online archives function as metanyms, stand-ins for the physical archives. but the relationship is rarely clear. the digitization of old photographs, of course, has its virtues. it provides greater access to materials, minimizes the wear and tear on fragile pictures, and promotes new ways of working with digital records. and often, at least in academic and institutional archives, the digital archives do include enough metadata to let one make smart use of a digitized photograph. but commercial archives generally include less data. they focus on the image while ignoring the materiality of photographic print. and they push historians back to thinking about photographs as mere illustrations, and make it difficult to engage them as physical objects or as primary sources that in and of themselves raise historical questions. commercial archives also exercise invisible forms of censorship. i've been watching what happens since bill gates sold his image licensing company, corbis images, to visual china group in january 2016. the corbis images of the tiananmen square

and then in 2012 i became a student archives technician at the national archives at riverside and then in -- i >> got my master's degree in library and information science at that same time from san jose state university. and then in 2014, i moved to st. louis and worked at the national archives at st. louis as a preservation technician and then in 2016 i moved back to california and then in my current role as an archives specialist. i'm going to turn it over to randy here and he can give you his bio. >> thank you, james. welcome, everybody. i want to thank mr. garza for his wonderful introduction and i also want to thank the friends of the north hollywood library and the sherman oaks friends of library as well for inviting us to come out here. i hope you enjoyed the earlier events. james did a great job so if you saw it, let him know that you appreciate what he did. ok? >> good job, james. so for myself i have been with the national archives basically this unit in southern california since 1995. i took a summer job as a file clerk basically just pulling the refiling materials upon cus

archives at riverside. so i'm going to turn it over to randy here and you could give you his bio. >> well, thank you, james. welcome, everybody. i want to thank mr. garza for his wonderful introduction and thank the friends of the north hollywood library and the friends of the sherman oaks for inviting us to come out here. i hope you enjoyed the earlier events. jams did a great job. if you saw it, let him know that you appreciated what he did. okay. good job, james. very nice. so for myself, i have been with the national archives this unit in southern california since 1995. i took a summer job as a file clerk basically pulling and refiling materials upon customer requests. that summer job has now lasted 24 years and i'm still looking for a real job. i haven't grown up yet. but i do love i do. i love giving the presentations. i love providing access of our holdings to the public. so if you are able to see the presentation earlier, james covered a lot of how to find resources at the national archives. i'm goi

while the archives of the k.g.b.now the f.s.b. had kept parts of the witness reports including that of kay to high as a man as well as the main proof hitlist teeth and. what where were the bodies the charred remains of hitler and eve a bomb. passed on computer through the remains were handed over to the chief of staff of the 3rd army stationed in east germany. every time the army was relocated they took them with them but they had to dig them up and bury them in a new secret hiding place. in 1970 then k.g.b. chief yuri andropov advised leonid brezhnev to get rid of the charred remains that had followed the 3rd army for 25 years the secret document about the destruction of the nazi leaders remains was discovered in the archives in 1992 and the case was closed. 47 years later all the evidence of hitler's gunshot suicide in his bunker on april the 30th 945 was finally made public. nothing stays secret. everything comes out in the end. history teaches that or even the best kept secrets come out in the end. it's. just the

if you are a nerd archives are the best thing ever. i guess said, jackie was good friends of president eisenhower. she was also an epic packrat. she p kept every scrap of paper that ever crossed her desk. that's all in the eisenhower library. i had so much fun. so we go to the archives they give you a finding guide. the list of boxes, you can pull a box at a time. you can only look at so much for the finding guide is this. i don't know what, 60 linear feet of material? so good. she kept everything. she kept every letter, she kept a carbon copy of every letter she wrote. a copy of every letter she received, copies of letters she was cced on. she had copies of letters she asked people to send her because she was curious when they were saying about her and this whole woman astronaut business without telling her. so to keep it straight, i was actually to see what every person was saying and this is not just the women prayed this ended up getting all the way to nasa. it will all be to the president. gerry was sending telegrams to the white

