President ial library, down in the stacks. We are in the most secure area in our facility. This is the vaults. More thanere we keep 1600 documents written by Abraham Lincoln as well as many of the pieces he owned, objects he owned that he and directed with during his lifetime. I want to show you some books that we have in our collection that were very special to Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln whenraham he was elected president in 1860, its not as if he was entirely unknown. He was a four term member of the legislature. He had served a term in congress. He was one of the most prominent politicians from the state of illinois. In large part, that popularity was due to his very successful debates against stephen a douglas, sitting senator on the democratic side in 1858. Abraham lincoln challenged him in illinois for that senate seat. They debated. Onee hourlong public debate several different occasions during that campaign season. Two years later, the same two individuals square off against each
Think. I do not know what i expected or what i wanted, but i began to study at and i thought, i think the designer may have done me a favor in that yes, jefferson is there. I think you can make out the profile. But its not the first thing you look at. He is not coming at us full faced, straight on in living, visit color. The saturated color you see is in the clothing. I thought, you know, that does encapsulate what i am trying to do. Yes, this is about jefferson. But its not the usual biography. You know, we begin with the birth. We hit all the high points and end with his death. When i am looking at really is more about the person and i do use the clothing a lot in this study. I thought, ok, this is leading into it very well. So i thought this does work. This is what i need here. The book, then, is about the jefferson image and how he went about putting this particular image together. And as Research Often does, it began with questions. As a way of explaining, why was i then looking a
Havasu museum of history to hear more about the areas history prior to the settlement of the city. I think our early history is important because everybody heres, there were people long before mcculloch was even born. Recognizetant that we that our history didnt start in 1963 when he started selling lots. It started way back. Hundreds if not thousands of years ago. The first folks that lived in this area where the native americans, of course. Long before columbus and all those folks from europe started coming over. They were part of the southern paiute type of indian. They were hunter gatherers and they would move around, they would move to different areas in the southwest here, depending on where water was, where food was, where game was. They didnt want to stay anyplace too long. They would deplete the land. They moved around. This was one of the areas, nice river flowing through here. After the spring floods, they could grow vegetables, corn, beans, squash in the bottomlands. That i
Give, for example, a lesson on 9 11 in which you would have a class of 30 students go out and as soon as they turn to each other, theyll go, you know it was an inside job, but not necessarily bring it up in class, dependsing on your class environment and atmosphere. When i sit down on plane and i tell somebody i am a historian, they tend to want to talk about the civil war, which i teach the civil war. Thats great. If i tell them that i work on conspiracies, the floodgates are opened to an all kinds of circus show that can come out. Right . All kinds of things from the very banal to the highly disturbing and to the highly disturbingly specific. It is important to talk about how these things work, how widespread they are and what causes people to hold on to them. If we see this only as part of not us, something we dont address, something we dont talk about, then it changes how we see these beliefs. I also think that in a conversation cliff, who was here, said he had a conversation with
Latin america has been of interest since james monro decided that america was for the americans over 200 years ago this month before. It now seems to be mostly of interest to the politicians as a source of people freeing the u. S. , that throughout our history, the americans have been intertwined. Resources, people, new ideas, culture and consequences have blogged up and down the hemisphere. Most is unknown in the u. S. And this is the perfect person to recount the history. Shes done that now with respect to the Second World War. She is the real deal. Shes a journalist who spent years in the region walking its path listening to its ministers but also its person, witnessing its important moments. She was there when they were murdered in a salvador. I sat next to her as we watched guatemalas former dictators stand for genocide. She knows the region, the plague years, the issues but also the humanity and generosity of people willing to tell their stories, the absurdity of political theate