the war is not for universal emancipation, this would be war, justtestinal another civil war over territory and sovereignty of no real interest to the world." they could do nothing more han just give in the usual, "the constitution does not give the president the power to end slavery." he is just puzzled by this. "the president of your country can do something to end slavery?" -- can't do something to end slavery?" he is incredulous. chapter, we see that the union would have to find an answer to this. for?"are you fighting , i have the book another chapter: "gar ibaldi's answer." what does it matter what giuseppe garibaldi or karl marx were all these politicians and reformers are saying about the american war? in september of 62, britain and france, lord palmerston, the prime minister, along with earl russell, the secretary of state and foreign affairs, and others in the british cabinet had agreed with napoleon that they would, with other countries, perhaps austria, possibly spain, to go together as a group and to offer to mediate in the american , to to bring it to an end renew the flow of

and vietnam war.you can see on the pages of these guest books, vips and celebrities who were visiting the soldiers recovering at the hospital during that time. >> next we are going to go to an exhibit on human anatomy and pathology with a special emphasis on traumatic brain injury. so come along. we are in the second of the three exhibit galleries here at the medical museum. this exhibit gallery focuses broadly on anatomy and pathology. one piece of the exhibit features normal human anatomy. this gives us a chance to show normal human tomorrow cal structures, lungs, kidneys, stomach, brains, hearts, in a condition that shows you what you look like on the inside when you're healthy. these are very unique specimens, therapy served in all manner of states, wet tissue, blast nation and dry mounted specimens, but the rest of the exhibit gallery focuses on traumatic brain injury and tbi was identified as one of the signature injuries of the wars in iraq or afghanistan and so we focused the rest of this exhi

experience ofe war. are these complicated questions that i think are important to try to take into account. it's hard to come out with an easy answer. let's hear from frank in atlanta, georgia. professor gordon: -- caller: professor, thank you. i had a great grandmother by the name of joseph walsh was taken prisoner with the massachusetts fifth volunteers. he was taken prisoner by the in 1862 and moved into a cap. -- a camp. , theret know which camp was a great number of volunteers for massachusetts that were incarcerated. , this given an option goes back to stories we been told in some writings in our family. he was given the option to lessen his punishment, improve his conditions if he were to agree to work with the tradeerates to apply the -- his trade happen to be hard as maker. he agreed to do that. he writes in the journal that he did it not to support the confederates, but to guarantee that he would be coming home after the war, basically to improve his living conditions. i'm wondering if you have

that was done well after the war. it's a memorandum, a prison of war record. it identifies the capture date of the individual, often their circumstances of capture. it lists the various places they're held prisoner. one of the important things to remember is with most union prisoners held at andersonville this is one of at least three, sometimes as many as six, prisoc facilities they're held at in the space of a year. it's the biggest. it's the most famous far lot -- for a lot of reasons, but it's not the only one.ve rec so those national archive rce records are the first source, but during a visit you can use , that database to look up a youc personan.e often, we do have copies of theo service record or other items. this was an enlisted prison.enld what's extraordinary about these prisoners, they're not famous people.ar they are the working men of they u.s. army, the marine corps, the navy.ivates they're privates, corporals, seg sergeants. they're ordinary men. what's extraordinary about themh is how ordinary their lives are after this thing that they afte ex

i was in favor of the iraq war.mocracy in iraq could be a new model of politics for the region, a middle ground between repressive dictatorships and islamic fanaticism, and i never believed iraqi or arabs were somehow genetically incapable of self-rule. i did urge the u.s. needed to send in more troops than it did to maintain order. i urged a u.n. mandate to provide greater legitimacy and avoid american occupation of a middle eastern country. i worried that iraq's sectarian divisions would pull the country apart. but it doesn't change the fact that i did support the decision to topple saddam hussein's regime. some good came of it. saddam was a gruesome dictator who killed hundreds of thousands and plunged his country into wars. iraq is now more free and open than almost any other arab country, despite its struggles. kurdistan is a real success story, an oasis of stability and tolerance. but in the end, the iraq war as a failure and a terrible mistake, causing geopolitical chaos and humanitarian tragedy. millions of

