At the Roosevelt Library, we completed a full redo of our permanent exhibit in 2013. And joining me today to discuss how these projects are done is clay bauske, the supervisory curator at the Harry S Truman president ial museum in missouri. Clay and his team are in the final stages of redoing their permanent exhibit. Where do things stand right now and what is your projected opening date for the new permanent exhibit . Clay we are probably within two months of having the new exhibits done and ready to open. The big question with all the libraries is when will the libraries actually open to the public. We are not really sure about that, but the work on our new permanent exhibits we are within two months of being done. Herman so the exhibits are being installed as we speak . Clay yes. Essentially all of the general construction in our museum we went in and had contractors literally rip out everything in the museum and start from scratch. That included installing all new walls in the exhi
Narrator in england in the 1600s, there was a band of people who wished to worship in their own way. Open up in the name of the king. [knocking] open up, you heretics. Open up. [singing continues] when we remember the, lord the lord. Silence, i say. Master brewster, be warned the king of england knows of your sins. We have his, i warrant. His, i warrant. Enough. You shall disperse to your homes. You shall meet no more, either in secret or in public to worship in this heretical way. You object to your priest wearing clerical garb . You object to kneeling when you receive the holy sacrament, you object to idolatrous trappings. You object and object captain. You object and object. Captain, we desire above all to have the word of god freely preached. That you shall not have. Mark me well. The king of england is the Supreme Authority in matters of religion as well as matters of state. You shall conform to the kings religion. If you do not, we shall hurry you out of the land. Whosoever whoso
And grew up in a lower middleclass family in california. He went to the local college, whittier college. And went to Duke University law school in the worst years of the great depression. The second world war, he joined the u. S. Navy. You can see the photo of nixon as a young navy officer. He served with distinction in the pacific, getting the right equipment to the right place at the right time and was given a series of commendations by his commanders. He was also a very talented offr player turn on his hours and he had a great ability to bluff. That is a valuable quality and someone undertaking Foreign Policy at a high level. Been46 after he had demobilized from the navy, nixon ran for congress. You can see the poster from his first election campaign. Ii veteransld war were elected into congress and the senate. Was nixon, one was john f. Kennedy. One was joe mccarthy. Career,arly political nixon rose very rapidly through the ranks. He was an odd anticommunist. He worked very hard to
The answer is in the history of the plymouth plantation, written by william bradford, second governor of the colony. Bradfords history against with religious problems in england when james the first became king in 1603. As king, james was also supreme head of the church of england, the official church. But some people objected to the expensive rules and rituals of the church of england. They withdrew from the dead were called separatists. The story of their religious persecution in england, how they became pilgrims and how they found religious freedom was recorded by william bradford. Therefore, the lords free people joined themselves into a church or state. They were from various towns and villages in hampshire, england. Forr the continued together about a year and kept meetings every sabbath, exercising the worship of god amongst themselves, they saw they could no longer continue. So they resolved to get to holland, which was in 1607 and 1608. The separatists would leave religion and
Created a political and Economic System unique among nations, a system that has led the United States to the pinnacle and wealth and world leadership. This series of programs is being presented to help all of us understand our advantages under our american way of life. For todays topic, lets join now a group of young people at the National Education Program Workshop in circe, arkansas. At of a notedom lectern young historian. The american adventure is an unusual one for a course of economics. While the american way of life is rather unusual, there is nothing quite like it in all of the world. All of us want to know more about our country but what , why is it the best place on earth . Why is it worth understanding, why is it worth saving . Why have wars been fought to protect it . During the 13 weeks of this course in the american adventure, our general purpose will be to answer many questions about the american way of life, and explore the workings of the American Economic and politica