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"Well do American children know their history these days? The nation's report card shows only 13% of 8th graders are proficient in U.S. history. Brendan Gillis is manager of teaching and learning for the American historical association. He joined WTO's Shawn and Hillary to explain how bad the situation is. We can't understand this drop in test scores without recognizing that COVID-19 played a role here. Comparable math and reading scores dropped off significantly. But there's a larger story. And I think we're seeing indications of a failure to invest adequately in history education. What kind of things do students not know these days? It's tough to ask kids to recite in order all the American presidents dating back to George Washington, but there are obviously certain basics they should know. What is it they don't know right now? There's a lot of factual information that is hard to gauge based on standardized tests like this. So as an organization, we believe firmly that our students need to learn at least a basic framework, a shared outline of American history in order to understand the world around us today. What is it that we collectively can do to change this? Is it more money for educators? Is it more emphasis just globally on history? I think we need to begin by trusting and valuing educators. There's a lot of political pressure focused on history education right now. And we've learned that it's making it harder and harder for teachers to do their jobs. There's a lot of great teachers in the United States, but because of angry calls from parents, school districts are sometimes cutting back on instructional time for social studies or simply skipping topics just because they're worried that people are going to have differing points of view or they're going to get angry calls from parents. So the first step is to value educators. But I think we can invest more resources in history and civics across the board. Brendan Gillis manager of teaching and learning for the American historical association
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"Anderson. I'm Hillary Howard really glad you're with us. How well do American children know their history these days? Well, the nation's report card shows only 13% of 8th graders are proficient in American history. Joining us live Brendan Gillis manager of teaching and learning for the American historical association really great to have you with us friend and thanks so much. Sure. Glad to be here. Thanks for the invitation. You know, some people listening might not think it's a big deal. But knowing the history helps inform how we move forward, can you talk about the slide and what it means for us? Sure. First off, we can't understand this drop in test scores without recognizing that COVID-19 played a role here. Comparable math and reading scores dropped off significantly. But there's a larger story. And I think we're seeing indications of a failure to invest adequately in history education. What kind of things do students not know these days? It's tough to ask kids to recite in order all the American presidents dating back to George Washington, but there are obviously certain basics they should know. What is it they don't know right now? Well. There's a lot of factual information that is hard to gauge based on standardized tests like this. So as an organization, we believe firmly that our students need to learn at least a basic framework, a shared outline of American history. In order to understand the world around us today, so there are some big benchmarks. Go ahead. No, no, I was just wondering, what is it that we collectively can do to change this? Is it more money for educators? Is it more emphasis just globally on history? Yeah, I mean, I think we need to begin by trusting and valuing educators. There's a lot of political pressure focused on history, education right now. And we've learned that it's making it harder and harder for teachers to do their jobs. There's a lot of great teachers in the United States. But because of angry calls from parents, school districts are sometimes cutting back on instructional time for social studies or simply skipping topics just because they're worried that people are going to be have differing points of view or they're going to get angry calls from parents. So the first step is to value educators. But I think we can invest more resources in history and civics across the board. Brendan, thanks for joining us. We appreciate it. Thanks so much. Thanks. Brendan Gillis, manager of teaching and learning for the American historical association
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"Walker. We'll go in depth on these test scores next hour at four 15 with the manager of teaching and learning of the American historical association. Sports at 25 and 55 powered by Red River, technology decisions aren't black and white. Think red. George Wallace here, the Nats trying to string together a couple in a row. Yeah, they are against the cubs, Sean and Jake Irvin will make his major league debut tonight. He will pitch for Washington as he's been recalled. Today after a four one win last night, win number four at home on the year for Washington as they beat the cubs with Alex called the big two run double in that 7th inning and they'll try again this evening and then they'll wrap it up tomorrow with a 1 o'clock start at nationals park. The Orioles and the royals tonight now the birds got their 20th win the season yesterday. That is the earliest in the calendar and team history that they have picked up win number 20, definitely playing some good baseball now at 20 and 9 NBA night. It'll be Joel embiid returning for the sixers after winning MVP yesterday. He'll be back for game two tonight against the Celtics, Philadelphia took game one in Boston the other day. Last night, it was the Lakers late night over the warriors in game one on the road, and the next tied the series with Miami, NFL Randall Cobb, leaving Green Bay. He's gonna go with his pal Aaron Rodgers and sign a deal with the jets capitals are gonna interview Jeff halpern, former cap and current Tampa Bay lightning assistant assistant coach for the head coaching vacancy left open when Peter la villette and the team decided to part ways, Kyle burns spent parts of 7 years with the caps after and then leaving after the 2011 2012 season. George Wallace, let me tell you sports. Thank you, George after traffic and whether to developing stories first and active shooter in Atlanta kills one and injures four more. And also, we are taking a look at the fed that has raised interest rates by another quarter point, but it could be the last hike in a while, three 26
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"A lot of controversy, Virginia's board of education is now approved new standards for how students learn history. I think we've labored thoughtfully and collaboratively. That's how board member Alan siebert reacted as the board approved new history standards after a months long process that included intense criticism that the standards were being politicized by conservative leaning groups, the board made numerous changes in response, adding more references to organized labor and indigenous people also amended was the topic of slavery, says Brendan Gillis with the nonpartisan American historical association. They shifted the language to acknowledge that the slavery that developed in the Americas was different from forms of slavery that had come before. And that's really important. Directions officers have very dangerous work and a new report this week from their union suggests it's becoming even more dangerous these days locally in Maryland because there aren't enough of those officers. The report says staffing vacancies in Maryland prisons are at an all time high. Causes alarming levels of mentoring overtime burnout and dangerous working conditions. Patrick Moran is the president of the American federation of state county and municipal employees council three representing guards like Brittany kosar, a 15 year veteran correctional officer. She says the understaffing bled to the maiming of a coworker in Baltimore. The officer still out and missing an eye. Because he was alone with more than 5 detainees. The state says it needs nearly 3000 additional officers, the union says about 3400. John dome in WTO P news. You've been locally in the hospital this morning after a motorcycle crash in prince George's county, C++ police say the crash happened just after noon on Thursday on central avenue near the Addison road C pleasant metro station, the motorcyclist was taken to the hospital in critical condition of pedestrian was also taken to the hospital with serious injuries, but is this morning you'd expect it to be okay. Maybe you have a lot of stuff in your medicine chest filled with old prescriptions maybe, you can safely get rid of them this weekend on Saturday to be specific. It's national drug take back day. You may think an old or unwanted drug in your house is safe, but it could be stolen, swallowed by a child or player role in an overdose. Kathleen plevy public information officer with the city of Tacoma park says this program works. We've had sentinel turned in