happened was in the 2013 war -- the 2003 war in iraq. shiite government came to power and many of those have long-standing relations with iran and so the relationship improved dramatically, because of that. mixedthen, it has been a picture, some things iran has done has been very destructive. some things have been constructive at times, but that is the nature of foreign-policy. back and forth. question is whether it is realistic to imagine a world in which iran has no influence in iraq, a country which it has hundreds of years of relations, many, cultural links. actually, as far as the united states is concerned, they have many common interests in iraq, when it comes to fighting isis. the question is whether iran will encourage a direction in iraq that is inclusive of sunnis , or whether it will be a winner takes all strategy and that remains to be seen. host: time for one more question. i want to let everybody know that roham will be available to sign copies of his book. last question. about theto ask current iran deal, but in a differe

though we call it the good war, very bad things happened in that good war. here we have an airman cloth map of italy and tunisia. when our paratroopers were dropped into unknown territory, they would have these maps dyed into scarves they would wear, and this is how they would try and maneuver territories around them. in this space, you can see taking palermo, which was the first european capital to fall to the allies. general george patton raced up the western side of sicily to take palermo and then headed to the east to cross the northern border of sicily, combining with bernard montgomery to push against the germans and italian forces, eventually driving them off of the sicilian island across the straits of sicily into the southern boot of italy there. so you get a sense of the campaign and how it moved to this very rapid conclusion, only 38 days after the landing. we are now leaving the sicily gallery and entering the italian campaign here in the national world war ii museum. you can see on the map to my right the situation the allies faced in september

ended.s ago, the war how do you feel about the war, nick? it worth america going to your country to help your people create a free society? so many people died. the children, bombed. why when i took a heture of the napalm -- helped me become a refugee. i am happy with the visa. >> you asked me that we don't have the time. --tarted collecting books there were not many books available in english during the 1960's. today there are 30,000 titles available on amazon in english about vietnam. of those titles comes up with a theory about the war. i live in orange county these days near little saigon. very successfully, they own restaurants and theirf businesses and children are well-educated. to a person, they will tell you that the war should have been won thing that the americans should have done more. they realize and they will admit that there were weaknesses within their own government. they feel that they were worth supporting longer defend and support came. i don't agree with that viewpoint because i feel that the u.s. had already done much

war ii, as in any war can be good, world war ii had many dissenters. time we get to the 1960's you have the civil rights movement. you had gay rights, environmental movement, second wave feminism, you name it. you guys are very familiar with all of the moon that has existed since then. been at the core of the american. so thin when people dissent -- so that when people dissent and say you are being what is that? dissent is essential to american history. i want to go over a couple of the dissenters so fasten your seatbelts in measles it through a few hundred years of american history. one of the first that i want to mention specifically was roger williams. banished from massachusetts bay colony. ist got him into trouble these are religious dissenters. very calvinistic. roger williams is looking around "d massachusetts bay and says you know, you guys are not tolerant of other people's religions and this is unchristian and it is going to get you into trouble." s arguingup that if you -- he wind up arguing that if you're trying to enforce one religion you

just dumb wars. he promised he would wrap up the american project in iraq and leave, emphasize getting afghanistan right and leave there, too. but wrapping up more than a decade of war has been difficult as iraq keeps sliding deeper into dissolution, and more than a dozen years of blood and treasure still seems undporchable. ungovernable. so now the president says he's not leaving. >> i will not let afghanistan be used as safe haven to attack by terrorists again. training afghan forces and training counterterrorism forces qaeda. of course, compared to the 100,000 troops we once had in afghanistan, today fewer than 10,000 remain in support of these very focused missions. >> al jazeera's jamie mcintire explains the unwitnes once-and-future american mission in afghanistan. >> the president's surprising phase, u.s. trained afghan army which needed u.s. and nato help to retake the key northern city. but the penningto pentagon insists kunduz was not a tipping point. months in the making, following excessiv

syria-b the war in iraq, about the war in afghanistan. even now with this extension of as you say the longest war ever, it's not something we fight about politically, it's not something congress weighs in on. do you wish we had a better political debate about this? would it help? >> i sure do. and i think you hit the nail on the head when you talked about the fact that most americans don't even seem to realize that there are young americans fighting and dying in afghanistan all the time. every single day. every single night. and we've got to talk about that. we've got to talk about these issues. we can't forget that the longest war in our history is still going on. we've got to have a reasoned debate. and you know, we also have to talk about what happens when veterans come home because va health care is a disaster and yet that hasn't even come up. the republicans didn't even talk about it in the republican debate. so we have young veterans risking their lives, some of them losing their lives overseas. they come home, they can't get the he

