so we are in the archive study center here at the andy warhol museum. the archives is the heart of the museum. we have all of warhol's personal collections, including decorative art objects, posters, photographs, clothing, scrap books, source material, everything you could imagine that this man collected. we also have the heart of the archives is the time capsule collection. which is a set of 610 cardboard boxes that you can see covering the walls around you. so one of the earliest items that warhol collected as a young boy were movie star images. that he would send away for. probably one of his favorites was this one from shirley temple, that she sent to him when he was still andy warhola. but it didn't stop there. we have celebrity photographs. can you see the combination between this celebration of the celebrity and the constant collecting. which you know as a young boy in pittsburgh, who was also very ill a lot of the times, this is kind of the perfect outlet for him to reach out to these people that were so glamorous and beautiful to him while he wa

so we are in the archive studies center at the antiwar -- andy warhol using. we have all of warhol's personal collections, including decorative art objects, posters, photographs, clothing, scrapbooks, source material every that you can imagine man collected. archives part of the is the time capsule collection, which is a set of 610 cardboard boxes you can see covering the walls around you. one of the earliest items that warhol collected as a young boy were movie star images that he would send away for. probably one of his favorites was this one from shirley temple that she sent to him when he was still andy warhola. it did not stop there. we have a whole photo album filled with celebrity photographs. you can see the companies between the celebration of the celebrity and the constant collecting. pittsburgh,oy in who is also very ill and a lot of the times, this is a perfect outlet for him to reach out to these people that were so glamorous and beautiful to him while he was still stuck at home. one of the strengths of our archives is the deep amount of source mat

her book, "andy warhol was a hoarder: inside the minds of history's greatest personalities," was published earlier this year ands has received enthusiastic reviews. kalb's well-written exercise in applying modern psychiatric theory to historical figures from marilyn monroe to charles darwin certainly makes for entertaining armchair speculation. and so, ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming claudia kalb. [applause] >> thank you so much for the wonderful introduction. thank you to fall for the book festival, to the fairfax library and to all of you for coming out on a rainy night. i am so thrilled to see everybody here. so i wanted to tell you some stories tonight, some reporting stories that you may not find all of them in the book and also give you a sense just to begin with of what this book is. i covered medicine, health and science at "newsweek", as chris mentioned, for about 17 years and wrote some wonderful stories, but most of them had to end at about a page, two pages, three pages. this book gave me the opportunity to really delve into a subject that i'm passionate about

then our cities tour of pittsburgh visits the andy warhol museum. after that, artists of the american revolution. later, our cities tour of helena, montana, examines the life and work of charles russell. >>> next, artist poort waddell shares his paintings of 19th century washington, d.c. white house events, the u.s.

also a tour of the andy warhol museum and the lives and works of russell and ga pa o'keefe.american history tv 8:00 eastern on c-span3. . >>> this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, saturday afternoon just before 5:00 eastern, architectural historian barry lewis talks about construction of the brooklyn bridge, why manhattan needed the bridge, and how transportation in the city changed at the turn of the 20th century. >> when the brooklyn bridge was open, it did not put the ferries out of business. the ferries were still running at capacity. by the mid 1890s, the city of brooklyn had reached 1 million people. >> then at 8:00 on lectures in history. >> and that's the real sort of interesting thing about country music is that it's the music of poor, privileged to be white and i'll talk about that in a second, but also, people who are under privileged in terms of their class identity and economic opportunities. >> dickenson, colonial american, origins of country music. >>> then sunday afternoon at 4:00, real american. >> budget cutbacks and tangle of state and local admi

tradition of straightforward illustration to feature the work of great artists like roger brown and andy warhol. they launched a jazz festival in chicago in 1959 to benefit the urban league. hugh hefner first met lenny when he went to san francisco to hear him perform. this is when lenny was breaking through with new material that was allowing him to play in nightclubs that were not also strip clubs. hugh hefner was so impressed that he contacted friends in chicago and arranged for lenny bruce to play there. the illinois obscenity statute had been amended to reflect the 1957 supreme court decision, so many people were feeling that nightclubs were really free speech zones. lenny went on to play mr. kelly's in chicago and lead to an interview by studs terkel. the next year, he was profiled in an article titled "rebel with a caustic cause." in the early 1960's, he appeared on playboy's penthouse, and then the company published his autobiography, "how to talk dirty and influence people." many times he'd stayed at the chicago playboy mansion when he was in town. i would say like contemporary art and

you were painting soup cans before andy warhol. >> absolutely. a little story you might want to know about the particular soup can i picked, i picked the wrong one. i was doing heinz and he was doing campbells, but, i want to tell you, from the bottom of my heart that i still believe that heinz is [laughter] >> i will always stick by that. [laughter] >> i love that. it's taken you about 50 years to get some recognition. talk a little bit about why you think it has taken so long when the work you have done is so magnificent? >> well, you know, um, thank you for i guess the art establishment hasn't thought it so magnificent. i think really what it is the one that was really not dealing with subject matter as as much as it was dealing with art for art sake. and, my teacher was george gross and i go back through, i go back to my heros being people like broygle and so my work has fallen in that tradition. and i think that people that, the really wanted to deal with the kind of subject matter that i always d deal with which is 9/1. the stock market. th

