Hindered American Consumers from keeping up with the high levels of american productivity. Her class is about 75 minutes. Its been the last few weeks considering how americans adapted to abundance, between the 1890s and the 1920s. Despite their efforts of producers, advertisers and retailers and of others, the supply of goods continue to outstrip demand. This was not because everyone all hundred 6 million americans had everything they needed. It was because they didnt have adequate purchasing power. They dont have adequate wages or income to buy all of that stuff. And it wasnt just americans who were in the situation. But so to our trading partners around the world. They dont have enough income to buy all of the commodities we were producing in our fields and all the wonderful things are factories were making. So by the end of the 1920s, the American Economy went bust. You will know this. You all know the stock market crashed in 1929. And the World Economy went bust as well. Worldwide
The new deal, the life of Francis Perkins. Fdrs secretary of labor and his moral conscience. This was part of the ninth annual festival in washington d. C. The book festival in the national mall. inaudible the streets around these building. I will explain to you how that happened. Much of the research was done at library of congress which is sponsoring todays events. It is a wonderful institution. The beautiful buildings. They are such Important Research materials there. It is all available free. It is Public Access libraries. They are one of the things that make our nation great. I am very grateful to the library of congress for being here and for continuing to give us such wonderful material. This is a self selecting crowd. I know some of you already know who Francis Perkins is, but a lot of people do not. Let us start by asking this question. How many of you know who Francis Perkins is . Yes this is great good how many of you know someone on Social Security please raise your hand. H
Much like many of our panelists today, i am an engineer. But i have never been to space, which gives you an idea of the impressiveness next to me. But i did grow up in florida around Cape Canaveral and have watched many of you launch to space, and it has been one of the reasons i chose to pursue engineering. Ive gone on to have an atypical career, i am a tv host nowadays, and we have a current challenge that was launched with nasa, where students can name the next mars rover. Right now, we have a contest until november 1st, so you have any kids or grand kids that want to be part of space history, i encourage them to go online and submit their names. We have a chronology here from apollo on to thinking about going to mars. So right here on my left we have general tom stafford. So nasa astronaut with the gemini and Apollo Programs. Next, we have captain bob crippen, shuttle astronaut. Next, we have dr. Sandy magnus, another former shuttle astronaut, and spent 4 1 2 months on the Internat
Against jack dempsey. It was a hot Independence Day at the toledo arena. 110 degrees. We are standing across from weber you park bayview park in toledo. Bayview is famous for hosting the july 4, 1919 World Championship heavyweight fight between jack dempsey and jess willard. It was difficult to find a place to hold this fight. In 1919, boxing had an awkward reputation for death in the ring recently. Also gambling, and organized crime that was involved in it. But toledo made an offer, and it was decided to host the fight here. Both fighters came to town a couple months before, they worked out and trained, and they built an 80,000 seat wooden stadium made of michigan pine. Right next to it, a replica of a stadium of the same design, built for the july 4, 2019 centennial celebration of the fight. The day of the fight was extremely hot. And the pine began to leach. The newspaper boys were making a fortune selling newspapers for people to sit on. If you look at the photographs, a lot of str
American and indian art that makes up the collection. The Brinton Museum is a very complex institution because not only are we an art museum, but we are also history and we have Natural History as well. Of beautiful acres ranch land here. We interpret the ranch land and interpret the history, we interpret the date of American History. There are a lot of wheels to this institution. Our hope is to give people a view of why this area is important and why it deserves being preserved and seen by people from all over the world. The decor andto mountains. The ranch, the purchase of the ranch in 1923 serves as the impetus for this collection and the ranch becomes the repository for the collecting. He buys over 200 works by edward see of the 35 works you rice behind me,. He dies rather prematurely in 1936 and has 650 works of art here. Of nativer 350 pieces american art. Owns somen museum very important pieces of western art, one of them being the painting of the fight, little bighorn by Freder