So much of this summit is concerned with the electoral history of progressivism and conservatism. Many of our speakers asked how the ideas and arguments of Major Political thinkers have made their way into the cultural conversation. Have shaped political attitudes, and given rise to political action. Our midmorning session is particularly exciting in this respect. The three historians before you are going to discuss how certain Major Intellectual figures of the long 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries have affected and in some cases may continue to affect american political thought. I will introduce our speakers alphabetically. Claire is a doctoral candidate in United States history at stanford university. Her research very well suited to for this conversation interrogates the Cultural Exchange in the late 18th century through the cold war. Today, she will discuss jon stewart middle, Harriet Tyler mill, and the coalescence of modern liberalism and the in america from the 18th to the 1970s w
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome my husband, our next president of the United States, al gore. [applause] [cheers] [applause] [chanting] al e want al, we want mr. Gore thank you. Thank you very much. [cheers] mr. Gore thank you very much. [applause] al wantal, we ant al. Mr. Gore thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I speak tonight of gratitude, achievement, and high hopes for our country. Tonight, i think first of those who helped me get here, starting with the people of tennessee. [cheers] then those who , braved the first snows of iowa and new hampshire, and all of you here from all over this country who have come with me to the warm sunlight of this great city. While i cant thank each of you individually in words, i do so in my heart. And i know you wont mind if i single out someone who has just spoken so eloquently, someone ive loved with my whole heart since the night of my High School Senior prom, my wife, tipper. [applause] we have been lucky enough to find each other all over
The space history department. You can join the conversation, theyll take your phone calls and emails and tweets. The 40th anniversary of the smithsonian air and space museum, live in evening beginning at 6 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv. Each week American History tvs american artifacts takes viewers behind the scenes, we visited the National Portrait gally comment rating the Amelia Earhart disappearance, she was called lady lindy and the mystery surrounding her loss continues to fascinate americans today. Welcome to the National Portrait gallery. Im the curator of photographs here at the gallery. When visitors come to the portrait gallery and showing them around the exhibition, i often ask them, what do you know about Amelia Earhart . We know she was the first woman to fly across the atlantic and we also know that she disappeared tragically in 1937. Thats what most visitors understand about Amelia Earhart. What this exhibition hopes to do is to reveal more of the complexity o
Beginning on monday, july 18th. Each week American History tvs reel america gives you archival films that provide context for todays Public Affairs issues. This marks the 40th anniversary of the air and space museum on july 1st, 1976. Leading up to the celebration, reel america will be showing a series of nasa films, up next, science reporter, food for space travelers. A half hour 1966 nasa tv program, one of 13 produced in cooperation with m. I. T. And wgbh boston. This episode examines the problem of feeding astronauts in weightlessness and the anticipated Long Duration missions of the apollo program. When john glenn got hungry during the preorbit flight, he opened a advice or on the helmet and popped a high energy tablet in his mounl. This pill and water and occasional squeezing of baby food were more than glenn needed for the four and a half hours he was in orbit. The purpose of the meal was to find out whether man could eat in a weightless condition. Meal time was hardly more than
Smithsonian national air and Space Museum Live this evening beginning at 6 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan 3s American History tv. Next on American History tv, nasas earliest days with wally funk. One of 13 women selected to be the first lady astronaut trainees or f. L. A. T. S, this is sometimes called the mercury 13, as they underwent some of the same physiological tests as their male counterparts, the mercury 7 astronauts. Unlike the mercury 7, these women never flew a nasa mission. Funk was interviewed as part of the Nasa Johnson Space Center oral history collection. This is about 50 minutes. This is carol butler and im doing an oral history for the Nasa History Office with wally funk. Retired ntsb investigator, senior Flight Instructor, chief pilot. Wonderful woman of aerospace. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you very much for having me. To begin if we could talk briefly about your early career and your interest in aviation developing and how you, how you moved forward into the a