stuff. costumes from colored girls. one of the joys, collection of african films. when my areas of interest. amazingable to get an collection of movie posters. michellen early oscar poster from the 1920's. this is part of our job, to help people relearn history they think they know. that movie poster from spencer williams. one of the most important black film directors in the late 30's

and 40's. that is one of his films. things, the amazing beautiful green, that alina for. is leena.own, that and black exploitation movies. this is eddie murphy from beverly hills cops. both what the movies were and what they were about, the struggle to define and control one's identity. take a quick look and then we will move to the last stop. the goal here is the realize that comedy plays an important political role as well.

theater,evision, respected the exciting and wonderful moments of the museum. the other thing, this museum was about views. we want to create opportunities for the public to really get some great views. outside here, we will take you to the open look where you really get a great deal of the washington -- national mall. hold onto your hat. the windows are clean. i am so pleased. you can come and get this does -- vistas. you can see everything.

when the fall comes and there are no leads, you can see the white house. this is part of our desire to give people these moments. in essence, what this is, you have gotten the tour of the museum and i want to thank you, before i let you all had back down, see if there are any questions that i could answer for you. i know we went through quickly, but i wanted to get a sense of the possibilities of the museum. any questions, i will answer them. i'm a yankee fan, that is the important question. [indiscernible] i think that the visiting of this museum is something that people will come back to political drop of water. he would or could time and time again. i expect that there is amazing knowledge and the museum based on the curators so no one person will get all the knowledge what

we all know, what we really feel , this is an important educational opportunity because the knowledge and because of smithsonian. there are people who come to the smithsonian who wrestled with issues, russell with race, other issues that they want anywhere else. we realized that we will have fortified line visitors annually walking to the door and 70 to 80 million visitors online every year. for us, it is about, the information we convey and about helping america understand how it is in part, shade by the story and to also be a space for those conversations that we have trouble having. programse to have the that we had recently on ferguson and baltimore and we want to do things that are about the joy but we don't want to run away from the sad.

america sometimes is a country that rebels in its ability to forget. our job is to help america remember. that is what we think you will do as you go to the museum. any other questions? >> what surprises do you have at the stage looking back to the idea versus the reality? >> i think that, when we first started the idea, we did not really think about the corona. that has become a signature piece that was not part of the discussion. beenleasant surprise has the public has shared their artifacts, their stories, their history. this is about time. in some ways, what we know as curators and scholars is the biggest pleasant surprise is how important it is for us to realize that will we're doing is

not building museum, not even building a collection, what we are doing is holding people's culture in our hands so we think that is the most important responsibly we have and that i think, how big a deal that have become to so many people may be a surprise. we know it was important to smithsonian, but we have been stop elmed by people who us on the street and say they are praying for us. just come every coming into a cap, but cap driver talks about it. going from place, have you seen the new museum? and he tells me all about it. it has been wonderful to see the way people have embraced this. desire,the joy, the that surprised me. you can watch this and other

american artifact programs anytime by visiting our website c-span.org/history. >> the c-span buses in philadelphia, pennsylvania as people about the democratic convention in the issue that is most important to them in a 2016 presidential campaign. i'm from district 43, los angeles california. so far my delegate experience has been a learning express. it has been one where i have learned the true innerworkings of how my party works and it is something i'm excited to share. i want to be fatal for the people who elected me to come here and be your voice. thank you so much. most important issue to me is education. education of inner-city black youth. i feel that the lack of

education and such schools and school systems has been neglected for too long. improved my city, cincinnati ohio. there are, the graduation loads are low -- rates are low in literacy is low. i'm 17 years old and the interest member of the california delegation. i'm placing bernie sanders and i got involved in the delegate process because i was inspired by my grandfather who was an organizer. it has led me to really fight and for theright voices of those who are not voiced and that is what i'm doing at the convention in the hoping to represent the youth. delighted to be at the convention. my first convention. for hillaryrking for eight years.

that's why i'm here. it is my passion. i'm from ohio. i'm a delegate for bernie and 21. this is my first convention. on the state director of college students for bernie and i'm really excited to be here. my generation and the millennials, we are about the same size of the baby boomers and is important for us to show up. we are having a great time at the convention and looking forward to the rest of it. >> voices from the road on c-span. >> each week until the 2015 election, wrote to the white house rewind brings you archival coverage of residential races. dwight eisenhower accepts his party's presidential nomination at the 1952 republican national convention in chicago. in his speech, the former nato supreme allied commander promises to lead a great crusade

to put a workaholic and in the white house for the first time -- put a republican in the white house for the first time in many years. and discussed the because of the wasteful and corrupt. general eisenhower defeated the credit now adlai stevenson in the 1952 general election. capturing 55% of the popular vote to stevenson's 44%. this is about 15 minutes. ♪