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"Effects you don't want. So follow the information listed on the drug backs labeled for more information, visit FDA dot gov slash drug facts label, a message from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This is WTO news. After a long delay and a lot of controversy, Virginia's board of education is now approved new standards for how students learn history. I think we've labored thoughtfully and collaboratively. That's how board member Alan siebert reacted as the board approved new history standards after a months long process that included intense criticism that the standards were being politicized by conservative leaning groups, the board made numerous changes in response, adding more references to organized labor and indigenous people also amended was the topic of slavery, says Brendan Gillis with the nonpartisan American historical association. They shifted the language to acknowledge that the slavery that developed in the Americas was different from forms of slavery that had come before. And that's really important. Nick and Ellie WTO P news, erections officers have very dangerous work at a new report this week from their union suggests it's becoming even more dangerous these days locally in Maryland because there aren't enough of those officers. The report says staffing vacancies in Maryland prisons are at an all time high. Causes alarming levels of mandatory overtime burnout and dangerous working conditions. Patrick Moran is the president of the American federation of state county and municipal employees council three, representing guards like Brittany kosar, a 15 year veteran correctional officer. She says the understaffing led to the maiming of a coworker in Baltimore. The officer is still allowed in missing an eye. Because he was alone with more than 5 detainees. The state says it needs nearly 3000 additional officers, the union says about 3400. John dome in WTO news. You've been locally in the hospital this morning after a motorcycle crash in prince George's county, seat pleasant police say the crash happened just after noon on Thursday on central avenue near the Addison road sea pleasant metro station, the motorcyclist was taken to the hospital in critical condition of pedestrian was also taken to the hospital with serious injuries, but is this morning you'd expect it to be okay. Maybe you have a lot of stuff in your medicine chest filled with old prescriptions maybe, you can safely get rid of them this weekend on Saturday to be specific. It's national drug take back day. You may think an old or unwanted drug in your house is safe, but it could be stolen, swallowed by a child, or play a role in an overdose. Kathlyn plevy, public information officer with the city of Tacoma park, says this program works. We've had sentinel turned in. We've had, you know, medications that someone was taking for cancer treatments. Really strong stuff. The DEA sponsors the program. To find a collection site near you, visit DEA take back dot com. You can find a list of participating agencies all around the DMV at WTO dot com. Kyle Cooper, WTO news. Let's take a look at how stories probably do more to your following for you on WTO P criminal charges have been dropped now against actor Alec Baldwin after that movie set shooting. A tendency Republican lawmaker who voted to expel the tendency three has resigned this week after being found guilty of violating a harassment policy. He put here on WTO for more on these stories in just minutes. You are listening to 103.5 FM at WTO P dot com. You're with WTF
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"A year, jewelry extravaganza details showroom hours, directions and more at diamonds direct dot com. It's Friday, April 21st. Welcome into WTO P glad you're starting your early morning with us. We're at the time now is 1213. This is WTO P news. After a long delay and a lot of controversy, Virginia's board of education is now approved new standards for how students learn history. I think we've labored thoughtfully and collaboratively. That's how board member Alan siebert reacted as the board approved new history standards after a months long process that included intense criticism that the standards were being politicized by conservative leaning groups, the board made numerous changes in response, adding more references to organized labor and indigenous people, also amended was the topic of slavery, says Brendan Gillis with a nonpartisan American historical association. They shifted the language to acknowledge that the slavery that developed in the Americas was different from forms of slavery that had come before. And that's really important. Directions officers have very dangerous work and a new report this week from their union suggests it's becoming even more dangerous these days locally in Maryland because there aren't enough of those officers. The report says staffing vacancies in Maryland prisons are at an all time high. Causes alarming levels of mandatory overtime burnout and dangerous working conditions. Patrick Moran is the president of the American federation of state county and municipal employees council three, representing guards like Brittany kosar, a 15 year veteran correctional officer. She says the understaffing bled to the maiming of a coworker in Baltimore. The officer is still out and missing an eye. Because he was alone with more than 5 to ten years. The state says it needs nearly 3000 additional officers, the union says about 3400. John dome in WTO P news. You've been locally in the hospital this morning enough to a motorcycle crash in prince George's county seat pleasant police say the crash happened just after noon on Thursday on central avenue near the Addison road C pleasant metro station, the motorcyclist was taken to the hospital in critical condition, a pedestrian was also taken to the hospital with serious injuries, but is this morning you'd expect it to be okay. Maybe you have a lot of stuff in your medicine chest filled with old prescriptions maybe, you can safely get rid of them this weekend on Saturday to be specific. It's national drug take back day. You may think an old or unwanted drug in your house is safe, but it could be stolen, swallowed by a child or play a role in an overdose. Kathleen plevy public information officer with the city of Tacoma park says this program works. We've had sentinel turned in, we've had medications that someone was taking for cancer treatments. Really strong stuff. The DEA sponsors the program. To find a collection site near you, visit DEA
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"american historical association" Discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
"A lot of them who maybe just aren't facing a struggling anymore, so this is the best adversary they can come up with. I don't know, maybe that's simplifying it too much, but it seems like every new generation. When I was growing up, you remember roots that special and everyone in America seemed to be watching that. And we all sort of shared this sorrow and guilt about our history together. Okay, but that's not enough. Now, the next generation comes out, they don't know about roots, or they didn't watch it. So now they've got to have their outpouring. And they're, you know, they're catharsis. And then that goes. And then the next generation comes out and they learn about it, and they say, well, we haven't paid enough of a price yet for this. Let's keep paying. And it's as though they don't see, I think part of what it comes down to is we're not teaching history in a, in a meaningful way in this country anymore. We're teaching it through a certain lens or teaching it in a way of, well, we are a patriarchal white supremacist society. They are looking at history through the lens of the present, which is not the right way to look at history. And now what's troubling me, dogs so much is when you have the president of the American historical association, come out and apologize for saying something that maybe was a little offensive to the 1619 Project when all he was doing was basing his commentary on that project on a lens of actual history. Like, what is happening to history? History is supposed to be this sort of very concrete way of building the layers of a story. And by the way, history goes back further than 17 76 and further back than 1619. And so just a little bit. So this focus on these specific things on which we can build division, which Marxism is all about, it's really troubling. And I just really hope people start opening their eyes and waking up to it and seeing what it is. Seeing it for what it is. It is. I heard this the other day and I wish I could have written it out sitting here as you were thinking about what you were talking about. Somebody made this statement and that it was that the biggest mistake we can make is to judge historical figures by today's standard. Not to say that they were not evil not to say that they were not good, but you take them in the era in which they take policies in there. And it doesn't make them right. It doesn't make them wrong, but you say at this point in this time, this is what was happening. And it's almost like trying to take airplane travel. You and I both have been on planes a lot of our adult lives. I can remember flying in the 80s in the 90s. And it seemed like all the thing they would do is fly into thunderstorms instead of around them. Now, you know, at least they know they got the radars, they fly you around and there's relatively, you know, good flights. To compare that to flying in the 1920s or 30s is just, I think we have a perception problem here. And I think that is that everything has to be looked at as I understand it is if I have every answer. And I think that's a concern. Well, I spoke to a professor Mary gray bar the other day and she wrote a rebuttal to the 1619 Project and one of the things she said about critical race theory is that it's based on anecdotal experiential feelings, that kind of stuff. Not on the overall sets of data. And so yes, if you read a book about how awful slaves, certain stories of slave life were, you just, you want to throw up, you want to cry, you want to it breaks your heart and you think how do I ever live with us having seen this?.
podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"american historical association" Discussed on podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"For those of you who aren't familiar with this, the president this year of the American historical association, who's an africanist, which makes this even kind of stranger. Issued this sort of broadside about presentism and attacking the 1619 Project and all of this other stuff. And it received a huge pushback. He was forced to, he gave a half heart apology, which is then led right-wing trolls to basically be like, oh, woke historians, and it's been a mess. But this is what you get when you enter into a public debate without actually, you know, thinking through your issues. And I think that, you know, I think that you're right that, you know, and maybe that's what he was trying to say is that we need to be careful in what we're doing, but he said it in the worst possible way. Yeah. And you know, I do think president isn't going to be a problem. And we can get back to the book, momentarily, but just to briefly extend this point. For example, Harold Platt and his book shock cities says that Jane Adams was like an environmental justice activist. And I think that's kind of anachronistic. And don't get me wrong, I think shock cities is a very good book in a lot of ways. But I do sort of object to that kind of projection. So that's why I talk about environmental inequalities in the past, but I wouldn't call Gilded Age public health reformers. Environmental justice activists. Attentive to when people actually started using the terms. Yeah, yeah. And this may be inside baseball, but I think that it's also, you know, this is kind of how scholars debate things.
KOA 850 AM
"american historical association" Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"Older and present in Colorado gambling problem. Call 1 805 2 to 4700. Welcome back. So we were just talking about the dapper dandy in Capitol Hill. That was one man stopped the homeless on my street machine and a gentleman that emails me occasionally from Boulder. And he sent me some information about a transient camp Clean up. Listen to this, Dave. In one camp. Approximately 200 used needles were collected. Most of these were in the two bedroom plywood structure. Approximately £4500 of trash was taken. There were 6/10 in the area. They contacted all of the other tents but did not have time to go back to them. They collected 55 gallon buckets that were filled with human poop and 9000 total pounds of trash collected. From this home listening can be that's one. That's one that doesn't sound compassionate at all. I'm just saying unbelievable. Not at all. He Coover I I We were talking about the Castle Rock Adventure Park. Did you think it was hard or am I just over am I just really an over like an old woman right now, Tell me, you know there are portions of it that are a bit difficult. I find the incline which is over to the left a little bit. I don't know if you did the 200 steps we did probably Probably did 50 of those steps because we kind of came in on one of the switchbacks. I will say this when you do all 200 By the time you get up to about 1 51 70 your legs start to burn a little bit. Well, and then I wonder. Do I not normal? Then do I wonder? Do I go back down the stairs or do I take the path? Usually I take the path because I'm afraid I'll wind up tumbling all down 200 steps. And if you have anything dodgy with your knees at all going down those stairs is way harder than going up those stairs. And they're not normal stairs. If you're short, that would be miserable, You know? Yeah. There's definitely a lot of what a distance between each step before you get to the next one. Yeah, they're not up to code just saying And then there's those idiots running. Oh, yeah. Wrong with you people. Good Lord, you skinny bastards. Now have you tried the other incline which escape Parker? Uh, Parker's got one now at the at the Hess Reservoir. And then they have one to manage to the first. Yeah, the Manitou one. Have you done the Manitou one? That one's really That's what, like, I don't know. What is it like 2000 steps. No, really, I think so. Giant steps like that. Yeah, well, at some point, I had aspirations to do that. They just got thrown to the wayside. Especially after yesterday. I'm like barely able to cope on the rope scores. You know what I love, though. I'm always encouraged when I see someone who is way more out of shape than I am, and they just go for it. Like I don't care and you're waiting for them. You'd like to have some kind of horrible emergency. But I like people. That attitude letter is not going to be held back by their obvious lack of physical fitness. No, for sure. And it is. I said that if you're doing the 201, if you get up about 100 steps, and you said, you want to know what I take a break? It's okay to just walk off to the side and take a little break before you go up the last 100. Yeah, A lot of people were taking breaks. I don't think I could go all 200 without stopping. What a fun activity for a holiday weekend. I can't wait. What sounds like all joy. Dave, go to red rocks on a weekend and see these insane fit people running up and down the stairs at red rocks like maniacs. I just I look at them with a mix of all in horror. You know what I mean? I'm just like, Oh, God, I could never do that. What happened? It's universal need to exhaust yourself. I don't I don't get I don't know. I have. No, it was fun Exhaustion but exhaustion nonetheless. All right, So let's see. Oh, wow. Has anybody noticed? I mean, I don't know anybody. Well, no. Gosh, You know what I was about to say. I was about to say, I don't know anybody who's murdered anyone. But I do whenever co workers is currently facing ex coworkers is currently facing murder charges and a tragic, horrible story. That's a story for another day, but our murder rate in Denver we're on track right now to beat last year's mark, which was a 30 year high. In murder in Denver and Dave they went and they found the five areas. There are five areas that make up 1.2% of the land space. Of Denver, but they make up like 26% of the murders happen in these tiny spaces. You know what's weird about all those places? There's really no white people that live there. And I'm being told that we need to defund the police to protect people of color who are disproportionately being murdered in Denver right now, most of the time by other people of color And it's certainly not exclusively because our former coworker I just mentioned is is white, white white. It's not an exclusive thing, but To even consider for a moment. Any kind of further attacks on the police are just stupid. I have a couple police officers from different departments who email me on a regular basis. The Aurora Police Department is in complete disarray. Absolute complete disarray. Morale is at an all time low. They can't get people to cover overtime shifts. They're putting people on the streets that have been behind us for years. And you think that's going to end well? And we have. We have basically told our police officers that they are the problem. And we have empowered people like Candy C. De Baca to come up and scream at them. While they're trying to clear a homeless camp. That's that's what's happening right now. Disrespect for police. Is that a probably the highest it's ever been. You know, in my lifetime, I would never when I was a kid. You wanted to be a policeman. When you grew up. You aspired to that role. You respected the police in your community. And I'm not saying all police are great. Of course not in any profession, you're going to have horrible people. But ultimately when you undermine the people who are here to keep the peace who keeps the peace I mean, when you when you erode the trust and confidence In the organizations that are supposed to maintain order who maintains order. No. One I saw so many posts over the weekend, Dave on Twitter, and I wasn't on Twitter a lot. I was on Twitter for maybe five minutes over the whole holiday weekend, and I saw so many people denigrating the fourth of July. As a holiday of racism, and I thought to myself well, that's it. They've won. Howard Zinn and his ilk have destroyed the country because people believe that the country that was founded at a time when every other nation in the world was living under some kind of tyranny from a king, as are a dictator, a totalitarian and we changed the entire world. And now we have people that were born here educated here who believe that that entire founding was nothing but racism. So where do you go from here? We've undermined everything. By the way, somebody said approximately 2100 steps. Manitou Incline. It's hard black. I'm not going to make you do that day that might kill you. The ropes course will just give you maybe a bruiser, too. Pretty sure So, um, this see, there's a couple things and just from a You know what? I don't do this kind of strictly political stuff very often anymore. Because we truly politics is horrible to talk about. At this point. I hate it. Despise everything about it. Kelly Maher and I were thinking about starting a podcast once called politics is trash, and we hate it. I thought, okay, but you guys what's happening in Denver right now is an opportunity for Republicans. What's happening with violence? What's happening with homelessness? What's happening with the just kind of trashing of the city is a huge opportunity for Republicans. If they're bold enough to stand up and take it. Yeah. Do you think they'll take it, Dave? I don't know. I hope they do but what you were talking about before about July 4th tweets that you're seeing. There's a piece And these these these are depressing stories. The culture wars come for the American Historical Association. Did you see that one? I did, but I grabbed. I was going to save that for tomorrow because I think it's a great topic. Yeah, the H A. Now Now we're trying to rewrite history. People. We are fully in 1984 fully this. This is an organization that's supposed to uphold. Our historical research methods and and our history period, and they are in firm opposition to anti critical race theory legislation nationwide..
