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The Michael Jordan of photographs. Its been in every textbook. What is a visual image that you have of the Great Depression, they will describe this photograph. Host or was the photograph taken . Guest it was taken in california. Its interesting because she was the main person in the center of the u. S. During the Great Depression. And these were Migrant Workers who moved along from field to field from one agriculture operation to another. This particular woman had been in her family had been wo...

Has been called the most famous photograph in america. Its sort of the Michael Jordan of photographs. Its used in every textbook. When i ask my students what is the visual image you have of the Great Depression of the 1930s, they describe this photograph. Host where was that photograph taken . Guest it was actually taken in california, and its interesting because she was really the main california in the western u. S. During the 1930s depression. And it was taken among people working in a peapic...

Experts discuss several myths surrounding the starspangled banner and what led to the rise of the National Anthem in everyday society. Also, the law signed by president hoover in 1931 that made it the official National Anthem. The library of Congress Posted this program. It is about 50 minutes. Good afternoon. We are going to talk about the history of the starspangled banner, especially addressing certain myths that have grown up over the years about its composition, origins, and so forth. It is...

Host linda gordon, who is Dorothea Lange . Guest Dorothea Lange was important for target for the period of depression in the 1940s and 1950s. I can guarantee you that everyone in this country does her photographs. Which is often called my grandmother has it is used in every textbook when i asked my students what is the visual image of the Great Depression of the 1930s they describe this photograph. Host wheres the photograph taken . Guest it was actually taken in california. It is interesting be...

The report seemed credible to confederates because it confirmed the right over might. It would be written that Union Officers cheered for lee as he left the mclean house. A yankees dared not utter a single insulting word to the defeated rebels. Why were the yankees so reticent, even submissive, in victory . It is explained, they feared the lion even in chains. Lee, the lion, still commanding the deference and respect of northerners, and fear. In the year after the war confederates not only again...

It would be written that Union Officers cheered for lee as he left the mclean house. A yankees dared not utter a single insulting word to the defeated rebels. Why were the yankees so reticent, even submissive, in victory . It is explained, they feared the lion even in chains. Lee, the lion, still commanding the deference and respect of northerners, and fear. In the year after the war confederates not only again and again invokes the overwhelming numbers interpretation of their defeat. They also ...

Debates bond by appomattox debate spawned by appomattox. I will argue lee and grant represented distinct visions of what the honorable peace would look like. They were fundamentally incompatible, contrary to a myth. They represented fundamentally incompatible visions of what the peace would look like and why the war turned out the way it did. I also try to take us beyond lee and grant. As the drama unfolded, countrymen and women would crowd the scene and have their own agenda aspirations, and dr...

Thank you very much. It is a pleasure and honor to be here and share the stage with these wonderful scholars. Im grateful to Patrick Schroeder to having included me. So you have the surrender scene and i would like to turn to the surrender aftermath and the political debates spawned by appomattox and ill argue that lee and grant had distinct visions of what an honorable possess would look like and peace would look like and the two of the myths of the gentlemens meeting of the minds and they had ...

Courthouse civil park. And Liz Ben Varon talks about the ending of the appomattox civil war. This is about 50 minutes. Thank you. Thank you very much. It is a pleasure and honor to be here and share the stage with these wonderful scholars. Im grateful to Patrick Schroeder to having included me. So you have the surrender scene and i would like to turn to the surrender aftermath and the political debates spawned by appomattox and ill argue that lee and grant had distinct visions of what an honorab...

Lee and grant had distinct visions of what an honorable possess would look like and peace would look like and the two of the myths of the gentlemens meeting of the minds and they had fundamental visions of what an honorable peace would look like and why the war turned out the way it did. But i will try to take us beyond lee and grant as the appomattox drama unfolded the countrymen and women would crowd the scene and vest the surrender with their oesh as pir own aspirations and agendas and dreams...