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Pelosi at the beginning of a ceremony that was held inside in which she delivered the opening remarks in honor of the late justice. Very briefly just saying that, you know, she had dedicated her life to trying to change the lives of women in america, minorities, and anybody who is oppressed or discriminated against in any way in her many, many years of legal life as a lawyer and then a judge and then Supreme Court justice elevated to the court in 1993 by then president bill clinton. There you see the man who would like to be the next president of the united states, joe biden. We saw President Trump pay his respects when the casket was at the top of the Supreme Court steps where she had been a justice for 27 years. And now we say goodbye to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A ....
Publication the civil war in 50 objects. In this program they discuss documents related to slavery, abolition and recruising freedman to the union army. So now i would like to turn our to some objects to help us describe the civil war. As a curator in the museum realm, particularly the history museum, i am always struck by how art objects, documents on display, have the power to stand in for larger historical narratives, than what they are structurally defined by in an object. For those of you who missed last weeks program, lets talk about this book. How did it come about and how effective do you think it is at the narrative suite of the civil war in only 50 objects . Well, it came about as i confess last week because louise mirror asked me to undertake the project for the Historical Society. And it was a lucky day for me. And you remember we got to see three times 50 objects, an array before us on some conference tables in th ....
Gardening is one of my greatest delights. This weekend on American History tv on cspan3. Veteran norman about his time serving as a cameraman for the last norman hatch talked about his time later he discusses serving as part of the allied occupation force of japan and seeing the devastation caused by the atomic bomb on nagasaki. The World War Ii Museum conducted this interview in 2013 for its oral history collection. This is the second of a twopart interview. Nobody but a few men had been in combat before. My main job was to teach the photographers that were there as a division protrump section how to operate. When i reported in, i had a meor and a captain senior to. I was at that time a master sergeant. So i had applied for the warrant officer set up, but i didnt know whether i would be approved for it. People did not look on photography even in those later days so to ....
Me about her strange inheritance and how it turned her into a sort of time traveler, right back to her fathers harrowing past. My name is Miriam Friedman morris. My father, David Friedman, a painter and holocaust survivor, left me a diary, tagebuch fuer Miriam Friedman. As i read it, the diary led me on a remarkable journey that continues to this day. Miriam, im jamie. Hi. Welcome. Miriam wrote us an email that said. It was so impassioned, i had to meet her. My goodness. Look at all of this. I feel like im in fineart gallery or a museum. Tell me about your parents. My parents were both holocaust survivors, and in 1954, we moved from israel to new york. In her minds eye, little miriam sees only gauzy pictures of her fathers past. He doesnt tell her all that much. She knows he was a painter, who, in world war i, drew com ....