john: coming up, the war on cops, the war on women, the war on isis. what's theater and what's reality? >>> but next, the debate whether immigrants steal our jobs. >> definitely. definitely steal jobs. >> we do jobs that americans don't do, like we do hard jobs. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself, and that's what we're doing at xfinity. we are challenging ourselves to improve every aspect of your experience. and this includes our commitment to being on time. every time. that's why if we're ever late for an appointment, we'll credit your account $20. it's our promise to you. we're doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible. because we should fit into your life. not the other way around. . john: do immigrants take jobs from america? >> no. >> no. >> there is no such thing as american, we all came from different countries. john: there is no such thing as an america? i'm not sure what that means but the attitude angers who believe immigrants take american jobs, ask people about that, too. >> definitely. they definitel

at the time of the civil war all the lessons had been learned from the time of the mexican war. all of the lessons that were learned during the revolution had probably one of the most extensive intelligence organizations. for both north and south, it is not an existence won the war starts in 1861. nobody knows how to do this and there is no written record to go back and take out the the how-to manual. we see a great deal of innovation and technology, which will also carry down to the future 20th century organizations. first what we want to talk about is the open force and the vast majority of intelligence collected during the civil war is coming from what we call multiple sources, newspapers, magazines, journals, and just plain simple observations. somebody sees a unit going by. nonetheless in spite of the deeds of derring-do and the espionage, most intelligence is collected from open sources, coming from both sides. mainly newspapers and the reporting of war correspondence. and the use of northern newspapers to collect intelligence will prop sherman to state that newspaper corr

endcould in the war -- and the war then and there. military frank, the historian, mentioned another reason that i have not heard until i read his book. the japanese army, he said, was monthg 100,000 people a ,n china and manchuria civilians, that is. every day that you waited to use that bomb, 3000 more would be killed. whether that know would have influence the decision makers. what surely would have influenced the decision makers join the was ready to war, had joined it, in fact, a e bomb wasbefore th dropped. if you have let them help desk with the invasion of japan, they would have shared in the occupation. that leads to a desperately .wful calculus in that sense, the people of agasakima and not where the first victims of the cold war. else insense, everyone japan was a beneficiary of having used the bomb. i have many japanese friends, and i have gingerly felt them out, and i have yet to speak with one who did not say, in some way, that they were somehow relieved. i'm sure there are such ones, but i have yet to speak with one. tha

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the commandant of andersonville was hanged for war crimes after the civil war. she made it her personal mission, her destiny, to identify the roughly 13,000 union soldiers who perished there. expedition was ordered by stanton. a gruesome errand in the summer of 1865. you can imagine how hot it was in georgia under the blazing sun. it was a rough ride, because they were not happy to have her. urging, ahanks to her new national cemetery was quickly underway. when it was finally settled, in the hot georgia son, nearly all the union dead were identified. some with emaciated remains. along with 450 unknown soldier headboards. 1865, thatt day in was recorded by "harpers weekly," the american stars & stripes parades over andersonville to reclaim the ground, the land itself, from the confederacy. clara barton race the colors in the dedication ceremony, front with formal victory, but also with the hope of healing the torn human spirit. thank you. [applause] i visited where clara barton lived on 7th street just yesterday. i can tell you, if you're curious about that. the

long after the war was over. he had this wonderful intuition about nuclear cross-sections, nuclear reactor is, and things like that. and that they made measurements of various kinds. and he would say, you know, this one looks funny, maybe you better do that one again. now we know why. he had the information from -- [indiscernible] that i know to that nothing about these things directly. only what i have read. but from everything that i have read, and also from knowing him very, very slightly, i do not believe that greenglass could give them anything useful. could, i very much doubt it. he was a machinist. ms. kelly: [indiscernible] mr. peshkin: oh, david greenglass was a machinist. luckily for me, i did not associate with him because i didn't like him. ms. kelly: did you know ted? mr. peshkin: no. ms. kelly: no. mr. peshkin: i did not know ted hall. well, i probably met him, but i didn't have -- when his name -- when he became famous later, i barely remembered him. ms. kelly: [indiscernible] mr. peshkin: well, sh

