i have been in the national guard for 25 years and i have lived the transformation of the national guardident, that it was to the operational force that it is today. it has lived up to what the air force demanded it be and we have similar equipment, the same tactics, a force that any commander will have in his force anywhere in the world, in any place. this mission is our number one focus and it has to be. i see general millie taking the national guard in a different direction and i could not be more -- we have no other choice but to leverage the business model of the reserve component as we go forward and i believe that with all of my heart. the homeland peace, this is connected. we bring resiliency to america all over the place. many pieces of this country, the men and women under the command of these generals are the only uniforms these people see. we are in every state, territory, and district of columbia and we do things as they organize them. we are prepared every day to defend the homeland and secure our community. i got a call yesterday from my governor from texas who told me con

>> national park service director jonathan jarvis on the 100th anniversary of the nation's park system. he talked about environmental concerns come increasing fees to cover the cost of park maintenance and other park service is addressing recent allegations of sexual misconduct. we will bring as much of this as we can until the start of the summer on bullying. >> good afternoon, and welcome to the national press club. my name is thomas burr. i'm the washington correspondent for the salt lake tribune and the 109th president of the national press club. our guest today is jonathan jarvis, the director of the national park service. i'd like to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences, and i would like to remind you that you can follow the action on twitter using the hashtag #npclive. that's #npclive. now it's time to introduce our head table guests. i'd ask that each of you stand briefly as your name is announced. please hold your applause until i have finished introducing the entire table. from your right, dylan brown, a reporter from e&e publishing; gene tighe, director of bbn techno

the nation is divided. i think a lot of people are looking for an outsider to come .n and change the experience you need the cooperation of congress. here's a man who is obviously not liked by democrats and by a a lot of the members of his own party. he calls himself a deal maker but he has turned off a number of people he would need to make deals with, including paul ryan. so to get things done he needs to work with those folks and that remains to be seen, as to whether he can have a big victory. host: these are two photographs. you talk a trump and his second wife. he has reportedly said he was bored with his second wife when she was walking down the aisle. that after two failed marriages, he appeared to a found a partner who will filled his long-standing desire for a no maintenance woman who did not generate headlines or seek to upstage him. donald trump, especially with his first wife, had someone who was his match in beauty and brains. was a he actually business partner. he put her in charge of one of

also, congress in 1967 established the national park foundation which is the arm of the national parkvice. it has raised and continues to raise substantial sums of dollars. i think the target during the centennial year is for foundation to raise from the private sector from individuals and various organizations i believe in the neighborhood of $350 million that will be used by the national park service for preservation, interpretation, education. donations, major gifts have been integral to the park system. i think that will continue. >> how do you balance access and protection? we said this is the most visited of the historic houses. when you think about redoing it and the numbers of people in this place, how do you balance those? >> it's really tough. we want people to see these places. 650,000 people a year, we can do a million. we know we have well over a million people walking around the grounds here. at the same time, this is a 200-year-old house. you really have to balance that. we're looking at bringing people into certain parts of the house that can handle more foot traffic.

some background on the national park service. was signed into law on this date by president woodrow wilson in 191. congress established yellowstone national park back in 1872 as the world's first national park. 1916, the date president wilson signed the law creating the national park service and the system began to include areas of historical significance back in 1933 designated by president franklin d. roosevelt. and earlier this summer, president obama commemorating this centennial anniversary. president obama: we have to have the foresight and faith in the future to do what it takes to protect our parks and to protect this planet for generations to come. and that's especially true for our leaders in washington. it's what lincoln did when he set aside this ground for all posterity. that's what roosevelt did when he inspired the national park system. that's what our generation has to do. we have to sum up that same vision for the future. we made good strides and we're reducing carbon pollution and preserving landscapes. we're ra

