Brilliant filmmaker and penny was obviously that. It really has come from a study study have you all seen this American Hustle . Wow, its a good movie. Its a good movie. I think that is what really carries the thing. I just want to really tell you how and i would dont speak for mary, i speak for mary to be honored to be at this press club and we are honored and we are very proud of the book and we are very glad that we could share this with you all and i want to thank the press club for doing this. And we are surprised at who is going to come out on a saturday afternoon in the rain so thank you, thank you, thank you. So could i have one final who dat . [applause] well booktv is on location at the Smithsonian Museum of American History in washington d. C. We are joined by the undersecretary of the smithsonian, Richard Kurin u. S. A new book out the smithsonians history of america in 101 objects. First of all, mr. Kurin what is your day job . A great question, peter. My day job is helpin
The maine went down in savannah harbor and we went to war in april of 1898 with spain and then we won puerto rico, the philippines had control over cuba and so on. We salvage some of the items from the maine the next year and then in 1910 started to bring up the maine and in 1912 after taking off all the items the sailors that were still towed it out get in a very solemn ceremony. A number of the items came to the smithsonian. One of them where the Steering Wheel of the maine and George Washingtons uniform was regarded at the time in the early 1900s as this great symbol of the american nation and of course your member at the time, remember the maine was the same so it really precipitated the war. The bugle as you can see is a lovely artifact because this was at the bottom of havana harbor harbor so it looks like something you may dredge up and in your imagination it almost looks like a type of or something but really this is a piece of history. This is a piece of history with taps play
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