Native America Calling
No More White Actors in ‘Redface’ for Native American Roles in ‘Lost Colony’
"The longest running outdoor theatrical production will no longer feature white actors in makeup playing native americans. The virginia pilot reported the lost colony. Drama staged on roanoke island will now higher native americans to play indigenous people. The play dramatizes. The story of one hundred seventeen colonists sent by walter. Raleigh from england to roanoke island in fifteen eighty seven. The shift was spurred by a dot. Org petition started by a student at east carolina university calling for an end to the production. The roanoke island historical association which produces the drama recruited the chairman of the lombi indian tribe to its board and hired a choreographer who is navajo and clinked alum bi musician and linguist helped translate the songs into the tribes and native actors will now speak their lines and algonquin. The language used by tribes living in eastern north carolina in the fifteen hundreds
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Washington DC's virtual Easter egg hunt is on tap at the White House
"Health Christopher Cruz dub U T O P News. The White House Easter Egg roll is canceled again this year because of the pandemic, But instead you can try the scavenger hunt Edition. We're going on the Easter eggs on the White House is offering kids an Easter egg hunt that is virtual on the White House Historical Associations website You find that the White House 3 60 tour has been transformed to celebrate the history of the White House Easter Egg roll, which is canceled in person this year while making your way through rooms of the executive mansion like on the dots to learn it. But the history of the Easter egg roll and the White House completed work sheet with correct answers from each fun fact on the tour to submit for a chance to win a raffle prize, a set of
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White House Cancels In-Person Easter Egg Roll in Washington DC
"The annual easter celebration at the white house is cancelled by the pandemic usually draws thousands of kids to sixteen hundred pennsylvania avenue at the white house. Historical association says the annual white house. Easter egg roll has been canceled over cova concerns. But they've set up some virtual egg roll related activities. How white house. History dot org. There's a digital jigsaw puzzle coloring pages and a virtual scavenger hunt which will take you on a tour of the executive mansion and the association says it still selling traditional souvenir wooden eggs. This year they feature the likenesses of president. Biden's dogs champion. Major fox jill nato. I'm mary for study. And this is fox news.
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No Washington DC White House Easter Egg Roll for second straight year due to pandemic
"Easter egg roll at the White House has been canceled by the pandemic usually draws thousands of kids to 1600, Pennsylvania Avenue. But the White House Historical Association says The annual White House. Easter Egg roll has been canceled over Covic concerns, but they've set up some virtual egg roll related activities have White House history that organ There's a digital jigsaw puzzle coloring pages and a virtual scavenger hunt, which will take you on a tour of the executive mansion, and the association says it's still selling traditional souvenir wooden eggs. This year. They feature the likenesses of President Biden's dogs champion Major in Washington. Jill NATO Fox News.
Serve to Lead | James Strock
"american historical association" Discussed on Serve to Lead | James Strock
"There were both presidents of the american historical association. Now i could look at recent presidents irrespective of party. I couldn't imagine them following a meeting of the american historical association almost much less being president. What do you think about that. Well sometimes i confess. I have trouble following some meetings in the american historical association. But i very much take your point you know. There is a common invocation of history. It american foreign policy. It's just superficial. There's been a lot of discussion in the past five. Ten years about the so-called postwar. Us lead rules-based rules-based liberal international order almost entirely aim to say how terrible it was that donald trump supposedly stood against it. When really hardly anyone could define what this was and then if you would read descriptions of this supposed order it would include institutions like the eu created in the nineteen nineties in that order You know nato is created after the un is that just a million problems one. What has with it so Bef- we don't just need more history. That would be nice but we need to have a real openness to the richness that history properly understood can provide us. It should be mind opening and often makes doesn't have easy lessons not the simplistic lessons That suddenly become the talking points of of of of the day and even words contested the very contesting of that can be valuable and we just simply for the moment seemed to be turning our back on it. Let's enclosing stephen worth. You obviously have so much to think about your written a brilliant and beautiful new book and by the way it's very attractively designed as well as written so beautifully. Is there anything. You'd like to leave our listeners. With today why hope your listeners judge the book by its cover so go look it up tomorrow. The world the birth of us global supremacy My words don't do justice to the beautiful cover. You're absolutely right. And i had nothing to do with that cover but More seriously i hope that Listeners will find it to be Enjoyable read and one that is illuminating. Whatever they make of it. I think it's possible to read this book. I made a lot of discoveries in in archives. It's i think it's probably impossible to to read the book and not learn something you hadn't done before and I think it's possible to read the book and come to the conclusion well maybe. Us leadership military leadership was Important and necessary thing. But i hope you'll think about why that was if that was the In its original moment in the middle of the twentieth century and whether going forward.
Serve to Lead | James Strock
"american historical association" Discussed on Serve to Lead | James Strock
"And i'll leave it tat on if one just take that a little further if one feels or expresses a sense of national shame. That tends to be also liberates. One from any accountability right. It's feel shame for things that were done in the past that one can't necessarily affect directly means a lot less than internalizing it and doing something about it today and part of that would have to mean keeping the system working that makes all the good parts possible now the term that i would constantly here People do use today when it comes to question individual accountability or responsibility when they're called out on something or wouldn't when they're seeing to be doing they're going to quote double down on using this kind of poker term or you know we're gonna double nobody no you're right. There's there's shame at the national level but individuals are left are left on accountable and that's disgusting state of affairs. I think let's talk a moment about history if we could prior generations of american leaders and the so-called leads of the time were deeply immersed in history and they did it in a way that was intended to apply it. It was very practical so one thinks back to historians like george bancroft to help easily start. American historian. graffiti was active in public life and politics theodore. Roosevelt and woodrow wilson. Were such serious students that show them served as president of the american historical association. Harry truman our most recent president without a college degree was a de tape. History that tradition seems gone at the moment when even the most literate of contemporary politicians rely on ghostwriters and lack of serious hard earned. Focus on history. Is this important or not. that's a great observation. And i think you know the answer to that. Yes it's it's deeply important And it is indicative. i think This kind of historical amnesia Which is also goes hand in hand with a very selective kind of potted re reading of the past where people may dig to the past for evidence if things that already supports their their prior.
