey in this book to go laidback to the early days of newspapers. What inspired you to dive in this way to go so far back to track our attention . I always believe the was more about history. So the reason for writing the of book i noticed it used to be the media or the newspapers now there was a cooler face book. So to have this experience that may be other people have had as well that to set up my computer and maybe right one email than four hours would go by it is called the casino effected. So it is strange where as op