since the civil war ended. [laughter] phillip: it here, we have probably read a collective almost every one of them. what has happened, though, is this phenomenon of lost cause has taken roots. what are the tenants of the lost cause? well, this gentleman here, jubal anderson early, played a part. southern generals -- lee, jackson -- we have to throw in someone from the west, so let's throw in albert johnson. they were worthy of emulation. lee was akin to maybe god-like status. stonewall jackson was a legend even before he dies. how many other generals in american history, maybe, say, george washington, were known and followed and recognized and perceived as greatness before they passed on or before the war was over? northern superior manpower, industry won the war. rhode island made more weapons per year than the whole weapons made in the confederacy. easy to pinpoint manpower and industry. the south defended states rights, the rights from the revolution. they fought in the second revolution. major tenets -- sl

experience ofe war.se are these complicated questions that i think are important to try to take into account. it's hard to come out with an easy answer. let's hear from frank in atlanta, georgia. professor gordon: -- caller: professor, thank you. i had a great grandmother by the name of joseph walsh was taken prisoner with the massachusetts fifth volunteers. he was taken prisoner by the in 1862 and moved into a cap. -- a camp. , theret know which camp was a great number of volunteers for massachusetts that were incarcerated. , this given an option goes back to stories we been told in some writings in our family. he was given the option to lessen his punishment, improve his conditions if he were to agree to work with the tradeerates to apply the -- his trade happen to be hard as maker. he agreed to do that. he writes in the journal that he did it not to support the confederates, but to guarantee that he would be coming home after the war, basically to improve his living conditions. i'm wondering if you ha

policy should help them fight the war, but not to fight the war for them. in accordance with this wise down in guamid three principles for future american policy. first, the united states will keep all of its treaty commitments. second, we shall provide a shield if the nuclear power threatens the freedom of a nation allied with us, or a nation who survival we consider vital to our security. in cases involving other types of aggression we should furnish military economic assistance when requested in accordance to our treaty commitments, but we should look are responsible for providing the manpower for its defense. after announcing this policy, the leaders of the philippines, thailand, other nations that might be threatened with communist aggression welcomed the new direction in american policy. defense of freedom is everybody's business, not just america's business. it is particularly the responsibility of the people whose freedom is threatened. in the previous administration, we americanized the war in vietnam. in this administration, we are vietnamizing th

what extent did the cold war change modernism? modernism predate the cold war. to what extent did the cold war alter it in any way? it is cap change because of the fact that the strategic military international environment changed around it? actually my itdamental argument that avoided it of critique. it made its style and gesture. i think it is true in literature. inhink we see this "encounter," with the critics were mostly british and so convinced that the great works of the modernist cannot be reproduced. a look at the public and the writers out there at that time and they say -- they stop and senior at them. like osborne and thom gunn, and looking at them saying the don't have anything to offer them. but what lackland is doing is buried consciously turning it into the spirit style. is turning it into purist style. we should only evaluate works of art by their formal features. thet pay attention to political believe the author is trying to convey. my first book was all about how lackland did that with frederick pound. that was the way one read. lackland's mag

my father fought in world war ii, i'm very glad we won world war ii. but the situation there, all the were off the books, roosevelt had initiated the good neighbor policy in latin america. once the war broke out, conversant fbi agents to 12 different latin american countries. we were looking for people to exchange on the way exchange works, you try to give, the prisoner exchange is a useful diplomatic tool in war. but when you do it, you try to get a low value exchange e for a high-value american, so you are doing that. roosevelt was trying to get low value people and there were about 4000 germans from these countries, incredibly 80 women women of them jews who fled. they were taken, put on a blacklist that the fbi had and the army came up to where they were, they deposited them at the port of new orleans, the moment they sat on american soil they were arrested for being an illegal alien. they were then taken to crystal city. many of those were traded. that was the nature of it. the other thing is, roosevelt was quite worried about the panama canal, he

the same thing that drug us into the first iraq war. who voted for the first iraq war? hillary clinton. she later on back peddled, like everything else. when she finds out something is unpopular, she flips to the other side. in syria, we said we're going to fund and train the syrian moderates. so we spent $250 million to train 60 of them. .ver $4 million per fighter you know what we did, we sent them back into battle five at a time. who sends in an army of five people? they were captured, stripped of their weapons. there is another name for al qaeda in syria. why would be fighting with al qaeda? must do now, was ne they are two areas of radical islam. but we can live now with al qaeda. they were the people that attacked us on 9/11. later on, they are going to love us? we will do a big group hug? no, they will kill us we turn around. maybe there is no answer. there is another war going on in yemen. you have these rebels, and iran is supporting them. you have these other sunni muslims, and saudi arabia is supporting them. in washington, the war drums. we have to get invol

