Leventhal and our senior curator of contemporary interpretation, joanna marsh. It is always a treat to hear from an artist and i can tell you that david is a great storyteller. We are in for a delightful evening. Notso wanted to pause and only recognize david but his family who has come from far away, from utah and california, nephews, sisters, please join be in welcoming david and his family. [applause] after this program, i invite all of you to join us for the reception for the celebratory opening of american myth in memory David Leventhal photographs. For those of you who do not know me, i have the pleasure as serving as the director here at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and also our branch fusing, the renwick gallery. People,en i hear from once i introduced myself as the director, whats on view . Im always happy to share that news and the exciting programs and exhibitions we have going on, but it is truly the curious questioner who says why. Why this exhibition . Why now . I
Tv,ext on American History the u. S. Commission on civil rights hosts a talk titled, stonewall at 50 the movement for lgbt civil rights by historian and author david carter. Stonewall was a sixday gay rights uprising that began during a police raid on june 28, 1969 in new york citys Greenwich Village. We will now turn to our next iteration of the commission speaker series, this one titled stonewall at 50 the movement for lgbt civil rights. Thank you for the topic. June has come to be known as pride month. Street demonstrations began at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in new york city. Many view these demonstrations as a critical moment in the struggle for lgbt civil rights. 2016, in recognition of that history, president barack obama, the clares on monument declared a monument at the Stonewall Inn. We will hear more about how this was a catalyst for the lgbt Rights Movement. Discrimination on the basis of Sexual Orientation and gender identity is, unfortunately, still prevalent
Would you help me in thanking our three winners today. American history tv with a look at journalism history. At 8 00 p. M. , women reporters in vietnam. A new exhibit reporting vietnam, the museum hosts a discussion with women who covered the war. At 9 20 p. M. , we marked the 150e anniversary of the nation, one of the oldest magazines in america. We have interviews. Journalism history on American History tv, 8 00 p. M. Herein on cspan3. For the weekend webs here are a few book tv special programs. Saturday, august 22nd, were live from jackson, mississippi, for the inaugural mississippi book festival, beginning at 11 30 a. M. Eastern with discussions on harper lee, civil rights and the civil war. On saturday, september 5th, weir live from our nations festivals. On sunday with our live, indepth program with former second lady and senior fellow at the American Enterprise institute, lynn cheney, book tv on cspan2, television for serious readers. Coming up tuesday, a Panel Discussion cons
What a great turnout. A professor of history and the director of the institute on democracy. Thank you to cspan for being your. We are doing something a little differently because of cspan being your. For instance, im going to say a little bit more about what the institute is at the beginning for the tv audience. Founded in 2014, it is a joint project of the Political Science and history departments in cooperation with other scholarly groups on campus. Dedicated to research, teaching, and Community Engagement on american political thought and wide variety of perspectives. It is created from a generous der foundationkin and we are thankful that they made this one of their philanthropies among many others they could choose. And learns to teach about american constitutional democracy as the founders created it, but not just that. We want to understand the ideas that inspired the founders as well as those they disagreed with. We want to understand public shortcomings as well as accomplishm
We can make money for this. They are heading off to the local print shop to sell this lead to be melted down. They happened to run into a couple of legislators who were in town and they were showing off what they had found. They realized this is probably something important. It is just a simple. On one side it is stamped in latin describing who was going to bury it. It has a symbol on the front side. It is probably stamped in paris before it came to the united states. On the back side, though, it was carved with a knife with the names of the two brothers that were here and the date that they were over in fort peters. That is what is so exciting about this being able to hold this plate and know that these explorers placed it on the hill side over in fort pierre. The brothers provide us with the first known nonindian artifact to be found in south dakota. What we found in the early 1700s was that the people were largely living along the Missouri River in what is now south dakota. About th