Native Opinion Podcast an American Indian Perspective
"american historical association" Discussed on Native Opinion Podcast an American Indian Perspective
"Mussolini james grossman executive director at the american historical association says the report is intended to discredit contemporary public policies rooted in america's progressive reform movement. He worries that even after biden. Dissolve the commission's report would could still end up in some classrooms. That's very very true. Quote historians needs to be paying attention to curriculum conversations in localities and at the state level grossman said the nonsense that that the nonsense. That's in this report will be used to legitimate show. We'll be used to legitimate similar nonsense close quote in had a problem reading now so is a little bit left here in in In the article. So this'll be in the show notes but all right you have any comments on that brother. A few more things add but no go ahead. Okay okay so there's a lot back here right this end. This article honestly should stand is a great example of what we mean by people in this country including some newer immigrants who were never exposed to any other points of view except those perpetuated by white conservatives who was roots come primarily from your being countries This includes sadly even some immigrants of color. Because what these right wing. Conservative extremists do is that they target and befriend people from other countries largely falsely. Meaning that they truly have no interest in developing friendships with people that might have darker skin them due to optics so they instead target lighter skinned immigrants from the same country and they lied to them. And get them to believe that. America's this all encompassing welcoming place that opportunity is equal to all etc right. But then what they don't tell them. Is that often the chaos that they lived through in their own home countries might have been caused at least in part by the united states government. Interfering with that country's own government the united states with Encourage this type of leadership That they want their often but not exclusively corrupt leadership that they can easily manipulate right..
WBAP 820AM
"american historical association" Discussed on WBAP 820AM
"And have that dialogue. But it's the Democrats who have taken actions to silence. Conservatives. Let's not forget on Facebook. I found this in porn on Facebook. They took down the hashtag walk away page nationally. Some 500,000 people. Why is that? Because they don't want that narrative out there. And by the way, part of that reprogramming is being shadow band on Facebook, which I have been Shadow band on Facebook. Doing everything again that they can to make sure that conservative thought is limited on social media. I mean, there's no other way to say it. Kathy is in Crowley. She's online one. She's actually got another example. Kathy, Go ahead. Hey. Oh, my gosh. Do I ever so I went to go train out the 17 76 report. Um, and couldn't find it on the White House on the 20 of January. 20th already they had taken this off and I the reason I wanted to call you is your idea of unity. I cannot unify with a group of people that are going to tell me that I need to be ashamed of being a patriot that I can't Appreciate and respect my people, my people who, uh, who built this country that troubled and moved and farmed and now you're gonna tell me they're evil and being a patriot is evil and for Biden to go and take the 17 76 report down was absolutely shocking. But then I read a report by the chairman of the American Historical Association. The American Historical Association. He called the 17 76 reports pseudo history. That means occultist. That means, uh, you know, pseudo history means that you're making it up. So now to say that, and I'm confused right? Because I get fliers for Mount Vernon. I get Stuff from Colonial Williamsburg and all of these little American history people. They want me to send the money because they're dedicated to promoting the history of America. But I'm not. I'm not seeing them push back. I'm not seeing anybody pushed back. And this is dangerous on the history teacher, unsteady history, all my life and I, You're absolutely right. They're the ones doing the gas lighting and the reprogramming. I'm not teaching anything differently, and I will not teach that America is evil, and I will not allow the Democrats to create a new nation in their image. No, I will not unify. All right? Yeah. I can't say it any better than better than you, Kathy. Thank you very much for the call and appreciate what you do for the kids. The phone number is 888 wbf P 100 to 80 92 27 1 of the things as we talk about this reprogramming and the cancel culture and everything that's going on. Obviously one of the things that the left is trying to do. Is promote their own narrative or what is their own narrative. Well, you have to do is look at Joe Biden's executive orders will do just that. Next on WB Ape by.
KQED Radio
"american historical association" Discussed on KQED Radio
"This is here. And now. Four years ago, shortly after Donald Trump was elected, I visited Robert Delos is high school class at Little High School in Massachusetts. Like millions of other teachers, Mr Dolorosa has spent the last four years guiding students through this historic time in our nation's history, the social studies teachers across the country we have Huge, huge task before US and I think we don't say thank you enough. And he and others continue that work today, Mr Delos a welcome to the show, and it's nice to talk with you again. Well, thank you for having me Robert. Back in 2016 You let me sit in is your students were leading discussions about the outcome of that election. So much has happened since then, And today is different because your kids are learning remotely. But the task is the same. What are you asking your students to watch for and think about? So I'm asking them to look at President Biden's inaugural address and to look for the things that he's. Talking about in terms of his priorities and his programs and then to listen to each other about what they think and tow. Listen carefully with empathy and critically. So that they are coming to conclusions themselves about what they think they will see from this new administration. Oh, this is really interesting because you're not just teaching students toe. Listen, you're actually teaching them how to listen and many of your discussions start with the preamble. You look at the words we, the people and who we the people refers to What kinds of answers our students giving you I'm the latest set that I've gotten have included answers that have ranged from the people in power. There are students who will say white people. We have students who do see the people as us So, so they're really all over the place When you ask them that question. I was really struck, too. When I when I visited Lowell that the political discussions in their homes were very too, and I guess as we would expect them to be. But back then, there was definitely a clear mix of Trump and Clinton supporters. They talked a lot about the discussions that their families were having at home. How do you manage those differences in the classroom? So in the U. S history class that I'm teaching right now, For instance, the there is a student whose grandfather is is a diehard supporter of Former president Trump and he has come with honest questions, and he needs answers that are based in Kind of How can you think that and it's also good for him and for other students to here, for instance, from our African American students there? Their feelings of the racial ization of some of these events. And so I think it's good for all of them to be grappling with those sorts of issues in a place where there they're in a common endeavor toe learn more about their country. You note that you've been focusing on the history of public education in the U. S. There's this 17 76 Commission. It's a group formed by the Trump Administration to review how U. S history is taught in schools. They released a report this week that claims Americans are being taught of Fost narrative about the nation's founding, and that is reckless and attempts to frame American history around the idea that the United States is not an exceptional country, but an evil one. You and I spoke at great lengths four years ago about some of the flawed er, incomplete narratives that students are taught in schools. How has the discussion of teaching a clearer, more complete picture of history? Changed for you over these years. And how are you reflecting on this idea in this moment? So so there are the professional organizations that I belong to, for instance, Thean, CSS and On the H A. The American Historical Association have come out pretty clearly against the 17 76 document. For our students. I think the most important ideas this one in the preamble of we, the people, not everybody agrees with Who the people are, and I think that a lot of the The strife that we're seeing all around. Is this clash of ideas about who the people are and if we teach Constitutional rule of law, which I think is a bedrock idea in so U. S history and social studies in general that we want responsible citizens, Then we do have to face those controversies head on. So that that's an important point for all of us to.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"american historical association" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"It's morning edition from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep, and I'm no well King. Good morning. The White House is 17 76 Commission released a report this week aimed at quote restoring patriotic education historians went to town, a hack job designed to stoke culture wars, said the head of the American Historical Association to the Washington Post. Parts of it appeared to have been plagiarized. It equates the civil rights movement with identity politics, and it mentions the word freedom 27 times in about 45 pages. No surprise there. Freedom is at the center of this country's identity. Freedom for who, though in a new book, The historian Tyler Stovall, argues that from America's inception, being free has meant being white. The book's called white Freedom, the racial history of an idea and it begins in the Enlightenment period. So at this period in history, you have AH group of male intellectuals who say freedom is a human right at the same time that the economies of some of these countries are based around slavery. How did these thinkers square those two ideas? All people have the right to be free and at the same time, some of us own slaves? That's right. That's right. Many enlightenment thinkers and many thinkers after the enlightenment saw Peoples of color in particular is not mature enough for freedom. Now there was a debate about whether or not they could ever become mature enough for freedom. Somebody like Thomas Jefferson, for example. Felt that black simply did not have the ability to mature into free peoples. Others on the more liberal spectrum said that this could happen, but it would probably take a long time. And so the overarching perspective. The Enlightenment was pessimistic that there were people that simply did not have the capability. To have the intellectual maturity to be free. You call them paradoxical. I'm tempted. I'm tempted to call them hypocrites and my being unfocused. No, not at all. Not at all. I don't think they saw themselves that way. I think they were searching for it. Underlying rationale and in many ways, that's what I've tried to argue. My guess is that there was an underlying logic. That you felt that freedom had to be white. Then there was no paradox. You're a scholar. You are also a black man in America. There must be some part of you. Is you study this? I would think that just Gets frustrated with this sometimes. Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, I grew up in the heart of the civil rights movement. And in many ways my own childhood was shaped with this really optimistic, ideal that racism was something that was going to disappear. The representative New Day for African Americans And in my more mature years, I have lived to see in many ways. The decline of that hope the fact that in many ways, racism is still alive and well in America. As this'll past two weeks, events have clearly demonstrated. It is very frustrating, but you know, at the same time when you write a history like this, you also become inspired by all the people that have struggled to make a better day, a difference in fighting against this kind of racism. And that I think is probably more than anything else. The thing that keeps me going well, let's talk more about what happened to the capital on January 6th the rioters who stage an insurrection at the Capitol, many of them called themselves Defenders of freedom. This was an overwhelmingly white crowd. What were you thinking? As you watched the storming of the U. S Capitol of building as you point out in your book that was built I enslaved people. I think first. Like most Americans, I was absolutely horrified to see that happen. I mean, I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe that something like that would happen in the United States. I also noticed the real whiteness of the crowd. The real emphasis on freedom. On restoring people's freedom. And one of the things I noticed was that The emphasis on freedom really seemed to focus on the idea that people's votes had been denied. Yes, people's ability to exercise their voting rights had been denied. And one of the paradoxes of that that struck me was that here are people that are being egged on by Republican Party that has led voter suppression efforts. For years now, But the difference, of course, is that those voter suppression efforts have targeted people of color right, so it's perfectly fine to deny people of color the right to vote. But not to deny white people the right to vote the right to choose their own leaders and the events of January 6th in some ways, representative reaffirmation of that history that freedom should be white. You looked in this book, it 400 years of freedom being a human right? Except if you are a black person, except if you are a woman, except if you are an immigrant from a non European country. So, man, we have 400 years of doing this, and I'm just wondering when do you think it ends? When does freedom the Enlightenment version of freedom Start to apply to all of us? Interesting question. I hope I live to see it. Let me just point out that my last chapter I talk about the period from roughly from the end of the Second World War two, the fall of the Soviet Union. And see It is a period where there was a tremendous mobilization both the United States and abroad for freedom for everybody. The civil rights movement, the struggles for decolonization and founding a new nations. All of those really creative vision of freedom that is truly universal. But then there's also a backlash to that, starting in the 19 seventies, things like the retreat of the civil rights movement, starting with the imposition of neo colonialism. In places like Asian, especially Africa. Starting with, for example, one of the issues that's close to my heart was Theise you of school desegregation in America. Because in many ways the civil rights move began with the Brown versus the Board of Education and the struggle. First integrated schools with Central to the movement and yet after the 19 seventies is in particular, with the defeat of the movement for school bussing You have a result that now America's schools are, in many ways a segregated as ever. Right. So there have been some major defeats along the way. And yet, I still I mean, I am the book on an optimistic note. I still do think that the forces pursuing this universal vision of freedom Are going to triumph when I can't say, but I think they will. Tyler Stovall, author of the new book, White Freedom, the Racial History of an idea. He's also professor and dean at Fordham University. And at UC Santa Cruz. Thank you so much for being with us. Thank you know, while I appreciate it. Mm hmm. This'll is NPR news. You're listening to morning edition here on W N. Y c. 39.
KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"american historical association" Discussed on KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"Last week of the US Capitol runs counter to many basic lessons from civics in American history. Residence during Felix Pennell is wondering if education might have something to do with helping deter similar events in the future. Felix has brought to us by the King County Library system. Good morning. Yeah, morning. Like many people that right last week I found it really hard to watch into process made me sad. It made me angry. Then it made me wonder how we got here. Then I start to wonder about the role of education, history, civics, the Constitution and if it's possible for knowledge, so almost inoculate society to make people better informed and less likely to follow a demagogue. I reached out to three different experts on history educations to sort of test this thesis. First person I spoke to was James Grossman, He's executive director of the American Historical Association in Washington, D. C. January 6. What Americans need to understand is the history of the Civil War, reconstruction and everything that happened for the century after that. Look at the symbols that the insurrectionists brought into the capital. They brought Confederate flags. They actually also brought medieval symbols, which tells you something about their dream of return of what they consider to be a white nation. This is white nationalism is what was going on in the capital. So if Americans want to learn the things they need to learn So that they do not take these people at their word so that they do not think of Confederate flags as somehow things carried by what the president referred to as American Patriots. On his Children referred to his patriots. That's what they need to learn, and it's you know, it's very complex. But what James Grossman says that the failure of reconstruction was to pretend that all those American military officers who joined the Confederacy didn't commit treason. And not just sort of try to gloss everything over and try to quickly heal the nation. That was there wasn't a reckoning is what he says. And all the experts I spoke with so that education is so much more than what happens in K through 12 or even college. Especially given the bombardment information, an opinion that pretty much everyone subjects themselves to you nowadays voluntarily. Now that's what Washington superintendent of Public Instruction Chris raped all told me when I asked him about what role curriculum plays in the Evergreen State in educating young people about civics, I think we should ask ourselves Um, man, I'll take criticism for this. But are we balancing historical tradition? Think about literature, for example. With the needs of young people to function in a way that maintains their mental health and allows the republic toe haven't educated citizenry. If that's in question, then we're gonna have to let go of some of what we've done. We're gonna have to put more time on this question of, you know, digital literacy, Quite frankly, Media literacy and what I keep calling civility. Anyone can teach the three branches of government. It's harder to teach young people how to engage each other, have differences and still respect each other. So there has to be embedded in all of our kill him. And that's that is a change. I don't think we've made yet. So James Grossman runs a national nonprofit Chris raked all runs a state agency. But what about from the classroom level perspective? That's why I also spoke with Nate bowling. He's an award winning history teacher from Tacoma, who's been a good friend of this show over the years. They told me he's not worried about the high school age students that he's teaching now or earlier students who are now in their mid twenties on one of the reasons Washington's one of nine states require civics for high school students. 41 states do not, and those kids have a high level of digital literacy, Nate Bolin says. But the same can't be said about some baby boomers. Honestly, the issue that we're seeing today in our politics like the biggest shares of misinformation, our baby boomers. And the people who fall for misinformation online and, like share fake news most often and this. This is data. This is Paul. This is data from studies are baby boomers like the boomers are actually the biggest condo. It's misinformation because they're not digital native. Young people have grown up in a digital age, and so they're better able to discern what is real and what is not. I'm very optimistic about the like the future future, but the near future and United States is dark. Plead guilty to being the boomer and I'll say one thing we were not taught was very much about the civil war. It all and reconstruction was barely mentioned. No details about what it entailed and basically was the perpetuation of slavery. So it's an opportunity for historians and teachers. I like that there is a silver lining in this. There is an opportunity to create that hunger for knowledge and that virtue and that notion of institutions being important to civilization, Mr and feelings, But Mel usually everyone's down Sales Morning news but occasionally preempted by a history in the making, and Bumped to Thursday's Chris your traffic headline Still working with this fire involving chemicals north of 5 12, which is closed the freeway. I'll tell you about it Next. This is Cairo Radio. A QFC. We.
