I wanted to highlight that intimate moment behindthescenes and the friendship that did transpire between a lot of the indian performers and cody. Learn more about the national oneum of American Indians american artifacts. Here on American History tv. Here at the American Museum of history, let me begin with the pandemic and how it has impacted the museum and your division in particular. We are working mostly. Our Museum Closed in march, but we began thinking about the pandemic in january. We are a division of medical historians and we tend to follow the news pretty carefully, especially news about Public Health. So we actually reached out and began speaking with the Public 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 hav
So as a forecaster when you have to cover for that cover storms into the 5 00 a. M. Forecast, you have to get up really early. It is really challenging. Sometime some time ago, i read erik ons storm larsons book. It is a remarkable account of the worst National Disaster in history, the galveston hurricane of 1900. The book brings to life america at the turnofthecentury and the destruction of the city, at the time the jewel of the south, the new york city to be of the gulf coast. Author joins us here today and brings to life human drama, survival from a massive hurricane that slammed galveston almost 100 years ago, coming up on september 8. Given that it is the 100th anniversary, this is the great time for us to look back on the tragedy in the nonfiction andunt of erik larson the nonfiction account of erik larson. Before i introduce him, i want to discuss the anatomy of hurricanes, how we go about cutting it forecasting, and i want to step back in time to show footage taken after the da
Country, i started researching the hurricane of 1900 that hit galveston. At more than a galveston, all but wiped it off the map. It was a fascinating story and i think im into it more and more, i dont think a lot of people know how bad the folks in the gulf region have a pretty good idea, but the average person i dont knows. The more i research, the more deeply into what i got. I decided maybe i could make a buck out of this. I have limited skills as you probably see every morning. I heard a guy come in his name is bill hoagland is a wonderful author in his own right but is a marvelous researcher. As he delved into this and were shuttled me information, the more i became fascinated by this and this is a terrific story and represented a lot of this country at the turnofthecentury. The cando attitude and belief we were masters of our domain, that we could take anything and make it better. Galveston 100 years earlier was a sand bar that the headquarters for Charlotte Pete the pirate in a
Nbc coanchor al roker discusses the hurricane of 1900 committed to this National Disaster in american history. Hi there, how are you . Wouldve been embarrassing if the weather had been so nice. Thank you for being here. I really appreciate it. The genesis for this book i was trying to think about i actually sink in a little more than a year ago thinking about this hard to believe but its been 10 years since Hurricane Katrina struck on august 28th. In researching where katrina fell in the pecking order of Natural Disasters in this country, i started researching the hurricane of 1900 that hit galveston, all the lift it off the map. Its a fascinating story to me and as i got into it a little bit more, i thought i dont think a lot of people know how bad this is. Folks in the gulf region have a pretty good idea but the average person in america i dont think nose and the more i research the more deeply into it i got. I decided maybe i could make a book out of this. I have limited skills as y
Nbc coanchor al roker discusses the hurricane of 1900 committed to this National Disaster in american history. Hi there, how are you . Wouldve been embarrassing if the weather had been so nice. Thank you for being here. I really appreciate it. The genesis for this book i was trying to think about i actually sink in a little more than a year ago thinking about this hard to believe but its been 10 years since Hurricane Katrina struck on august 28th. In researching where katrina fell in the pecking order of Natural Disasters in this country, i started researching the hurricane of 1900 that hit galveston, all the lift it off the map. Its a fascinating story to me and as i got into it a little bit more, i thought i dont think a lot of people know how bad this is. Folks in the gulf region have a pretty good idea but the average person in america i dont think nose and the more i research the more deeply into it i got. I decided maybe i could make a book out of this. I have limited skills as y