Presentation. If you can, please use the microphones so we can capture your voice online. For those of you watching online, you can ask questions. Log into the chat feature of this Youtube Channel and type your questions in. I will then ask the questions at the end of the session. You will find to hotlinks. One will take you to presentation slides and the other to live captioning. Todays program is entitled world war ii and the first unit picture films with specialists. They work in the National Archives Motion Picture preservation laboratory. They perform conservation and preservation work on Motion Pictures and records held at the National Archives. Before joining the lab in 2006, audrey worked with the film museum at at the bowdoin college. Heidi completed her education at washington university, earning a masters in history with a certificate in archives and records management. Works in the lab since it is 2009. A pleasure to have them return to highlight their work. Ladies and gent
And the kind of literature of world war i is very famous, wild widely rather, taught in schools. That walt not tour for literature of world war i in the united states. One of the real gaps in that story was the literature to which had been produced by africanamerican writers. So i was drawn to that, figuring out what kind ofs africanamericans were telling about the grate war, how africanamerican writers thought beside how it i impacted race in america. So africanamericans were caught up in americas entry into cold war 1 just as all americans were. And africanamericans volunteers. They bought liberty bostons and volunteered to serve in the in military, volunteered to serve as aid workers and nurses, and often with mixed effects. They Woodrow Wilson said that america was entering world war i to make the world save for democracy but america for africanamericans didnt feel very safe or democratic. So very unsure about going to fight for a political principles overseas they were just not re
The future youre welcome to send questions or comments. Simply email speaker heritage. Org and of course well post todays program on the heritage front page for everyones future reference as well. Leading our discussion today is daniel kochis. Daniel is our policy analyst at the Margaret Thatcher center for free and pretty focused on transatlantic security issues. His writings have been featured in real clear world foxnews. Com breitbart. Com and he has provided expert analysis for 100 radio and Television Appearances he has also served as a panelist at the transatlantic think tank conference in brussels belgium and provided parliamentary into the house of Lords Select Committee on the arctic. Prior to joining us here at heritage in the Thatcher Center he worked for a nonprofit in washington d. C. Is a policy analyst as well as on the Advisory Board company as a Research Associate in the associate director. Please join me in welcoming daniel kochis. [applause] thank you john and good m
Which was a Secular Movement in its most sublime form under Gamal Abdul Nasser of egypt. That war was debunked in 1967. It opened the door to the entry of a new ideology into the middle east. That was an islamic ideology. That has had profound ramifications for everybody both in the middle east and in the United States as well. The sixday war also ended the period when the arabisraeli conflict was a state to state conflict, a conflict between israel and jordan israel and syria and israel and the conflict a new conflict emerged, a conflict that was principally one between israel and the palestinians. Before 67, you really didnt hear about the palestinians. And its not by accident that a year after the war ended, in 1968, the plo under Yasser Arafat emerges as this powerful force in the arab world. And weve been living with that, as well. The 67 war was also also inaugurated the strategic relationship between the United States and israel. People forget that israel fought the 67 war not w
Which was a Secular Movement in its most sublime form under Gamal Abdul Nasser of egypt. That war was debunked in 1967. It opened the door to the entry of a new ideology into the middle east. That was an islamic ideology. That has had profound ramifications for everybody both in the middle east and in the United States as well. The sixday war also ended the period when the arabisraeli conflict was a state to state conflict, a conflict between israel and jordan israel and syria and israel and the conflict a new conflict emerged, a conflict that was principally one between israel and the palestinians. Before 67, you really didnt hear about the palestinians. And its not by accident that a year after the war ended, in 1968, the plo under Yasser Arafat emerges as this powerful force in the arab world. And weve been living with that, as well. The 67 war was also also inaugurated the strategic relationship between the United States and israel. People forget that israel fought the 67 war not w