Talk into a camera, waiting for a response, pretending that oh, yeah, i hear you, its so very weird. Im used to having a classroom with 17 students sitting in front of me, where theyre all moving around and having to have them, like, oh, sit down, oh, can you hear them . Lets listen. Hi guys. I kind of have stage flight when im on t. V. Because im normally quiet . Shes never quiet. No, im not quiet. My sister was, like, i saw you on t. V. My teacher was, i saw you on youtube. It was exciting, how the community started watching. It was a lot of fun. It also pushed me outside of my comfort zone, having to make my own visuals and lesson plans so quickly that ended up being a lot of fun. I want to end today with a thank you. Thank you for spending time with us. It was a great pleasure, and see you all in the fall. Im so happy to see you today. Today is the last day of the school year, yea it really helped me in my teaching. Im excited to go back teaching my kids, yeah. We received a lot of
Then pound, and pound again. You will hear the meeting but be in listening mode only. When your item is called, press star, three to enter the queue. Thank you, so welcome, everyone, to this regular meeting of the our city, our home Oversight Committee. It is november 17, and we will call the roll. [roll call] we will move into item 2. Do we have any Public Comment on this item . Clerk members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item call 4156550001, enter meeting access code 1462611651, press pound, and pound again. Press star, three to enter the queue for Public Comment. Please start speaking when the system indicates you are unmuted, and you will have three minutes. There are no Public Comment. Okay. And i just wanted to say we will have two hours today, so we wanted to be realistic with our agenda, and i know there was a lot of interest in looking at our bylaws, our procedures, and then talking some more about Decision Making criteria, so i just wanted to expla
Former, and most recently, Civil War Monuments and the militarization of america which one the book award from the society of civil war historians as best book of the year on the issues of the civil war era. Hes been the editor of several influential volumes, including a particularly still relevant and useful set of edited essays on reconstruction originally issued almost 15 years ago, but still relevant today and a topic we wrestle with today. As well as a number of edited volumes. We are delighted to have him join us today. I will lead him with the first question, if you are ready . You might be muted. Things we aret of going to want to touch on in a relatively brief time today. Monograph,arkable you approach memorials and all kinds of interesting ways that we will want to touch on as works of art, what happens if we context in a national rather than bifurcated into , northern, andrn confederate stories. And what cultural readings we can read from them beyond the meaning of the civil
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. Cheryl this exhibition is a copresentation with the museum of 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 Manuscript Division and are really featured well in this exhibition and c
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