[cheers] ♪ president of the united

states. [cheers] >> mr. chairman, my fellow republicans. [cheers] may i first thank you on behalf of mrs. eisenhower and myself for the warmth of your welcome. for us both this is our first entry into a political convention and it is a most heartwarming thank you very one much. [cheers] and before i proceed with the

thoughts that i should like to address briefly to you, may i have the temerity to congratulate this convention on the selection of their nominee for vice president. [cheers] a man who has shown statesmanlike qualities in many ways, but as a special talent an ability to ferret out any kind of subversive influence wherever it may be found and the strength and persistence to get rid of it. [cheers] ladies and gentlemen, you have summoned me on behalf of millions of your fellow americans to lead a great crusade for freedom in america

and freedom in the world. i know something of the solemn responsibility of leading a crusade. i have led one. [cheers] i take up this task, therefore, in the spirit of the publication. mindful of its burdens and of decisivens -- importance. i accept your summons. i will lead this crusade. [cheers] aims, the aims of this republican crusade are clear: to sweep from office an administration which has fastened on every one of us the

wastefulness, the arrogance and corruption in high places, the heavy burdens and anxieties which are the bitter fruit of a party too long in power. [cheers] much more than this, it is our aim to give to our country a program of progressive policies drawn from our finest republican traditions; to unite us wherever we have been divided; to strengthen freedom wherever among any group is has been weakened; to build a sure foundation for sound prosperity for all here at home and for a just and sure peace throughout our world. [cheers]

to achieve these aims we must have total victory; we must have more republicans in our state and local offices; more republican governments in our states. [cheers] a republican majority in the united states house of representatives and in the united states senate; and, of course, a republican in the white house. [cheers] today is the first day of this great battle. [cheers] the road that leads to november 4 is if i can read. fighting road. in that fight i will keep

nothing in reserve. [cheers] before this i stood on the eve of battle. before every attack it has always been my practice to seek out our men in their camps and on the roads and talk with them face to face about their concerns and discuss with them the great mission to which we were all committed. in this battle to which all of us are now committed it will be my practice to meet and talk with americans face to face in every section, every corner, every nook and cranny of this land. [cheers] i know that such a momentous campaign cannot be won by a few

or by divided or by uncertain forces. so to all those from the precinct level up who have worked long hours at difficult tasks in support of our partyand for our party's candidatesi extend an earnest call to join up; join up for longer hours and harder work and even greater devotion to this cause. [cheers] i call on you to bring into this effort your neighbors next door and across the street. this is not a job for any one of us or for just a few of us. it will take the best of all of us. [cheers] since this morning i have had

helpful and heartwarming talks with senator taft. [cheers] governor warren. [cheers] governor stassen. [cheers] i wanted them to know, as i want you to know, that in the hard fight ahead we will work intimately together to promote the principles and aims of our party. [cheers]

i was strengthened and heartened by their instant agreement to support this cause to the utmost. [cheers] their cooperation means that the republican party will unitedly move forward in a sweeping victory. [cheers] we are now at a moment in history when, under god, this nation of ours has become the mightiest temporal power and the mightiest spiritual force on earth. mankind, thef making of a world that will be fit for our children to live in, hangs in the balance on what

we say and what we accomplish in these months ahead. we must use our power wisely for the good of all our people. if we do this, we will open a road into the future on which today's americans, young and old, and the generations that come after them, can go forward, go forward to a life in which there will be far greater abundance of material, cultural, and spiritual rewards than our forefathers or we ever dreamed of. [cheers] we will so undergird our freedom that today's aggressors and those who tomorrow may rise up to threaten us, will not merely be deterred but stopped in their tracks. [cheers]

then we will at last be on the road to real peace. the american people look to us to direct our nation's might to these purposes. as we launch this crusade we call to go forward with us the youth of america. this cause needs their enthusiasm, their devotion, and the lift their vision of the future will provide. [cheers] we call to go forward with us the women of america; our workers, farmers, is this man. -- businessmen. as we go to the country, americans in every walk of life can have confidence that our single-minded purpose is to serve their interest, guard and extend their rights and strengthen the america that we so love.

