American history tv only on cspan3. Each week american artifacts exceed to museums and historic basis to learn about American History. Visit the trail of tears gallery at the National Museum of the American Indian in washington dc, which looks at the National Debate over the 1830 indian removal indian removal act and its impact on southern tribes. Associate curator paul chaat smith leads us through the americans exhibit, which examines how indian imagery is prominent in childrens toys and mascots. It is built on a paradox, the riddle. The paradox is this in 2018 the United States is a country of 330 million people. And indians are perhaps 1 of that population. Most americans live in urban areas and parts of the country where they never actually see American Indians. And yet American Life in images, advertising, mascots, surround people every single day. The show is about exploring the strange contradiction of how prevalent American Indians are in American Life, really from the earliest
Has ever embarked. Neil saturday april 11th, 1970. Liftoff for apollo 13. Neil third trip to surface of the moon. Looks good. Neil commissions commander to be fifth man to walk on. Yes, Alan Shepherd had been grounded for 9 years and he was up for flight again, and so because of his space program, okay, you get apollo 13. And then, you know, wiser heads management said, wait a second, shepherd doesnt have that much screening so far. Maybe we need to give him more training. I had made apollo 8 and i had previous training and i thought 13 would be fine. All the other engines are go. Fourth flight into space, record. Module is coming from about 5,000 miles down to earth. Spacecraft and has 4b traveling in a speed about 22,900 feet per second at this time. Neil in addition to apollo 8, mans First Mission around the moon was two Gemini Missions and turned down the command module when Neil Armstrong and buzz aldrin walked on the moon. One small step for man. To be honest about it i just didn
Has ever embarked. Neil saturday april 11th, 1970. Liftoff for apollo 13. Neil third trip to surface of the moon. Looks good. Neil commissions commander to be fifth man to walk on. Yes, Alan Shepherd had been grounded for 9 years and he was up for flight again, and so because of his space program, okay, you get apollo 13. And then, you know, wiser heads management said, wait a second, shepherd doesnt have that much screening so far. Maybe we need to give him more training. I had made apollo 8 and i had previous training and i thought 13 would be fine. All the other engines are go. Fourth flight into space, record. Module is coming from about 5,000 miles down to earth. Spacecraft and has 4b traveling in a speed about 22,900 feet per second at this time. Neil in addition to apollo 8, mans First Mission around the moon was two Gemini Missions and turned down the command module when Neil Armstrong and buzz aldrin walked on the moon. One small step for man. To be honest about it i just didn
At one point, pigs were running loose through the villages, sometimes abandoned villages. Like a nightmare scenario but it really happened, like something out of early Cormac Mccarthy or the book of exodus, infectious pigs running wild to the countryside, coughing. One fellow called at the 1mile barking cough because you could hear the sick pigs coming in due new york pig farm would be next. Real story. Nissan encephalitis is this disease in humans. This is what the disease scientists do, they go out and try to solve the ecology and evolutionary biology of these new diseases. Where does the virus live, what is the reservoir host, how do humans come in contact with the virus, what are they doing . And ecological disruption that causes the spillover. It gets into sometimes and eating intermediate animal, pigs, in australia a virus falls out of back and get into horses. Pigs or horses are referred to as the amplifier host, the virus reproduces abundantly in them. They showed lots of virus
Our pick of the month, black death at the golden gate, the race to save america from the bubonic plague is the reason we are here this evening. Welcome david randall. [applause] thank you all for coming, especially with the weather outside. It is like to be inside where it is dry. One thing i realized, my first book, when i went and talked about that i realized many people are coming to the talks because they had their own sleep disorders and wanted to talk to somebody about it. This book is about the plague. If you think you have the plague this is not the place for you. There is a hospital three blocks that way, that is where you should go instead. One of the questions people ask me is how did you get interested in this book, the last book i wrote was about malibu. They use to own all of malibu, how they got it, how they lost it. One of the main characters comes up to San Francisco in 1900 and read the letter the bachelors wife, this is the weakest place i have ever seen and there ar