this video is courtesy of the national archives. many of their programs can be found on the national archives youtube channel. >> assumptions about history gives us a fresh -- questioning assumptions gives us a fresh understanding, egging into primary sources and listening to the voices of those not usually heard. today's guest author, stephanie jones rogers has done this in her new book, they were her property, white women as slaveowners in the american south. she uses an impressive assortment to piece together the stories of the slaveholders and the enslaved with the oral histories of formally enslaved people, news paper advertisements, slave records -- sells records, court doctrines and more. two weeks ago we displayed the d.c. emancipation act ended slavery in the district of columbia in 1860 two. among the records generated as a result of this you will find several references to women owners. to come up for example, sot compensation for their freed slaves, one claiming one slave was a gift from her sister and worth $1500. they

while the archives of the k.g.b.now the f.s.b. had kept part of the witness reports including that of k. to hoist a man as well as the main proof hitlist teeth under knockin. but where were the bodies the charred remains of hitler and eva bomb. the remains were handed over to the chief of staff of the 3rd army stationed in east germany $970.00 the then k.g.b. chief yuri andropov advised leonid brezhnev to get rid of the charred remains that had followed the 3rd army for 25 years the secret document about the destruction of the nazi leaders remains was discovered in the archives in 1992 and the case was closed. 47 years later the evidence of hitler's come shop so was signed in his bunker on april the 30th 945 was finally made public. nothing stays secret. everything comes out in the end. of the history teachers that are sure even the best kept secrets come out in the end but it can go because my business isn't just the governments that followed never felt it necessary to explain themselves to the people the news in th

getting to live seven minutes from the archive. i think my last question here and ensure it's one a lot of us want to know are any of them still with us? we've got about 32. 1800 in training. we are down to 32 of course so it's one of which they are pretty amazing. >> host: we have one more question that we don't want to miss. in your research did you ever come across loretta? shortly after the return of my first day i was introduced to a little old lady i didn't think to teach me, a 22-year-old recent combat, anything. i know of her but i didn't have the chance to meet her in person. this is a similar story that i've heard from a lot of people. then they learned. they wanted to keep flying and some came back into number where flight instructors and different things like that. it's always fun to meet one of the flight instructor kids down the road they certainly taught them in a special way. >> host: i can only imagine getting to learn some of those ladies. that is a great question. they tried immediately after the war ended and go

documents that the national archives has available on site here. and so, i was able to find phrisby! so i said, wait, there he is! so, i found phrsby freeland chew. i found angelica's husband, his obituary in this newspaper. and obituaries are really interesting. even though they're macabre, they're very dark, very depressing pieces of kind of archival fragments, if you want to call them that, but nevertheless, they often give these really rich descriptions of these people's lives, of the deceased person's life, and you can really see kind of migrations. you can see all kinds of things. and that's what apparent in phrisby's obituary. so it tells us that, yes, he was married to mrs. chew. it does not identify her by name, but he does refer to yazoo county, some, which is where james skinner is at the time he placed his lost friends advertisements. so we have that. that's one corroboration. then he talks about -- it talks about his children. it talks about the fact that he was on his way to the government at washington, so it tells us he had been app

all of our programs are archived on our website.historic sites, archival films and see our schedule of upcoming films at c-span.org/history. world war ii veteran norman hatch talks about his time serving as a cameraman for the marine corps. he captured footage of the battle of tarawa that helped marines win an academy award for best documentary short in 1945. the world war ii museum spoke with mr. hatch for its oral history collection. this is the first of a two-part interview. norman: one day i was doing press releases and i got -- i went up into the head on the third floor. i am standing there. commandantn but the in civilian clothes. he looks at me and says you are marine, aren't you? i say yes, sir. he says how do you like your job ? what are you going to tell the commandant? i liked it very much because i went to

