we archive those. but we also do the ones from the campaigns and surrogates and the like to be able to make rich data sets in making those available. researchers, so we can know what it is that was promised, television, for instance, is very difficult to access. but on another free resource, you can search based on what people said, including democracy now!, and retrieve clips and put into your blogs and be able to think critically about what has happened. if you cannot quote, compare, and contrast, then it just flows over. you say, i think i remember, but you don't really remember. the key thing is to be able to quote, compare, and contrast. libraries provide permanent to things that are often ephemeral. , to use ther kahle an existential threat, unique threat to the information on the internet today? and to your own internet archive, which is really everyone's? >> the internet is an amazing experience -- experiment ensuring mutual trust. people are putting their ideas out there in the very public for

the archives during the second world war was also known as fort archives, one of the buildings that could resist. so it stays here, it is not part of that movement to fort knox. i included, even though it is a but i includednt as part of the 10 amendments to the constitution, even though they almost do not happen. of the bill father of rights, was one of the great objectors to the bill of rights during the constitutional convention. so why does he change his mind when the first congress is elected? he changes his mind because there is lots of concern from people like george mason, monroe. his concern that they are not going to go along with this and call for a second convention unless the bill of rights gets call for ahey had to second convention and maybe block the whole constitution. him,on, the credit goes to he promises when he is elected to the first congress he will face the bill of rights, and he does. >> the material that left washington left it under very heavy guard. the second tier documents or deposited, what sort of safeguard measures? so they go out on tractor-trailer trucks

how did the national archives come about? >> it wasn't until the franklin roosevelt administration that the legislation was signed to create the national archives in 1934. i'm convinced it was roosevelt's personal passion for records that it happened. he described it in his papers as his baby, so he spent a lot of time selecting the first archivist, robert connor, a faculty member in history at chapel hill, and creating what would be the process for managing the records of the government, and that's what the mission has been since the very beginning. the creation of the record schedules for each of the 275 executive branch agencies, managing the temporary courtesy storage of the records of congress, and the supreme court, building a staff, and creating the management of government records, which looks pretty easy from this perspective, when he was first starting, but he had similar problems with the agencies being reluctant to give up their records, so the president having to kind of lay down the law about this is the way we'

and tweets won't be new to the national archives. we have been collecting, this president tweets also so we've been collecting his tweets so there are tweets now coming from the white house. >> yes, very different kinds of tweets though, between the two administrations, so it will be interesting for future generations of researchers. this is another round robin question, but i don't want to spend too much time in the weeds. the organization and structure governed is really interesting. you were appointed by the president and went through confirmation process. >> yes. >> who is your boss and how long is your term? >> the congress. actually, it's a ten-year term, and the librarian of congress is the only staff member/employee of the library of congress that is a presidential appointment. the other people who work, 3,200 people who work at the library are government employees, federal employees, and so it's not an appointment process, so that when i mentioned congress, the appropriations committees that have oversight and quite a bit of

how did the national archives, about? around 1934. i was convinced it was because personal passion for records. selectinglot of time the first archivists. creating what would be the process for managing the records of the government. that has been the mission from the beginning. scheduleson for the for the executive branch agencies, managing records of congress and supreme court, building staff, and creating the management of government records. which looks easy from this perspective. he had similar problems with agencies being reluctant to give up their records, the president having to lay down the law about this. it is at this point a collection of 13 million pieces of paper, 43 million autographs, miles of film video. the fastest partnering -- the fivest-growing record is terabytes of electronic records. saved?visit all -- is it all saved? mr. ferriero: the federal records asked governs the federal branch. every agency has a records manager. they create record schedules to identify the kind of records and how long they need to be r

all of those are federal records stored here at the national archives. for a final interaction that visitors can choose to participate in, we have created a poll where we are asking visitors to submit their own vote on what can be our next amendment. we have 27 amendments to the constitution currently, and congress every day is proposing new ones. and so we have put a multiple-choice selection of that visitors can choose answers fory text their opinions to the poll, and it's a real time poll, so visitors will get to see their vote be added to the results. we also included an animated video in our exhibit here to explain the process of how an idea becomes an amendment. this is a really cute little animation we created in partnership with the history channel that explains the congressprocess of proposing an amendment, and s tates ratifying it. this video is available on youtube for anybody to see and use as well. >> so, how exactly does the constitution get amended? >> when an idea has enough popular support, women ought to have the right to vote, for memb

