black teachers in the south and fought against full segregation. tuesday, a symposium on the concept of liberty, exploring how the ideas of changed throughout history. histories,on oral the women in congress series continues. atrsday, historians look espionage in u.s. conflicts over the past 150 years. friday, a world war ii film series about the outbreak of world war ii from pearl harbor and the rise of authoritarianism in germany, italy, and japan. watch american history tv next week on c-span3. >> she spent her life collecting

the stories that were unique to this town. class --ook at her collection and took a lifetime to create. >> beginnings are always interesting. the dons of human history are the most tragic things of all studies. sacrifice.and women daysawn have our little are most important of all. dust and sunsets somehow take care of themselves when we have started arriving. pen of the city chronicler. she was the first public health nurse in the region. she was the daughter and

granddaughter of local family who had a long history here. her grandfather was one of the early sheriffs of the area. in addition to being a nurse, -- we're looking at the scrapbook collection she put together. there are 13 scrapbooks that discuss lake charles history. she believed in recording in detail the local history of the place. she took great pains in transcribing documents, she went to homes and selected photographs. she took their diaries and

transcribed them. she put all of that material together in these scrapbooks that cover 100 years of local history. see she was bought. her at bellevue hospital. because of her family connection to public service, she released this call to the local community. she looked at the early doctors around and saw them as pioneers, going out in treating the second traveling across the countryside. 21, she said her life was slipping away. what could i do to serve others? she decided to become a nurse. she goes to new york, one of the largest and most famous

hospitals of the day, to get experience. she knew she needed experience doing the job. she comes back to lake charles and begins her work as a red cross nurse. scrapreid got into booking at the request of the local doctor. he was contacted by a famous surgeon who wanted to write a history of the medicine of louisiana. he contacted a doctor who would know her local connection. she began to compile history and compile these scrapbooks. they are organized by subject. doctors, even her personal life. scrapbook, the number five that maude reid collected. had a fierce pride in

her hometown. she often wanted to show people and tell people that lake charles even though it was younger then new orleans had a history that was as rich and deep as these other places. 40's orin the late early 50's when lake charles started to grow, maude reid would go back to the earliest moments of lake charles history, the early pioneers who gathered around lake charles because of its beauty and its access to the gulf. she took this picture and put it in the scrapbook because of an article written about lake charles. they wrote a beautiful article about what was so special about lake charles. spot.ys this is the

late summer.ne in you can see over and over she takes teachers of the lake and puts them in the scrapbook, trying to preserve the beauty of the region she saw around her. these cypress trees are the most iconic images of louisiana. you can see the scene on lake charles where he once made his home. after thees was named first person in the region. there are stories people told about him and the early pioneers. involve a man who would use the waterways to hide out.

orleans,tte left new he came to this region. this is right after the war of 1812 and he was expelled from new orleans. river to make his way inward over and over again. like most local historians, maude reid made an effort to document the people she considered the founders of the town, the most important members. when history changed or there was economic development, she documented it. you can see some of the work she showing pictures of the prosperous people in town. the town was built off the lumber industry.

theeveryday activities, activities that in this time many people might ignore, in the 1930's, she is going to document a river baptism and the aftermath of the community. it's a very important affair for this group. it is one that is often ignored. this is sunday, 1938. she went to houses to take pictures of the people. daye are the st. joseph's alters. made and given

away as a sign of thinking st. joseph for his help. realizedink maude reid about the place was it's a living, breathing entity that takes different types of people to make it what it is. becauserles a special of the natural beauty and because of the founders who made it what it is. this table is her scrapbook about world war ii. it is number seven. as a red cross nurse, the war took a toll on her. to paid special attention how many people, how many local

boys were serving in the war. you can look at some of these she would makee notations of every person in the area. it really is an amazing scrapbook. documenting the local community process experience with the men fighting in the war, but sustaining the war effort. anything about collecting scrap or rationing, she makes an effort to document. it was the topic of everyone's conversation, this is something

she flips out about roosevelt. 19 20.ted the area in 12,of the local boys, 10 or gets lost. he is missing. roosevelt is there doing a duck any trip. when everyone finds out, they split up into search parties. roosevelt finds the boy the next morning. he finds him on this island. back.ngs the boy while the war was raging in europe, american officials realized that we needed a well-trained force.

they realized louisiana's terrain gave the soldiers many opportunities to train. camethan 400,000 soldiers into the area to engage in these elaborate wargames. names in the war, the people who would make the most significant contributions including dwight eisenhower were stationed here. even very famously the person who tell legends about, general patton. the troops were divided into two forces. there was a red army and a blue army. they were divided by states. one army was arkansas, louisiana, texas, alabama, mississippi. they went to war against the red army.

planes dropped sacks of flour from the air. where the flour covered showed the damage. men remember the number of who were here, soldiers camped out everywhere here. they had tents in backyards. the men who were trained in the region became the first fighting force deployed into your. they had real-world experience. the leaders like hatton and kruger and bradley became the officers they relied on for the development. this is the scrapbook that maude reid put together of her life. ed about her life until she passed away in 1978. i think this shows you the connection she had to the community and the impact.

and make visit schools presentations. here is a letter from a student written to her. , we misses maude reid listened to you on a tape recorder. we enjoyed hearing you tell the children from the fourth grade about the early times. you told us things we never learned. thank you very much. only did she speak to the schools and communities, her work as a nurse really gives you an indication of how progressive she was. she began a lot of the public health activities. you can see the child welfare clinic at city hall. began,st day it

inspection of the babies. the halls were painted green and additional equipment put in. this is as it was, the beginning. a freeo spearheaded dental clinic. she instituted the first free public lunch in the area, making sure none of the students would know which students needed free lunch. that was very important to her. she did a lot of those public health activities in the region. was ak maude reid remarkable person. she believed in public service. she wanted to make a change and an impact in the local community. she devoted her life to it. historian and as a collecting these scrapbooks to

document the lives of these people around lake charles, the religious ceremonies, their daily lives, the contributions local families made. saywas the first person to this is what it means to be from lake charles, to be part of this community. this is what makes it beautiful and unique and different. >> a sunday night on q&a, richard norton smith discusses his biology dust biography of herbert hoover. >> he said when all is had -- said and done, accomplishment is all that matters. when you think about it, it's

rather unsentimental. the thing you would expect an engineer to say. that's one of the keys to understanding his life. his success in everything but the presidency. >> sunday night at eight eastern on c-span's q&a. up next on american artifacts, we travel to northeastern france, to trace the steps of american soldiers during the 18's. of the early 19 and but first up a film to describe the u.s. military at the time. cost thermans will the ames river, in a relentless force. and in three days, the german site had reached the river and was less than 40 miles from paris. there was the second and third u.s. division to help withstand the onslaught.