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Of what everyone knew would be a long war but as you pointed out, our Current Administration does believe, and there is an enormous pressure now toward the Political Correctness of that islam is a peaceful religion. I know something about the koran. You can fine peaceful mentions in it, but basically, as you say, islam and islamic terrorism feed on each other, and all you had to do was find the worldwide polls of september of 2001 that showed how many muslims around the world supported the attac...

Immigrant, probably poor, it was her way into the middle class. Ward,o find yourself in colorado, a small mountain town, bigger than boulder in those days. It had never had a school teacher. She was brought here by a guy who owned the mine and realize that the workers that he had were starting to have children and they were not getting any education. The story goes, she taught in a saloon. During the day they cleared out all the evidence of the revelry in the night and then after school was over...

Early years that we do not know. But we know that she was trained as a teacher in iowa, probably. You can imagine, as an irish immigrant, probably poor, it was her way into the middle class. Then to find yourself in ward, colorado, a small mountain town, but bigger than boulder in those days. It had never had a school teacher. She was brought here by a guy who owned the mine and realize d that the workers that he had were starting to have children and they were not getting any education. The sto...

Military history professor Christopher Gabel discusses the importance of railroads and Steam Powered locomotives to the union and confederate armies and explains how railroads made the scale of the civil war possible and describes how and why the confederacys powerful Railroad System broke down as the war progressed. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this hourlong event. Thank you very much for the kind introduction and for being here. Folks, you know when we look back at the onset of the am...

Aspects of war crimes so it is very interesting connections. Our next speaker is Carole Emberton who is an associate professor of history at the university of buffalo. Carole works on the civil war era as does everyone else here. Her first book was beyond redemption race, violence and the american south. She is currently working on a book that will be titled a folk history of freedom, dealing with the federal projects, writers projects and the interviews of former slaves during the depression er...

She chronicles the impact fashion had on the image of the women living in the white house and what their wardrobe choices reveal about the time in which they lived. This program runs about an hour. Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Herbert Hoover in president ial library museum. My name is tom schwartz. Im the director. Im pleased youve joined us for another program celebrating americas first ladies. In the lobby at the ticket desk, youll find a card which talk about some of our other Upco...

Politics. That year was marked by the of robert f. Kennedy and Martin Luther king jr. Methodistthe Southern University center for history, this event is about 50 minutes. The first thing a speaker wants to know when theyre speak to smu is whos going be in the audience . The 20yearolds for whom 1968 election is as remote an event as the 1920 election was a college i was student . Or is it go doing be people with a living memory of that election . Its not anyone at all. It allows me to pitch this ...

Watch us in hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. Each week, reel america brings archival films that tell the story of the 20th century. This is a 1953 Treasury Department film which shows a new recruit learning to protect the president , added to the duties of the secret service after the assassination of William Mckinley in 1901. The secret Service Director retired after a security breach. In one, a man made it into the east room of the white house before being stopped. [gunshot] ...

Cannot answer. All right. Thank you very much. [applause] sunday at 6 p. M. Eastern, we explore in exhibit of the library of congress marking the 100th anniversary of the panama canal. Photographs, newspaper reports and sheet music document the canals and construction. That is on american artifacts American History tvs Weekly Program that takes viewers into archives and his torque sites around the site around the country. American historys tv railamerica brings you films that helps tell the stor...

It. In the 1940s, the idea of the panic thing was really the main scenario of what happened. It was not that at all. What implications do those two stories have for a potential future . Well, what they show right away is that the media is going to have a very big affect. In this case, these both originated in the media. That me to you one more case in history, which is real science. That is 1996, when nasa announced that they had found nano fossils, very small fossils in a mars rock. Mars rocks ...