each week american history tv's american artifacts visits museums, archives and historic places. 225 years ago on december 15th, 1791 virginia balk the 11th of 14 states to ratify the first ten amendments to the u.s. constitution. since three-quarters of the state are constitutionally required for ratification, the bill of rights then became law. amending american is a national archives exhibit marking the anniversary by exploring the history and the process of amending the constitution. this tour of the exhibit is about 45 minutes. >> hi, my name is jennifer johnson and i'm a curiator with the national archives museum, and co-cure rater for amending america. >> i'm christine blackerby, i'm also co-cure r curator of amending america. >> woerp 'about to take you through amending america. right next to me is a case showing the more than 11,000 amendments that have been proposed to the constitution. christine and i have been working on this exhibit for a couple of years now, although research started almost four years ago, and we couldn't help but notice that the variety and depth of am

each week, american history tv's reel america brings you archival films. "anarchy u.s.a."s an anti-communism film that uses narration and news footage to and arguesunists u.s. civil rights leaders are communist using the same methods. u.s.ilm condemns several presidents and the 1964 civil rights in 1965 voting rights act. the film contains language and graphic scenes of violence and death that may be disturbing to some viewers. >>

my name is jennifer johnson and i am a curator at the national archives museum. black, i am anne outreach specialist. i am co-curator. we are standing out the gallery and about two take you through. next to me is a case showing the more than 11,000 amendments that have been proposed to the constitution. christina and i have been working on this exhibit for a couple of years right now. we could not help but notice that the variety and depth of amendments in the stacks when you walk into the stacks, there .ere more than 11,000 proposed we started asking ourselves why there had been so many and so few were actually ratified. we explore that idea and how the founding fathers set up our government. billf the challenges, the of rights was in the rotunda, which is a different area of the museum. we decided to have a banner leading people from the bill of rights to the o'brien gallery. it was a small team, a staff of volunteers who worked last summer to transcribe from a variety of publications into one document. the bill of rights is the first 10 met amendments to the c

the goldwater papers and the haden papers are the two largest archival collections that document the work of the arizona congressional delegation. haden is an interesting individual because his father, was the first white settler of tempe in 1870. he built his home along me than raging salt river at a place that is now called mill avenue after the mill that he built across the street from his homestead. hayden's sonull was born in tempe and went on to attend the arizona church here u.s.mpe, then became first congressman in 1912. later, senator from arizona until 1969. hayden is-- so carl truly a son of tempe. barry goldwater lived in scottsdale. he always had a strong relationship with university. ultimately, he brought his papers here. we have been very fortunate to have these great archival resources for our students and faculty and visiting scholars. inspection,able for research, and interpretation. carl hayden, third is 57 year career in congress, first in the house of representatives and the senate was known as the silent senator. he had the reputation of being the workhorse, no

again and again the archives told a very different story from the legend i heard as a kid. i'd been led to believe the black community was made up entirely of poor marginal illiterate field hands of tax records reveal the whole strata of the black community that was educated, prosperous and deeply enmeshed in the county. there was joseph who had been born a slave but along with his wife eliza slowly and steadily amassed a large property and forsyth. they grew to more than 200 acres so i called -- followed them from slavery to emancipation to owning a tiny bit of land and over the course of you know 30 years, 40 or simply investing the prophets of each new harvest and buying a little more land and making shrewd business deals. they eventually had built this 200-acre farm but it happened over a very long time. this was undoubtedly home. they were deeply, deeply-rooted in the county. there was also burt oliver. there he is. a local minister and teacher who was he and his wife founded the industrial high school in gainesville which for 40 years was one of the most african-ameri

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 was still stuck at home. one of the streng

also have other national archives programs and activities information. another way to become a more involved is to become a member of the national archives foundation. the foundation supports her education and outreach activities and there's application for membership in the lobby. the united states constitution's oldest written national constitution still enforced. one of the reasons it has endured, one of the first actions of the first federal congress from 1789 was to pass a set of amendments that we call the bill of rights. it was necessary stated james madison to expressly declare the great rights of mankind secured under this constitution. during the 225th anniversary year the national archives put together a nationwide programs of events and exhibits to celebrate and examine the bill of rights. we have posted several discussions like tonight relating to constitutional right. we put on a series of national conversations on rights and justice around the country and we've created several exhibits and educational resources. i hope you've had the oppor

