Jeff flannery thank you. I am the head of the reader and Services Section and i would like to welcome you to the library of congress. The Manuscript Division is custodian to approximately 63 million primary source documents. Among our other personal papers of 23 u. S. President and numerous other wellknown americans, including the poet walt whitman, aeronautic pioneers orval and Wilbur Wright , and a civil rights icon rosa parks. 170 years after his death Andrew Jackson still dominates the period between the founders generation and the onslaught of the slavery crisis. During the age of jackson, one could mark the expansion of democracy, trace the development of modern political parties, and witness a wave of political partisanship that would not look unfamiliar to modern art and since modern audiences. One of it is here that the collections and personal papers of the nations leading figures shed light on their hopes and ambitions. The division not only holds the most significant collec
Structure of what we saw in 1797. California wass settled by the spaniards. They had two different establishments. They had military operations and they also had missions which were established by the franciscan priests. Californiap and down all away up to San Francisco or there was nome city establishment. You had a lotme of native americans in california. The spaniardsl of to christianize the native americans who were established year. At this time also, you had intrusions from the french, british, and russian interests that were coming into the pacific coast. The spaniards were looking at a way of settling and controlling the region that we know as california. The difficulty was see trouble going up the coast was against the trade winds. The thought was if they could that wouldl method, help solidify their hold on california. 1775, the soldier for the his own trailated from Southern Arizona up into california as far north as moderate. The spaniardto government and got permission to
Hospitals. They developed what they needed for the civil war, that carried over to civilian life. Was it difficult for people to make the transition to get what they needed from home to be able to accept being in another place . A lot people thought hospitals were sick houses. They were starting to get the idea of infection, there was a lot of infection, people who lived in neighborhoods with hospitals were quite concerned about what that would bring to their neighborhood. Saint luke which opened in 1881 moved from the edge of town to the center of town in the 1890s. People had a petition to keep it out of the neighborhoods, they were terrified about a loss of a Property Value to them. Is that a typical reaction people would get . People did not understand what hospitals work. Was the Progressive Movement tied to this . Progressivism and social gospel laura ideas that we have to reach out and make lives better for everyone. Lets put our energy where our beliefs are. Womens groups reach
Bidwell was born in upstate new york in 1819, and his family moved around. They were frontier homesteaders and then they moved from new york into pennsylvania and then ohio. And then in his early 20s bidwell left his family and had about to what was then the front tier in iowa and missouri. He tried developing a claim in westerwestern missouri and gaven that after just a year or two. And decide to head to california, which was then still mexican territory. He helped organize what became known as the bidwell bartleson party, and again, great claim to fame is the first party of overland tours to california. Bidwell like a lot of early american got his first job working for john sutter at sutter scored. And there hes learned firsthand californias rich potential asset Agricultural Producer and as a place to raise livestock. Sutter had herds of cattle and large wheatfields, and bidwell went to work for sutter and kind of got some good onthejob training for what would later become his own op
Winning and recently published neptune the allied invasion of europe and dday landings, published in 2015. Hes also the winner, that particular book won the Samuel Elliott morrison award for naval literature. And he is the author of lincoln and his admirals, which won the lincoln prize in 2009. In recognition of his extraordinary contributions to the study of naval history, the Naval Historical Foundation in 2014 awarded him the w. Knox naval history award for lifetime achievement. Professor John Marszalek is distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mississippi State university. He came out of retirement in 2008 and accepted the task of serving as executive director of the ulysses s. Grant president ial library and managing editor of the papers of ulysses s grant. Hes author of shermans other war. His honors include an excellence in writing water from the u. S. Army Historical Foundation for his work. The best writings of ulysses s. Grant which was published in 2015. As testament to the hig