Website at archives foundation. Org before we began, i want to make sure that everyone knows our distinguished speaker will be taking questions later in the program. We want to make sure that you have the chance to ask those questions. Well be using the youtube chat function. I see that we have regulars here, and you know but im going to tell you. Practice where you are going to put your questions, send your hometown and the state. We will give a shout out to a shot out later on. I see a lot of folks from around the country. That is exciting. You do not have to wait until the end to ask your question. Your questionut and, and we will have them queued up for only get to that point. I had the fortune of visiting the Ronald Reagan president ial library a number of times. In my current role, ive had the chance to partner with my current guest. About. Learn quite a lot duke is the president and dean of the library directors. He has been with the library for 20 years. To give you some sense
Taking questions later in the program. We want to make sure that you have the chance to ask those questions. Well be using the youtube chat function. I see that we have regulars here, and you know what im going to tell you. Practice where you are going to put your questions, send your hometown and the state. We will give a shout out later on. I see a lot of folks from around the country. That is exciting. We are going to have a blast. Duke are you with us out there, in a secure occasion . Duke i cannot tell you where i am. But it is secure. Thank you for the wonderful introduction. Patrick you can tell that you know someone well by the introduction. It has been a difficult time. How is the staff doing out there . Duke i think the staff is doing a great job of being productive, staying mentally healthy. We concern ourselves with that as the leadership at the library, trying to reach out to them, weekly, if not daily to make sure that everyone is fine. There been some losses that we have
Cable tv for about a week or two. It was pretty painful to live through that. And i think within a week or so dr. Bob iii decided that it did hurt the school and our Spiritual Ministry so he dropped the rule. I guess it was a few years later steven jones, the next president , apologized. I think in that apology he had the best rationale for it. In the end it wasnt about religious liberty. It was about i think im maybe paraphrasing but that we were too captive to our culture. I deally for christians and hopefully we take our faith very seriously and we want to transcenddeally for christians hopefully we take our faith very seriously and we want to transcend the world, especially what we consider to be evil in the world and we simply didnt transcend what we should have. South carolina today is in important in president ial elections because of the sequence in the primaries. Its the big one right after New Hampshire. You have iowa, New Hampshire, and then South Carolina. And those three s
The spanish in 1756. Its a place where you and your family can stroll through the grounds, talk with knowledgeable interpreters about the world of spain and its effect on the appalachain over time. In 1528, vaa rez landed in the t tampa bay area. He was looking to gather the riches that the natives, the spaniards had found in what they called the new world. That they were hoping for gold, we might think, or other valuables. That they could take back to europe. A it happened in latin america. The aztec empire. They thought north america should have those resources as well. By the time you got to tallahassee, he thought better of the expedition. He thought he missed the simply ship and they decide d theb at that point to build some crude ships like rafts and try to find their way back to new spain. Which is present day mexico. That was really the first europeans that were well documented in the area. The next person to try it was her nan doe desoto. Its really from that expedition that w
Our cspan cities tour takes American History tv on the road to feature the history of cities across america. Here is the recent program. We are here at the carmel mission, otherwise known as send carlos san carlos. It was established as part of the colonization of the coast. The original founding was 1770, after which the site moved. The initial mission was Asian Mission of upper california began in 1769 with the establishment of san diego mission. That particular site was not the prime objective. Wasas monterey, because it centrally located and as a result we get a joint military. Nd religious exposition the commander was accompanied by the fryer, who came to the monterey bay to establish the first site. June 3, 1770. Was bornnipero serra in a place that had been conquered by the muslims. And so when you visit the site, it is surrounded by military bastions that date all the way back to the roman conquest. You have islamic and other traditions that are all represented. And one could a