Flint. Failed levies in new orleans. Reporting for nbc news i ve seen it myself. Driving over the troubled bridge between cincinnati and kentucky in this 18wheeler. Road s getting better or worse? i would say getting worse. That is wild. From the air above this highway in arkansas that goes nowhere. That s the end of it right there. Yeah. After decades of talk and with our infrastructure still in peril, this spring president biden proposed a giant spending bill that radically defined the term beyond bridges and roads. He calls it the american jobs plan with a promise to create millions of good paying blue collar jobs under the banner of buy american. What the biden administration says they re actually trying to rebuild is the american middle class. This hour, we ll show you that you don t have to wait for the president s plan to see what he wants to rebuild and why. And at street level, we ll see who could benefit and who risks getting left behind. One of the principles of the american
Late. Leadcontaminated water in flint. Failed levees in new orleans. Collapsed bridge in minneapolis. Reporting for nbc news, i ve seen it myself. Driving over the troubled rent spence bridge between cincinnati and kentucky, in this 18wheeler. Roads getting better or worse? i d say getting worse. That is wild. Reporter: and in the air, above this highway in arkansas, it goes nowhere. That s it. That s the end of it right there? yeah. Reporter: after decades of talk and our infrastructure still in peril, this spring, president biden proposed a gigantic bill. The calls it the american jobs plan, with a promise to create goodpaying blue collar jobs under the banner of buy american. What the biden administration says they re trying to rebuild is the american middle class. This hour, we ll show you that you don t have to wait for the president s plan to see what he wants to rebuild and why. And at street level, we ll see who can benefit and who risks getting left behind. One of the principl
are watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on american history tv. tv,ext on american history novelist and historian kevin baker discusses his book, america the genius: how a generation of tinkerers changed the world. at an event in cape cod, mr. baker describes what he think s are key factors in the nation s innovative spirit. guestant to thank our tonight. kevin baker has written several your, at you are still in but also was raised in rockport, massachusetts. he has experienced being a massachusetts person. tonight,ing forward to keeping an ion the weather, but please welcome kevin baker. mark, for having me. great to be on the cape, if only virtually. hoped to be there, but i am going to have to make do. talk to you about america the ingenious, this book i wrote. the best thing about writing books is that hopefully, you learn something. i learned a great deal writing this. americansory of how invented, developed or learned to exploit so many innovat
introduce myself. randy will be giving most of the presentation. i ll be here for questions and answer. just a little background about myself. i volunteered after i got my b.a. in history from cal state san bernardino in 2010, i began volunteering at the national archives at riverside and then in 2012 i became a student archives technician at the national archives at riverside and then in i got my master s degree in library and information science at that same time from san jose state university. and then in 2014, i moved to st. louis and worked at the national archives at st. louis as a preservation technician and then in 2016 i moved back to california and then in my current role as an archives specialist. i m going to turn it over to randy here and he can give you his bio. thank you, james. welcome, everybody. i want to thank mr. garza for his wonderful introduction and i also want to thank the friends of the north hollywood library and the sherman oaks friends of li
giving away what the friends of the linebacker library love to give away more than anything else and that s some books to some lucky winners so please join us at this point in welcoming from the national archives at wiver riverside. randy thompson and james artoon. [applause] hi, i m going to introduce myself. randy will be giving most of the presentation. i ll be here for questions and answer. just a little background about myself. i volunteered apt the after i got my b.a. in history from cal state san bernardino in 2010, i began volunteering at the national archives at riverside and then in 2012 i became a student archives technician at the national archives at riverside and then in i got my master s degree in library and information science at that same time from san jose state university. and then in 2014, i moved to st. louis and worked at the tional archives at st. louis as a preservation technician and then in 2016 i moved back to california and then in my cu