this house was the fifth and final headquarter of the national women's party. it was founded by a woman named alice paul in 1913 as the congressional union for woman's suffrage. the congressional union for woman's suffrage became the national woman's party in 1916. this group of women spent seven years actively lobbying the president and congress for a federal suffrage amendment at which time once they received the amendment in 1920, they began -- they wrote and began lobbying for the equal rights amendment. during the period when they were lobbying for suffrage, they were working all over the country, actively garnering support from western women voters, and bringing the fight directly to the president's doorstep. they had headquarters over on lafayette square where they could walk out their door and be right at the president's doorstep in a matter of minutes. they began picketing the white house. one of the first groups to do so -- when the united states entered world war i in 1917, at that time, the pickets at the white house were quite peaceful. they quickly

and this was fairly common for the national women's party. and for allender also to pay tribute to these original suffragists. and all of the work and progress that women have made, but also reminding their members how far they still have to go. and then we circle over to this cartoon. this car soon is called "our hat is in the ring," and it was drawn and published on april 8, 1916. this cartoon is particularly representative of allender's belief that women needed to be presented with authority, strength and control. she created an image called -- that she called the allender girl. and this woman was a different image a lot of people saw particularly in images of suffragists and images of women that appeared in the press at that time. oftentimes political cartoonists would mock the suffrage movement by making women look haggard or ugly or fraught in some way. and allender instead turns that on its head. and she creates a youthful, invigorated, intelligent woman. in this image in particular she's very slender, her skirt is above her ankles, whi

within the national parks, particularly yosemite, some of the colorado parks, what's the national park service doing about purchasing the inholdings that commercial developers are trying to purchase and develop into resorts, things like that? the water conservation fund was one funding source. what's the status of that whole system? >> an excellent question. the land and water conservation fund provides revenues for acquisition not only by, as you well know, by the federal government, but also by state government and also land and water conservation funds are available to tribal governments and a government-to-government relationship. i know personally that there are many inholders throughout the national parks system. something i personally experienced when i was in the virgin island national park. the dollars that are available are not adequate to meet the acquisition of all the so-called inholder. progress is being made. there are some private individuals, some corporations, that are requiring of many of these inholders and then donating free of charge to the government to include a

what is the national university? it a number of leading a factors, thomas jefferson and the idea in short was the constitutional order created we took for granted in our day was in the process of being built and they turned to education as a way to foster and further the political culture and ideas to sustain the constitutional ord order. >> what would it look like and what would it teach? >> we go back centuries and look at what they looked like in the day and now the national institutions and by and large secular institutions of education, harvard, yale, princeton. that's not what they looked like at the time. at the time they were by and large parochial sectarian institutions, and theology was lost in the organizing basis of the curriculum. so it gets a backdrop and there was an idea that we had a profound mismatch between our educational institutions and republican form of government he hahave created. in fact, noah webster, prior even to the convention of 1787 said that our educational institutions are remnants o

this is a map of the national capital region and the parks that we administer in the national capitalegion in the greens space are national parks service units. here's the canal, the park and where camp david

thursday is the 100th anniversary of the national park service and to mark the occasion president obama designated woods national in maine as a monument. here's a video that the white house tweeted out. president obama: hey, everybody. >> several members of congress also celebrated the anniversary of the national park service on twitter this tweet from nicky songas from massachusetts from n.p.s. 100. celebrate and find free admissions. note the special emoji created for people using the #snps100 and frind your park. the senator from montana with this tweet, enjoying national yellow stone park with cindy today. glacier park tomorrow. celebrating national parks centennial. and he took the opportunity to share an article from the citizen's times and are calling for $232 million in repairs to the great smoky mountains the national mountains that divides tennessee and north carolina. american history tv will be marking the 100th anniversary of the national park service at 7:00 p.m. eastern that's on c-span 3. we'll be live at the robert e. lee memorial at the arlington cemetery to discuss ne

to the national seashore a lot. mpared to some other coastal communities, it is gorgeous to be able to see the uninterrupted ocean and the seascapes and the dunes and you don't have hotels right up against the beach season just look around. bird and surf and swim and camp. and boogie board. that is one of our favorites. i also have a favorite in wisconsin. john: teacher family grew up going to parks? anne: i went to the grand canyon with my parents and my family. my sister and i explored out west a lot. we went to rushmore and the badlands and arches and down to the grand canyon, also and yellowstone. backs a lot of fun going this august with my daughter in seeing it fresh through her eyes. you wantthere a park to visit or place you really want to go to? to paris,to go france. not really a place in the united states. john: it sounds like mom has a few ideas in mind. back to you. that would be a whole different question is paris, france became part of the national park system. we have about 10 more minutes in our focu

