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million american visitors touring these iconic sites so as the summer travel season begins to wind down and on this anniversary we ll be devoting the next 90 minutes learning about your park service experiences and we want to hear from you. our phone lines are open at 202-748-8000 for those in the central and eastern time zones 202-748-8001. what had been your experience at national parks across the country, including a new one designated this week in the state of maine. you can also send us a tweet at spambingswj or join us on facebook.com/c-span. good thursday. thanks very much for being with us. if you pick up today s wall street journal or washington post, two editorials commemorating the national park service including this from terry anderson. happy 100th birthday national parks and jonathan janis writing these lands are your lands, america. read them online at wsj.com. some background on the national park service. it was signed into law on this date by presid ....
and let s be uncomfortable. next year, more victories. because animal rights happen if hard. and we try so please do everything you can possibly think of to do all the time. thank you very, very much. [cheers and applause] announcer: tomorrow night on c-span, talking about islam and the misperception westerners have about the religion by sharing her own experience of getting to know a muslim cleric and his family. she writes about in her book if the oceans were ink. islam get more than its share of negativity in the united states? you write about that from your standpoint. yes. i mean, i think the sad thing is andre you and i are in event-driven business and being the violent extremists have figured out a way to insert themselves into the headlines and the vast majority of the rest of the 1.6 muslims in the world have not. it is depressing but the old saying, if it bleeds it leads is true for all groups. not tooy, there are many counter narratives that make it int ....
into its operations. then the anniversary of the magna carta. later, donald trump joins joni ernst at an event in iowa as it could be to veterans. host: good morning. a live look at the lincoln memorial and the mall in washington, d.c. with the washington monument in the foreground and the u.s. capitol on this thursday, august 25. today marking a centennial anniversary. it was on this date 100 years ago president woodrow wilson signing a bill that created the national park service. today an estimated 20,000 employees, more than 200,000 volunteers, staffing america s 413 national parks, memorials, battlefields and historic sites. and last year alone, nearly 310 million american visitors touring these iconic sites so as the summer travel season begins to wind down and on this anniversary we ll be devoting the next 90 minutes learning about your park service experiences and we want to hear from you. our phone lines are open at 202-748-8000 for those in the central and ea ....
stamp, and a keynote address by loyola university maryland professor karsonya wise whitehead. a lelia: it is my pleasure to introduce broderick johnson. please quiet down and join me in welcoming mr. john jarvis. good afternoon. it s a great honor to be here with you at this incredible to celebratecheon the contribution of african-americans to the memory of the united states of america. gardner, sylvia cyrus. in two, the national park service are celebrating our centennial. year centennial theme is hallowed ground. this year s theme is directly connected to the national parks it prompts us to reflect on the legacy of national african-americans. when i became the director in 2009 i made it a priority of the national heart service to use our parks to create civic dialogue to reawaken history and create new memories. we are encouraging all americans to find your parks. find that hallowed ground that resonates with you. those hallowed grounds can include national parks ....
wilderness society for some few decades or more, and as of 2014, serves as vice chair of the organization s governing townsy. council. my own role working with the national parks service goes back to the first collaborative agreement signed in 1994-95 when i was president of oah and i ve worked in philadelphia with the independence national historic parks and others and was one of the co-authors of imperilled promise that i ll speak about after bob stanton talks, and i was a member of the second century commission which delivered the report to congress on the state of affairs in the national parks service. so with those introductions, i ll turn to bob stanton, who s going to reflect on all these years in the parks service and some of the problems he sees. he or she is a better citizen with a keener appreciation of living here in the united states, who has toured the national parks. steven mather, the first director of the national parks service. good afternoon. it s ....