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>> american history tv is joining the cox communications cable partnership is the history of fayetteville, arkansas. to learn more about the cities visit current tour c-span.org/citiestour. we considered as we continue the history of fayetteville. the museum of american history in bentonville, arkansas , the mission of the museum is to teach history. query history museum. -- we are history museum. we use native american art to story, the story that spans 16,000 to 18,000 years. we are set up chronologically, we start with the oldest story,t time ,eriod, the paleo time period

and then go through different galleries, the archaic time period, the mississippian time period into the historic time period. from presorted because that is first contact with europeans and how the europeans changed native american life. when the word indian is mentioned, we can't help it, we all do it, but we automatically of a guy picture sitting on a spotted pony with a big headdress and his staff on the plains of nebraska and that is what tv and movies have done to us. is we tryt we do here to teach the hundreds of different tribes at about their cultures, and about how they

live, what they ate, how they dressed, so that you start seeing the diversification that happens in our country. a lot of changes occurred, and that the difference as go from paleo times, where many groups were hunting the giant beasts, the mammoth and the mastodon, and then the changes that occurred as we go into the archaic time period, where giant beasts are no longer available for hunting an early man learns how to hunt smaller and faster game. as we go into the woodlands time period, it's about agriculture, and how agriculture changed all the lives, it spread very rapidly across the country,

corn, which came up from mexico changed theain lives of many native americans. in one of the things corn did, all of the different crops that was itarted growing started giving groups that were successful a bit of free time. seeing moreart byistic things being made successful groups of people. about the amount of food they had that day or the next day, but are starting to be termso think and longer of time, which allows them the time to be creative. arkansas,especially

in mississippian times,, most fantastic pottery in the country was made. the arkansas or valleys had wonderful clay, we had muscles in the rivers, which is very important. they were ground-up to make tempering. tempering is what allows a pot to be put into a fire and not crack. so the muscles were ground-up and mixed with the clay in that way when it was fired, you are rocksolid pots. so arkansas had all the ingredients. i think everyone's favorites artifacts that they see is a medicine chest. and a medicine chest that we acquired about four years ago and originally belonged to moses

maner a comment medicine for buffalo bill cody, who was from the la crosse, wisconsin area, where he met buffalo bill, and for two years, he traveled with the group, taking care of the indians. we have no knowledge as to why he left this medicine chest, but it was left in a barn, it was found just a few years ago and all of the original things that he used, medicines were in the chest and we haven't on display to and it is just phenomenal see all the different types of things that he used for medicines. decker, he and his

wife are both winnebago indians, but we also know that he was very well-educated and the labels on the individual files and jars areiles all in england in old cursive and all of the ingredients you see are all the original ingredients. none of the jars of ever been opened. so we know that he had been educated somewhere. arealso within the trunk things like fans and buffalo tales and rattles and so we feel like he understood that in taking care of the indians of the buffalo bill troop, there were many different aspects that he had relate to the indians and do what is not traditional to us in the way of medical care. of indiansre a group

that, for us, their main villages were about 60 miles north of here from joplin, missouri to springfield. one of the favorite things that we have on display in our museum is an osage wedding dress. goesis a tradition that all the way back to 1803, when thomas jefferson was president of the united states and on occasion, the men from the osage tribe had an occasion to go to as one of the gifts that they were given was a military coat, a red military coat. and that became a prized possession, one of the nicest , and the the tribe

girls started getting married in it. tradition allowed the firstborn girl to wear red, and then other girls could wear different colors. popular, especially at the turn-of-the-century. it was very popular at the museum and it was basically a calendar. it was how plains tribes could keep track of their history. it was done by different emblems that mean different things and for each year, there was something selected that was one of the most important things that happened to that tribe. 100 tomost of these scan

150 years, but he gives us a history of what happened during that period to the drive it. we hope that when visitors leave here, that they have learned something about the ancient history of people on north and south america. most people come to the indian museum looking for historic pieces, the headdresses and the war clubs and the bows and arrows, and what we try to do here is why we have a wonderful teachic area, we tried to 16,000 or 18,000 years of history so that when you leave here, you have a real knowledge, a groundwork for how men and women lived here for all of these centuries.

ourour cities to her -- t staff traveled to fayetteville. learn more at c-span.org/ citiestour. you are watching american history tv on c-span3. steve: you are watching american history tv on c-span3. joining us is david lubin. he is the author of "grand illusions: american art & the first world war." published by oxford university press. researching this book, what surprised you the most? mr. lubin: what surprised me was how much impact the first world war had on american artists. the received wisdom has always been artists -- the war had very little impact. it had a huge impact on cubism. everything thought it