[cheers] the noble service to which we republicans summon all americans is not only for one campaign or for one election. our summons is to a lifetime enrollment. and our party shall always remain committed to a more secure, a brighter and an even better future for all our people. [cheers] we go out from here with unbounded trust in the american people. we go out from here to merit their unbounded trust in us. wherever i am, i will end each day of this coming campaign thinking of millions of american homes, large and small; of

fathers and mothers' working and sacrificing to make sure that their children are well cared for, free from fear; full of good hope for the future, proud citizens of a country that will stand among the nations as the leader of a peaceful and prosperous world. [cheers] ladies and gentlemen, my dear friends that have heaped upon me such honors, it is more than a nomination accepted it. a dedicationation, to the shining promise of tomorrow. as together we face that tomorrow, i beseech the prayers of all our people and the blessing and guidance of almighty god.

thank you. [cheers] ♪ >> road to the white house re-one continues with adlai stevenson accepting his party's presidential nomination at the 1952 democratic national convention in chicago. the illinois governor enter the convention insisted that he was not a candidate for president, but he eventually allowed to stand to be put forward in the delegates elected him as the nominee on the third ballot. governor steven sotloff the 1952 general election to general dwight eisenhower with 44% of

the popular vote to eisenhower's 55%. this beach is just over 18 minutes in our coverage is courtesy of nbc news. quite a moment and the rise of adlai stevenson. [cheers] tremendous ovation after the handsome introduction by president truman. [cheers] the president stated in the back. taking it easy. waiting for the speech to begin. president, ladies and gentlemen of the convention, my i accept yours, nomination and your program. [cheers] i should have preferred to hear

those words uttered by a stronger, wiser, that a man than better man than myself. but after it in the speech i feel better about myself. [cheers] none of you, my friends, can truly appreciate what is in my heart. i can only hope that you understand the words. there will be few. i have not sought the honor you have done me. because it seek it aspire to another office which was the full measure of my ambition and one does not treat the highest office within the gift of the people of illinois

as an alternative or consolation prize. nomination seek a for the presidency because the presence of the office started the imagination. it's potential for good or evil now and in the years of our expectations and convert vanity to prayer, i have sullivan,principal father of us all, to let this suchass from me but from responsibility, what is ushering can hear, and self-interest or false humans he -- humility. if they cut may not pass to me, thy drinky ticket, --

it, thy will be done. [cheers] that's my heart has been not soughthat i have this nomination, that i cannot seek in good conscience, that i would not seek it and honest self appraisal is not to say that i value it to the list. officehat i revere the of the presidency of the united states. [cheers] and now my friends, that you have made your decision, i will fight to win that office with all my heart and my soul. [cheers] and with your help i have no

you have summoned me to the highest mission within the gift of any people. i could not be more proud. better men than i were at hand for this mighty task, and i owe to you and to them every resource of mind and of strength that i possess to make your deed today a good one for our country and for our party. i am confident too, that your selection of a candidate for vice president will strengthen me and our party immeasurably in the hard, the implacable work that lies ahead of all of us. i know you join me in gratitude

and in respect for the great democrats and the leaders of our generation whose names you have considered here in this convention, whose vigor, whose character, whose devotion to the republic we love so well have won the respect of countless americans and have enriched our party. i shall need them; we shall need them, because i have not changed in any respect since yesterday. your nomination, awesome as i find it, has not enlarged my capacities, so i am profoundly grateful and emboldened by their comradeship and their fealty, and i have been deeply moved by their expressions of good will and of support. and i cannot, my friends, resist the urge to take the one opportunity that has been afforded me to pay my humble respects to a very great and good american, whom i am proud to call my kinsman, alben barkley of kentucky.

let me say, too, that i have been heartened by the conduct of this convention. you have argued and disagreed, because as democrats you care and you care deeply. but you have disagreed and argued without calling each other "liars" and "thieves," without despoiling our best traditions, you have not spoiled our best traditions in any naked struggles for power. and you have written a platform that neither equivocates, contradicts, nor evades. you have restated our party's record, its principles and its purposes, in language that none can mistake, and with a firm confidence in justice, freedom,

and peace on earth that will raise the hearts and the hopes of mankind for that distant day when no one rattles a saber and no one drags a chain. for all these things i am grateful to you. but i feel no exultation, no sense of triumph. our troubles are all ahead of us. some will call us appeasers; others will say that we are the war party. some will say we are reactionary; others will say that we stand for socialism. there will be the inevitable cries of "throw the rascals out," "it's time for a change," and so on and so on. we'll hear all those things and many more besides. but we will hear nothing that we have not heard before.

