The president of the grolier club and its my to welcome you to the Second Annual Kenneth Rendell lecture on importance of historical letters and documents. Ken rendell has been a dealer since 1959 in historical letters and documents dating from the renaissance to the present period. His business for many years included offices boston and the gallery in new york city encompassed politics. The law, art, literature, music, science, the military amongst, other areas. Ken has authored some of the standard reference volumes in this field, including his history comes to life. Ken has been a member of the grolier club since 1972 and is significant contributions to our club over course over 50 years. Reflect just a few of his many interests and areas of expertise. One of kens historical interests is the american frontier, the foundation of his 2004 book, the western of the American Dream. Its his own extensive collection of western american memorabilia here. And the club was fortunate to have a
The president of the grolier club and its my to welcome you to the Second Annual Kenneth Rendell lecture on importance of historical letters and documents. Ken rendell has been a dealer since 1959 in historical letters and documents dating from the renaissance to the present period. His business for many years included offices boston and the gallery in new york city encompassed politics. The law, art, literature, music, science, the military amongst, other areas. Ken has authored some of the standard reference volumes in this field, including his history comes to life. Ken has been a member of the grolier club since 1972 and is significant contributions to our club over course over 50 years. Reflect just a few of his many interests and areas of expertise. One of kens historical interests is the american frontier, the foundation of his 2004 book, the western of the American Dream. Its his own extensive collection of western american memorabilia here. And the club was fortunate to have a
Fersons instructions to lewis was to send to washington the chiefs of tribes. They encountered seven chiefs. Chiefs were greeted in washington by jefferson on january four, 1806. His indians seen here was delivered by him. That day and signed by him. It is one of the most memorable western documents. It is easy to read it cynically but think jefferson was being hopeful yet paternalistic. It was his version of his American Dream. We all know that within two american nightmare. Jefferson addressed my friends and. We are now your fathers. I. The desire of becoming a with you. All my children. Be on theand you are naming them with us as we have done those on side of that river in the friendship. I wish to learn what we could to benefit them, furnishing them the necessary as theyant in exchange for their furs. I sent beloved cat man captain lewis to get acquainted with all the indian us what what way could be useful to them. In establishing a we to make no profit. We shall ask what everythi
Course. We are still in module three which is about museums and current debates. So far weve looked at a number of issues having to deal with museums today including the history off the universal art museum. We talk about the ethics of collection especially historical materials. We looked at some of the oldest restitution claims and discussions like the marbles and the problems of equities that have been looted in recent years that end up in public museums. Today we are going to take up a special case native american Cultural Heritage primarily in the United States and canada for a little bit. As always, we approach these from the plaintiff view of human rights andg there are many other ways of approaching these issues. So, first, a reminder that wherever we are we are always on native land. If you go to this wonderful website, you can put in your zip code and discover a native map of your area and where you are from a native perspective. Here we are this is a big area and we are somew
Of hello and welcome everybody, its 8 30 am here in the iranian capital tehrani, watching press tvs world news. Our top story for this half hour, the Israeli Massacre of palestinians in gaza keeps unfolding as the regime pounds the blockaded territory with air strikes and artillery fire. In the latest strikes, the regime bombed a residential building in deralbala central gaza strip, killing at these two children, a similar strike. That area also left woman dead and many others injured, the regime also fired artillery shells toward areas in southern and central ghaza strip. The overall death tool now stands at nearly 29,900 since the onslot began on october the 7th. This is while of International Aid agencies are raising the alarm over the humanitarian situation in gaza. The un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs says a quarter of the gaza population is quote one step away from famine. In december, it was projected that the entire population of 2. 2 Million People in gaz