host: you mentioned the archives -- what will be -- rep. mcdermott: the historical archives. they have a public official's archive, i guess tom foley isn't there. brock adams. there are a number of washington state politicians that you can get at the university of washington. host: who would you say you might miss from congress? and the relationships that you had over the years that were special? rep. mcdermott: actually, three of us are going out at the same time who are good friends. lois capps from california, sam farr from california, and me. we were good friends. we had a very warm relationship. the other person i'm leaving behind who is also a good friend is -- when she came to congress, we became good friends. george miller, probably two handfuls of people i would spend some time with. host: what advice would you give to younger members of congress, the key to having a successful congressional career, and if they want to stay around for many terms like you did? rep. mcdermott: well, i think the advice i would give to anybody, given the situation we have today, you have

and the archives had the original cut. and then eventually they were duplicated. and i'm happy to say now they've been digitized, cleaned up quite a bit and are available on the national archives youtube channel. >> overall, what is the volume? how many films like this were made? >> wow, there are thousands and thousands of them. made by almost every government agency around world war i. the committee on public information pretty sayser to owi in world war ii. every agency, i think they were excited to have this new technology of motion picture. and so they were kind of going crazy making films. and i think like allison said, they were there probably more for dissemination of -- by government officials and so forth. and maybe they were chopped up a bit and shown at news reels and theaters. but i'm willing to bet a large part of the american public hasn't seen these before. so it's quite exciting that i'm will see this perhaps for the first time. >> well, that background, let's roll the video, the film, i should say. because that's the technology of the time on the

it is the 225th anniversary of this we are celebrating at the national archives with the exhibit. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] >> watch the entire tour at 6:00 on american artifacts most of this is american history tv only on c-span3. >> in depth will feature a live discussion on the presidency of barack obama, we're taking a phone calls tweets and facebook questions during the program. our panel include april ryan, a white house correspondent and also author of "the presidency in black-and-white." and the author of " democracy in black." and editor watch in-depth on sunday on book tv on c-span2. >> up next, a conversation about president franklin d. roosevelt and how he used his language to bolster his world war ii policies and strategies. georgia state university professor mary stuckey talks to paul sparrow, director of the fdr presidential library and museum in new york which hosted this event. we will hear fdr deli

you want to supplement it and supplement it with the archival church records and ledgers, things that are not online. not everything is online. i'm 57, this is how i would say everything is not this. i pretend i'm typing. but it isn't. i try to tell people that rolling up sleeves and doing historical research and old ledgers and books and papers, it's sort of fun. you gno know you're not a product of space aliens and people had to come here and have marriages and birth records somewhere and your job to find it. >> i'm sure there's a lot of aha moments. >> there is. >> is the process long? >> it is long. the problem is people think it's easy. and i mean this in the nicest way, ancestry.com in one sense has ruined my life. all you need to know is type, no, no -- >> the reality is -- >> you need help and we use ancestry.com as well at the historical society but you need to know more than that and searching strategies and go beyond the computer and use a repository like the historical society to get information not on there. >> i know you said some aspects are free but to have individual

i am an archivist at the national archives in college park, maryland. today we are going to look at the deck logs of the various ships located at pearl harbor during the attack. log is a recording of all the activities that occurred on the ship during a 24-hour period. this could be injuries to sailors, sailors coming on and off the ship. in this instance, the attack on pearl harbor. we will look at the uss chu, the destroyer of the battle. it is a world war i-era destroyer meaning that had a 4 a littleks and was slower than the contemporary destroyers of the time. after the attack was primarily used in an escort role for convoys, things of that nature. this is what the officers on board wrote on december 7. starting at around 6:00 in the morning, they actually received 10 gallons of milk and 4.5 gallons of ice cream, which was recorded on board, and they brought this on board. interestingly enough, the next ,ntry located on this deck log "suffered surprise attack by japanese torpedo and bomber planes. sounded general quarters and manned antiaircraft ba

it was a research-heavy project and in the center's archives i made a number of discoveries. i had a few eureka moments and there's lots of dead ends and false turns and i was here a year ago and found a couple of letters that really changed my sense of the story, so i felt a deep debt to the history center. before anything else let me say heartfelt thanks to the librarians and staff and all the donors who support this work. you are truly preserving history for all of us and books like mine would not be possible without institutions like the atlanta history center. so the plan for tonight is i'm going to talk briefly, i'm hoping that this would turn into something of a conversation because there are a number of people in the room who have a personal connection to the story. i live in brooklyn and it's a little bit different to do this in atlanta than it is to do it in new york in that there are number of people who have personal involvement in the story and we are going to open it up for questions later on. but before that, there's some things that i want to tell you about wh

