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To us about his influence and legacy and showed us many of his exhibits in the herblock gallery. Herb block was a midwestern born cartoonist. He began his career in 1929, six months before the Great Depression. He was a moderate conservative in his start. And he was radicalized, not leftleft, put pushed him further towards the center but a Great Depression and then the injustice of world war ii. In 1933, he joined the Scripps Howard company, the Newspaper Enterprise Association which was situated in cleveland, ohio. And then 1946, right after the second world war, he joining the Washington Post where he spent the rest of his career, and he died about six weeks after his last cartoon appeared in the Washington Post. His last cartoon appeared on august 26th, 2001. And he died just a week shy of his 92nd birthday in october. The library of congress has the herbblock collection. We had about 16,000 of his editorial cartoons, but we have nearly all of the work he produced for the Washington
100,000, with a grand price of 5,000. For more information go to our website, studentcam. Org. Each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives, mu seems and Historic Sites around the country. The library of congress houses the largest collection of political cartoons by herbert block known as herb block. His career spanned 72 years, and he covered president s from Herbert Hoover to george w. Bush. The librarys sara duke talked to us about his influence and legacy and showed us many of his cartoons many on exhibit in the herblock gallery. He began his working career in 1929, six months before the Great Depression. He was a moderate conservative in his start, and he was radicalized not like leftleft, but it pushed him further toward the center, by the Great Depression and the injustice of world war ii. In 1933, he joined the Scripps Howard company the newspaper enterprise, which was situated in cleveland ohio. Then he joined the Washington Post where he spent the rest of his car
Cities tour. You are watching American History tv. All weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] next, from the Ronald Reagan fact president ial foundation and institute, six former law clerks recall working with sandra day oconnor. This is part of an allday conference commemorate the 38th anniversary of Justice Oconnors senate confirmation. [applause] thank you. Its really an honor and a privilege to be here. Few wordsd to say a to introduce the next panel. I would start by saying something that we probably know. The court is a fairly powerful institution. It was not always so, one of the signs of how powerful it is is that you do see, in any president ial election, people say it matters who you vote for because they will pick the next Supreme Court justices. If you think about why that really is, the Court Decides about 80 cases a year. About 75 of them need to be decided but thats not the reason court is powerful and not the reason p
Today we are here in fort meigs Historic Site in ohio. Fort meigs was constructed in the winter and early spring of 1813. Acres. Est encloses 10 even today, it is the largest wooden wall fort in america. The purpose of this fort and for its size specifically was that detroit has fallen to the british and the entire army of the northwest had been surrendered. Everything north of the river just over here is under british control. A new man named will a new man named general William Henry harrison was put in charge and his idea was to build a large fortification right at the rapids of the river, so the most shallow crossing point, and his plan was to get as many troops and supplies together as possible. He was going to get back up to detroit, retake that for the United States and then invade canada. The war of 1812 tends to be quite a bit forgotten in our American History. At the timeng on was the United States was a young nation and we had just gotten over the revolution. We were our own