Legislative issues and has been sought out by key policymakers, inclyuding the Obama Administration. Our discussion focuses around race and nationalism. That is the issue of our time. Creating and influencing conversations that put communities into a corner and divide our country. It makes it very difficult to have honest conversations about national security, civil rights, pluralism and the economy. I will let you open with your remarks and we will take it from there. Sammy no pressure on the high level conversation. I will doubt you with my loquacious abilities 0 douse you with my loquacious abilities. It is great. Here. You for having me a week, just a few days more than that, we were at the white house talking about similar topics and ideas affecting many communities, but primarily the Muslim Community. To servicenot new work and working with populations that revolve around some kind of hate, violence and not to mention the impact of those lifestyles in those places. Muslimw to the
Nationalism. Sammy is the executive director of life after hate which deals with victims who become perpetrators of hate and violence. He is involved in a documentary hate. Healing from the projectrt of that deals with a number of legislative issues and has been sought out by key policymakers, inclyuding the Obama Administration. Our discussion focuses around race and nationalism. That is the issue of our time. Creating and influencing conversations that put communities into a corner and divide our country. It makes it very difficult to have honest conversations about national security, civil rights, pluralism and the economy. I will let you open with your remarks and we will take it from there. Sammy no pressure on the high level conversation. I will doubt you with my loquacious abilities 0 douse you with my loquacious abilities. It is great. Here. You for having me a week, just a few days more than that, we were at the white house talking about similar topics and ideas affecting many
Have been coming to again and again this month. This is the fourth installment of the series. We have focused mostly on architecture. You might recall we had House Speaker on the folklife, but this one is different to me. It speaks very clearly and closely to my heart as a historian. I know visitors that come to d. C. , they want to go to library of congress, they are in on and they should be. Researchers cannot wait to read in the main reading room. It lands a certain something lends a certain something to the seriousness of what they are doing. Scholars that really know the score walk right past the Jefferson Building and go into you may not like the way it looks, but the madison ling is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts are. I am getting this from the website. 60 million items over 11,000 separate collections, truly the greatest manuscript treasure of American History and culture. To talk to us about that collection is Jef
In the main reading room. It lends a certain something to the seriousness of what they are doing. That is the way it should be, but scholars are really know the score walk right past the Jefferson Building and go into you may not like the way it looks, but the Madison Building is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts collection is, and there are 60 million items. This is from the website. 60 million items over 11,000 separate collections, truly the greatest manuscript treasure of American History and culture. To talk to us about that collection is Jeff Flannery, an old friend of the society in particular friend of scholars who work in American History, like my former colleagues and i. For 40 years, put together a document history project, and it brought us to jeff virtually every week. He and his staff helped us produce those volumes. Jeff is the head of the reference and services section. He has been in the management for 31 years, and that is all i will say. I know you are mu
The tomb guard badge, which is depicted on our logo and in this case here, this is the second least awarded badge in the United States military with the exception of the astronaut a astronaut badge. Today, we are giving badge number 634 to a young man and now in the brotherhood of fellowship of tomb guards. We have a society, we are 501c3 organization and part of the bylaws is is we do Community Outreach to educate the public about the tomb. I find that your generation, this, sort of a sweeping generation here, that your generation knows about the tomb. I talk to School Groups, and its appalling to me how little they know. Its not their fault. We have allowed all this teaching and teaching to the test and we have not put history on the test. And i will get off my soap box. Just think of that. I do speak to a lot of School Groups probono, this is my 81st speech this year. In 2015. I will have well over 100 by the time veterans day is over. Im speaking pretty much nonstop from the first