add. qian wang as a graduate of your law school and swarthmore college. formally a commission commercial litigation, managing partner of a firm dedicated to advocating for education and civil rights. her writing has appeared in majorea publications such as the new york times and theh washington post. she lives inan brooklyn with her husband and their two rescue dogs salty and peppers. please give a warm savannah welcome to qian wang. [applause] in the episode of seid titled library cop a library investigation s officer named lieutenant bookman visits jerry s apartment the visit occurs because according to library records jerry had had henry miller s tropic of cancer checked out since 1971. but according to jerry he returned it that same year. when he learns of the dilemma kramer is terrified. do you know how much that comes to? that s a nickel a day for 20 years. it s going to be $50,000. but when jerry corrects him, it doesn t work like that. kramer gives voice to a fear
Ways. We are well aware of all of these things. What we are trying to think through and in the exhibit is, ok, how do we tell the story . Because it was intense. There were intense restrictions that were enforced because of hartseller. A kid, part is the Civil Rights Act in 1964. And hartseller in 1965. Of this moment not in a positive or negative way. We are trying to piece through what are the things that changed and what other things that did not as letting people make up the decisions on their own as space the all of these kinds of things together. U mentioned that. None of us talked about that, that hartseller was sentimental. Illegal that the amigration becomes National Issue after 1968 when the western hemisphere quota is fomented. My relatives came in legally. If you got here, that basically you are legal. Illegality is a new issue, and something we created. I think you are absently on target. I did not mean to take over. We are going to have to wrap up the session for just you
Ther stops on cspans cities tour at cspan. Org local content. American history tv every weekend on cspan 3. Monday night on the ommunicators, tim wong, founder and ceo on the technology that predicts outcome to congressional legislation using data mining and artificial intelligence. Analytics get something more granular. On a break down legislative by legislative basis to see how likely they are to bill. Or a certain theres a lot of opportunities for attorneys and lobbyists to go in and say let me look at the bill. Here are cosponsors, the people most likely to vote least for the people likely to vote for it. You start to develop a strategy the rms of getting information that you need. Raw industry or intelligence or human intelligence on the ground and able to combine those two things should be able to get to the answers that you would like to. Et monday night, 8 00s tern on the communicators on cspan 2. Each week, American History artifacts takes you to museums and historic places. C
Next, inside the u. S. Capitol to learn about the history of the house of representatives page program. The Program Began in the early 1800s and continued up until 2011 when due to technological and staff changes, pages were no longer critical to the legislative process and the program was ended. One of the oldest parts of the capitols house wing. History going back to the 1800s. We dont know when the first pages served in the house. The tradition of having messengers and a page is simply an messenger, an errand runner. In u. S. Legislative practice it usually has involved in the u. S. Congress young boys between age 8 and 16. Who would run all kinds of errands for members of congress, on the floor, rounding up members, things of that nature. We have a couple of accounts that kind of place it in the 1800s when the first pages young boys, served in the house as pages. There was an eyewitness account of the house door keeper thomas crackston on the floor with his nephews. And these were
Im matthew wasniewski, a historian of the house of representatives. Im farar elliott, a curator. We are here in the historic space. The ceremonial office, one of the oldest parts of the capitols house wing. There was built in 1857. This spot is an ideal place to talk about Historic Events in the capitol. In the artifacts we have in the collection that matt and i interpret all the time. We want to tell you about the history of the house page program, which is a history going back to the early 1800s. We dont actually know when the first pages served in the house. The tradition of having messengers and a page is simply a messenger, an errand runner. It usually has involved, at least in the u. S. Congress, young boys between age 8 and age 16. Who would run all kinds of errands for members of congress on the floor, rounding up members, things of that nature. And we have a couple of accounts that kind of place it at 1800 when the first young boys served on the house floor as pages. There is