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on december 15, 1791, virginia ratified the first 10 amendments to the constitution. the bill of rights then became law. amending america is a national explores thebit history and the process of amending the constitution. this tour is about 45 minutes. my name is jennifer johnson and i am a curator at the national archives museum. black, i am anne outreach specialist. i am co-curator. we are standing out the gallery and about two take you through. next to me is a case showing the more than 11,000 amendments that have been proposed to the constitution. christina and i have been working on this exhibit for a couple of years right now. we could not help but notice that the variety and depth of amendments in the stacks when you walk into the stacks, there .ere more than 11,000 proposed we started asking ourselves why there had been so many and so few were actually ratified. we explore that idea and how the founding fathers set up our government. billf the challenges, the of ....
to go thanks and that is the national security agency. we are very fortunate once again to have two people with us who know more about the president s daily brief and that is the director of the cia john brennan are and john clapper. . both the been supportive of intelligence transparency efforts. director clapper has instituted an intelligence transparency council. is like today would not happen without the support of director brendan. today,se in attendance you should have a document like this on your chair with an agenda. the introductions will be very brief because the agenda has all of the bios and it. for those of you watching at home, you can see all of the same booklet on the cia.gov website. i want to thank the nixon foundation for making this wonderful venue available. introduceuld like to the director of the richard nixon presidential library and museum to offer some welcoming remarks. mike? [applause] mike: good afternoon, everybody. inbehalf of the archivis ....
professor kotten siler cotton seiler teaches a class about the emerging definitions of whiteness and blackness in colonial america and how they impacted the emergence of country music. you described how laws elevated poor whites above slaves and free blacks, which helped white frontiersman form a separate group identity. some of the traditions of this group and their ballots became the basis of country music. his classes about an hour and 10 minutes. prof. seiler: good morning, everyone. today we are going to talk about country music, hillbilly music. i m going to ship shift back and forth between the terms. one of the things we see from peterson is that country music is music of my damaging music of modernity. in response to it, grapples with it. i want to frame our discussion around couple of quotations. the first is from an anthropologist. country music is widely disparaged and racialized terms and assertions of its badness are quickly flamed in specifically r ....
it was designed to display the bill of rights, and it opened in 1936. only the bill of rights occupied the case. we had to wait until 1952 to bring all three founding documents together. the story of how the declaration and constitution came to the archives is the one we never tire of hearing. now i would like to introduce jessie krantz, historian of the national archives. she became the first historian in 2013. she was previously with [indiscernible] with the center for legislative archives and has been with the agency since 1999. please welcome jessie krantz. [applause] jessie: thank you, david. i am very happy that steve could be with us today during american archives month to talk about his new book american treasures. it shows not only the important record created by other federal agencies but also the record that we as a national archive has created ourselves. in writing his book, he discusses several different sets of records, but the nearest and dearest to my ....