this is amelia ehrhardt care for us to read vega -- ehrhardt's characteristic red vega. it is another airplane where she disappears trying to fly around the world. it become synonymous with high-performance, long-distance aircraft that important aviators choose. this is still a would airplane. -- wood airplane. the performance is being pushed seeming counterintuitive for what the airplane is. it is looking towards the future in terms of its shape and if we look at this very dynamic 1926-34 period of innovation. it is one of the first to represent the future and how their plane will become modern. their pilots like amelia ehrhardt and wiley post, a ramped up the spectacle of flight. enthusiasm for flights across the ocean and world. the next airplane is an example of a commercial airliner that embodies new innovations that enabled airplane to fly higher, faster, and further. it is called one of the first modern airliners and is one of the first modern airplanes overall it is introduced in 1933. it reflects his heritage of reinventing the airplane after world war i. it has

their pilots like amelia ehrhardt and wiley post, a ramped up the spectacle of flight. for flights across the ocean and world. the next airplane is an example of a commercial airliner that embodies new innovations that higher,airplane to fly faster, and further. it is called one of the first modern airliners and is one of the first modern airplanes overall it is introduced in 1933. it reflects his heritage of reinventing the airplane after world war i. it has all metal construction. there has been a significant transition from strut and wire theks instruction to andtruction of the vega now, you're looking at an all metal airplane. you make these aircrafts bigger. engine pods on them. and you have jet airliners of the 1950's. we are looking at the beginning of that with this airplane in earlythe late 1920's and theys, boeing company, want to build upon this new aircraft design called the b nine bomber. they want to develop that into a commercial airliner. the 247 is the result of that which embodies all metal construction, but also the idea of the streamlined design. air

like anything can happen there, and walking around the streets of barrow, you could run into amelia ehrhardtim morrison. i feel like alaska is the no snitching state. nobody's talking. it's another beautiful but brutally cold morning in barrow, and instead of walking around and risking hypothermia, i decided to reunite with an old friend. jc, glad to see you. >> it's 7 below. >> with the windchill factor, feels like a million below. you know what i am doing today? dogsledding. you have ever been? >> no. >> the way you are laughing, i feel like it's a bad idea. in my conversation with mike schultz, he talked about how the native people are losing their traditions, and i saw no better example than dogsledding, and i met with the lash musher in town. >> yeah, sad but true, slowly whittled down over the years. >> how long you have lived in barrow? >> since 1986. >> when you got here, were there other sledders? >> yeah, other teams. they kind of all switched over to snow machines. >> hope you don't take this the wrong way, and you are the last dogsledder, and you seem to be -- how do i say this,

amelia ehrhardt, iwo jima, signing of the declaration of independence. all sorts of things. one of the silent vignettes would be the lincoln douglas debates. my fourth grade teacher told me you can't be abraham lincoln, you are not tall enough. to add insult to injury, she said, you have to be stephen douglas. [laughter] i swore that i would study abraham lincoln for the rest of my life and try to make a contribution. i am a product of the virginia public schools and i can tell you that very little of abraham lincoln was said flatteringly in the state of virginia as i was growing up. but those comments were glowing compared to what i can countered when i into south carolina in 1984. one of my proudest accomplishments in the fact that i have been teaching courses to packed classrooms on abraham lincoln in the state of south carolina which i don't think it's a small accomplishment whatsoever. [applause] >> i'm going to tell you what i tell my students before each class. come back with me in history, fasten your seatbelts, we're going to take a magic carpet ride tonight through