i first got interested in presidential commissions after stumbling into the archives of a late 1960s presidential commission created by lyndon johnson called the president's commission on income maintenance. the commission has been mentioned in the literature before by scholars like michael katz but no scholar has ex ploered this particular presidential commission in depth. lyndon johnson created the commission in january of 1978 and charged it with investigating, quote, in i and every plan however inn conventional to meet the income needs of all american people. in announcing the creation of the commission johnson said, quote, our challenge in the coming years is to extend human insurance and human dignity to persons who are not able to buy their own protection. the commission was to focus specifically on the possibility of instituting a universal basic income. remarkably i would argue the idea of universal basic income was not quite a radical idea by the late 1960s, in fact, there was a broad consensus from across the political spectrum behind impl ofmenting some form of guaranteed

this video is courtesy of the national archives. this and many of their public programs can be found on the national archives' youtube channel. >> today's guest, sarah milov, explores the connections between cigarettes and american political institutions throughout the 20th century and describes the shift in attitudes towards tobacco use. sarah milov is an assistant professor of history specializes in the 20th century united states. a former fellow of the virginia foundation for the humanities. she has written on the tobacco industry, the rise of ezbrets and the grassroots fight to battle climate change. her research explores how organized interest groups and everyday americans influence government policy. and today is day two of the publication of "the cigarette." please welcome sarah milov. [ applause ] >> thank you so much for being here. it's such a treat and an honor for an historian of the united states to come and speak at the national archives. the other day, i saw that the twitter account of the national archives tweeted ou

marjorie is asking an archives at cw what kinds do you have? >> guest: i'm glad you asked about that. the wasp archives at texas university are really never ending. i started using those archives and 96, 1996 it just started there is one collection of boxes. today it goes on for thousands of boxes worth of material. they have everything they had research that i need with its oral history saved in over the year, the letters official documents, pictures that they have donated, people have donated but then they do they have uniforms, banners and shoes and purses and bags, trunks and anything you need. one of the things they do because they are in archive, as they loaned materials out to libraries or to museums a few are a museum and want to have an exhibit about the wasps, you contact them they will loan you the materials when you're done with them you send it back. so they take great care of the materials of the wasp story. as well as other women they hold the women military aviators archives, they just have so much. it really is -- if you're int

american history tv is on c-span every weekend featuring museum tours, archival films, and programs onsidency, the civil war, and more. here's a clip from a recent program. viruses -- and there are many different kinds of them, can be scattered with each particle of saliva and mucus. when one sneezes or coughs, do not think for a moment that cold producing viruses are spread only by sneezing and coughing. if by some magic the tiny particles of saliva and mucus could be made visible as a black smudge, we would quickly realize in how many other ways we are apt to scatter viruses and bacteria all around us. for instance, jane here has a cold. look at that smudge. look at those germs she leaves on the doorknob. here is bob's hand picking them up. book.ansfers them to a habit ofng a bad wetting her finger to turn pages, carries the germs from the book to her mouth, and then passes them along on a pencil to and -- ann. ann carries them home and leaves dinner table.mily even during an ornery conversation, saliva and mouth andleave our reach others when they breathe. just live or how breath be

two weeks ago here at the national archives we displayed the d.c. emancipation act which ended slavery in the district of columbia in 1862. among the records generated as a result of this law you'll find several references to women owners. teresa sofl and elizabeth ringgold sought compensation for freed slaves, with ringgold claiming that perry goodwin, a gift from her sister, was worth $1,500, they were her property has received a number of highlily favorable reviews. it's called a stunning new book. paris of the "new york times" says it's a cogent corrective that examines how historians have misunderstood and misrepresented white women as reluctant actors. in the "washington post" elizabeth bar ren writes jones-rogers has an -- one that sets a new standard for scholarship on the subject. stephanie jones-rogers is an associate professor of history at the university of california berkeley, specializing in african-american history, gender history. they were her property won a learner scott prize for the best doctoral dissertation in u.s. women's hist

you archival films on public affairs each week on our series on american history tv. one of our recent programs. >> each week, american history tv's reel america rings you archival films that provide historical context for public policy issues of the 21st century. [explosions] our naval barrage swept the dawn,beaches and by ready to take on their cargoes of infantry. [explosions] while the big guns fought it out our firstn nazis, wave moved in. hundreds of planes provided air cover. operating in short, rocket boats showered the enemy. [explosions] close to the obstacle barricade. [explosions] the troops waded through deep water to the shore, many never reached it. [gunfire] the larger -- came shouldering in with more infantry to hard won foothold. ♪ ♪ >> coast guard rescue cutters were already going about their grim business of picking up the wounded and the dead. ♪ >> you can watch archival films on public affairs in their entirety on our weekly series, reel america. saturday at 10:00 p.m. and sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern, here on american history tv. >> each week, am

