And one of the things i try to get across whenever i am talking about washington, is that washington is a bit of an enigma to a modern audience. Why . Because we dont really know who he was, how he was, how he looked. I mean, when i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every 10 years or so, about 700 political scientists and historians across the country, they rank our president s. Now who knows how our current president is going to rank, but nonetheless, whenever those rankings come out, generally these three guys here rank at the top. Sometimes it will be lincoln. Sometimes it will be washington. Sometimes it will be fdr, but the interesting thing about this is we do not know what george really looked like. We have images of lincoln. Photographed images. And you can follow those photographs over time and see how he changed, how he aged. Of course we have images of fdr. We even have images of him in his wheelchair. Generally the press di
And next, more from a 2023 library of Congress National book festival. Im Kevin Butterfield john w center at the library of congress. The centers were the sponsors of this years festival. We are proud to help bring americas most beloved writers here. The center works among scholars and residents work on the collections of the Worlds Largest library. And to do work of the sort she will be hearing about today. Welcome to everyone for joining us live on cspan as well we are proud to partner cspan again this year this Panel History is heating up environmental awakening versus Climate Change denial injures douglas brinkley, david lipsky and janet white sent New York Times bestsellers six have been chosen as New York Times notable books of the year. His most recent is silent Spring Revolution. David is the author of two New York Times bestsellers an andartist in residence at nyu. Our moderator jen whitest host whiteassociate daily to our prom when apo from National Public radio. Please join
Here, surrounded by wonderful collections, supportive colleagues, supported by an institution that supported its staff, that i first began to care about western photographs. I came here as a very young curator, moderately ignorant as how museums worked and utterly ignorant of the history of photography. I left 10 years later a little bit wiser and certain that i found a field that was interesting and would engage me for the rest of my career. For those in the audience that supported me, thank you. To the rest of you, i hope you know how fortunate you are to have this wonderful institution and these collections, right here. Afternoontalk this about photography and the American West, a new medium in a new place that came of age together. In 1839, the year that a french man announced his New Invention to the world, much of the land now called the American West lay outside the political boundaries of the United States. In a british claimed oregon immigrants were at work ringing with indian
Day at 8 00 a. M. Eastern p. M. Eastern on American History tv. Weekend, American History tv is featuring santa rosa, california, located 75 miles north of San Francisco. The 1975 San Francisco earthquake destroyed much of santa rosa. Our Comcast Cable partners worked with cspans city tours staff when we travel to santa rosa to learn about the citys rich history. We looked in the north. Such a huge black cloud. It looked like smoke out of a train or something. We rolled over and got to the house. Were all afraid and we ran into the storm house because we thought it was a storm. We had to tie wet rags over our mouths just to keep from smothering. We would get cloth and tie it over her mouth in the summer and the oldtimers said they had never seen nothing like that. It was so fine our house was sealed, but that dust came through somehow. Even the stucco houses. You just had to mop really good when it was over to get it out. You could not get it out any other way. Lynn today we will be lo
They discuss National Programs promoted by individual first ladies, including Lady Bird Johnsons unification efforts and Michelle Obamas fitness campaign. They also get the behind the scenes look at what it is like to work for a first lady. This panel is part of a conference on president ial sites hosted by the American Association for state and local history and was held at the clinton president ial center in little rock, arkansas. This program is about an hour and 20 minutes. It is such an honor, pleasure to be back in little rock, the rock. And here at president clintons president ial library. It is an honor for me to be on the stage with these extraordinary women. You are going to be fascinated with everything they have to say. I also want to thank bob beatty for the partnership and putting on all of this wonderful informational conference that you have been experiencing. I experience a bit of it last night, and it has been invaluable. I have had great opportunity, as many of my co