Collectivized cultural of the wilfred owenization of the First World War. It looks at the impact through the lens of doomed youth. Doomed youth, lost generation, what ever grim moniker we want to use. This is another one of those problematic lenses that i believe we should remove from our world war i glasses. In other words, we need a new prescription for the wars memory. We are going to be more aggressive we should cut out the cataract off disillusionment and with clear eyes view the war generation. Our case study this afternoon, war literature released in the 1920s, has to do with the value of literature to show us the emotional impact of war. We should have no doubt as to this value. But we should still, as historians, exercise good oldfashioned skepticism as to whether literature is an effective way of interpreting complicated historical experiences. We are trying to get at the heart of the notion of disillusionment. I will use it interchangeably with disenchantment because war wri
U. S. Air force Academy Professor chuck steele talks about the state of the british grand fleet and the activity of submarines and argues that the actions of admiral william sims. His class is just over 50 minutes. Go ahead and take your seats. Okay. So were going to close out world war i talking about the american contribution and close out the lesson today by talking about william sims, one of the more neglected figures in military history as per the article i sent you, kind of comes off, you know, a distant second to pershing if that and so today this is a sea power class, well talk about the significance of sims and, you know, possibly get in to arguments as to who really made the more relevant contribution. That is sims, as you guys know, from being looking at the article. The painting is return of the mayflower. That shows the first group of american destroyers after we had entered the war arriving in ireland to begin operations against the german submarines. So its sort of the m
Wilfred owen, written as it was ongoing. Wilfred himself was a junior officer in the british army in the First World War. They are often reprinted words and they show us something about the brutality of war and the experience of war on the western front. They also show us something political. In an argument here, especially in the last part where he talks about men dying for nations, for national causes. The stakes of this one mans death from gas become very high indeed in Wilfred Owens eyes. This gives us a sense of what nations ask men to do in war. To complicate this, i want to give you a quote from another war writer, a patriotic novelist who fought on the western front. His name was ian hague. He was reflecting in the 1930s about war books. Specifically about war books that show us the sortedness of the great war in british memory. He writes, for the last 10 years, weve been submerged by a flood of socalled war books which depict the men who fought as brutes and beasts, as living
The original barnes and nobel superstores were modelled on this. Juan thompson talks about living with his father and his book stories i tell myself. You know, he was born in 1936. He didnt grow up in an era where fathers were typically heavily involved in raising kids, so that was part of it. Second, writing was an important thing, family was secondary, for sure. Also this weekend as part of our cities tour, some history of denver, colorado, on American History tv. National fish and Wildlife Service ranger on the rocky Flats Nuclear sites transition into a National Wildlife refuge. So we do have elk that use this area, they use the drainages for cabbing. We also have mill deer. Cocasually theres a bear in this area. And then kimberly field, author of the book the denver mint 100 years of gangsters, gold, and ghosts, talks about how the mint changed the city. By the 1880s, denver itself had gotten rich from mining, and it wanted to become the queen city of the plains, the center of com
Activity of german submarines prior to the u. S. Entering the war. He also argues that the actions of well catch you guys on monday. This week during American History tv primetime we feature our lek clurs in history series, taking you into College Classrooms across the country. Each night we debut a new lecture. Friday a look at how the u. S. Transportation system developed. We begin at 8 00 eastern with a development of parkways and freeways from an Iowa State University lecture. Then from the university of virginia, a look at the impact of cars on u. S. Cities. At 10 30 eastern, the development of the electric rail system taken from a Clemson University lecture. American history tv primetime friday. This weekend well explore the literary life and history of denver, colorado. On book tv we visit the Tattered Cover book store founded in 1971. Its considered the cornerstone of literary culture of denver. The original barnes and nobel superstores were modelled on this. Juan thompson talk