who are interested in using the c-span archives in the classrooms and in research. we have three excellent panelists that all have different areas of interest under this topic. they're going to speak for five to seven minutes and then take a lot of q&a. we're going to start with margaret owe naira. so there is her introduction. you can read it. i don't need to read it for you. i need to do what i was taught to do which is in the brian lahm school of questioning is ask the questions that are not on there. margaret, where do you grow up? >> i grew up in little rock, arkansas. >> how did you make the move from little rock, arkansas, to -- where did you go to school? >> northwestern university. >> to northwestern? >> yes. >> how did do you that? >> i wanted to go to a big city. i wanted to be somewhere other than the south. and i got in. >> how did you choose history? >> you know, my high school is little rock central high school. and i was in my senior year was the 30th anniversary, the fall of 1987. 13th anniversary of the crisis at central high. little rock nine retu

you think about newspapers and you think about how are newspapers archived? well we know a lot about how to archive print news because you could go to any library and you could find a newspaper from 1849 and you could read the entire paper for the entire day in 1849. you could see all of the ads, you could see all of the copy and who wrote what and that is a useful tool for history, but you can't actually go to say the "boston globe" and see everything that was written in the "boston globe" on a given day in 2002 because there is the print paper and then the digital version of the paper and then the website and then there is social media and there is god knows what else -- >> and the ads. >> yeah, the ads change for everybody. so you can't see those. and they're like made with a proprietary ad technology that doesn't exist any more. because 2002 is ages ago in internet time. so this is a really big problem. the fact that we've invested in all of the technological systems for creating media, it is really great. but at the same time we're shooting ourselves in

archival: the great news rang through the land. a defeated europe. no wonder they now rejoiced. joy hunter was in the crowd that day. i think it was just hysteria, really. people probably didn't quite know how to behave, it had been so tight and suddenly it was over, and what did over mean? in fact, over meant a lot of hardship. but the britain that now emerged had been changed by the experience. the state had mobilised the entire population to the war effort. the government would now assume vast new powers in peacetime too. archival: a spate of british railway building astonished the world. much of the economy was taken into public ownership — the railways, the coal mines, iron and steel. archival: now don't forget, choose your doctor now. a new welfare state and national health service would bring state provision into every home in the country. there would be no going back to the old normal of the 1930s, for war had created a new public mood. to a remarkable degree, and one that is not perhaps always present now, that includes pe

you think about newspapers and how our newspapers are archived.we know a lot about how to archive print news because you can go to any library and find a paper from 1849 and read the entire paper. you can see all of the ads all the copy, and that's a really useful tool for history, but you can't go to the boston globe and see everything that was written in the boston globe on a given day in 2002, because there's the print paper and then there's the digital version of the paper and the website and then there's social media, and god knows what else. the ads change for everybody, so you can't see those. and there's proprietary ad technology. >> this is a really big problem, the fact that we have invested in all of these technological systems for creating media, it's really great, but at the same time we are shooting ourselves in the foot because in five years you're not going to be able to read any of today's news. especially not the more cutting edge digital news, so digital -- are hard to preserve. . >> you are picking up that mirror for your own i

