Welcome to all of you. The asking is who are so generous to make this program partial. Marcia, barney and lee, welcome to all of you. Thank you for being here and welcome to all our young visitors from Washington Area schools. So nice to have you here. And welcome of course to the cspan audience that will be watching this in the future. Who among you has never been in this library . Ok, quite a few of you. Well in the event you have not been in this building before, welcome to the Worlds Largest live every. The greatest and most extensive Cultural Institution on the planet. The nations very own, your very own library of congress. It was founded in 1800, not long after the founding of this country. It was conceived as a place that would furnish congress and the American Government with the information it needed as it carried out duties of representing all of us. Initially the library was housed in the u. S. Capitol which sits across the street from here. I hope he sought when you arrive
To the Worlds Largest live every. The greatest and most extensive Cultural Institution on the planet. The nations very own, your very own library of congress. Founded in 1800, not long after the founding of this country. It was conceived as a place that would furnish congress and the American Government with the information and need as it carried out duties of representing all of us. Initially the library was housed in the u. S. Capitol which sits across the street from here. In 1813, the british army invaded washington and the Capital Building caught fire. It was engulfed in the flames. All the libraries books were burned to ashes. Thomas jefferson who owned the largest collection of books in the country at the ate, 7000 volumes sitting his house, offered to sell the books to refill the library shelves. Congress jumped at the chance and now you can see jeffersons own book, those original volumes, sitting at the heart of this building. Since the arrival of those books , 6487 of them, t
At the end of the day, 31 democrats joined all of the republicans in the vote to begin the impeachment inquiry into president clinton. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story, as we take book tv and American History tv on the road, with support from our spectrum cable partners. This weekend we traveled to laramie, wyoming. Coming up in the next hour and 10 minutes, well experience the history of this western city with a population of about 32,000. In about 10 minutes, well learn about senator Allen Simpson through his papers at the American Heritage center. After that, a tour of the wyoming territorial prison, where outlaws of the wild west were held, including Butch Cassidy. And later, we visit the deerwood ranch wild horse ecosanctuary to hear about its relationship with the bureau of Land Management. We begin our special feature with a visit to a mansion to hear about the early days of the city. Were in the mansion that edward ivenson built in 1892, and it is now the h
Lets consider some major events. It was during his presidency that the socalled great sioux uprising, what we call the dakota war, occurred. It was drenched in blood as impoverished and hungry dakota waged war on settlers and faced the wrath of whites, who hunted down suspected culprits tried, convicted, and sentenced to death, 303 men. Lincoln commuted the sentence of most of these individuals but in the end, 38 were hung in what remains americas largest max mass execution. It was during the lincoln presidency that the navajo, or dine, as they call themselves, walkmade to endure a long hundreds of miles from their homeland to a new reservation in eastern new mexico. To convince the navajo, american soldiers burned crops, destroyed livestock, and sacked their homes. They suffered from a lack of food, diseases, and raids. It was during the lincoln presidency that one of the most atrocious episodes in u. S. Indian affairs occurred, and that was the massacre at cheyenne and eastern colora
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac from the 30s who went around taking pictures of poor people. His papers are at the archives and now, the thing that upset me about that and i was at smu at the time, but the third two options, keep robert e. Lee, go to russell lee or the third option was to name the school after the first africanamerican woman teacher, africanamerican teacher, period, who actually was still alive, shes 84, and taught all three of my daughters in second grade. And i thought that was the obvious choice, right . But they wanted to cling to lee. They wanted the name. They couldnt give up the name for this living africanamerican woman who had spent 35 or 40 years teaching at that school and retired. And ill just say very quickly, the same thing happened with stone well Jackson School this year in dallas, just up the street from smu. They did the same thing. They had these community meetings. They yelled and screamed at each other.