but it's because of the important national stakes in refugees. and that's important to understand why that's the case, why refugees had national significance and why the whole policy debate was around trying to define, understand why they mattered to the nation. not so much to a notion of human rights that are universal but to specific national interests. i will come back to the debate that we could have on the basis of your insights at the end of the class but i wanted to frame that as a point of departure. so national interests in short have really shaped the whole formation of u.s. refugee policy because it is foreign policy but also because the nation understood that its. >> military strategic interests were being advanced by refugees and the way you described it as foreign policy symbols. i should say as an side that the interests of refugees themselves as historic agents, we left out. they're largely symbolic in the way we've described them. they are two voices. why those voices matter are important and we'll come back to them at the end of

they are in the national parks. y are the books that need to be opened and read in a different way in a different narrative to all of the places that we hold dear as a nation i firmly believe as a people wherever you are on this planet you preserve and you protect the things that are important to you our nation has protected and held aside 413 national parks full of the stories in places that are important to us as u.s. citizens and encourage us to begin to look at those stories through a whole different perspective i honor those who came before us in the work that they did and as we move into our next century i think i would like to charge the young people that are sitting and listening to this may be even in the audience if you've always wanted to be a national park ranger this is your time this is your time to step up and tell your story. to guide people in the places of our heritage. as i think about the youth that i work with in indian country. i think about the generational trauma that they carry with them but

eastern, joseph wingo will become the next chief of the national guard. obal health experts discuss the outcomes of the recent international aids conference which looked at funding and research options and this afternoon live coverage of president obama as he speaks to a young african leaders initiative town hall meeting. tonight on c-span, homeland security secretary jeh johnson talks about terrorism, border security, and transportation security administration. he spoke to an audience at the christian science monitor. you can see that tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. 2, we will start at 8:00 p.m. eastern on afterwards history followed by sebastian gorka who wrote defeating jihad m of the winnable war. karen greenberg looks at rogue justice. michael flynn discusses the field of flight. all that starting on c-span2. q&a civil wart on historian meredith james robertson discusses -- james robertson discusses his book, after the civil war. >> state allegiance was very deep. as far back in generations asked settlers in the country. i think one has to keep tha

the national university would also have problems. those who flirted with the idea in america were self-conscious about wanting to maintain, even though it supposed to be a supplement to american institutions, the idea is it would need to maintain its independence. you wouldn't wanted to be captured by politics or partisanship in any way so it's probably been very good that there's been healthy distance. maybe we benefited from the fact that we have educational institution that take care of us in a much more pluralist function these days. >> what was george washington's view on it? >> part of it for george washington and james wilson as well is national greatness. you think of america at the time , it was a deeply important revolution, particularly retrospectively and they had an acute sense of the new world they were trying to bring about. they were also look down upon by most europeans in particular as not having the kind of cultural and educational institution you found in england are on the continent. that partly motivated washingt

the nation is re-imaged in the late 1970s as a human rights nation under jimmy carter, under several other actors. that's really what you see enacted in the 1980 law. and that changes profound, but when it sees it playing out in a dramatic fashion in the summer of 1980, right after the law has been passed with those are more hungarian refugees coming, here's the reaction that is generated to vietnamese refugees. the growing hostility towards refugees in the 1970s is racialized because they're coming from asia, so that anti-asian sentiment has not gone away. sorry. this is what happens in this room. i cannot advance the slide. that's okay. so in the summer of 1980 you have a kind of dramatic pairing of two refugee crisis at the same time involving haitians and also involving cubans. both coming to the same shore in florida and here are -- these are from refugees from vietnam and laos who are waiting to be brought to the united states. this is a boat of cubans coming out of cuba in 1979 and 1980. they sort of pushed the humanitarianism of the united states, and these cubans are in the e