world war ii 70 years later live from the national world war ii museum beginning here at 11:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span 3. >>> this monday, on c-span's new series "landmark cases," but 1830 the mississippi river around new orleans had become a breeding ground for cholera and yellow fever, partly due to slaughter houses in the area dumping their by-products in the river. the other houses took them to court. follow the slaughter house cases of 1873. we're joined by paul clement and michael ross, author of the book "justice of shattered dreams," to help tell the history of this time period in the south, the personal stories of the butchers, as well as the attorneys and supreme court justices involved in this decision. be sure to join the conversation as we take your calls, tweets, and facebook comments using the hash tag landmark cases. live monday. for background on each case while you watch, order your copy of the "landmark cases" companion book. it is available for 8.95 plus shipping on c-span.org. >>> american history tv was live from the camp sumter civil war military prison in

in the civil war. since you have written and studied so much on grant, give us a feeling about grant, the general, and the man. >> well, grant's -- i think, first, it's important to know his personality. he was very quiet man, very withdrawn, rarely cracked a joke, rarely smiled at jokes, very inward type personality. he -- his prewar years were indeed tragic in many ways. he graduated from west point, kind of of middle of the pack. nothing outstanding about him as a student. then he got married after the mexican war. did a good job in the mexican war, nothing really astonish, but did a good job. in fact crossed paths with john pemberton while he was down there. neither one of them knew how they would cross paths in later years. grant came home, married, a lady in missouri. her -- julia dent. her family was a slave--owning family, and from the questions -- one question that has still swirling around over civil war history all these year, didn't general grant own slaves? no. he was given a slave by his

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business,pension after the mexican war a lot of disease in the mexican war.oodedion office was with information -- questions -- thehe surgeons surgeons would be asked about this particular patients, they said they do not remember this guy particularly. so but theyas so in could not remember the details. >> there are medical journals betweenjority of ships the end of the war of 1812 and the civil war, not all ships, so you can follow -- >> nobody has sat down and put it all together. >> no, that is the fun of scholarship. student looking for a naval topic. >> quantifying it would be very useful. different ships encounter different climates it i wrote a paper on this once that i never did anything once. >> let's open the floor to questions from the audience. if you could give your name before you post a question and perhaps say where you are from and your interest in these topics. any questions for any of our three presenters? >> my name is charles. i am one of the editors on a project. i have a question for all three. christopher, in terms of the population. i

good war, but world war ii had many dissenters. by the time we get to the 1960's , you have the civil rights movement. you had gay rights, the environmental movement, second wave feminism, you name it. you guys are very familiar with all of the movements that have existed since then. it has been at the core of the , so thatexperience when people dissent and people say you are being unpatriotic, what is the answer to that? they are being absolutely patriotic. dissent is central to american history. i want to go over a couple of the dissenters so fasten your seatbelts and we will zip through a few hundred years of american history. one of the first that i want to mention specifically was roger williams. in 1636, he was banished from massachusetts bay colony. what got him into trouble is he was there with these religious dissenters. very conservative very , calvinistic. roger williams is looking around at massachusetts bay and says "you know, you guys are not tolerant of other people's religions and this is unchristian and it is going

the korean war. effectively american military dominance and control of the sky came out of this group. the group continues to have a resonant role in america because they have very close ties to the bush family and president george h.w. bush told me that this group had been an inspiration to him in becoming a navy aviator in world war ii. but this list of accomplishments just scratches the surface with this group. what really grabbed me was when i read the letters of kenneth mcleish, a member of the group, to his fiance during the war. he was, like most of the boys, the son of a very well-to-do family, but in his case his father had been a self-made man. he had emigrated to the u.s. as a teenager from scotland and came here chasing a woman and dreams of a fortune and he got both. after his first wife died, he married an educated woman from old connecticut stock who raised many bright, strong-willed children infused with their father's scotch sense of romance and desire to make good. for instance kenn

