They talk about the history and special relationship between the two cities. Of the wonderful things about bryanCollege Station, you have two cities one community. Really right after the civil war. There was a railroad coming from houston that was marching its way here. After the civil war it continued on and brian for the first few years after the civil war struggled to get itself created but was able to do that. Its876 the University Got first six students and the city of brian was really getting going. Are still some of the first buildings that were being built. 25 years ago this area was a ghost town. Has created growth and renewal in the city of brian. The line between our cities is blurred not just in how we Work Together but geographically. Texas a m founded in 1876. But it wasit grew five miles from the nearest town. Calledknew about a town factge station except the in 1938 when some a m faculty and staff got together and said lets create our own city. We are growing somewhere between three to 5 every single year. We have the greatest disparity of any city in the United States regarding the number of students to the number of nonstudent population. We have just under 60,000 students who are on this campus. Haves poised by 2025 to 25,000 students just in the college of engineering which would make it one of if not the Largest College of engineering in the country. Agriculture. Just as its name implies, that first letter. Thats what it was all about. Yes, brian is a different town. You could step from one town into the next. Theres a crate off here tradeoff here. We both have something to bring to the table thats for the good of all of our citizens. Ofthe histories of the city brian and texas a m are woven together and we continue to flourish into the future with our histories being intertwined. The george h debbie bush president ial library and museum received some footage of president and misses bush on their honeymoon in georgia. Ofated by the children another couple honeymooning there at the time. This is the first time the footage has been seen by the public. The bushes honeymoon at the cloisters. Bush. S george and barbara they shared the camera back and forth. They were both on their honeymoon. Somebodys trying to get perfume on somebody right now. Im guessing this is bocce ball. They are playing some kind of game. They are intently measuring how far the ball is away. Im not sure exactly what the game is but there seems to be a lot of measuring. Whats amazing is how young they both. Both couples are. President bush it already been in the navy. Shot down. Weve got a lot of material like this from people. Who say we have film of president and misses bush. Theres a lot of this type of material that weve gotten over the last year and a half. They never believed their mother that she had been at the same place the bushes had honeymooned at the same time. The film is proof. Bush was always very outgoing. Friendshipup a pretty quickly and left their honeymoon and never corresponded. Its great to have. We have the film of president bush taking his first steps. It was very nice of them to send it to us. A m university is home to the George H W Bush president ial library and museum. Join us as we take a look at items from the familys personal connection as well as objects from the president s memorial service. The exhibit youre about to see is one we started putting together shortly after the president died. People here at bryanCollege Station were really interested in the Funeral Service. They were proud of the fact that the president and first lady were buried here. Theres a lot of that incorporated into the exhibit and one of the first things you see here is the lifesize statue of sally, president bushs service dog. Sullyled solely came to the ceremony. That dog is now at walter reed. The real iconic photo which is of him inibit is front of president bushs casket. He got him in june of 2018 and he served president bush for about six months until the president s death in november. We have a picture of him as a puppy and then with president bush. Withd help president bush everyday tasks. It added quality to the last months of his life. Itself, wel exhibit have the flag that flew at halfstaff over the white house and then we also have the flag that flew over the capital. One of my favorite items in this exhibit is the ships wheel. The crew of the uss george h up you bush h w bush. Presented here in june in 2019. They created themselves. We had all the sailors of the year from the ship. We bring the men once a year. The cases have shells that are used for the 21 gun salute at Ellington Air force base in houston which is where the body arrived. Here in texas from the funeral in washington, we have the we have the condolence turned to barack and Michelle Obama and the program from the service. Condolence. Senate book which is turned to Mitch Mcconnells signature. We have a photomontage from throughout his life. They were married young. He was still in the navy when they got married. Photos fromntage of his career here at the library as some photos, a nice photo the upa 4141 traveled from houston to the library and then a section of the Railroad Track that was cut out but thats a section the train actually went over. One of my favorite cartoons, this is one of a series of two. Misses bush died. Of missesa cartoon bush going to heaven and being greeted by her daughter. When president bush died, ramsey ,cdonald or Marshall Ramsey cartoonist from jackson, mississippi did occur to a of them meeting in heaven. From the train, president bush loved trains. He loved railroad travel and early in the planning