it became the national women's party in 1916. this group of women spent seven years actively lobbying the president and congress for a federal suffrage amendment at which time, once they received it in 1920, they wrote and began lobbying for the equal rights amendment. during the period when they were lobbying for suffrage, they were working all over the country. actively garnering support from western women voters and bringing the fight directly to the president's doorstep. they had headquarters over on lafayette square where they could walk out their door and be right at the president's doorstep in a matter of minutes. and they began picketting the white house. one of the first groups to do so. when the united states entered world war i in 1917, at that time the pickets were quite peaceful. but they quickly turned to ugly when crowds watching believed them to be unpatriotic. so crowds would throw things at the women they would converge on them and tear the banners from their hands. in june of 1917, the women began being arrested

this is a map of the national capital region and the parks that we administer in the national capital region in the greens space are national parks service units. here's the canal, the park and where camp david is. monoxy battlefield, monassas battlefield, another civil war engagement, harper's ferry. famous locations around the region. piscataway park down here in ft. washington. piscataway park is a beautiful park right on the potomac river. early historic settlements as early as 1630, we have pre-historic indian sites all along this location. if you look at washington itself, you'll see an incredible amount of d.c. is green, that means it's more e administered national parks service. rock creek park is one of the largest urban parks in the united states. it's the third oldest national park service unit, i believe, so you have lots of wonderful little green spaces that are parks here in washington and the washington metropolitan area. what i think is most amusing is within our region you could put our region inside yellowstone national park about 500 times, but at the same time one

i invite all of you in our country to come to the national parks and gain a clearer view of the world. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. we have a lot of questions. >> not surprising. >> thank you for not making us a national park. mr. jarvis: that is in the future. >> you talked about new designations. you talked about the challenges of maintenance backlog. added designations, the new areas, the new acres hundreds of thousands of acres , added to your portfolio, does that benefit the park service or does it become more of a challenge because you have a $12 billion backlog? mr. jarvis: we added 22 new units to the national park system since i became director. that is but the congress answer bothdential action -- through congress and presidential action. in almost every case we have minimized our footprint. the actual amount of land or resource that we need to take care of and we have brought in, particularly through the work of the national park foundation, the on topic partners to assist with that and have been quite successful at raising funds. on one hand it does add to our overa

arrests followed up by the national cemetery. some of it does still exist and it is part of the robert e. lee memorial to be preserved as long as nature itself can preserve it. here we also have the one portrait of robert e. lee in the mansion. it shows him as a young army officer. is not the version of robert e. lee most people expect. most people think of robert e. lee as the great confederate general. what arlington house represents is his life before the civil. -- civil war. he married his wife here. six of his seven children were born here. this was the place he sacrificed to make the choice he did at the beginning of the civil war to side with virginia, to fight for a larger concept of what he considered to be his home and family, and that was virginia. it came with a very knowing sacrifice. while robert e. lee would be in the minds of many during that war and the years to follow, somewhat of a villain in history, labeled a traitor by the u.s. government and still a controversial figure, many during his lifetime, including m

petroglyph national monument is managed by the city of albuquerque and the national park service, and we work together with the city to help protect and preserve these resources for the future. in the last 20 years we've had several challenges. land acquisition. being everything for everybody. the creation of trails. vandalism. the construction of roads through the monument. the expansion of a general aviation airport. but probably our biggest challenge is storm water runoff from upstream suburban development. because we are completely surrounded by the city of albuquerque. as you walk the trails of petroglyph national monument and look out, you might notice large concentrations black boulders and that's where we often see concentrations of petroglyphs. we are in the heart of this canyon where this is a dense concentration of petroglyphs. we have documented over 20,000 within the monument boundary. this canyon is home to 5,000 of them. we see an animal over here. we are not really sure what it means. something that looks like a sheep brand. it may be a cross. thoet might have been car

