How are you doing this evening . Thank you. Good evening and welcome. I managed to Public Programs here. Thank you for joining us tonight featuring the most recent book the president s Kitchen Cabinet the story of the africanamericans who were fed from the washingtons to be obamas. As you saw in the video since there is a oneofakind Research Institution and is dedicated to the collection, dedication and interpretation of the experience. Also you may have heard in january, the center was named a National Historic landmark by the park service so they all know what you know. [applause] the landmark status recognizes the collection of materials that represent the history and culture of people of african descent in the global transnational perspective and through Public Programs and exhibitions, film screenings, engaging in positions like the one we are sure to have today we explore the narrative and the world and also the programs you are able to explore are in the archival collection with
Through Public Programs expeditions Film Screenings and engaging conversations like going to have today we explore the contemporary narrative that continues to shape the narrative and the world. We hope that the programs you are able to explore boasts over 10 million items and they come here from Public Programs but then go and visit one of our five divisions we can find our books, photographs and other kinds of collections and other resources. I would tell you about the rest of the program for february but since its black History Month every month here next month we are featuring the women jazz festival. This year we will feature an evening discussion and three nights of Ella Fitzgerald inspired performances. This event and others can be found on the schaumburg website as well as through event bright and you can find in our Winter Program brochure which is also located in the lobby. I want to say thank you to any Society Members that we have here. Your support makes it possible for us
Appomattox courthouse and surrendered his army of northern virginia, effectively ending the civil war. We will be live from Appomattox Court House National historic park on both april 9 and 12th as historians including ed ayres reflect on the last battles and explore the aftermath and legacy of appomattox. We will also bring you reenact its of some of the key moments from 150 years ago and we will open our phone lines to take your calls. The surrender at appomattox live april 9 and 12th, here on American History tv on cspan three. Up next, we hear from Staff Members at the three president ial libraries based in texas about their collections documenting the white house years of Lyndon Johnson, george bush, and george w. Bush. The george bush president ial library and museum hosted this event. It is about 90 minutes. As we say here in texas howdy. My apologies to the people from johnson and bush 43, but that is what we do here. Welcome to the bush library. Im the director here. We have t
And the Johnson Library in austin. Since we are running late, we will not do extensive introductions. Michael mcdonald is the curator at lbj and arbor klein and barbara klein. Christina is the registrar. We have our new archivist and our registrar. What we will do tonight is a behind the scenes look at some of the treasures at these three president ial libraries in texas. We are the only state in the country that has three president ial libraries. They will each talk, they have 20 minutes each. If they go too long, they have to leave the stage. Hopefully, we will leave a little bit of time at the end. The ideas to leave time at the end for you the audience to maybe ask some questions you have thought about during the program. We release in question time at the end and i will moderate that. I will pick you out. There are microphones. Tonight is being taped by cspan. There will be microphone so if you raise your hand, you will be passed to microphone so we can get the question on camera