at the end of world war ii.even with their opportunities in the service restricted at the time of the great war, black men in this did and excelled in -- in the face of adversity. those achievements were reported the publication titled american negro in the world war. his book was published in 1919, and it reproduced correspondence from top officials of the american expeditionary forces and was generously illustrated to document the successes of black military personnel, and as a special adjunct to newton baker, scott was uniquely positioned to collect the raw whichor such by them, included a wealth of statistics on the strength of the ready response of negro draftees to the selective service calls as scott put it. this bottom slide shows dr. scott with members of his staff and his washington dc office. scott made a point of noting in his preface that or hundred thousand or more black men entered active military service. one of those 400,000 men was edward donahue pearson junior, a 19-year-old who served aboard

it is not lincoln's war strategy. the system ties into the evolving nature of the war. following the emancipation ,roclamation, the united states the union army start enlisting african-american men not simply by the thousands, but by the tens of thousands. and this creates a question. it is a cultural change. how do you treat these men? and in the spring of 1860 -- around the same time of 1863, the army, the lincoln administration are struggling with the changing nature of war and they bring in a legal scholar by the name of francis to develop, for the first time, a written law or code of war. they are taking evolving military tradition from 200 years in europe and in the united states, the revolutionary war, and a are codifying it. and to be code is critically important and often overlooked in american history and in world history. copieseva convention entire sections of the code. so the code survives in spirit today and these humanitarian protections for noncombatants, prisoners of war. buried within the code is a very bold statement that in a sense is the first equal

world war ii, 70 years later, live from the national world war , saturday, november 7, beginning 11:00 history tv on c-span3. beginning from the that i look in the mirror and i don't see a president, a response was quite looking in the mirror. from the very beginning, he just said this is nothing i've ever thought about. >> tonight on q&a, former public relations executive on his book, run, mitch, run, about his friend mitch daniels and the decision to not run for president in 2012. >> i became convinced as we came towards the end of the process competitive, and if he had made a decision to do it, he would have had his heart and soul into it, but from the very beginning it is not something that he ever really thirsted after. >> tonight :00 at 8 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a. >> next on american history tv from the u.s. naval academy in annapolis, maryland, three scholars present talks about what they refer to as marginalized aspects of the american revolution. the areas covered include african-americans, disabled soldiers, and combat medical care. program includes many anecd

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war.he bulk of this group, the yale aero club, became the first squadron in the u.s. navy air reserve. the press dubbed them the millionaires' unit. without further ado please join me in welcoming mr. marc wortman. [applause] >> well, thank you for coming out this evening. thank you to barnes & noble for having me. this is as many of you know a home coming of sorts. having grown up in bethesda, it is wonderful to see so many old friends here. especially today on the 39th day out of the 40 days and 40 nights of rain. it's been an extraordinary deluge here. now, please pardon me if i refer to notes occasionally. i'm much more used to writing to eople than speaking to them. about 10 years ago i went flying with a group from yale, the yale aviation club, founded incidentally by fred smith, who also went on to an illustrious flying career. he later on founded fedex. the members of the club at yale told me they had a significant history of forebearers who established the first flying club. i wen

wereon that matters tending to war. -- were trending to war. were certain people in the northern part of our nation who disagreed with this, because they had been profiting from their intercourse with england, in a mercantile sense. it was a matter of considerable debate, until finally in june of 1812 mr. madison says -- mr. madison sends a war message to the congress to debate and to decide upon the declaration of war. they did this, and you will forgive me if i refer to my notes. i would rather be condemned for a poor memory than inaccuracy. of issues for a declaration war was the principal matter. harassed,ce being entering and leaving our ports, mostly by england. by this point the french navy had been swept from the seas. was -- it was a matter of pretended blockades, saying we had blockaded your ports, but not having more than one ship standing off the roads from whatever port it was they claimed to be placating. a blockade come in order to be , best aod as such blockade, in order to be understood as such, -- a blockade, in order to be un

the cast that is we see here are from world war i and world war ii. some of the models you see here on display are evidence of the different stages of the surgical repair done on an individual over a series of surgeries. you can see the nature of this soldier's injury prior to repair and then in this case and in the case below you can see how the surgeon was inflating the issue so that to create enough tissue for eventual use to restore that particular structure, in this case the nose or a flap over an injured eye. these then became the teaching models of the mid 20th century before there were ipads and on screen technologies, this was how surgeonsrbcñ of the era wer learning and tracking an individual case as a teaching study. and we compare those to 3-d