process for his funeral, he wanted to be brought from houston to College Station, his final resting place at the library in a train. Train tolight from the bring the family up and they had a car especially designed for the casket and they created the exhibit we did here on american railroads within 10 years ago. Railcar locomotive was used to pull the train and it will be coming here sometime in the next year and a half and it will be outside the library. And then the u. S. Postal service issued a stamp in june of 2019 with the president s portrait on it. Here in in a Ceremony College station. The president picks the portrait out himself. President bush and misses bush were so much part of this place. From 1993 until the last years of our life their life, they were here all the time. They did programming with us. Misses posted a literacy program. Did a literacy program. We got to enjoy their company so long in town. The cspan cities tour continues with a visit to the final resting place of president bush, his wife barbara and their daughter robin. We are about 4 10 of a mile from the library and president bush chose this site to be his final resting place. Ago we year and half buried misses bush here and then about six days later in december he was brought up 4141 and the special car. Peoplely there were lining the tracks all the way from houston. Probably 80 or 90 miles from houston here and there were people lined up all along the tracks. I was in a bus and we follow the path of the train. We could see the people all over the tracks. The train ended at the university about a mile from here. Andcasket was brought here the kids who are in the corps cadets here. Theres a walkway on the other side of the break. The cadets lined the walkway all the way here. The Funeral Service here was just family. Service andmemorial Saint Martins in houston, the here. As brought people lining the path all the way. Once the body got to the Library Museum it was just family. It was a family service. Early after the library was put here. Was pretty early. The reason was because they love being here and they love the students. They love the university. Around allto be these young people. The towns bryan and College Station and the whole university were so welcoming to president and misses bush i think they thought this was appropriate for their final resting place. And their daughter was brought here, was disinterred. She died right before her fourth disinterred she was and brought up here soon she was the first at the gravesite. Misses bush was buried here and in december president bush was buried here. , lieutenant jg u. S. Navy reserve. Originally when this was first laid out there were no trees back there so you could see all the way to the roadway. Wastly after the site nice quiet had a place where you can contemplate i guess. Ist was one of the things both he and misses bush wanted. Roosevelt is buried at his home. Eisenhower has his library. All of them seem to be somewhat simple. None of them really are grandiose. This one is probably the furthest away of the actual library. Its a nice little walk. Kind of stretch your legs and come back here. Remember both president and misses bush. They were so much part of the library and museum and community. We all know that our grandmother loved taking pictures. Would keepscrap she of pictures of all of us. I didnt realize how much she kept from her entire life until i was starting research for my book and i was able to go down to College Station and they have the archives there. Coauthor would walk in and mary finch who works at the library was like, where do you want to start. She opens the door and it is millions of different scrapbooks. We only have a day and a half. We started in her scrapbook. My grandmother had kept scrapbooks from every part of their life together. H debbieat the George Bush Library and museum, director warren finch showed us one of many scrapbooks containing mementos from their life together. In the research room. We are going to take a look at 120 scrapbooks that misses bush after sheing shortly and president bush became engaged. Andwas an avid scrapbook or documented their entire history and his political history and their lives together for their entire marriage. This one is from 1944 and 1945i believe. Misses bush his granddaughter was doing a book on the president and misses bush. And she was using the scrapbooks as a resource for that book. One of the things she found because it was sitting inside this envelope was what we think from their first thanksgiving. She has the guests that were and what kind of funny is she even has the one guest who couldnt come because he got sick. This is the kind of stuff she kept. Pictures of him. Baseball scorecards. Annotated it all in her own handwriting. She was so much in love with him that she wanted to document their life together. The children, the grandchildren as time went on. At some point she stopped the scrapbooks. But then she had a digital camera and she would send us digital photos and all the backup with the photos. If she was at a dinner she would take a lot of pictures and send us the invitation and the program, the menu from the dinner. At some point i think someone said that from an archival pictures and the scrapbooks gluing the pictures in the scrapbooks wasnt the greatest idea. Its hard to get them out for preservation purposes. They are a great resource. We did the museum about 12 years ago because we discovered all these great artifacts and we said, weve got to use them. I told misses bush, thanks for the scrapbooks. We are going to put this stuff in the museum. And stories