because the last time i was here i was doing research and in the archives for a run discoveries that eurekaed moment that there were false turns that did not pan out to find day couple of letters so there was a deep debt to that history center and a heartfelt thinks to the archivist at the library and and to all the donors to support this work and books like pied would not be possible with alpha briefly. and hope this turns into a conversation i was in brooklyn said this is a little different to do this in atlanta as people here have involvement. but before that there are things i want to title falafel for of racial cleansing looks like. . . and i want to flee you how the whole project came to be. for and has set foot sphere teaching and every and my other life i am really a poet. into nonfiction challenge me 10 years ago to finally tell the story. and one of the rare people when. >> host: was from forsyth county and has an african-american woman she was also the head cheerleader i need to mention that. [laughter]ld decided they the only poet laureate who was also head chair later. [

spent a lot of my research to american, british and russian archives. recent cia, kgb, state department cables that have been declassified, got a lot of information from stazi archives, some memoirs, diaries, and photographs were important to my research. interviews and conversation, with the family. when i lived in moscow i was close to the family and able to visit them more often. we had a lot of great conversations around the dinner table and that sort of thing. i was able to talk to eastern europeans, former czechoslovakia, hungary, their perspective, their experiences during the cold war, to understand the experience. and political prisoners and going to all the locations in the book. and research strips from the little village of swanberg, and met the town manager. and the little village museum and basically said throw the keys on the porch when you are done and i went in there and it was like walking back into time, so you could research the cold war in that village and everything from communist flags to communist party propaganda. and crests and

host: you mentioned the archives -- what will be -- rep. mcdermott: the historical archives. they have a public official's at one point we stopped having i guess tom fol't there. brock adams. there are a number of washington state politicians that you can get at the university of washington. who would you who would you sau might miss from congress? and the relationships that you had over the years that were special? rep. mcdermott: actually, three of us are going out at the same time who are good friends. lois capps from california, sam farr from california, and me. we were good friends. we had a very warm relationship. the other person i'm leaving behind who is also a good friend --mazy ru when she came to congress, we became good friends. george miller, probably two handfuls of people i would spend some time with. give what advice would you to younger members of congress, the key to having a successful congressional career, and if they want to stay around for many terms like you did? rep. mcdermott: well, i think the advice i would give to anybody, given the situation we ha

visit ncicap.org] >> we will show archival film, veterans and civilians first-person accounts and the ceremonies at pearl harbor and the world war ii memorial in washington. historians will take your calls. that is saturday, december 10, beginning at 8:00 eastern on american history tv, only on c-span3. all weekend long, american history tv joins our cox communication cable partners to showcase the history of tempe, arizona. to learn more about the city's visit c-span.org/cities tour. we continue with our look at the history of tempe. >> we visited tempe town lake to learn about the city's growth from public information officer chris baxter. typically we are on land or in a van, driving around. we are not on water in a pond to vote. tell me what is the significance of the water here in tempe. >> we don't do things the normal way. we are in the middle of tempe town lake. the interesting thing about this is most people don't have lakes that are brand-new. our lake will be 17 years old very soon. >> tell me why it was built. very this used to be a barren stretch of the salt river. the sa

i am an archivist at the national archives in college park, maryland. today we are going to look at the deck logs of various ships located at pearl harbor during the attack. a deck log is a recording of all the activities that occurred on a ship in a 24-hour period. this could be injuries to sailors, sailors coming on and off the ship. anything occurring on the ship at the time, so in this instance, the attack on pearl harbor. we will look at the uss chew, a destroyer at the time of the battle. it is a world war i-era destroyer, meaning that it had 4 smokestacks and was a little slower than the contemporary destroyers of the time. the uss chew after the attack was primarily used in an escort role for convoys, things of that nature. this is what the officers on board wrote on december 7. starting at around 6:00 in the morning, they actually received 10 gallons of milk and 4.5 gallons of ice cream, which was recorded on board, and they brought this on board. interestingly enough, the next entry located on this deck log, 0757, "suffered surprise attack by