the nation mourned. and for a time politics were forgotten. the country had lost a man that many loved, his death could not destroy the essential stability of the democratic process. the nation still had to choose a leader, and in time the campaigns began again. >> do we have a nixon poster? >> jim wilson, working for nixon in laconia, was looking forward to the republican national convention. the choices at the miami beach convention were richard nixon, governor nelson rockefeller of new york, who was now working hard for the nomination, and california's governor, ronald reagan. ♪ as the republican delegates gathered in this resort city, it soon became clear that nixon was also their choice by an overwhelming mandate. >> the next president of the united states, richard nixon. >> and i again proudly accept that nomination for president of the united states. tonight i see the face of a child. he lives in a great city. he's black. or he's white. he's mexican, italian, polish. none of that matters. what matters, he's an american child. he sleeps

the orioles beat the nationals. we're not sure who katie ledecky was rooting for. >>> thousands of students not ready for the first day of school. the problem keeping a large number of children out of the classroom. >>> it's a party 100 years in theak the national park service is celebrating its centennial. how you can join in on the fun. >>> a ♪ how you can join in on the fun. >>> a know time and effort can lead to something special. ♪ know the best things in life are achieved by working together. know you can enjoy the party you've dreamed of for 15 years. ♪ pnc offers you information, services and solutions to help you manage your finances with confidence. >>> 5:41 your time right now. humidity starting to ease back in here. >> uh-huh. it's easing in now. it will be rushing in as we get toward tomorrow and the en capitol wheel at prince george's county at national harp bore. temperatures in the upper 60s and low 70s. that's where they will be until 8:0

she began her career as the cartoonist of the national women's party. her first work appeared in 1914. one of the interesting things about her early work is that a lot of it focused on poverty, child labor, the exploitation of women, and labor legislation. her first work appeared in -- on the cover of the suffragist in june of 1914. she did more than 150 cartoons for the pages of the suffragist over a period of seven years. they appeared almost weekly. we have great attention to how that news sbaktd or was influenced by what was happening in the suffrage movement. here is one of her early works. this is one of my favorite pieces, actually, in the museum. this is called the inspiration of the suffrage workers. you can see how she's commenting on a lot of different ideas in this piece. she's talking about the importance of the vote as a way of changing the condition of women. you see the woman holding her child and her other little girl is standing in the -- sitting in the street playing with a cat, and there's trash surrounding her. this is obviously in a

the u.s. largest national park. alaska. and it would take 2400 of the smallest of the headliner national parks to fill the biggest parks pristine mountainous terrain. elsewhere in alaska, climbing the tallest peaks, 2-4 weeks round-trip. the lowest and driest spot, travelers are advised to be prepared to survive. the longest cave system is not completely explored. america samoa, guam, puerto rico, u.s. virgin islands -- you can reach the details online at cnn.com. caller: good morning. i have been to a lot of national parks and i really enjoy them. the question i have -- a lot of people know about this and i'm why diding it myself, the united states get over to the united nations some of our national parks? host: we believe that there and go to stuart from virginia. welcome to the conversation. stuart and ime is am in virginia. battlefield parks, civil war -- i myself live on land -- i have my own museum here in petersburg, for genia -- petersburg, virginia. our land, this is an awesome place. host: we took a look at the ann

this was a uniquely american idea of the concept's of the nation's beautiful. it is their right to visit these spaces. places like the grand canyon and yellow stone and the statue of liberty, they became familiar to us and many are known around the world. president obama on a visit to yosemite water falls told the crowd it is like the spirit of america itself is right here. today there are 84 million acres and 410 sites including 59 national parks and 128 historical parks and 10 nationals seashores.

with poland to the pacific where the national guard stand to the middle east where eight thousand nationalguard members are deployed in the air and on the ground including wisconsin national guard as it supports the air borne and defeat isil and right here at home, kinder warriors like the national guards, i met earlier this year, wonderful folks, using the skills they gained in america's community to protect our networks and to do things like counterisil's influence online. in day-to-day activities and large scale operations and planning and execution and conflicts and novel threats, national guard will remain critical to accomplishing all of our nation's security priorities . the army will be doubling the number of rotations in national training centers for our combat teams. further, the guard will increase number of helicopters, enhancing caints and providing more flexibility for missions including here and now and homeland. the guard will be instrumental in shaping tomorrow's conflict as well. as cyber and space means become increasingly contests, the national guard will be on the vang

