History tv. Every weekend on cspan3 explore our nations past. Cspan3, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. [shouting] mr. Chairman, my fellow mr. Chairman, my fellow americans, my fellow democrats, i proudly accept the nomination of our party. [ cheers and applause ] this moment, this moment is one of personal pride and gratification. Yet one cannot help but reflect the deep sadness that we feel over the troubles and the violence which have erupted regrettably and tragically in the streets of this great city, and for the personal injuries which have occurred. Thats Hubert Humphrey accepting the 1968 democratic nomination for president where the democrats had gathered for their convention in the midst of the vietnam war while thousands of protesters demonstrated outside. He was unsuccessful for president in 1968 and hes the focus of this weeks Contenders Program. Were live from minnesotas History Center.
Pretty carefully, especially news about Public Health. We actually reached out and began speaking with the Public Health service in january , because we began thinking andt, how will we collect document this story. So it has been a long process and we have kind of ramped up as we have come home to think about collecting. Host at what point did you realize this pandemic would stretch into the fall, and potentially the winter . Ms. Lord as historians, we have definitely thought about difficulties inherent in making a vaccine. So, we were pretty sure this pandemic would last a fair amount of time. That we would need to remain at home for some months while a vaccine was being created. Know what is happening, as you know. We are still taking things we buy week in the museum. Host before mid march, what work your job duties and how has it changed in the last couple months . Ms. Lord i oversee a division of historians of medicine and historians of science. We had actually been planning an exh
I wanted to highlight that intimate moment behindthescenes and the friendship that did transpire between a lot of the indian performers and cody. Learn more about the national oneum of American Indians american artifacts. Here on American History tv. Here at the American Museum of history, let me begin with the pandemic and how it has impacted the museum and your division in particular. We are working mostly. Our Museum Closed in march, but we began thinking about the pandemic in january. We are a division of medical historians and we tend to follow the news pretty carefully, especially news about Public Health. So we actually reached out and began speaking with the Public Health service in january because we began thinking about how to collect document this story. So it has been a long process and we have kind of ramped up as we have come home to think about collecting. At what point did you realize this pandemic would stretch into the fall and potential winter . As historians, we hav
Health service in general arithmetic as we begin thinking collect the could story. So it has been a long process and we have kind of ramped up as we have come home to think about collecting. At what point did you realize this pandemic would stretch into the fall and potential winter . As historians, we have definitely thought about the difficulties inherent in making a vaccine and we were pretty sure this pandemic would last a fair amount of time and we would need to remain at home for some months while a vaccine was being created. They were keeping things week by week in the museum. What have you been doing the last few months . We were planning a history of medicine on the museum. When the pandemic was beginning, we were actually very deep into the planning part of it and meet again to think about changing our exhibits. That meant that we needed to think about collecting related to covid19. We would need to do that anyway because we do collect objects but now it became an imperative
The institute was born in the midst of the controversy around gayin only enola exhibit, which was going to be held at the air and space museum at the Smithsonian Institution but it got canceled. This was an attempt by the smithsonian to do an honest and balanced exhibit about the decision to drop the bomb and the consequences of the atomic bombing. This was in 1995, the 50th anniversary. In the midst of that, i decided with one of my students whose grandmother and mother survived the atomic bombing, her grandfather and father died in the atomic calming, they were atomic bombing, they were going to do Something Special to commemorate the 50th anniversary. We are going to teach two courses on campus and bring students to kyoto and hiroshima. While we were planning, the exhibit got canceled. So the victims of hiroshima and nagasaki asked us to bring some artifacts to American University and do in exhibit an exhibit here on the 50th anniversary. It was the first time the hiroshimanagasaki