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America. Already talk about the actual wars and fighting and times where the cold war got hot in africa and today, were talking about the cultural cold war and perhaps the fight for influence between the United States and the soviet union. So in that context, jazz really comes to the forefront. So were thinking about why that guy the running around in the congo and his counterparts are in pakistan and south asia and Eastern Europe and all those kinds of things. What are they doing there . Were g...

September 19th 39. 00 nazi germany invaded poland and for more than 5 years brought terror to much of europe with its ideology of a master race. A central figure in that campaign was right sphere s. S. Heinrich himmler. The leading nazi was obsessed with racial purity and came up with a plan to bolster the socalled arion race between 19411945 children were kidnapped from all over Eastern Europe and forcibly germanized. Historians estimate that 20000 of those children came from poland alone. In n...

I just wanted to explain in advance that this advance that this history course looks at responses to disasters in American History, with an emphasis on research and writing. Over the semester, weve examined various disasters from different perspectives. First of all, the psychological and physical problems at jamestown. Disaster sermons and responses to fires, hurricanes, and epidemics in colonial america. Famine suffered by the donner party en route to california. Irish immigrants fleeing the p...

Bomb hiroshima and nagasaki is that title of a series of American University institute of Nuclear Studies Institute Press briefings. Up next, for historians who have spent decades studying the topic summarize the findings about then take questions from journalists. The Nuclear Studies institute recorded this zoom event and provided the video. Barbara cochran, Professor Emeritus of the university of Missouri School of journalism, the world first journalism school. Andally i was a journalist news ...

Hes the most important political figure in wisconsins history and one of the most important in the history of the 20th century in the United States. He was a reforming governor. He defined what progressivism is. He was one of the first to use the term to self identify. He was the United States senator. He was recognized by his peers in the 1950s as one of the five greatest senators in american history. He was an opponent of world war i. He stood his ground advocating for free speech. Above all, ...

Live coverage begins at 3 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. [cheering] we want willkie we want willkie we want willkie i stand before you without a single pledge or promise or understanding of any kind except for the advancement of your cause and the preservation of american democracy. [applause] as your nominee, i will have an aggressive fighting campaign. [applause] we want willkie the republicans in we want wi llkie. Wendell willkie ran for president in 1940. These are some images of him on the camp...

First is paul sparrow who is director of the franklin d. Roosevelt president ial museum and library in hyde park, new york, following a career as a documentary filmmaker and a Senior Executive at the museum and paul has been directioning the Roosevelt Library museum since 2015 and heel ll be talk about fdr and the Manhattan Project and our second guest is Clifton Daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. He is also a truman scholar where he spent quite a bit of time study bein...

A weekend, every weekend on cspan3. During a series of meetings in potsdam, germany, the final doom is set by the big three and their advisors. Suffers thenister consequences. Swarms of b29s and Carrier Task Forces carry destruction to the japanese homeland. These are the following scenes of the final assault on japan that were photographed by newsreel and signal cameron. Cameramen. The Natural Power of the universe is harnessed in the new atomic bomb. Its tremendous possibilities are explained ...

The key thing here that i want to return to throughout this presentation is shown by this photograph here of Winston Churchill, harry truman, and Joseph Stalin smiling and shaking hands. And the point that i really want to reiterate here is that these three men and most of the advisors around them did not believe that what they were doing at potsdam was laying the seeds of a cold war. We know from the scholarship of the 1960s, 1970s and beyond, a lot of historians read potsdam backwards. That is...

For guy stuck in berlin houses germanys parliament the building is steeped in history. And 9451 of the last great battles of world war 2 raged here the red army did everything in its power to capture the vice talk building on may 1st 945 the last defenders withdrew shortly afterwards on may 8th germany surrendered. But. That was 75 years ago a long time but even today the city is still full of reminders. And today im going to visit some of these places i would like to learn more about the end of...