i am not too much concerned with partisan denunciation, with epithets and abuse, because the workingman, the farmer, the thoughtful businessman, all know that they are better off than ever before, and they all know that the greatest danger to free enterprise in this country died with the great depression under the hammer blows of the democratic party. and nor am i afraid that the precious two-party system is in danger. certainly the republican party looked brutally alive a couple of weeks ago and i mean both republican parties. nor am i afraid that the democratic party is old and fat and indolent.

after a hundred and fifty years, it has been old for a long time, and it will never be indolent, as long as it looks forward and not back, as long as it commands the allegiance of the young and the hopeful who dream the dreams and see the visions of a better america and a better world. you will hear many sincere and thoughtful people express concern about the continuation of one party in power for twenty years. i don't belittle this attitude. but change for the sake of change has no absolute merit in itself. if our greatest hazard is preservation of the values of western civilization, in our self-interest alone, if you please, is it the part of wisdom to change for the sake of change to a party with a split

personality, to a leader, whom we all respect, but who has been called upon to minister to a hopeless case of political schizophrenia? if the fear is corruption in official position, do you believe with charles evans hughes that guild is personal and knows no party? do you doubt the power of any political leader, if he has the will too do so, to set his own house in order without his neighbors having to burn it down? what does concern me, in common with thinking partisans of both

parties, is not just winning this election but how it is won, how well we can take advantage of this great quadrennial opportunity to debate issues sensibly and soberly. i hope and pray that we democrats, win or lose, can campaign not as a crusade to exterminate the opposing party, as our opponents seem to prefer, but as a great opportunity to educate and elevate a people whose destiny is leadership, not alone of a rich and prosperous, contented country, as in the past, but of a world in ferment.

and, my friends even more important than winning the election is governing the nation. that is the test of a political party, the acid, final test. when the tumult and the shouting die, when the bands are gone and the lights are dimmed, there is the stark reality of responsibility in an hour of history haunted with those gaunt, grim specters of strife, dissension, and materialism at home and ruthless, inscrutable, and hostile power abroad. the ordeal of the twentieth century, the bloodiest, most turbulent era of the whole christian age, is far from over. sacrifice, patience, understanding, and implacable purpose may be our lot for years to come. let's face it. let's talk sense to the american people. let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that we are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions, like resistance when you're attacked, but a long, patient, costly struggle which

alone can assure triumph over the great enemies of man war, poverty, and tyranny and the assaults upon human dignity which are the most grievous consequences of each. let's tell them that the victory to be won in the twentieth century, this portal to the golden age, mocks the pretensions of individual acumen and ingenuity, for it is a citadel guarded by thick walls of ignorance and of mistrust which do not fall before the trumpets' blast or the politicians' imprecations or even a general's baton. they are, my friends, walls that must be directly stormed by the hosts of courage, of morality, and of vision, standing shoulder to shoulder, unafraid of ugly truth, contemptuous of lies, half truths, circuses, and demagoguery.

the people are wise, wiser than the republicans think. and the democratic party is the people's party, not the labor party, not the farmers' party, not the employers' party, it is the party of no one because it is the party of everyone. [applause] i think, that is our ancient mission. where we have deserted it, we have failed. with your help, there will be no desertion now. better we lose the election than mislead the people, and better we lose than misgovern the people. help me to do the job in this autumn of conflict and of campaign. help me to do the job in these years of darkness, of doubt, and of crisis which stretch beyond

the horizon of tonight's happy vision, and we will justify our glorious past and the loyalty of silent millions who look to us for compassion, for understanding, and for honest purpose. thus, we will serve our great tradition greatly. i ask of you all you have. i will give you all i have, even as he who came here tonight and honored me, as he has honored you, the democratic party, by a lifetime of service and bravery that will find him an imperishable page in the history of the republic and of the democratic party, president harry s. truman. [applause]

and finally, my friends, in this staggering task that you have assigned me, i shall always try "to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my god." [applause]

>> wended europeans first migrate to the great lakes? they came in around 1640 or 1650.