lou: why is the national media not being rationale here? they have an algorithm that requires that they aboicialg common sense? >> we'll have the rnc and dnc chairman. the same comairnman who has been there since 1984. it should be tied to the campaigns. these are vehicles for the campaigns. they are not anymore. they are self-sustaining things. the ideas saying we want to do this and don't want to do that is absurd. lou: one ridiculous statement was the response from the commission saying it's been in place since september 2015. so we can dispense with our minds and rationale. ration -- and rationality. >> men are trump supporters. and i promise some men will watch football. lou: i'll guarantee you this debate schedule doesn't stand. >> the problem is the university makes a lot of money off this. the campaign should be able to pick. lou: we saw what happened to bernie sanders. that bowl is over. he ain't bernie sanders. referring to donald trump, not ed rollins. we are coming right back. much more ahead tonight, and most of it is rather exc

level for the national parks service. e has more than 30 years experience in the parks service and one of her jobs of many that she held was the chief of interpretation for the lewis and clarke national historic trail during the bicentennial of the lewis and clark expedition and did a lot of work with the native peoples along the route of the trail, making sure that all sidesof that story were told so welcome carol, welcome panelists . [applause] and i am just going to get up on to the connect slide here.you'll forgive me for a minute. yes. this is where we were supposed to be in the slide. it's a pleasure to be here to talk to you and with you about national parks as places of healing and resiliency and expression. national parks as you know were started for the purposes of conservation and enjoyment for the public. i'd like to say that the national parks service is probably the only government agency with the word joy in our neighboring legislation and i invite you all to go and look at that enabling legislation in the r

it went all over the nation. e we brought seniors to the park. it was specifically for seniors 62 ages or older. they purchase now -- thousands of passes for seniors and make sure they got into their hands at no cost and did work to bring people actively to the sites. it went all over the nation. it was also an expanded of the park prescription plan and people.parks, healthy i'm really glad you asked that question. i think everyone deserves to be in the national parks. it is something to really think about as we think about partnering with those we have maybe theed with or neighboring -- the neighbor or corporation of the road. do a lot together wanted her hands and hearts together and really make these to humana.es they did a great program where happen. i really hope that starts to reach further and further. people look up for that. we want to bring healthy parks to help bp will -- healthy people. >> can you give your name and her? >> i believe another person just past their on. i want to take a moment to mention

i have been in the national guard 25 years and i have lived the transformation of the national guard o the operational force it is today. lived up to what the air force demanded it live up to be and we have similar equipment and same tactics, the combatant commander will have anywhere in the world whether it is russia, china, iran, violent extremists, that is our number one focus. national guard going in the same direction and couldn't be more pleased with what i see about the integration of reserve components. we have no choice but to leverage the business model of these components as we go forward and i believe that with all my heart. the homeland piece is connected. we bring resiliency to america all over the place. men and women under command of these adjutant gentlemen are the only uniformed people, in every state territory in colombia, they organized and equipped forces for these two men here. we are prepared every day to secure our communities. i got a call from governor abbott from texas who told me congratulations, proud to see a texan and we want to tell you how important th

(announcer) (announcer) >>from the nation's capitol, "eye on washington with marilee joyce." a weekly discussion about the federal issues most important to nevada. and now, from washington, d.c., here's marilee joyce. >> good day to you. i'm marilee joyce. this is "eye on washington," program produced in washington, d.c. every week, "eye on washington" takes you straight to capitol hill for a discussion with nevada's delegation and other leaders about the federal matters that matter to you. today's topic, housing affordability. we'll look at those struggling despite nevada's population and job growth. my very special guest today is rebekah king, a policy specialist for the national housing conference. and nhc is a washington, d.c. based organization that advocates for policy and legislation focusing on sustainability and affordability concerns. thanks so much for being here today, ms. king. >> glad to be with you. >> well, count your blessings today if you have a mortgage or rent whose rate doesn't have you losing sleep every night. not all nevadans do. today on "eye on washin

