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on c-span3. next, the president of the society of the honor guard, tomb of the unknown soldier, talks about the history of arlington national cemetery and the tomb of the unknowns. he describes how confederate general robert e lee s mansion became a burial ground during the civil war and discusses the role and creation of the tomb guard and tells stories about some of the notable people interred at arlington national cemetery. is a little over 90 minutes. [applause] all, thank you for the invitation and thank you, jessica jones were doing the legwork and getting this organized and put together. this is very much we have guys in their 90 s, guys in active duty, and females in our society who have guarded the tomb because the tomb was guarded first in 1995 by corporal heather johnson, the first female to walk them at in 1995. the tomb guard badge depicted on case here,d in this this is the second least awarded badge with the exception of the astronauts badge. the astron ....
president barack obama, former first lady laura bush, congressman john lewis, governor sam brownbeck, mayor vincent gray, the smithsonian and the museum s leadership, broke ground right here on this spot for this museum, the national museum of african-american history and culture. today, as you can see the building is nearing completion, and in the next ten months, we ll finish the interior, install the exhibits, and by september 2016, open the doors to welcome the public. today, we mark a milestone in our progress by commemorating three, three annual anniversaries the 150th anniversary of the end of the civil war and the ratification of the constitution s 13th amendment ending slavery, and also, the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act. these are signal events in american history and help define who we are as a freedom-seeking people. now you can read about them in a book and we certainly want people to read books, but the way we as a country publicly commemorat ....
the tomb guard badge, which is depicted on our logo and in this case here, this is the second least awarded badge in the united states military with the exception of the astronaut a astronaut badge. today, we are giving badge number 634 to a young man and now in the brotherhood of fellowship of tomb guards. we have a society, we are 501-c3 organization and part of the by-laws is is we do community outreach to educate the public about the tomb. i find that your generation, this, sort of a sweeping generation here, that your generation knows about the tomb. i talk to school groups, and it s appalling to me how little they know. it s not their fault. we have allowed all this teaching and teaching to the test and we have not put history on the test. and i will get off my soap box. just think of that. i do speak to a lot of school groups pro-bono, this is my 81st speech this year. in 2015. i will have well over 100 by the time veterans day is over. i m speaking pretty much ....
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this is about 20 minutes. susan: chris foss, your work has focused on the pacific northwest from the 1950 s to 2000. why did you pick that timeframe? christopher: i think part of it has to do with that being the emergence of the pacific northwest as the region that a lot of people in the u.s. think of it as an environmental destination or tourist destination, or a place to go and have fun and to recreate. it has to become these things through a process. the process that i look at as having become that is through this process of globalization. now, we talk about globalization as being relatively new. something that starts in the 1980 s which is really when this buzzword starts getting thrown around by political scientists and historians. as a way to kind of interpret and understand the world the post-cold war world. what really changes is the northwest s traditional reliance on trade is augmented on the one hand. also the rise of a number of really significant politi ....