Stories and how activism laid the groundwork for expansion of human rights in the future. The New York times bestselling author of 12 books which have been published in 11 languages, on five continents. Also a screenwriter for television. Shes written weekly columns for the downtown weekly, new York Press, and the new York Post and was a contributing editor at new York Magazine for six years. As a freelance journalist, shes written for the New York times, slate, harpers bazaar, elle, Mens Journal and many others. The moderator [inaudible] is the author of four nonfiction books and formerly served as the Executive Director of george magazine. The Feature Editor of Spin Magazine and contributing editor to newsweek. Her writing has appeared in the wall street journal, chicago tribune, traveler, glamour, and the nation, among others. Mitchell has been interviewed on numerous Radio And Television shows and taught nonfiction writing at columbia university. Now lets hear from amy and elizabet
this session include brittany barnett who has written a great work called knock at midnight, doug swanson, who has written a great work called the call to glory about the texas rangers and jamie thompson who has written a book the matters and hours when we had the police shootings back in 2016. great policing and deadly assault the group the nation, three tremendous works. i would like to begin by saying we want to encourage the audien to have comments and we would like to ask you to send kudos to the authors if you choose to do that, please click the ask a question button in the crowd chat, crowd cast, if you have questions. we will get to as many questions as we can. there is a button at the bottom of your screen. that is a by the book button. they are all great books and i m sure many of you, please look at the bottom of the screen and you will have a by the book button. what i would like to do is introduce each one of the authors and have each one of them tell us about th
health service in january because we began thinking about how to collect document this story. so it has been a long process and we have kind of ramped up as we have come home to think about collecting. at what point did you realize this pandemic would stretch into the fall and potential winter? as historians, we have definitely thought about difficulties inherent in making a vaccine and we were pretty sure this pandemic would last a fair amount of time and we would need to remain at home for some months while a vaccine was being created. they were keeping things week by week in the museum. before mid march, what were your job duties and what has changed in the last couple months? i oversee a division of historians of medicine and historians of science. when the pandemic was beginning, we were actually very deep into the planning part of it and began to think about changing our exhibits. we thought it would be important to include covid-19. that meant that we needed to
and learn how to navigate and explore the museum s online collections. due to the coronavirus, this program was recorded via zoom. we are joined by michelle delaney. tell us what your title is and what your job is. ms. delaney: thank you. my job is assistant director for culture at the smithsonian s national museum of the american indian. i leave the scholars, the historians, the curators at the museum who are in charge of producing exhibitions, the books, a lot of the educational programs and symposiums, and work with a collection of about 824,000 objects. but i have a real interest in photography s and we have also over 500,000 photographs in the national museum of the american indian archive center. so, i have been working very hard in the years i spent to this museum, i am a 30 year career at the smithsonian but i just joined the american indian museum in the last year and these photographs are of much interest to me as an archivist. you wrote an article about the col
the rangers doug: the rangers are one of the most famous law-enforcement organizations in the world. i would put them up with scotland yard, canadian police, the fbi, that sort of thing. they have been around longer than any state law enforcement organization in the united states. they have this worldwide image. that is what i am going to explore a little bit tonight. how they got this image, what this image is, but i think we all have some idea of what a texas ranger is. maybe from tv s and movies, if nothing else. that was my first exposure to the rangers. growing up in florida, i watched this disney show called texas john slaughter. some of you may have seen that. the theme song was texas john slaughter, made them do what they outta, because if they didn t they would die. the lone ranger may be the most most cinematic most famous of the cinematic, tv, and radio rangers that started in 1933. out of wxyz in detroit. the script was originally called man hunter. but th