who were the frequent mark of his full my nations. nixon intended to give the people of the country the foreign policy that they want, returning the power to its rightful home in the white house where the occupant had been elected and then was elected again. so i think this democratic ambivalence would be in his presidency as he channeled public opinion and then disregarding it and distakening and the law as well. with that i'll stop and welcome any questions. thanks. [applause] >> fantastic, thanks. the floor is open. i'm going to abuse my power to ask the first question, then i was wondering, will what sort of driving nixon hixe kisserer's desire to concentrate power in the n.s.c. and it began with bundy, but they didn't take it to that extent. they began a process that they couldn't have taken that extent because they began that process. it happened gradually over time and perhaps they would have if they could get away with it and have concentrated power. they did concentrate it quite a bit. it's not ideology or party affiliation th

eastern we're live from the national park services most visited historic home, arlington house, the robert. lee memorial. join us with your phone calls as we talk with robert stanton, former national park service director and the former arlington house site manager who will oversee the upcoming year-long restoration of the mansion, slave quarters, and grounds. today, the 100th anniversary of the national park service live from arlington house at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on cspan3. >>> the 1600 acre monocacy national battlefield is about 45 miles northwest of the u.s. capital. the national park service property includes the best family farm, built in the 1790s by a family of french caribbean immigrants who owned about 90 slaves. c-span met joy beasley, the cultural resources program manager at the national park to learn how remnants of the 200-year-old slave quarters were discovered in 2003 and partially excavated in the summer of 2010. >>> we are at the best farm, which is named the best farm after the tenant that occupied this farm during the civil war.

but we actually have the physical asset where history was made. in a nationalocation like yellow stone or yosemite, you can tell the story of animal life or climate change. but in a place like gettysburg you can tell not only the physical activity of the civil war but the meaning behind it, such as the release and freedom of over 4 million africans that became african-american citizens. >> what would you say has been the most important change in the park service in the last 50 years? >> well i think that on one part we haven't changed that much. we still have our strong mission orientation, public service to the american people, and that has been a strong continuity. but i think broadening the story, trying to fill in the gaps in the american experience, it's not one narrative, it's multiple narratives. and i think using strong scholarship, working with his storians to better understand the complexities of the american narrative is how the park service has changed. >> how has technology changed the visitor experience? >> well, you know, there are those who are

today, the 100th anniversary of the national park service live from arlington house at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on cspan3. >>> the 1600 acre monocacy national battlefield is about 45 miles northwest of the u.s. capital. the national park service property includes the best family farm, built in the 1790s by a family of french caribbean immigrants who owned about 90 slaves. c-span met joy beasley, the cultural resources program manager at the national park to learn how remnants of the 200-year-old slave quarters were discovered in 2003 and partially excavated in the summer of 2010. >>> we are at the best farm, which is named the best farm after the tenant that occupied this farm during the civil war. but what we know today as the best farm forms the 274 acres of what was originally a 748 acre plantation. that plantation was known as laramie todge. it was established by a family of french planters who came to maryland in 1793 from the colony known today as haiti. the family was called the vincent deere family. they came to maryland to escape civil unrest associated wi

air force and the national committee and nasa. bellaire craft, of the whole premise of the aircraft is to in vers gate the beyer routine. he breaks that mystical sound there and help the michigan thinking of the idea of becoming through in young age through # 50s or 60s. what are your questions and what are the unknown? >> aifruativiation is a very i t interesting topic to be studied riegts now. >> we'll pass it after the flight. >> many people say we'll flay. >> with your technology, i know there is nowhere else that can go. >> are we watching the first, you know, hyper sole judge i can, are they going to lead to aircraft and able to enable to fly to new york and tokyo and ho how are we going to track that? >> how do we affair of them. >> what about private billion area employee. >> aviation history. >> and so the process was to dim late and promoting. >> these ideas of entrepreneurs were fun. always part o f that idea and pushing that envelope, technology. >>> a few more minutes. john is next in massachusetts. >> hello? >> yes, j