photos are from her scrapbooks. Shes a big part of the museum also. We continue our look at bryan and College Station as we explore the museum of natural history. This museum has been in our community for almost 60 years and its really an important part of the community because we highlight the local natural history, local cultural history and even some of the local science education. We do a lot of partnerships with texas a m university. We have exhibits that are here longterm and shortterm. We do lots of childrens have someand we even live animals. I would like to show you a few things about our museum that we are so proud of. Over this direction, you will see a mural that we are incredibly proud of. It was done by nationally recognized artist and it was painted on the site. Its the only place where you can see the valley as it was 12,000 years ago and realize that some of the animals portrayed in the mural where the predecessors of our modern species. We had00 years ago lions, tigers and bears in the valley. That is something a lot of our visitors really enjoy looking at the different species portrayed in the mural. If you look hard enough you can even see the early people that lived here during that time. One of the things in our collections that we are very proud of is our ice age mama connection collection. Mammal collection. This mammoth and mastodon skulls that we have on display were actually found on the river and there is a long history that we ane celebrating this with early museum that was located at texas a m university. One of the other things that we have over here that pertains to reproduction of an early predecessor of the modernday armadillo. One of the things thats fascinating about our community is ourough the city Current County seat right now, the town of boonville was the first county seat before the city of brian. But when the railroad came through, the city of brian really flourished in the city of boonville eventually died out. One of the things that we are really proud to have his some of the original surveying equipment that was used to actually survey the town of boonville. So here you can see the original compass that was used to map the town and of course some of them, the materials that they used when they are putting their lines and things like that. Hanover was a very important figure in all of this. Because he was the original surveyor for the town. Cotton farming was really important in this area in the 19th century. A lot of immigrants especially texas ended came to up, they didnt have a lot of funds so they ended up buying land along the river. River bottom. It turned out that land was really great for cotton farming and pecan farming. We still have a lot of cotton farming around this area today the temperature and the way the was is along the river really good for that sort of thing. Farmingwe had cotton there was also slavery in texas in the area. In this particular bail is a really early bail. They put these bills together. Scale soctually a hook weigh thecould cotton. This is a simple cotton gin and lint separator. And this was used in the 19th century. This is a different kind of bail. Around vail but it didnt catch on. Probably because it didnt hold together quite as well. Other ways of bailing the cotton. A couplewe only have of pieces, we are very proud to be able to display a couple of pieces of santa ana silver that was apparently acquired during the battle of san has cento. History is very important to us in this museum and i really feel thats part of what we as museums do. We preserve and our look at brian and College Station, texas concludes with hearing about texas a m universitys corps of cadets. Them texas and intoorps of cadets came existence. A lot of the big traditions here started with the corps of cadets. You, and welcome to texas texas a miversity university. This center is designed to explain what the corps of cadets and texas a m is about. In 1886. Was opened up they did not have the student population to start classes. Later, it, two days opened its doors to 40 students. From that point to today, where we are not only the Largest University in texas, but we year as the Largest University in the United States. We have 60,000 students on theus, of which 2300 are members of the corps of cadets. For years, texas a m had a struggle to maintain a university here in College Station on the brazos river. It was not until Lawrence Sullivan ross, a former came in desha former governor, came in his reputation allowed the parents of texas to send their sons here. Because it was established under the morel act, texas a m was an all male military institution and a land grant college. The first thing it did was provide public land to the state to provide higher education. It required that universities provide not only for the arts, but the sciences that most universities but the focus on the agricultural and Mechanical Engineering portions of education. In addition, it required universities to provide training and tactics in military tactics. T is why texas a m began became what it was in 1886. Finally, in 1964, texas a m became a coed university. Women were allowed to come in 1965. The corps of cadets became an option. You are no longer required to become a member of the corps of cadets. We have flourished ever sense. Female2 of our core are corps of cadets are female. We have a long tradition of attracting young men and women who want to serve their country. When i was thinking about college, i was originally thinking about North Carolina state. But my original my older sister said i would have to come out and check out the culture of texas a m. She