Booktv is on location in washington, d. C. Joined by the under secretary of the smithsonian who has a new book out. S smith sonnians history. First of all, mr. Kern, whats your day job . Great question, peter. Well, my day job is helping take care of the smithsonian and the legacy that the American People give us. You know, we host over 30 Million People to the museum. My job is to help make the museums work, help the directors do their job. I have to take care of budgets and politics and Public Relations and things, but also the content of the work, what we do, what we show, the kind of ways in which we want to help americans and people around the world understand the american experience. How long have you been with the smithsonian . I first worked here in 1976 for the bicentennial of the United States, and then permanently since 1994. As the under secretary, are you the coo in a sense . Well, we have three under secretary, one a earth science, one is finance administration, and im fo
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Are here at the National Postal museum at the heart of this book and one of the wonderful things about the way they have organized this book is that the letters really pull you in period 160 years ago and help you understand the sensuality of the great when families were frequently separated for the first times. They have provided the information you need to not win the understand the Family Networks by community networks, postal network, what is happening geopolitically in the United States during the civil war. Really looking forward to this talk. Lynn is a curator at the smithsonian National Postal museum. She specializes in the use of the u. S. History postal service. As well as my fellow soldiers, letters from world war i from which you can see at the smithsonian secretaries Research Prize in 2018. Thomas pay own creates a lighter than air collection with balloons, lamps and air ships at the Smithsonian National air and space Museums Research focuses on in the civil war as well as
With these Television Companies support cspan 2 as a public service. Now it is my distinct pleasure to introduce this book and its editors, tom inland. The wall to his family letters are here at the National Postal museum at the heart of this book and one of the wonderful things about the way they have organized this book is that the letters really pull you in period 160 years ago and help you understand the sensuality of the great when families were frequently separated for the first times. They have provided the information you need to not win the understand the Family Networks by community networks, postal network, what is happening geopolitically in the United States during the civil war. Really looking forward to this talk. Lynn is a curator at the smithsonian National Postal museum. She specializes in the use of the u. S. History postal service. As well as my fellow soldiers, letters from world war i from which you can see at the smithsonian secretaries Research Prize in 28 1918.
My job is to help make the museums work help the directors do their job. I have to take care of budgets and politics and Public Relations and things but also the content of the work what we do what we show the kind of ways in which we want to help americans and people around the world understand the american experience. How long have you been with the smithsonian . I first worked here in 1976 for the bicentennial of the United States, and then permanently since 1994. As the under secretary, are you the coo in a sense . Well, we have three under secretary, one a Earth Science one is finance administration, and im for everything else. I have a ph. D. In anthropology. All right. American history in 101 objects. Where did you get the idea . Well theres a fellow who runs the british museum, Ewen Mcgregor and he wrote a book that was successful, and he said, richard do one on American History. Well i didnt have to think about it too long. My wife is a public schoolteacher in the dc area and