My job is assistant director for history and culture at the Smithsonians National museum of the American Indian. I lead the scholars, the historians and curators at the museum who are in charge of producing the exhibitions, and the books and 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 500,000 photographs in the National Museums Archive Center and ive been working very hard in the year that ive been at this museum. I have a 30year career at the smithsonian and i just joined the museum in the last year and these photographs are of much interest to me at the Archive Center. So you wrote an article about the collection. Tell us why you wrote this article . A virtual tour of history . Thanks, richard. We have a great magazine. American indian magazine that is a members magazine for our museum and have become more and more familiar with it offer time so when i was asked for t
As the u. N. Wants. The situation could be spiraling out of control. She is a growing conflict of the teeth right reached plus paris marks a grim anniversary 5 years since terrorists staged a series of deadly attacks and sites around the city at the vatican songs concerts, a matinee held. Welcome. U. S. President donald trump has made his 1st statement in public since last weeks president ial election. He did not concede to joe biden on becoming u. S. President elect, but he did give an update on u. S. Efforts to develop a vaccine against 19. The closest trump came to admitting defeat in the election was when he said time will tell which administration will be in the white house in january. Also today, u. S. T. V. Networks projected biden had won the state of georgia and North Carolina has gone to trump. That would give biden 306 votes in the Electoral College, and trump 232 c. Lets bring in de, doubly correspondent of a salad in washington d. C. Tell us about these latest numbers and
Congress. How the process has changed since 1789 and the fliinfluence changes. Enjoy American History tv this week and every weekend on cspan3. Authorized by congress in 1999, the dwight d. Eisenhower memorial occupies a fouracre park near the u. S. Capitol across the street from the Smithsonians National air and space museum, up next on american artifacts, a 30minute steuer of the new memorial, and following that, we talk to Washington Post art and architecture, to talk about the debates over the design and to hear his thoughts on the architect and the completed work. Hi. Im victoria tidwell and im the xe executive director of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission and were at the northwest corner of the new president ial memorial for dwight d. Eisenhower and this story starts about a thousand miles west of washington, d. C. In abilene, kansas, and while eisenhower was born in dennison, texas, his family moved back to abilene, kansas, where he was just a toddler and he stayed there throug
Captioning performed by vitac captioning performed by vitac. You and i, my fellow sense, need to be strong in our faith that all nations under god will reach the goal of peace with justice. We pray that peoples of all faith, all races, all nations may have their great human needs satisfied and that the scourge of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made disappear from the earth, that in the goodness of time, all people will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the finding force of Mutual Respect and love. Evening, and welcome to the dedication ceremony for dwight d. Eisenhower memorial. For everyones health and safety, please exercise safe social distancing and ensure that your masks remain on when you are not eating or drinking. To begin our program, we are honored to be joined by the soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division as they were with general eisenhower the night before dday to present tonights colors. They will be accompanied by the president s own u. S. Marine ba
From there to here and then they pulled up and they gathered along this main avenue behind me is Government House thats the Prime Ministers Office is so they pulled up here thousands gathered in the Late Afternoon through the evening but then several 100 stayed overnight at 4 am about 3 hours ago this emergency decree was issued protest leaders on makes of stage on this avenue just next to me they told the protesters to leave peacefully and they did so but we do know that still dozens of protesters were arrested 3 of the main high profile protest leaders were arrested themselves but you know again when we look now it was very interesting you know weve been here for about a 90 minutes and we 1st came up there are still street sweepers the avenue was blocked off street sweepers cleaning up from all those people here overnight now the avenues open and its almost as normal rush hour here on thursday morning so right now we know dozens of protesters have been arrested and 3 high profile pro