at the same time indians are moving out of the ohio river valley. it was an attempt to access trade routes where the european traders are coming in. primarily the french. involved inare not the trade this early in the great lakes. the british will come in later in the 18th century. it's kind of a complex but interesting way to think about it. the will the early landscape of the united states. it's not just a series of indian villages. as all of combined

the transcontinental united states is united by trade networks so for instance before europeans even arrived in the great lakes european trade goods had preceded them. networkigenous trade that stretched from the west coast through the center of the nation in the southwest in the northwest is exchanging trade goods. european goods become incorporated into those existing networks. most french traders began to come in the 16 50's.

most of them are french and they to of montreal and quebec have tremendous utilitarian most of the trade initially is in iron good. vessels that women would primarily use. that make cultivation of corn crops much easier. many of those goods become saturated and the great lakes. what was initially referred trade turns into a cloth trade. most of the products that will come into the great lakes from the end of the 17th century to the end of the 18th century will be cloth. involved almost in a for trade that is a

clothing trade. into probably the 1720's are 1730's, it really evolved almost into a silver trade. manufacturing goods for the indian trade. as the trade becomes more established and even becomes what you would call a luxury trade. you see incredible numbers of silversmiths moving into the great lakes creating items for the indian trade. in the ohio river valley, much of that center portion of the valley is miami land. along the wabash and the miami group ofu find a huge

very diverse people. at the french post on the wabash, you can find kickapoo indians and many other tribes such as miami. as you move towards the center one of the major towns and these are fairly well-established towns. to 6000 people. these are not scattered indian villages. they are united by the trade. you can find shawnee and delaware that have moved from pennsylvania into the ohio river valley. mohawkgoing to find who've come down from your quite land. even people from virginia who moved into their ohio river valley.

for many or most of the for traders, it would be very difficult for frenchman to trade. they had no understanding of the indian languages. women act as cultural mediators in the 17th century. by the 18th century, much of that becomes intermarriage. so you find frenchman intermarrying with indian tribes. they are not removing the women from the indian communities. indians trade taste on kinship alliances. so trade is not something that we think of in the 20th century term. in villages and embedded in networks. women become a very crucial component of that.

they not only act in the trade and they are involved in the exchange process but ringing and indian trader into a household unit becomes very important to brings proceeds to that household unit it brings them access to trade groups simultaneously it gives a trader access to a woman's kin network. as trading partners. i don't think there were any love matches. i think that romantic connotation of marriage will take root primarily in anglo not to say that there is not romantic relationships between people. but to a great extent in indian

marriage is companionate but it is often not romantic. the women, because they are the agriculturalists they are the people who are responsible for a major portion of the diet. frenchman that marianne can devote all of their efforts to trading. it gives women new power and authority that they didn't have before. many of these marriages are long-lasting. it's not just the trading process where i have come for the trade and i believe. there were traders that did that. those were advantageous relationships for those communities.

we also find that many of these frenchman actually never returned to quebec or montreal. many of these marriages go on for 20 or even 40 years. you can trace them in the baptismal registries that the jesuits kept in the great lakes. some children who are born to french traders and indian women become part of the french trading community that has indians living in that community. andrs simply disappear become part of indigenous societies. this free difficult to trace them. the ones that become linguistically skilled as mediators those people often do. baptismal registries.

george washington plays a role. the first trade in the ohio river valley had become very prosperous. .t was quite evident it had an incredibly large population. he might have places like the glaze river. places like shawnee delaware, villages there that had three or 4000 people. what becomes apparent is that when george washington comes into power and you have a new payment ofn, that

the debt. hamilton creates the national debt. to pay off that debt, you have to have access to indian land. land you havean to negotiate with the land that was treated. valleyf the ohio river indians really will not come to the treaty table. they do not have much intention of moving. they do not have much intention of giving away their lands and trading the goods. for washington during that first administration when we had a very large debt is linked to land sales. indians won't come to the treaty table and you will have to do something about that. washington initially sends in

harmer who was one of the first to generals in the u.s. my. that defeat infuriates george washington. second-grade of another group of women and children. they are held at fort washington, which is today cincinnati.

in many ways it disrupts that community. he comes in with washington distress order. charles scott who comes in with the kentucky militia. people who lived in the state of civilization. they lived in log cabins. the corn fields stretched her miles. it is very different view of indian society and we normally have. it was not the end of the first trade. it continues on. the first trade allowed indians should persist in the ohio river valley until late into the 19th

century. it transforms what was originally a european-based for trade into a for trade that beaver and honor and honor in those types of animal to a record trade. that is one of the reasons the persist thank to you very much.

bush: laura and i want to welcome you. all of us who work here are thrilled you a h