took me to a football game, and i understood what she meant about texas a m being a family. I went to a high school where everyone was focused on making good grades and personal development. It was strange for me to understand how a university could be a family. Coming here, seeing the traditions that texas a m provides, those traditions reflect the core values here at a. M. Texas a m. A m, servingtexas in a global aspect. I am always looking for a challenge. I saw that the corps of cadets offered a different sort of challenge. It was much more mental. I did a night with the corps of cadets, which is a great opportunity to know what youre getting yourself into. I realized the opportunity the corps of cadets presented for developing yourself and reaching your full potential. What i would like to do is spend a few minutes talking to you about aggie muster. Day,riginally called way back when. Day texaso day is the gained its independence back in 1836. What they used to do is the cadets would go to san jacinto and reenact battles. Get them off campus for military training. In 1942, at the start of eorld war ii, is when aggi muster gained its significance. Thereil and may of 1942, were the defenders on corregidor. Responsible for the defense of corregidor. He hadthe island fell, one of his officers, tom dooley, rollan aggie, do a muster of the aggies on the island of corregidor. They did that so that people would know they were still alive and. Safe on back to the United States. The island fell and they became prisoners of war. After the island had been repatriated, the aggies held their first muster there at the entrance to the corregidor tunnel. You can see that right here. The 1946 corregidor muster. The individuals in that photo are all military for the most part. Those are aggies who have come back to the island to rededicate themselves and to answer here for their comrades that were lost during the war. Another significant piece, for me personally, having had the opportunity to go to the island, and take cadets there, is to have been able to go into the tunnels within corregidor and see exactly how their headquarters was set up. The photo in the top lefthand corner of the display shows the headquarters tunnel there. You have got the individuals standing there. If you went there today, it would look exactly like that without the individuals sitting there. They are almost goes to like mind. They represent those aggies we lost during the war and those we have lost through service throughout. Since then, aggie musters are held every year on april 21. Throughout the world, the biggest muster is held here at College Station. It is a student run event. In 1946, we had general eisenhower as our muster speaker. He did the muster here in 1946. Tradition is such a broad word, but what we found through texas a m is that true traditions will bring you back. To your include the 12ed man. 1922, a football athlete who transitioned into basketball, during the first half of a game, they realized they had so many injuries of hidden not know if they would be able to field a team. They brought him out of the stands to satisfy that requirement. He did not actually go play, but it was the idea that i am going to be able to serve my community in whatever capacity they need. That is where you get the 12th man. We find that that spreads out not just in athletics, but across the community. It is about Selfless Service. How you can be of service. My first week, i had no idea where my classes were. A girl took time out of her day and took me all the way across campus to a classroom building. That is how you see that Selfless Service exemplified. Another tradition is silver taps. Is once aw muster, it month on the first tuesday of every month. We honor the aggies who have passed away that month. Plazaher in the academic and the volunteer company has a firing squad and they perform a 21 gun salute to them. It is a great way of paying respect to fallen aggies. Coming here is the best of both worlds because you do have the cadet aspect you would get a military college, but you also get to see the other side. You get both worlds. And it does mean that sometimes it is going to be harder because you see you have to wake up , but it is more rewarding when you go through it. The opportunity to develop yourself as the leader is not present in any other organization quite like the corps. Our cities tour staff traveled to brian and College Station, texas to learn about its rich history. To watch more video from brian and College Station and other stops on our tour, visit cspan. Org citiestour. You are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan three. American history tv is on social media. Nhistory. cspa lectures and history, Stony Brook University professor nancy tomes teaches a class about the 1918 influence a information efforts in the United States to stop the spread of the disease. As describes methods such canceling public gatherings, social distancing, and propaganda about good hygiene that are still implemented. This was filmed in march 10 2020, during the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States. Professor tomes describes the symptoms, impact, and response between 1918 and today. Alltomes i promise you that i would do a show and tell from my own research. The timing of this turned out that doing something, a Historical Perspective on pandemic preparedness might seem like an interesting topic for us to discuss. I mention to you all that i have been getting a lot of calls from journalists lately. It is kind of like, why and the middle of a pandec
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