BryanCollege Station, texas. The history of the neighboring cities sitting within three hours of houston, san antonio, and dallas. In about five minutes, we take you inside the george h. W. Bush president ial library and museum for our first ever look at newly discovered film footage of george and barbara bush on their honeymoon. Following that, the final resting place of the 41st president and the first lady on the grounds of the library. In about 20 minutes, the history of the area as we travel to the brass yoes Valley Museum of history and later a trip to the campus of texas a m university for the story of a core of cadets, the student military organization dating to 1876. We begin our special feature with the mayors of bryan and College Station as they talk about the history and special relationship between the two cities. One of the wonder fingers about bryanCollege Station, you have two cities, one community. The university started in the 1870s. The city of bryan started a couple
San antonio and dallas. In about five minutes, we take you inside the george h. W. Bush president ial library and museum for film footage of george bush and barbara bush on their honeymoon and the final resting place of the 41st president and the first lady on the grounds of the library. In about 20 minutes t history of the area as we travel to the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History and later a trip to the campus of texas a m university for the story of cadets, a student military organization dating to 1876. We begin our special feature with the mayors of bryan and College Station as they talk about the history and special relationship between the two cities. One of the wonderful things about Bryan College station, youve got two cities, one community. The university started in the 1870s, the city of bryan started just a couple of years before, really right after the civil war. There was a railroad coming from houston that was marching its way here, stopped before the civil war, an
Archives. Visit booktv. Org for a complete schedule. And we now kick off with Professor William darity and Kirsten Mullin with their thoughts on reparations for africanamericans. Good afternoon, im director of the hutchens center on fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution. We gather here this afternoon virtually because of the covid plague to talk about reparations for africanamericans for the descendants of slaves. We planned this event before covid19 and, of course, william darity and Kirstin Mullen wrote the book long before covid19. Its worth noting that the coronavirus seems to be afflicting blacks much more than whites. Theres a piece in the journal of the American Medical Association which points out that more than half the covid19 cases in chicago and nearly 70 of the deaths involve black individuals although blacks make up only 30 of the population. Theres a story on the front page of the Washington Post today about contrasting the intensive care unit in afflue
Randy will be giving most of the presentation. Ill be here for questions and answers. Just a little background about myself. I volunteered after i got my b. A. In history from cal state San Bernardino in 2010. I began volunteering at the National Archives at riverside and then in 2012 i became a student archives technician at riverside. And then in i got my masters degrees in library and information science. At that same time from san jose state university. And then in 2014 i moved to st. Louis and worked at the National Archives at st. Louis as a preservation technician. And then in 2016 i moved back to california and in my current role as an archive specialist at the National Archives at riverside. So im going to turn it over to randy here and you could give you his bio. Well, thank you, james. Welcome, everybody. I want to thank mr. Garza for his wonderful introduction and thank the friends of the North Hollywood library and the friends of the sherman oaks for inviting us to come ou
Introduce myself. Randy will be giving most of the presentation. Ill be here for questions and answer. Just a little background about myself. I volunteered after i got my b. A. In history from cal state San Bernardino in 2010, i began volunteering at the National Archives at riverside and then in 2012 i became a student archives technician at the National Archives at riverside and then in i got my masters degree in library and Information Science at that same time from san jose state university. And then in 2014, i moved to st. Louis and worked at the National Archives at st. Louis as a preservation technician and then in 2016 i moved back to california and then in my current role as an archives specialist. Im going to turn it over to randy here and he can give you his bio. Thank you, james. Welcome, everybody. I want to thank mr. Garza for his wonderful introduction and i also want to thank the friends of the North Hollywood library and the sherman oaks friends of library as well for