i'm an archivist as the national archives in college park, maryland. and today we're going to look at the deck logs of various ships that were located at pearl harbor during the attack. a deck log is a recording of all the activities that occurred on the ship in a 24-hour period. this could include any injuries to sailors, any sailors coming on and off the ship. anything according to the ship at the time. so in this instance, the attack on pearl harbor. we're going to first look at the "uss chew." one of the older destroyers. it's a world war i-era destroyer. it had four stacks. four smoke stacks. and it was a little slower than the contemporary destroyers at the time which we'll look at some of those. the "uss chew" after the attack was used primarily in an escort role for convoys and things of that nature. so this is what the officers on board wrote on december 7th. starting at around 6:00 in the morning, they received ten gallons of milk and 4 1/2 gallons of ice cream which was recorded on board. and they brought this on board. and interestingly eno

lee referred to in a letter i found at the virginia historical society archives. on wednesday -- it is right upstairs -- on wednesday, august 24, after a revolt had been suppressed but before the whites had any idea they had won, the captured slaves told them the rebels were beginning to rally and revenge defeat from the morning at samuel's plantation. based on this intelligence, whites decided to reinforce the men already at the plantation. alexander pete pete, the one who led the first group to encounter the rebels, took about 10 men to it be defend it should attacked. it was rumored the blacks are going to rally and attack this plantation. these reinforcements brought the total number of whites defending the plantation to 16, not counting the plantation's owner. this force was significantly stronger than the one that had repelled the rebels the day before. it was six whites in the house when the rebels made their first raid. they have been looking for allies and did not realize the house was occupied by whites, so they got bushwhacked, they got ambushed. perhap

we went on to represent the rosa parks archive, which is at the library of congress. i think it is fair to say we -- andot have been there then how the courts have asked us to step in and bring some to that.n now as would become evident in the years ahead, one would see that rosa parks is much more than the little lady who didn't get -- who didn't give up her seat on the bus. thegave her life to different she could make in the world. a few years ago the parent of one daughter started as a archivists -- as a graduate. an archivist had a special collection. having the school acquire the most important archive, it was a no-brainer i would do everything i could. we are very happy and pleased it could be here. my daughter is graduating this year. >> the actuarial tables are benign with regards to our next to speakers. both of whom knew lenny bruce. introduceeasure to william carl thomas, and he was speak about his own relationship to lenny bruce. >> i became a journalist -- when i was a 19 hours -- when i was 19 i was a cocktail pianist. i was with in nightclub comedian in

these films are now archived at the lbj presidential library.

archives were open in the east and in the west. for example, archives in the united states, very important sources. many archives are now accessible and offer rich fields of future research. as a consequence of new historical findings more and more structures of the escape route have come to light. now, let me give you a very short overview of how war criminals and nazis fled overseas, the routes preferred, and the institutions involved in the early post war years. here are some of my findings. the first one is the importance of italy. italy played a central role as a nazi escape hatch. the port of jen waw was the closest overseas port for people stranded in central europe. in this port is where countless refugees converged looking to leave and start a new life and a better life away from europe. these refugees were a diverse group. survivors of the holocaust, anti-communists, slave laborers, stranded pow's and so on. hiding among them in plain sight were nazis and war criminals. in fact, the majority of nazis and war criminal whos

this painting is composed with west's archival sense, an obligation to preserve like an archive as ancopley has the archetypal view of the main chance. his feeling is, why make a picture of one person when i can make a picture of a lot of people and sell them engravinen, everybody likes to see themselves in a picture. automatically you've got 55 patrons instead of just one. very, very clever. the thing about this painting, by the way, is that it's kind of overdramatizing. this is not the way it actually looked. it's not even what he says it is, it's not the death of lord chatham, it's actually chatham having a stroke from which he died several days later. but "stroke of lord chatham" doesn't sound like it will sell as well. when i say it's an archival document, copley went around and took images, we have copley's studies of the portraits of each of these people. trumbull, who studied under benjamin west, did the same thing. when he embarks on history painting, this is trumbull's famous death of general montgomery, done in 1786. trumbull was a very interesting -- i found out recently t

you archival film. this amuses narration and news footage to detail the methods of communist revolutionaries in china, algeria, and cuba, then shows how civil rights leaders are also communist. the film condemns u.s. presidents, the voting rights act, and more. he contains language and graphic scenes of violence and death that may be disturbing to some viewers. >> we the negro people, you know down here have gotten

