I just wanted to explain in advance that this advance that this history course looks at responses to disasters in American History, with an emphasis on research and writing. Over the semester, weve examined various disasters from different perspectives. First of all, the psychological and physical problems at jamestown. Disaster sermons and responses to fires, hurricanes, and epidemics in colonial america. Famine suffered by the donner party en route to california. Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine and the ability to create new lives in this country. Disaster tourism at the johnstown flood of 1889. The impact of the triangle shirt waist factory fire in new york city and disaster art that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. So, today we are discussing David Oshinskys Pulitzer Prizewinning book polio an american story. You all received questions i posted. And im really interested in this topic because i also teach a seminar on the 1950s, and thats when so much of this book takes p
Amendment. Today our new exhibit, rightfully hers, american women and the vote, opened up stair in the lawrence f. Obrien gallery. This exhibit is a corner stone of our sentenal celebration of the 19th amendment. Which gave women the right to vote. The 19th amendment is rightfully celebrated as a major milestone made possible by decades of suffrage relentless Political Engagement and one critical piece of the larger story of womens battle for the vote. Rightfully hers begins with the suffrage that doesnt end with the 19th amendments ratification. The final section examines the Immediate Impact and the voting right struggles that persisted into modern day. And corrine porter, stand up, is the curator of that exhibit. [ applause ] one of the goals of the exhibit is to recognize both the broad diversity of suffrage activists and the many bases on which american women have been barred from voting. As susan ware does in why they march the exhibit looks beyond the familiar names such as susa
The conclusion of the savanna campaign had a couple questions questions,political which he did not want to deal with, and a couple of military, after it was agreed he would be permitted to move to the north and go straight into South Carolina. There were repercussions for that on the confederate side and the folks on the Southern Side would begin to react to that. Of course, even as sherman was leaving atlanta, there were folks on the confederate side that reacted to what was going on. One of them, something of an alert fellow, general beauregard, reacted and saw what was on the way. And of course, technology is always a curse in here. There we go. Boss insses with his richmond, samuel cooper, reports of general wheeler indicate sherman is about to move. Probably heading to charleston or savannah. There are a great many variables sherman can take when he begins to head north or south from atlanta. A junction may be formed with the enemys fleet. I would advise all available forces which
Freedom dates back to our founding. Cultural institutions like libraries and museums are offering Historical Context but reexamining and continuing to how we present history and information to our publics and making sure we are part of a solution on the road and not part of the problem. So i am honored tonight and they to be joined by secretary of the smithsonian institution, dr. Lonnie bunch. He is also and was the founding director of the National Museum of African American history and myture and, as a librarian, first purchase, very recently was his new book, a fools errand, creating the National Museum of africanAmerican History and culture in the age of bush, obama, and trump. We appreciate you for being with we have a lot of things we would like to cover. Free to ask me a peoplestions, but i know have been very interested in your perspective on what is going on and when we planned this, we had the Health Crisis that was going on. Since that time, another crisis. You released a st
Please welcome doctor hayden. [applause] i have to start. I am carl hayden, library of congress. I just want to thank jamie and angel and the readers for allowing me to be with someone who has elevated libraries to such an extent. Let me just say there have been patron saints in carnegie and things like this. I finally smacked down andrew carnegie. How does it feel to be the patron saint . When i started this book i couldnt have anticipated that part of it. I was drawn to this story because i wanted to understand what happened in 1986, this epic fire that closed the la library for twee 7 years but more importantly i wanted to understand why i cared about it so much. I often said if someone said to me city hall burns down i would have thought that is too bad and i assume they will rebuild it but hearing the library had burned felt like a deep, profoundly personal loss and i felt why do we feel such a connection to books . Why do we feel such a connection to libraries that the idea of on