child. i mean, she was talkative. she was different. they was smart. one of these we all know them. some of us even were them. you know, one of these smart little girls who you just can t get to shut up so she was a discipline i mean, she was famously wrote this essay. was made to an essay by this teacher because she wouldn t stop talking in class. she would pop, dislocate her elbow, pop it out of her socket. she would do it all the time to entertain her friends. so that and she was very self-dramatizing too. all of those things, i think, were what her friend s mother meant, and in a society a culture in which most little girls were raised to be well behaved and, you know future wives and mothers, i think a little girl like anne was seen as a kind of subversive influence in that community. so that was part of it as well. yeah? how did anne frank the proceeds from the [ inaudible ]. he [ inaudible ]. well, that there are two foundations, actually. the
history, nonhuman things were not much a part of that. we can talk about the history of the supreme court, the congress, the standard oil company. that s been the contribution of environmental historian. next on american history tv, daniel sharfstein discusses the complexity of race in america and one family s perceived transformation from black to white. the new york historical society hosted this hour long event. evening, everyone. good to be back here. my home away from home. lovely new room. we re going to start what s the matter? [ laughter ] we re going to start by taking a little trip back in time. we re going to a day in april in 1922. on the mall in washington somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 people have gathered for the dedication of the lincoln memorial. there are parades, survivors from the civil war, people drove, they walked. there was an air of festivity throughout the town. as you know at the time you may not know in this history, washington is its
company. we wouldn t always situate them in their larger natural context. that s been the contribution of environmental historians. next on american history tv, daniel sharfstein discusses the complexity of race in america and one family s perceived transformation from black to white. the new york historical society hosted this hour-long event. good evening, everyone. good to be back here. my home away from home. lovely new room. we re going to start what s the matter? [ laughter ] we re going to start by taking a little trip back in time. we re going to a day in april in 1922. on the mall in washington somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 people have gathered for the dedication of the lincoln memorial. there are parades, survivors from the civil war, people drove, they walked. there was an air of festivity throughout the town. as you know at the time you may not know in this history, washington is itself also in addition to be in the seat of government, washington is