one was archival documentary photographic research. i found a lot of my information through american, reddish, german, russian archives that were easily accessible. some of them were recent documents the state department, and also they were able to get information from the archives and that sort of thing. letters that were exchanged and memoirs, those sort of things. and especially photographs were important to my research. then the second part was the interviews or conversations with the families. in moscow for example he was closer to the families who i was able to visit them more often and so we have a lot of great conversation around the dinner table and that sort of thing. then when i lived in eastern europe, i was able to also to talk to the former soviet union's, former czechoslovakia on their perspective their persd experiences during the cold war, so that was very helpful for me to sort of understand the experience and then as i said, political prisoners. the third aspect was going to all the locations in the book. that was pr

>> archival worker 2: you don't call that work, you are.unman. >> anthony: no one excels more at deflating the pompous, making fun of self-importance, turning even the darkest tragedy into comedy than the glaswegians. >> man: bit of ballet, fellas? >> anthony: that's if you can understand the bastards. this can be a challenge --particularly after a few pints of heavy or a couple of bottles of buckfast. >> man with guitar: what a show-off you are! >> anthony: glasgow has a reputation as a hard-drinking, two-fisted town. >> jane: yeah. >> anthony: i've always found it to be this funny, very funny town. >> janey: very funny. >> anthony: i mean, just --everybody's a natural born comic. >> janey: we are. we have a very dark humor. if you say in america, "my father's died," people immediately are so sympathetic. in glasgow, if you say, "my father's died," glaswegians say, "what size was his shoes?" we have that. >> anthony: janey godley grew up in the east end, married into an organized crime dynasty, worked as a bartender, became a very famous p

that's a question for future research once the archives are open. the vatican archives, i mean. the other thing is south america, yes, the catholic church there was accommodating and helping these refugees for a number of reasons. because, one obvious reason, refugees and people, you know, on the run, as well. one obvious reason is many of these people were catholic. one thing that you probably noticed that these applications forms for travel documents of the international red cross, whenever it asked a question, what religion, it's always catholic. >> we have a question in the back center. >> this is a question for dr. steinacher. how did the nazis finance their travels, and was there bribery involved? >> this is also very good question. and i have very little time to answer that, but as i said, there was no central secret organization with unlimited money and gold in swiss bank accounts. this is fiction. it really depends from case to case. i give you a good example. two examples. one is the case of josef mangale, probably well known to everyone here and his crimes that he com

the national archives hosted this hour-long event. stephen puleo: this building was constructed in the 1930's. it was designed to display the bill of rights, and it opened in 1936. only the bill of rights occupied the case. we had to wait until 1952 to bring all three founding documents together. the story of how the declaration and constitution came to the archives is the one we never tire of hearing. now i would like to introduce jesse kratz, historian of the national

lectured at the library of congress, the national archives, ever presidential libraries and on c-span. he in 2007 and 2006 delivered the herbert hoover related lectures in brussels. he was featured in the andmentary he films landslide the great famine. that was televised nationally on pbs in 2009 and 2011 respectively. were is no doubting that have someone in our midst who has a deep understanding and i and partnership with the national archives of kansas city lucky new to this presentation titled uber hoover -- herbert hoover: the great humanitarian. please welcome to the stage dr. george nash. [applause] dr. nash: thank you for that very gracious introduction. and indeed anre honor to be deep guest this evening of the national world war i museum and the moral introduction with the national archives. , holly ides,nk you and haley sheriff for all of the courtesies you have extended to make here in kansas city. it is a pleasure to be in this room at this time. summer of 2014, the nations of europe north america, australia and new zealand and mark the centenary of the first world war. h

i'm just enjoying this altar call for english majors to discover the archive. english majors, we need you. certainly things like ancestry, census records, there's a micro history and the local history aspect to this that's important and one of the things that i think is encouraging about both of the books and what maybe we could consider a movement because there's a few more is that there's a case to be made for local history as national history, local history as a bigger story. the subtitle is not simply a marketing strategy, it's blah blah blah in america or bob loblaw america civil-rights century. this is about making those connections. one of the things that i've arisen on before is because that this is a model.this is a compelling story that i was drawn to and is a series of events that i think are singular and allow you to tell a single type of story that's structured in my case as an act in three parts, three generations of racial struggle and racial violence in america. every community has a version of this, i gave a presentation that your county could

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