What your job is. Thank you, my job is assistant director for a culture at the Smithsonian National museum of the American Indian. I lead the scholars, historians, curators at the museum who are in charge of producing the exhibitions, the books, a lot of the Educational Programs and symposiums, and work with a collection of about 824,000 objects. But i have a real interest in photography, we also have over 500,000 photographs in the National Museums of american Archive Center. So i have been working very hard, i in the year ive been at the museum. Ive a 30 year career at the smithsonian, but i only joined this museum last year. And these photographs of the archives. The. It has become more and more familiar with it over time, so when i was asked to think about the opportunity to consider what photographs we have online for the public to see and for students to study online, it was a great opportunity, because i was able to review and get really deep into all of the collections of photo
Were joined by the smithsonians michel delaney. Tell us what your title is and what your job is . Thank you. My job is assistant director for culture at the smithsonian Smithsonians National team of the American Indian. I lead the scholars, the historians the curators at the museum who are in charge of producing exhibitions, the books a lot of the Educational Programs and symposiums, and work with a collection of about 824,000 objects. But i have a real interest in photography and we have also over 500,000 photographs in the National Museum of the American Indian archives center. So i have been working very hard in the years that ive been spent at this museum. I am a 30 year career at the smithsonian but i just joined the American Indian museum in the last year and these photographs are of much interest to me is an archivist. So you wrote an article about the collection. Tell us why you wrote the this article a virtual tour of history. Thanks richard. We have a great magazine. American
That extremism is what we might call and essentially contested concept. In laymans terms it means Different Things to different people and certainly if you were 100 terrorism experts to define extremism, you would certainly get a wide number of answers if not 100. Speaking for myself, i would define extremism as not just believing certainly there is believe and then there is action. Sometimes scholars will distinguish between the two, but believing in things that are fundamentally radical. That would imply radical change for society. Extremistords, if the political views were actualized in society, society would be thaned in fundamental ways what it is now. Made are distinctions between extremism and violent extremism, a violent extremist is somebody who believes that violence is necessary to bring about these changes. To extremism on the far right, extremism on the far left, there are differences in terms of their beliefs. Anarchist believes a much different set of beliefs than a farr
Moon is unpopular as he is could very well get that simple majority, because after all he is counting the votes. The most important thing for job one, the most important thing for the opposition in korea, those who want to preserve their democracy is to make sure that they take back control of the national assembly. The main opposition party, the Liberty Korea Party currently holds 110 of those 300 300 sea. Some small conservative parties hold a scattering of others. Its important then that you actually get at least 100 seats and hopefully more. We know if they dont, moons party, the Democratic Party of korea, will try to amend the constitution. April 15, therefore, is do or die, now were never and it is now also a time to safeguard rights, democracy and freedom in the republic of korea. Since becoming president in 2017, moon has tried to return in south korea to a more authoritarian style of governance. He has taken control of the big broadcasters to reduce the airing of dissenting vi
Testimony on terrorism threats to the Homeland Party to. The committee as i indicated is meeting to hear from the witnesses the committee has focused on ensuring the department is fulfilling its mission to secure the homeland. I take this response ability seriously as has every chairman of the committee. To hear about the threats we face directly from the charge im concerned about the department of Homeland Security. Its been 203 days since the department has had a confirmed secretary recently announced hes leaving after six months on the job. The replacement will be the fifth place and to leave dhs in fewer than three years and even though hes leaving tomorrow the president has yet to announce who his replacement will be. What is the delay . We learned that the white house may be trying to find a legal loophole. Its completely unacceptable and would raise serious constitutional questions. Also unacceptable is the fact that the administrations administrator has been dual headed as the