Believe it is all of the 21st century. Literally. [laughter] the greatest tribute i can give to her is were still not only talking, that actively cooperating and collaborating after all these years. Forerine earned her b. A. The university of indiana. She ended up here at the university of missouri. She was a fulbright lecturer in germany. Shes a nice for it in the social and political history of american women. Not just the womens movement, if that is even the term anymore, but the women who try to counter it. Her first book, republican 2006 bypublished in university of North Carolina press features one of the most was the first critics vociferous critics, phyllis schlafly. She published articles, gave presentations around the world, and kept our department going. That is why we are pleased to give her one of our distinct was Faculty Service awards. Distinguished Faculty Service awards. Moved on to a completely different form of political history, the intersection of social history an
Such future challenges were left to the league of nations and the baton was passed to the united nations. Global government in one form or the other would solve everything. The e. U. , the Common Market and nato and other bureaucracies would demonstrate how nation states can cooperate and achieve a collective peace and freedom and prosperity. Well, just as things change dramatically after the 19th century and when it turned into the 20th century, it became a totally different world. , too, our world is changing 20th must turn from the century to the 21st. Yet, we are plagued with conflicts on peoples that can be traced back to board and sovereign decision made long ago by people who are now dead not only from the 21st century but from the end of world war i. Many of the confrontations between the nationalities could be solved and the greatest threats of violence, insurrecollection and war itself could be diffused if our world would again recognize the right of selfdetermine nation. It
Of about 1820 to right around the civil war, the 1860s. In this gallery, especially over here in this gallery, youll notice that we paid a lot of attention to our youngest visitors while we were organizing this exhibition. We didnt want kids to be bored when they were walking through this history museum. Its no not a dry history. We really nougt about ways to keep children engaged while theyre here. Throughout the building youll find stations with kids books where parents or grandparents can sit down with children and read to them and different activities that can engage children. I even see adult visitors trying on costumes in our pioneer gallery here. The pioneer gallery is a story around fannie brookser who was a young woman, a teenager in Central Europe who married a man who had already been to america and came back to europe and was planning to come back to america and join a wagon train. She set off on thissed a men chur with him and came to america and traveled all over the coun
Dedicating his flag to all the other men who are still missing in action or prisoners of war in vietnam. A lot of times veterans, if they want to come see the things that they left, we are always willing to give them a tour and show them around. It also helps us because we can connect specific names, donors to what they left. We have a big barrel that was left. I think it was left in 2002. I am too young to know what it was. But i have been told that in vietnam they used it as a letrine. An unfortunate soldier was given the job of burning it. But they came and they gave us a bit of context about what it was and when they left it and why. So thats really cool. Theres some donors who are still really active and want to see the things that they left. So this, as you may or may not know, is a roll of toilet paper. You may wonder why we have it in our collection. But toilet paper was as good as gold in vietnam, because if you were out in the field and you didnt have any toilet paper, you ha
Response. We have a couple more letters across the way here. The community of savannah also wrote to washington, as did many other religious groups. We have a list here of different groups that wrote to him. Despite this confirmation of commit by the federal government of religious wlibt, jews haed to overcome obstacles to complete liberty. Many states had religious tests that blocked jews from Holding Office at the state level. Generally that would be you would have to take an oath on a christian bible in order to hold office. Jews cant do that. So those laws were struck down one by one in the states that help held them. The latest was in 1877. So it took a very long time for this. In this gallery, we look at the mid 19th century from the period of about 1820 to right around the civil war, the 1860s. In this gallery, especially over here in this gallery, youll notice that we paid a lot of attention to our youngest visitors while we were organizing this exhibition. We didnt want kids t