[laughter] these problems that you talk about from a security point of view will evade the civilized nations to the point i have to feel the only solution is violence? whether that happens depends on other things. is the insane proportion which even a couple of decades ago to expensive even to consider bands for climate change the worst impact seems to be the most

unstable parts like asia. then we should expect that likelihood of violence to go up if of the and other than people do find ways they could have it go that way. if we had this conversation with some doom and gloom sure they will kill each other but if they say don't worry that food supply everything will be great you would think i was insane but that is what happens even though we did have two world wars along the way. think you very much. [applause]

>> we have 50 or 60,000 books and i realized it edition to people coming into research i wanted to sink what better way as a faculty but wouldn't it be

great to have a whole semester to teach book history the history department picked it up so this is the 18th year but every fall semester i teach book history but i try to make it a special topic last fall was 15th in 16th century this fall is america. the wonderful thing about our collections it is so eclectic to do many different kinds of presentations whatever department or class what i really want to do is use the books for different purposes before the book history class. politics religion so little

those aspects. i brought out digest some of the books we will be using what i usually do is a lecturer than the students could have of book glad to answer questions and have a firsthand experience. some of what i talk about day are illustrations like this one the volume that is bound up there were three volumes this was the publisher who later worked in germany the original but mostly enriched but i

haven't opened into a couple of pages that are particular favorites this is one of the wife and daughter of the early contact group's and what we see with this child i had not noticed this but she said i just love the dolls. what dole's? if you look closely there is the trade item it is a doll from inclement and that contrast of the cultures to bring in the english goods to give to the local inhabitants i data contrast

with issues that came from england is an oil portrait she is holding a a little very similar. in this portrait looks white what we expect to see the middle 16 hundreds but this is a jarring with this little girl whole they a fully dressed english doll. that is something to think about that context of cultures that is so different because my background is art history. then i focus on the book of illustrations. so let's look at those illustrations and for people

who can read your don't know the language it is important and looking closer at the details there are changes you don't notice right away that is why it is important to have different editions 1624, captain john smith and 1627 edition in 1625 he dies said prince charles look what happens. there have etched a crown onto his head now he is king charles though the difference here don't see right away. also the difference is a portrait of pocahontas that does not look like her.

but this is her in england says some of the students know she was getting ready to get on the ship to come back to america and died of smallpox this is what her columnist has been brought her to england day to rest her up but it doesn't look white. so that gets them thinking about the cultural connections changes and interactions but we do have a portrait of pocahontas that this is a little more documentarian where john smith fighting the indian king he is so grave with the gun but he did a not win

that battle and he is on the chopping block. he looks very small here and very helpless where pocahontas steps in and asks him to save his life. but get the difference of scale he is very small low-cal tall pocahontas is that shows up power of the native american woman and in this case she was dressed and she would have been in traditional clothing. they're both images from the early 1600's. very different not that uncommon to have that welcoming atmosphere we do encourage people to enjoy and to learn.

this is why you hear to balance the access with the preservation we are here to preserve the blood is the point to just have them locked up? if nobody ever sees them? >> capital characters of old shy and has the most interesting people and history will get the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's and beyond that. but i want touche show a cross-section of the people who are here and what they did.

that is what makes the fund to be a historian. they realize the women have the right to vote and that was quite controversial. they don't realize how influential wyoming can be. . .

appointed her as the superintendent and it was a very important position in that era. she traveled about 65,000 miles during the first three years in office on horseback not at all like we consider today. so she was an amazing person in that way. also, she was kind of quirky and loved to dress up. she attended the inaugural and if she wore a $1,000 down and 50,000-dolla