Up next p of the series with the librarian of congress and an author and historian. Brinkley good evening, and welcome to live at the library, and a preview of the new library of congress cspan series, books that shaped america. My name is peter, and i am with cspans book tv. About 150 years ago, when i was young, my parents were a little worried that my brother and i about what my brother and i were reading about. They consulted marian, the principal at our grade school, glenwood elementary, in fort wayne indiana, and she had two pieces of advice for us. Let them read anything they want. The back of a cereal box. The words on a television commercial. Go to the library regularly and check out books. The second piece of advice was for bedtime. Let them stay up a halfhour later as long as that halfhour was devoted to reading. Well, for some reason, that advice stuck. From reading cereal boxes the book tv to interview authors, and our new series, books that shaped america. We will begin t
Up next p of the series with the librarian of congress and an author and historian. Brinkley good evening, and welcome to live at the library, and a preview of the new library of congress cspan series, books that shaped america. My name is peter, and i am with cspans book tv. About 150 years ago, when i was young, my parents were a little worried that my brother and i about what my brother and i were reading about. They consulted marian, the principal at our grade school, glenwood elementary, in fort wayne indiana, and she had two pieces of advice for us. Let them read anything they want. The back of a cereal box. The words on a television commercial. Go to the library regularly and check out books. The second piece of advice was for bedtime. Let them stay up a halfhour later as long as that halfhour was devoted to reading. Well, for some reason, that advice stuck. From reading cereal boxes the book tv to interview authors, and our new series, books that shaped america. We will begin t
Preserving it under the umbrella of different federal departments. The institute of American History posted this 90 minute class. Heres our exploration of progressive era responses to what was understood to be the end of the frontier. If we have time, we will get to a massive adventure in applied history where i got to go to Harney County where the National Wildlife refuge was taken over. I will have a presentation on becausetime permits that was probably the most intense experience on the ground. Very divided over that takeover. I hope i can get to that as well. First, a guessing game. This is somebody who said a lot of things that i think people have forgotten, including me. I have forgotten some of these things. Heres the question. For the sake of a wider audience, i will read it. The Public Domain has been a force of profound importance in the nationalization and development of government. The person who said that is probably not someone you would have expected to have said that, b
The most intense experience on the ground, being in that community, still very divided over that takeover. First, the guessing game. Somebody who said a lot of things that i think people may. Forgotten, including ive forgotten some of the things. , the publicquestion domain has been a force of profound importance in the nationalization and development of the government. The person who said that is probably not someone you would have expected, because it was somebody who said a lot of things and he or she didnt and up getting credit. Who said that . Isnt it fun to be told you are going to be tricked . Come on, suckers. Its in your reading. I said it no. Its something i could have said, because public land they are the core of how the federal government grows. The west in the 19th century expansion was the key to expanding the power of the federal government. [indistinct] no. [indistinct] Frederick Jackson turner said that. He has benefited from you folks being here, because i reread the
Library, and we have a great speech today for president s day weekend. A day in the life of a president. How many of you are members, raise your hand . Oh, wow, fantastic. For those of you who arent members, if you become a member today, you get a 25 discount on pauls book which you can buy in the store. He will be doing a book signing immediately after the program, so you can get a new book and have him sign it before we go today. We have a new exhibit thatll be opening in april want to tell you about, its called art of war. Its an exhibit that looks at the poster art of world war ii from our collection. We have about 3,000 posters in our collection, and were going to be doing an exhibit starting april 21st. And the artists, quite remarkable by some of our greatest, norman rockwell, andrew wyeth and others. Paul is both a working correspondent with west wing reports and reports from the white house on a daily basis, and hes also a tremendous historian. Hes delved into the history of b