Nursing novel go set a watchman. It all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Of next military historian alan axelrod recounts the American Bombing Mission Operation aphrodite project anvil intended to stop germanys missile attacks on london. Good evening. I am tony clark from the carter library. I am really glad you guys are here. We have a Wonderful Program tonight. As always i encourage you to pick up one of these sheets from the blue skirted table, it talks about other authors we have coming. This summer harper lee, they are releasing the book, the second book that harper lee wrote and i wish we had harper lee here, we do have the author, she moved in next door to harper lee and she writes about harper lee and getting to know her. The book is called the mockingbird next door. Mark your calendar july 15th, president carter will be signing just signing, his new book, a full life here. Later in the year ahead salman rushdie, diana nicad who swam from cuba to florida. We have a wonderful
some, you know, force. it happens because of choices and especially political choices that are made at any given moment. alison and jessica, thanks for joining us here on american history tv. really enjoy talking to you both. thank you. thank you. now more from this year annual meeting from the organization of historians and national council on public history which recently met in wisconsin. next, we speak with robert sutton who tells us about the park s efforts to accurately interpret historical sites. this is about 15 minutes. american history tv is at the annual meeting of the organization of american historians in milwaukee. joining us is the national park service historian, chief historian, robert sutton. thanks for being with us. thanks for bringing me. what brings you here, other than it s a gathering of historians? well, we do a lot of work with the organization of american historians. we have a cooperative agreement so a number of services within the o
campaign trail, 5 cents, and putting alfalfa bill before the voters. he also was quite the populist, here is his platform, the murray doctrine. the first point, i hold that civilization begins and ends with the plow, no government can stand without the freedom of the farmer, free from roe from oppression. he talks about the banking act and some financial institutions of the day, themes that are probably reminiscent today as well. how was he received as a candidate? he was seen as somewhat of a populist, more fringe candidate if you will than mainstream candidate. would have been running at the same time franklin delano roosevelt. we have paper in a lot of different forms. we also have audiovisual materials in our collection. that s a newer development that we re having to change some of our collection practices with. but we also have some memorabilia, which i think is often times of great interest to people who are interested in the collection. for example, here we have
transforming the landscape of the state with reservoirs and lakes throughout the state, and soil conservation initiatives that really underscore our agriculture economy. how did these pins come to your collection? well, when we get a collection, sometimes it s somewhat organized and sometimes it s not terribly organized, but the members will have, as part of their collection, some of these, this memorabilia, plaques, other sorts of things, and then sometimes we just have people who, over the years, know that we are in the business of preserving political history, and they will offer to make donations to us. we generally do not purchase items for the collection. they are donated to the collection. some of these would have come from different collections, but they re preserved here in one. you know, one of the things that this the senate historian s office emphasizes to members is that you want to put your collection someplace where it has the capacity not only to preserv
thinking. but they had beginnings of electricity. they would touch you with the, with the, wires, you would get a shock. nothing helped. so, results. december 10, 1862, this is now about six months after the the shell, wounded him. left leg decreased motion. face drawn to the right. two days later, he has a seizure. by mid december he remains perfectly deaf and dumb. intelligen intelligence, spirits, generally quite good. doesn t end there. outcome. year later. he is discharged with disability and pension. in 1876 his doctor in vermont says he is incapacitated. requiring the aide, to supply daily wants. a year later he is lame. in 1889 he dies. why is this important? it sort of shows you medical care as it existed at the time of the civil war. and more importantly that these are people that we won t get to read about. he didn t die during the war. but yet he really did die from the war. so there are many statistics that aren t apparent. well the civil war was a dirty wa