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Are still being fought for today. Just to sum it up, one of the points that dr. Thompson made about the end of the war, the armies were more interested in demobilization, getting people home, and that was reporting about whats going on in the middle east, but it really wasnt much of a concern in this country, but as time went on, after the war, were celebrating, were moving on from the war, it wasnt possible in the middle east, and things were exacerbating and of course getting worse, and now we...

We were live earlier today from memorial inr norfolk, virginia. Next youll hear about the wartime role of the u. S. Navy, as well as archaeological work on the trenches of the western front area our symposium concludes with a panel on the war felt like his. The wars legacy. Good morning. How is everyone this fine morning area this fine morning . Welcome to the city of norfolk for those of you who have not been here before. It has been my honor and privilege to be the director here at the macarth...

[inaudible] youre watching American History tv. Like in the conversation us on facebook. In American Hats history tv, today were bringing you live coverage of world war one. Good morning everybody. To the macarthur memorial. For the last 14 months it has be the honor to director here at macarthur memorial. In a ld like to stand special welcome to our audience that is watching around the world in American History tv. In a mission 1964 use general macarthurs words to look for the future based on t...

The war is remembered in Different Countries and the Lasting Legacy of the United States economic involvement in europe. This panel is about one hour. Final session of the day answers a question that no matter what type of history you talk about, we find we have to often answer the question, what is the legacy . Why does this matter . How does this relate to what we see in the headlines today . With that in mind, we decided to construct our final session, which is a Panel Discussion of scholars ...

As it was, into a National Political campaign and a nickname for himself. He was called old tip. You probably would not have been able to spin the victory here into as big of a thing as it was had he not been subsequently a successful general in the war of 1812. He ran for president in 1836, was unsuccessful. He ran again in 1840 with john tyler as his running mate. There was a Large Campaign rally here that attracted some 30,000 people. A rally in 1840 was probably the first modern style Campai...

And they will reflect on that question the legacy and impact of the First World War on today. I wont bore you with all of the biographies of the panel members. You can see the information for yourself in the programs. Will cheer rouser and moderate this discussion, and i know he is looking forward to having a good discussion with the audience. Dr. Rogers, all yours. Thank you very much. Welcome. I am here as sort of a we have four o. D. U. Professors. I am a professor att. C. C. I am a specialis...

Styles of the times in which they lived as well as their personal style. Joining us is the curator of the first ladies collection at the National Museum of american history. The National Archives posted this 90 minute event. [applause] hello, everyone. Thank you for being here. Were going to have a rousing evening, i hope. Certainly an interesting one and an interesting discussion. The whole topic of what the first lady wears, we know is a frequent topic of discussion. We have lisa here who wrot...

This Border Regions because from the perspective of central authorities, once you have nationals in Border Regions, you are securing not only borders but you are making sure that that territory would never be aha again. So its very interesting how this kind of conception of sovereignty can be traced in demographic surveys. You can see the spread of population after world war i changing because of this conception that you have to secure borders with populations. That concentrated populations woul...

Opposing military leaders. This is about 50 minutes. Our next speaker is holger herwig. Our next speaker is ohholger herwig. He lives in canada where he holds a dual position as professor at university of calgary and Canada Research chair in the center for military and strategic studies. His list of awards and appointments is staggering. Dr. Herwig is a fellow of the Royal Society of canada, a grant recipient from the Alexander Von Humboldt foundation and he has held numerous distinguished visit...

Of i mean you could imagine a different outcome. But thats not the way it was. Hello. Ive recently completed, or read, history of world war i by john keegan. And he expressed a view i had not heard before. What he said was before austria issued its ultimatum which was very weak and crumbling even then, sent its ultimatum to serbia, he first contacted the kaiser as to whether the kaiser would support him if he invaded serbia. And the kaiser answered yes. And his view was that was the real spark t...