Social reformer and photographer. This program is just under one hour. Cheryl i am an exhibit director and at the library of congress. Barbara i am the curator of this exhibit and an historian in the Manuscript Division of the library of congress. Is al this exhibition copresentation with the museum of sit the city of new york. It is the first time that the collections of the library of congress, the riis papers have been married with the photographs that are a stellar collection at the museum of new york. We picked the word copresentation carefully because the exhibition here actually follows an exhibit that was at the museum of new york and really, that exhibit, which was called, jacob riis revealing new yorks other half, was slightly different. It looks at riis in a slightly different way, concentrating more on his biography, more on his photography. Here we are looking at riis as the journalist, because that is the strength of our collection. The papers here number 3000 in the Manu
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Held up anywhere. That means you interviewed this person. Is there a hedge turner. There is a few people interested in the job. It is their experience. I met with them you know like off site because i meet and talk with a lot of people but i dont have a job to offer anybody right now but we are assessing. So there is no formal interview but i know because this has been a conversation thats known nationwide is a number of people have reached out to me to express interest. Im worried. It has taken a long time. Jay is correct that there has been some meaningful developments in the last week to help us finish this over the finish line. What is holding that up. Its a Personnel Matter that i would prefer not to discuss in a Public Session but i will also point out that the hang up was the length of time also that this board deliberated over whether there would be a strategy for which we would need to hire staff. So i would say measure our ability to hire from the point in time where you have
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. There is profound grief and bewilderment in a Tennessee Community rocked by a School Bus Crash that took the lives of five elementaryaged children late yesterday. Theres also shock over the apparent circumstances. The 24yearold driver of the bus stands charged with their deaths, accused by police of recklessly speeding before the bus careened out of around a tree. Tonight, with as many as a dozen kids hospitalized, were learning details of the drivers history and details of the young lives that were so suddenly taken. Nbcs Kerry Sanders has the latest from chattanooga. Reporter tonight, a community in mourning, remembering the five lives lost in mondays tragic School Bus Crash. He was hurt. One of them was bleeding bad. One of them had passed out. Reporter the driver of that bus, walker has been charged with five counts of vehicular homicide, reckless driving and reckless endangerment
Prof. Nesbit so this is intro to historic preservation. University of georgia, the brandnew digital lab. I am scott nesbit. So, we are here today trying to think a little bit about the Cultural Heritage of the american south, especially after and during the american civil war. It has been in the news quite a bit lately. And so i think its a topic that folks who are interested in Historical Preservation like yourselves have got to figure out. We have a really fun opportunity to make sense of all of this. To do that i figure we should go and think a little bit about not just where the monuments came from, but the war out of which they came. You know, at the beginning of the american civil war, United States soldiers seemed to take a great deal of care to leave private property, all kinds of property alone. They really strictly held to attacking military targets only and this seemed to be of great importance to political leaders, because they thought the war would be short and they needed