Rush Limbaugh
Melania Trump announces cancellation of White House Easter Egg Roll
"And in Washington DC today an annual springtime event has also been canceled there will be no White House Easter egg roll this year due to novel coronavirus First Lady melania trump announced that the health and safety of Americans is the first priority the CDC is recommended no events with fifty or more people the annual agro brings thousands to the White House each spring this is not the first time the festivities have been called off according to the White House historical association the Easter egg roll did not take place between nineteen forty three and nineteen fifty two because of World War two food conservation efforts and later a massive white house renovation during the Truman administration Karen Travers A. B. C. news
BrainStuff
How Did White House Press Briefings Go From Daily to Done?
"Brain. GRAINSTUFF Lauren Bogle bomb here in January of Twenty Twenty bestselling novelist Stephen King and Don winslow took to twitter to make a surprising pledge. They offered to donate two hundred thousand dollars to charity. If Stephanie Grisham the Press Secretary for President Donald Trump agreed to take questions from the full White House. Press Corps for one hour. You're in the White House. Press briefing room. The offer reportedly was rejected by Grisham. WHO's since taking the job in June of two thousand nineteen has yet to hold even one former former White House press briefing? Her views expressed an interview with these sinclair. Broadcast Group is that the briefings are unnecessary because reporters get opportunities to put questions to trump himself sometimes over the roar of the presidential helicopter on the White House lawn for the time being at least the trump administration has abandoned what had been in an important part of White House. Press Corps is routine dating back to the late eighteen hundreds before the official position of White House. Press Secretary even existed. That's when President William McKinley. Kenley set up a workspace in the White House for reporters and sent his first personal secretary. John Addison Porter to give the correspondence what the White House Historical Association notes. where I'm I more or less regular briefings? The White House press briefing gradually evolved into a formal event from the time of president. Herbert Hoover in the late nineteen twenties and early thirties. He's to Linden Johnson's tenure in the mid to late sixties White House press secretary's held twice a day briefing sessions in their own offices according to Martha Joint Kumar Book managing the president's message the White House Communications Operation Richard Nixon though no fan of the press still thought the briefings were important enough that he had a swimming pool torn out so that he could convert the space into a meeting room for briefings. That area is now known as the James S. Brady press briefing room in honor of president. Ronald Reagan's press secretary who was seriously wounded during the attempt. On Reagan's life in Nineteen eighty-one during Bill Clinton's time in the White House in the nineteen nineties. Press Secretary Mike. McCurry decided to allow the daily press briefings to be televised that practice continued until the trump white house began barring cameras from briefings in two thousand seventeen before discontinuing them altogether. Oh we spoke by email but former C. N. N. White House correspondent Dan Lowthian who spent five years covering the Bush and Obama administrations. He said I think the briefings were useful full for a number of reasons. First of all it was an opportunity to get the White House response or thinking on an issue on camera rather than a written statement it allowed us to gang up on them around a question they might have been trying to avoid showing them dodge. An answer is sometimes the news briefings also put statements on the record for later. Comparison finally finally every now and then there would be breaking news and as happened after Osama bin Laden was caught lots of great details even if some turned out not to be true. Lowthian Dan who went on to found little park media and to become a visiting scholar at the School of Journalism at Northeastern University recalls that the format for the briefings was fairly constant. He said there was a certain order to who got called on briefings always started with the Associated Press and ended with a thank you from the Associated Press once in a while the press secretary would mix it up a bit but it usually happened around the same time each day and questions from the first two rows came in order. We also spoke by email with Tom. Tom Jones a senior media writer for the POYNTER Institute. A journalism education organization. He said while it's true that the president and his representatives often make themselves available bowl in informal settings such as the White House lawn. It's not the same as press. Briefings the format of shouting out questions under the sound of a whirling helicopter is not conducive to asking complicated policy questions nor pertinent. Follow up questions. The frenzied free for all of these much too brief informal interviews make it much harder to get into the topics. What's that require nuance and specifics? It's so much easier for the president to brush aside or ignore questions. He doesn't like when he's walking along the White House grounds when he or one of his representatives representatives are standing behind a podium a controlled setting they must face the questions that require long substantive answers as opposed to the one or two short sentences that suffice in those informal formal settings let view essentially is shared by a group of thirteen former White House press secretary and Foreign Service and military officials who published an opinion in peace on. CNN's website in January of twenty twenty calling for trump to restore the regular briefings in their view. Having to prepare for briefings helps the government to run better letter. They wrote the sharing of information known. As official guidance among government officials and agencies helps ensure that an administration speaks with one voice telling one story however compelling it might be Lowthian also sees the apparent end the briefings as unfortunate. He said it's a valid criticism that some reporters others use briefings to showboat. However I think when covering the White House briefings aren't important function that allow the public and reporters to maintain daily connections? Sometimes it's routine information other times. An odd question from the back of the room can turn into the story of the day even so Lowthian says journalists who cover the the administration will find a way to get stories he said this new normal might be unfortunate but not paralyzing. Reporters are in the business of getting information whether it comes from the mouth of his spokesperson or sources all across the beltway.