park service, it is the centennial of the national woman's party. we did not plan it that way, but that is the way it worked out. almost 100 years ago this month, women met in chicago and began to talk about organizing the national woman's party. founded as a party representing women's interest with a single issue platform, the woman's party organized and franchised women from westerns states to show their strength at the voting booth and stand together to only vote for candidates who supported the suffrage amendment. we all know suffrage was one in 1920, but today we are here to talk about what happened after suffrage. by the summer 1923, alice paul had written the original equal rights amendment, and it had already introduced the first time i took congress. and wp lobby to see the equal rights amendment introduced, and continued to fight for the passage and ratification for more than 70 years. our speakers tonight will share their thoughts on the long and often disputed campaign for the equal rights amendment. before i introduce our speakers, i wan

leon: today is the 100 birthday of the national park service. the park service oversees 58 national parks. that includes the national mall where more than a thousand people came to make history of their own today. that is where we find d.c. bureau chief sam ford. hey, sam. sam: hello, leon. nowhere is the work of the national park service more obvious than here on the national mall. for example, the washington conment that you were just talking about earlier. but around the region, people today stopped to observe the 100th birthday of an agency that has done so much. at the tavern national historic park at potomac, maryland, they sapping happy birthday, they had a lot of kids and a big cake. >> yea! [applause] >> it's impressive. >> have you ever been to this type of birthday party before? >> no. sam: 15 miles south between the washington monument and the world war ii memorial, a thousand people moved around with the umbrellas and the instruction to form the arrowhead logo out of human beings. president wilson signed the service into existence au

we're lucky to get 20% of the other nations to vote with us. ur allies feel that we've neglected them. the so-called nixon shock against japan had weakened our relationships there. under this administration we've also had an inclination to keep separate the european countries, thinking that if they are separate, then we can dominate them and proceed with our secret, lone ranger-type diplomatic efforts. i would also like to point out that we, in this country, have let our economy go down the drain. the worst inflation since the great depression. the highest unemployment of any developed nation of the world. we have a higher unemployment rate in this country than great britain, and west germany. our unemployment rate is twice as high as it is in italy; it's three or four times as high as it is in japan. and that terrible circumstance in this country is exported overseas. of the world's economic trade we comprise about 30% ofof the world's economic trade power influence. and when we're weak at home - weaker than all our allies - that weakness weake

otto agitated for the creation of a national park here. but the creation of a national park requires an act of congress and is much more difficult to do. a national monument can be established by a presidential proclamation. and so although john otto wanted a national park, it was easier to establish a national monument, and that is what happened when president taft proclaimed the area in 1911. the other distinction is, the resource base. generally, a national monument is set aside in recognition of one spectacular feature. in this case, the erosional qualities of the monument. a national park is like multiple national monuments all thrown together. so for example, yellowstone, which was the first national park, wildlife values in the mountain range, running through a high huge elevation lake, all the thermal features and so on. that is generally what sets parks apart from monuments. there are, you know, it is a fuzzy boundary between them. so there are areas that are parks that probably more rightly should be national monuments and vice ve

the mission of the national park service is to preserve our country's heritage. preserve places that were integral parts of the story, we believe that by reserving these pieces of our terror teach -- visitors, you understand the story better when you are standing in the place where that happened. there is something intangible in these places that you can feel the history resonating and being in these places now. to mark the centennial of the national park service we are featuring historic sites and national parks from tour. check out our website c-span.org/these two were. -- cities tour. louisiana on q&a, state university history professor and historian nancy isenberg discusses her book "white trash: the 400 year untold story of class in america." >>

for the first time in 100-year history, the national parks might allow the corporate logos to be displayed and we outline what that means for our treasured lands. >> reporter: corporate logos might start popping up in national parks across the country, for the first time ever in the 100-year history of the national park service. national park service director jonathan jarvis, proposed an order that would allow logos to appear. the name also not be able to appear on park signage or in the national parks. numerous media outlets reported that the proposed order would give the organizations naming rights. so if you're concerned tabata grand canyon being presented by verizon, don't worry. it is not going to happen. so corporate logo also be able to the b. displayed in a temporary setting lick on donated vehicles. corporate donations have always been accepted by the national parks service. the national park service has $11.9 million in maintenance, and the appropriation of funds have actually dropped 8% from 2005 to 2014 meaning the national park service is always in need of donations. >>> what