Susan Caroline Scott harrison was born in 1832 where she met Benjamin Harrison. She grew into an accomplished artist, interested in womens issues. Although the harrison presidency has been rated as fairly unsuccessful by some historians, those who tracked first ladies considered Caroline Harrison as one of the more underrated to serve in this role. Well learn why in this segment of first ladies influence and image and here to tell us more about the story of Caroline Harrison, our two guests who know the office well. Edie mayo, thanks for coming back. And bill seale, white house historian, has spent his professional career understanding the history of that building. Bill and edie are both members of cspans Academic Advisory Committee for this series. Were going to start with an illustration tonight. The white house itself is one of the most iconic buildings in the world. If Caroline Harrison had had her way, it would like different today. We have her designs for the white house that wed
Provider. Each week, american artifacts take shoot to historic sites. We travel to Silicon Valley to learn about the history of computers. Im president and ceo of the computer history museum, right in the heart of Silicon Valley. The museum is born out of a private collection that actually began almost 50 years ago by a man named ken olson. A lot of people who are watching this may know of him. He was a graduate do and it at m. I. T. Who worked on a computer called the whirlwind, which was an analog Flight Simulator. He collected pieces of the analog Flight Simulator and added it to other private collections. The first version of the museum was born in boston in 1979. It moved to california in 1996 and then we moved into this beautiful building in 2002. This is the Worlds Largest collection, in part because we have been collecting for so long. Much of phone we have is oneofakind. Computing moves so rapidly that computing artifacts are lost rapidly. Our collection could never be duplica
Susan swain Caroline Scott harrison was born in 1832 in oxford, ohio, where she met Benjamin Harrison. Married when she was 21, she grew into an accomplished artist, interested in womens issues. Although the harrison presidency has been rated as fairly unsuccessful by some historians, those who track first ladies consider Caroline Harrison as one of the more underrated to serve in this role. Well learn why in this segment of first ladies influence and image. And here to tell us more about the story of Caroline Harrison are two guests who know the office well. Edi mayo, first ladies historian, the director emeritus of that enormously popular first ladies exhibit at the smithsonian. Edi, thanks for coming back. Edith mayo thank you. Susan swain and bill seale, white house historian, has spent his professional career understanding the history of that building. Among his books is the president s house. Bill and edi are both members of cspans Academic Advisory Committee for this series. And
Contributions from your pbs station, from viewers like you. Thank you. Pleased to welcome flints most famous doctor this program. She has become one of the most courageous voices in that citys water crisis, sounding the alarm on a poisonous supply that contained led, e. Coli and possibly legion nars disease. Great to be with you. Three years later, these criminal cases are just starting to get underway. Let me start by asking whether or not three years later you think what happened in your city was in fact criminal. Yeah, absolutely criminal. One of the greatest environmental crimes of our century and we have been using the past tense, three years ago, but we are very much still in the middle of this crisis. To this day, the people of fingerprint cannot drink unfilters water. So we are still in the middle of this crime. What is your sense of what are they saying at least the end game is here . How much longer will residents three, four years later still be forced to drink bottled water
Contributions from your pbs station, from viewers like you. Thank you. Pleased to welcome flints most famous doctor this program. She has become one of the most courageous voices in that citys water crisis, sounding the alarm on a poisonous supply that contained led, e. Coli and possibly legion nars disease. Great to be with you. Three years later, these criminal cases are just starting to get underway. Let me start by asking whether or not three years later you think what happened in your city was in fact criminal. Yeah, absolutely criminal. One of the greatest environmental crimes of our century and we have been using the past tense, three years ago, but we are very much still in the middle of this crisis. To this day, the people of fingerprint cannot drink unfilters water. So we are still in the middle of this crime. What is your sense of what are they saying at least the end game is here . How much longer will residents three, four years later still be forced to drink bottled water