Thom Hartmann
A Look At The Book "Proof Of Conspiracy: How Trumps International Collusion Is Threatening American Democracy"
"About today the time I'm in the club is proof of conspiracy how trump international collusion is threatening American democracy but Seth Abramson this is from the introduction in late twenty fifteen after Donald Trump has formally announced his candidacy for president a geo political conspiracy emerges overseas whose keys participants are the leaders of Russia Israel Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates Bahrain and Egypt these six men decide that trump is the antidote to their ills for Russia US sanctions for Israel a lack of Arab allies for Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates Bahrain and Egypt perceived threats emanating from Iran the conspirators commit themselves to doing whatever is necessary to ensure that Donald Trump is elected trump's presidential campaign is aware of and benefits from this conspiracy both before and after the twenty sixteen election on March nineteen twenty eighteen British journalist David hers the former chief foreign lead writer leader writer for the guardian publishes the most important report of his career first at one time the Moscow bureau chief for the guardian is now editor in chief of his own publishing venture a London based Middle East watchdog called the Middle East hi in the spring of twenty eighteen he reports the existence of a years long continent spanning conspiracy that will eventually enveloped the president of the United States the Red Sea conspiracy this book dominates the gift excuse me denominators the conspiracy Hurston covers as the Red Sea conspiracy for the simple reason that is hatched on a yacht in the middle of the Red Sea a sea water in one of the Indian Ocean bordered by among other countries Saudi Arabia and Egypt one imagines that in as many years as a correspondent and commentator for The Scotsman the Huffington post al Jizerou L. era B. L. J. E. T. R. T. world which is Turkish Mostar al argon Egypt in the guardian hers never thought he'd stumble on a story is far reaching Ernest implications as the Red Sea conspiracy but he did and what he found could change the course of history this book chronicles the events around the globe that preceded and followed the fall twenty fifteen origin of the conspiracy with a special focus on how the conspiracy prompted Donald Trump and his aides allies and associates to covertly collude with six countries both before and after the twenty sixteen presidential election Russia Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates Israel Bahrain and Egypt events that began on the Red Sea in twenty fifteen now influence president trump's foreign policy toward all of these countries toward other countries not involved in the conspiracy such as Qatar and Iran and more broadly toward Europe Asia and the Middle East the story of the Reds B. C. conspiracy begins with the ends of a man named George Nader as reported by Hearst in the Middle East I toward the end of twenty fifteen Nader than an adviser to the crown prince of Abu Dhabi Mohammed bin is I eat L. Nayan known as M. B. Z. convene with his patrons permission a summit of some of the middle east's most powerful leaders gather on a boat in the Red Sea in the fall of twenty fifteen or Mohammed bin psalm one known as M. B. S. deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia who shortly become the heir apparent to the throne of the Saudi kingdom MZ be himself by twenty fifteen the de facto ruler of the United Arab Emirates del photon LCC the president of Egypt prince Salman bin hammam the crown prince of Bahrain Ken king Abdul of the second of Jordan Nader the improbable maestro of these rulers clandestine get together intended the plan he posed to the man to include the nation of Libya but no representative from that nation attended the gathering of the leaders aboard the yacht to M. B. S. and NBC are already close according to a New Yorker interview with Richard a Clarke a counterterrorism adviser to president Barack Obama George W. bush and B. S. and M. V. easy quote talk on the phone all day to each other and quote the Red Sea meeting although technically convened by nature is a means for MZ and be easy to advance ambitions that he and M. B. S. have designed together the two sunny leaders intention Hearst records is to remake the Middle East with the covert assistance of a highly placed American politician they intend to do this by first renaming and reconstituting the owner the membership of the six member Gulf cooperation council GCC which in twenty fifteen comprises Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates Bahrain Kuwait Oman and Qatar what reorienting to its regional ambitions and global alliances I was G. C. C. realignment with Victor Kuwait Oman and Qatar from the council and replace these three countries with Egypt Jordan and Libya thereby eliminating the entities historical association with the Persian Gulf and remaking remaking it as instead and alliance constituting quote an elite regional group of six countries which would supplant the GCC and form the nucleus of a coalition of pro U. S. and pro Israeli states in the Middle East and quote according to two sources briefed on the twenty fifteen Red Sea summit quote Nader said this group of states could become a force in the region that the United States government could depend on to counter the influence of Turkey and Iran and quote the twenty fifteen Turkey
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What Is the U.S. Presidential Seal?
"SMART is open open is smart. IBM is combining their industry expertise with the open source leadership of Red Hat. Let's unlock the world's potential essential. Let's put smart to work learn more at IBM dot. com slash red hat welcome to brainstorm a production of iheartmedia. Hey brain stuff lauren bogle Bam here over the years you've probably noticed the emblem emblazoned on the side of Air Force One. It's also attached to the podium from which the US President gives speeches and appears on official White House stationary and invitations a railroad locomotive painted to honor president didn't George H W Bush is decorated with it. It's the seal of the president of the United States of America the presidential seal look similar with slight differences to the great seal of the United States the official symbol. That's impressed upon official documents such as treaties and commissions the precise design of the presidential seal was detailed an executive order ninety-six forty-six issued in October of Nineteen forty-five by President Harry S Truman. It's specified that the seal depict an American Eagle that's holding ending an olive branch in its right Talon and a bundle of thirteen arrows to symbolize the original thirteen states and it's left while clutching in it's big a white scroll inscribed with the motto Eh Pluribus Unum Latin for out of many one behind and above the Eagle. There's a background of radiating glory depiction of rays rays of light crossed by an arc of thirteen cloud puffs below which there's a constellation of mullet sergeant which are five pointed compass stars that image is surrounded by a ring of white stars symbolizing the current fifty United States and around that another circle with lettering seal of the president of the United States though the presidential seals precise origins are unclear it was clearly inspired by the great seal that national symbol was adopted by the continental congress in in seventeen eighty two after secretary of the Continental Congress Charles Thompson merged ideas from several committees into a sketch that subsequently was modified by Herald Thomas the spartan that's according to the State Department's Nineteen seventy-six official history of the great seal written by Richard S Patterson and Richardson Dougal but at some point. US presidents decided that like the British monarch. They needed their own personal coat of arms as well. We spoke by email with Matthew Castello senior historian for the White House Historical Association. He said that the great seal quote was the official symbol of the United States federal government not the office of the Presidency Eh as such some president simply used the great seal while others thought that the president should have their own distinct seal. Castilla explains at least several throw presidents in the eighteen hundreds created their own seals incorporating. Whatever flourishes appeal to them James K polk for example used his own seal on the proclamation of war against against Mexico in eighteen forty six Millard fillmore came up with his own slightly different version which he sent to Maryland Postmaster engraver Edward Stabler to make in eighteen fifty Lincoln used a personalized seal as well. A presidential seal didn't actually appear on an invitation to an event until eighteen seventy seven Kevin according to Authors Patterson and Dougal President Rutherford B Hayes who was hosting a dinner honoring Russian Grand Duke Alexis Alexandrovich made the invites look fancier zero by placing them with a seal that featured an arc of clouds raise and stars between the Eagles wingtips but the Haze Eagle was thinner in scrawny than today's robust looking eagle and its head turned toward the bundle of arrows rather than toward the olive branch in Nineteen to President Theodore Roosevelt ordered yet another other presidential seal to be installed on the floor of the White House entrance hall. He commissioned a french-american Sculptor Philip Martigny to create a new one Martigny drew on the Hayes design fine but added a few changes including engraving the phrase the seal of the President of the United States in that circular border Truman who didn't like Martin. He's work had removed emplaced elsewhere in the White House during World War Two President Franklin Roosevelt who was fascinated with insignia asked experts to redesign the presidential seal they came up with the idea of adding ring of stars to represent. All the states and having Eagle Face the olive branches rather than the Arrows to emphasize the desire for peace rather rather than war that design was the one that Truman approved in nineteen forty five and it's been used ever since in nineteen fifty nine and nineteen sixty President Dwight Eisenhower and how updated it by adding stars for Alaska and Hawaii. Today's episode was written by Patrick Jake Jake Hydra and produced by Tyler Clang Breen stuff. It's production and I heart radio. How stuff works for more this and lots of other official topics that our home planet has stuff works dot com and for for more podcasts from iheartradio. 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