it was not inevitable that the war would end as it inevitable that the war would end as it did or indwell at all. along the western line the allies were pinned down against tenacious nazi divisions alarming gustav line. in the east to the soviet union was making threats that they would make a separate peace with the nazi even at this late date. in other words, in 1944 the war and humanity remained in doubt. what would commence would be the most epic year of the war and, indeed, of the 20th century if not modern history, and it is against this backdrop that fdr and winston churchill would meet in egypt to discuss what would happen next in terms of the war, strategy, tactics. as they themselves would meet with the soviet head of state, joseph stalin. consider this remarkable partnership. here was churchill, legendary oratory, strength of we will, character who refuse to give up and given against the german third reich, churchill who one by one, as euro fell to the nazis, poland, czechoslovakia, holland and france was living under the nazi swastika.swastika. but had no point would he give up

returning war veterans brought information about the u.s. conduct of the war. support for the prg demands for an immediate u.s. cease-fire and total withdrawal of u.s. troops had to be intentionally mobilized, while battlefield losses and casualties were the main reasons for ending the war. the justness of the vietnamese cause, and hence, the correctness of their demands had to be presented to the u.s. public. those of us who went to vietnam and had contact with the vietnamese, we felt it was our obligation to support the demands that were being put forward in paris by the vietnamese. for those of us from our stripe of the antiwar movement, we supported what we call victory to the vietnamese. our chant was, ho chi minh, vietnam is gonna win. we were very clear where we stood. when we came back, we did some work. in this book, my chapter -- i'm the only person of color to contribute to this book. i think that is important because i bring a perspective to it from my experience in the antiwar movement. we had a legal apparatus to deal with the criminal justice sys

the cold war changed modernism -- modernism predates the cold war, so to what extent did the --d war altar in any way past change because of the fact that the strategic military international environment changed around it? mr. barnhisel: that's actually probably my fundamental it made it safe. it avoided it of conflict and critique. it made its style and gesture. i think it is particularly true in literature. we see this especially in "encounter," where they are so convinced that the great works of the modernists and cannot be reproduced. they look at the poets and the writers out there at that time and they say, they scoff and sneer. john osborne, thom gunn. you don't have anything to offer. sepulcher, in some sense. but what he is doing, constantly turning it into pure style. those of you who are literary scholars are familiar with the idea the strain of literary critical file called new criticism, which says we should only evaluate works of art by their formal features -- ignore the political beliefs in the context. of my first book was all about how james locklin did that. he did

less than the cost of five days of war, five days of war.hout shattered bodies, or pain, or lost arms, legs, minds. five days, without a single soldier having to give his life, the cut-rate price of peace. a peace purchased at a much higher price by men in whose hearts ago the words of thomas payne-- peace for those children maimed in one war, who must never experience or symbolize another. what seeds of destiny will sprout from within these ravaged ranks where the specter of famine stalks. new fuhrer's or new lovers of liberty. it will hang the balance throughout the months and years, there is still a long way to go in this last battle. a long way. men of goodwill everywhere face the challenge to shape a world in which each nation's upcoming generation can walk with hope, and confidence. the paths of peace, and meet the responsibilities and preserve the victories won by fighting men of the united nations, the hard way. establish once and for all, even stronger than the atomic bomb, is the human heart. how vulnerable are our cars to cyberatt

war, 400-4000 soldiers died in the iraq war. they cost a trillion dollars.didn't accomplish something good? are we better off that saddam hussein is gone? iraq seems stronger. medam hussein was an and or of iran and to me, he was the , standing in the way of the shiite government of iran. who is iran's best ally? there are iranian troops in iraq. who is the next best ally? russia. who invited russia? iraq. recently, russia flew troops and equipment into syria. who invited them? syria invited them. is a terriblessad person and we must do something about terrible people. but what if it is a variation of evil on one side and the other? people.ssed his if he were walking down the street, i would not feed him. we should not give arms or food to assad. but who is on the other side? isis. they came to congress in 2013 and asked for weapons for the rebels fighting assad. --sked the same question will it not be a great irony if the weapons we give to the , we are back in two your later fighting against our own weapons? that is what is going on. where did isis get its