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Today well focus on the Continental Army and this is were situating this very much in the broad history of war and the military, and the Continental Army in a lot of ways is different from other armies that have preceded it, largely because its one that is very much based on ideals and certainly the concept and beliefs rather than sort of your traditional army. So what is the kont minutal army . Where is it, first of all . America. America, okay. So the Continental Army is based in america and i...

Democratic 2020 voters and then the broader public. For democratic voters, communication shows liberal voters rank Climate Change as the third most important issue. That something when you see the Democratic Candidates up there, they are jockeying for the primary voter. Whereas the rest of the potter broader electorate is a little lower on the pole, 17 out of 29 issues. What were seeing now is a little bit of emphasis on Climate Change because of who is being spoken to, but well see where it com...

In california on a hot afternoon in pasadena for our monthly Public Lecture series. Im preston dikes. 50 years ago three human beings set out on a journey across a quarter million miles of space to the moon. Two of them set down in a fragile Landing Craft on the lunar surface, and one of them stepped into history uttering a phrase we all know by heart. For that one human being to make that one small step took the focussed efforts of hundreds of thousands of people over the course of a decade. An...

Limb salvage situation. We were not sure whether the foot would be salvageable. Host you go to the hospital. You start relating the pain involved in the prescribed effort from the doctors. Pain isiscussions of important. When you talk about opioids, there is a response, today oh, you will just be fear mongering about opioids. I had traumatic pain. Friendss were my best in the world. Life was not livable without them for weeks. Five surgeries over the first month. The aggressive prescribing they ...

I am part of a group or presenting the parachute infantry regiment. For parachute regimental combat. It is a world war ii unit that fought in italy, Southern France. Forgotten unit. It was a small unit. It was comprised of three smaller units. And andairborne company the 460th. Does three units maybe Regimental Combat Team. Wouldgher army command attack units where they were needed as they were needed. We are representing them during their time in the autumn of 1944. That was in the south of fra...

Q a. The sponsors for our panel are cecil and nancy brown. Are they with us . [applause] im happy to introduce our moderator for this session, james a stevens, is not only, im sorry. I skipped over. Curtis wilkie. No, hes over there. Our moderator is curtis wilkie, associate professor of journalism at the university of mississippi and a fellow at the universitys Overby Center or southern journalism andpolicy and hell take over. Thank you for coming and we appreciate the presence of our guests on...

Im sure you saw today, sir, that secretary mattis wrote in a quote, we are divided into hostile tribes, cheering against each other, fueled on emotion and mutual disdain. Because you are the president s he advisor on the threat to democracy key advisor on the threat to democracy, do you agree with secretary mattis, who youve known for so many years . Do you believe there is a tribalism in this country that essentially threatens democracy, and to ask you to also reflect, as best you can, on how y...

Thats 90 miles from Yellowstone National park, drawing many tourists to the city. We will learn about the history and the surrounding region. When i first moved, there were so many named story. A story streets, story motors, story distributing. Lot written on him. There was a historian who said bozeman is misnamed. Personally i think bozeman has a better ring to it than any of those other options. I was curious about nelsons story, since his name was plastered all over the place. Has not been a ...

Ranging from the 17th century up to the present. My group, though, is here this weekend to discuss the 75th anniversary of the normandy invasion, which is taking place this summer, and we thought it certainly fitting to commemorate that event and us putting on these old uniforms, wearing old equipment, it certainly gives us a better perspective and appreciation of what the greatest generation went through. And if we can impart even a small inkling of that to passers by and families who come visi...

Year scholars, it is honor for me to serve as the mc for this program tonight. Our guest this evening is dr. James nolan, 1859 professor at williams college. He is author of several books, one what they saw in america, alexis detotfil, chester ton. I especially look forward to this discussion as dr. Nolans insights will help us wrap up the year long study on American Political Culture inspired by totevilles america, uc california days and degrees from university of virginia. His Research Fall in...