american history tv, programs from the emerging civil war blogs conference on also a tour of the andy warhol museum and the lives and works of jormg russell and georgia o'keefe. american history tv xwinz at 8:00 eastern on c-span3. >>> next week "washington journal" will devote the entire program each day to the key issues facing the new trump administration in congress. begin monday december 26th we'll look at national security and defense issues, including challenges facing president-elect trump's national security team in the year ahead and james madison. on tuesday, december 27th it's trade and job issues examining how congress and the trump administration could change current trade laws in an effort to create or save jobs. on wednesday, december 28th, environmental policy, how energy and climate issues might be impacted by the new congress and incoming trump administration. thursday, december 29th we'll talk about immigration and how president-elect trump and the new congress might change immigration policy. and on friday, december 30th, we'll take a look at the future of the affordable

then our cities tour of pittsburgh visits the andy warhol museum. after that, artists of the american revolution. later, our cities tour of helena, montana, examines the life and work of charles russell. >>> next, artist poort waddell shares his paintings of 19th century washington, d.c. white house events, the u.s. capitol and george washington's home at mt. vernon. this 45-minute event was hosted by the u.s. capitol historical society. >> welcome, everyone, to another scorcher in washington, d.c. my name is chuck. i'm the chief historian here at the u.s. capitol historical society. this is, i believe, our third in our august lunchtime lecture series. we have the pleasure of having an artist with pretenses to being an historian with us today. peter waddell. the society's favorite kiwi. he's from new zealand, but has been artist and resident at tudor place over in georgetown. if you are not familiar with it, i recommend you go over there. it's the ancestral home for the peters family which is descendant from martha washington. they'll interest you a

also, a tour of the andy warhol museum and the lives and works of charles russell and georgia o'keefe. american history tv begins at 8:00 eastern on c-span3. >> next week, washington journal will devote the entire program each day to the key issues facing the new trump administration and congress. beginning december 26th, we'll look at national security and defense issues including challenges facing president-elect trump's national security team in the year ahead, and the closer look at the career of secretary of defense nominee james mattis. and then on tuesday, december 27th, it's trade and job issues, exampling how congress and the trump administration could change current trade laws in an effort toeter create or save jobs. on wednesday, december 28th, our issue topic is energy and environmental policy. we'll discuss how energy and climate issues may be impacted by the incoming trump administration. the 29th, we'll talk about immigration and how president-elect trump and the new congress might change immigration policy. on friday, december 30th, we'll look at the future of the affo

. >> it is my second book of diaries, i was inspired by the andy warhol diaries that came out after heg and kept going for two years. i said, i'm going to put everything in this and edit it out later. and i didn't wind up editing a lot of things out. >> what do you do, when you get home at night? >> i get home at night, i sit down and write, sometimes just notes, sometimes i'll tell a story, depending what kind of mood i'm in. and how creative i'm feeling and i kind of fill in the blanks every two weeks when i'm on an airplane. >> do you write about depression or -- >> yes. >> you write about that? >> exactly, yeah. like a roller coaster. >> only one mood. >> first of all, i'm so impressed you keep a diary. and, yeah, because i wonder how you find time. i know how busy you are. it is also a streami ining consciousness. >> it is a page turner, well written, i think. it is very funny. and i stopped writing the diary found it kind of emotionally and existentially exhausting reporting on the details of my life for publication for three years straight. maybe i'll do it again. >> you take ba

always tour of the andy warhol muse people and the life and works. american history tv begins at 8:00 eastern on c-span3. >>> tonight at 8:00, starting with a look at mike pence and his new role as vice president. at 9:20, a new senate democratic leader chuck shoom we are video from the archives. here's mike pence from cpac after democrats took control in 2006. >>> my dad built a gas station business in a small town in southern indiana. while i actually started in politics as a democrat, when i heard the voice of the president of the united states, it all changed for me. i lived the dream of becoming a congressman and now i serve as governor of the great state of indiana. i served 12 years in the congress and i love to say, if i only had 12 years left to live, i would want to live it as a member of congress. that was the longest 12 years of my life. >> let me just say, our challenge has really just begun. the american public has rejected the policies of george bush and they're waiting to see what we can do. and we are going to show them that we will

i loved warhol's diaries when they came out and that was what the first one was inspired by. what did you love about his diaries? andyme places i've never would have been invited to. it's 11 years of globetrotting and openreally dishy my eyes to a world i wanted to live in. celebrityey world of and behind-the-scenes a late-night talkshow, producing the housewives and having a dog, it's agreat parents, well rounded situation. charlie: have you moved into this place where you have the same kind of thing going from one new york event to another? andy: i think it's a deconstruction of celebrity culture from the vantage point of becoming a celebrity and dealing with celebrities and partying with them. it is all that. i found myself and i was like wait a minute, i'm getting invited to the stuff myself. let me start writing. charlie: when do you write? andy: i write every night. i either job down some notes or just get it all out. then i fill in the blanks on airplanes, which i'm on the lot and flesh things out. charlie: how much do you write? is it a string of consciousness? andy: i could write three little items. i could

we'll look at artists of the american revolution and visit the andy warhol museum. later, a conversation on the life and heart work of georgia o'keefe. it starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. c-span's washington journal, news and policy issues that impact you. coming up thursday, center for public integrity reporter talks about the politics behind the opiod epidemic in the u.s. and the author of "twilight warriors" which explains how the national security apparatus adopted to fight terrorism. be sure to watch washington journal 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >> next, author stephen davis talks about the 1864 battle of atlanta and the engagements on july 22nd outside the city highlighting confederate general john bell hood's attack on unor forces. atlanta fell to sherman's troops about six weeks later. this 40 minute talk was part of a symposium hosted by the emerging civil war blo blog. . >> it's my pleasure now toinlt deuce to you a man that i know as dr. edge. steve davis has got a little edge to him. if you want to know what it's all