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archival: to our men in uniform, from the girls at home.he song encapsulates that, and radio is the means of connection. it's really nice to think, if you're separated, that your families back home are listening to the same thing at the same time and the song itself, of course, we'll meet again, encapsulates exactly the wistfulness and the sadness but also the determination to meet again that so many soldiers and civilians felt. archival: a personal letter in words and music, sincerely yours, vera lynn. you think, well, now, what am i going to close the programme on, it's got to be something. oh, yes, i know, i've been singing a nice song in the theatres, variety theatres, we'll meet again, that's a nice... so that's when i chose we'll meet again as my fading out song on radio. and, of course, it's never left me. clearly we can overdo the comparisons with war, but there is something stunningly similar here, which is this whole notion of enforced separation and we're willingly doing it because we have some sort of faith that there will be an

was tickled to find that all three of our panelists are in the c-span archives. they have all appeared on c-span. here is margaret o'meara talking about the vietnam war and the protests. this is part of a program that does called lectures in history. they go across the country and they look for professors teaching historical issues in the classrooms and actually bring the cameras into the classrooms and get a class. >> 1960s is a time, yes, when the modern left, liberal left comes together and you have strong leftist movements, both within and outside formal politics, a push towards more leftist solutions. but it is also the moment when the modern right is coming together. because there are also young people on college campuses, young people in high schools, young people who are just post-collegiate, who have very different ideas about what america is and what it should be. >> margaret o'meara has a book called "the code in silicon valley and the remaking of america." it seems crazy that that's history now, but it is for some of us. >> it is. >> i turn it to you.

and call for a search of his national archives. friday, mika brzezinski pressured why he wouldn't do it, in spite that they don't contain personnel records? >> personnel records aside, are you certain there was nothing about tara reade in those records? >> i'm absolutely certain. >> and if so, why not approve a search of her name in the records? >> approve a search of her name? >> yes, i think that might be related to her record in the university of delaware records? >> there is nothing. they're not there. >> those files are meant to be sealed until two years after biden leaves public life. but what should we make of his decision not to allow a search of her name which leads me to this week's survey question at smerconish.com, should joe biden allow access to the archives at the university of delaware for anything related to tara reade? joining me patty solis doyle, the onetime campaign manager for hillary clinton. patty, should there now be a search for anything related to tara reade at the university of delaware? >> no, i don't t

all of our programs are archived on our website at c-span.org /history. you can watch lectures in college classrooms, tours of historic sites, and see our schedule of upcoming programs at c-span.org/history. >> ♪ narrator: may day in moscow's vast red square. moscow sees its first may day parade in four years of total war. military attaches of allies, american, british and french, are guests of honor. marshal stalin with other high soviet officials mount the reviewng stands to russia's fighting men. >> ♪ at 10:00 a.m., the vast red army band is first in hails theviet russia victory. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ narrator: japanese military observers see the mighty display of russian armed power. >> ♪ narrator: russian rocket launchers on american lend lease trucks. the soviet union's valiant ally celebrates a holiday and salutes the great victories in europe. >> ♪ narrator: into a police court in oslo, norway, comes this man to plead for his life. one of the war's most notorious traitors faces retribution for his crimes. as the judge enters, at first preliminary trial for a m

the former vice president mentioned national archives. >> they send their papers to the national archives, nancy pelosi, she sent her documents to the library of congress. late senator john mccain sent his papers to arizona state university. a former democratic leaders sent it to his alma mater. a lot of these papers and documents are historical and legislative, sometimes they leave out the bad stuff. >> bret: last thing, if the complaint existed, why wasn't it found before? >> that's a big question, because you don't know something could have been lost or covered up. joe biden has been in the public eye for about 50 years, he's run for president multiple times. he's been vetted for vice president, their opposition researchers out there, they leave no stone unturned. one thing that's possible, if it exists, it it exists, we would've heard about it a long time ago. if it does not exist, how does joe biden prove? >> bret: it thank you, let's bring our panel early tonight. susan, chief congressional correspondent, and bill mcgurn, columnist for "the wall street journal." if susan, your thoug

the story guides the collection that makes the archive and then when people go to the archives to see about the past, what they come out with is often a replica of the story that guided the archive to begin with. there's more going on that i will get back to that there is this intense relationship going on and so what to do with native americans here and basically i talk in the book about how the ongoing presence of native americans both then and now had represented american exceptionalism and difficult problems because american exceptionalism often doesn't begin with the native americans it begins with the arrival of the europeans and it's a story meant to till a certain kind of values which just don't work if you begin with the history of native americans so here is how various people solve the problem they basically make them part of the wilderness setting against which the story of america holds so they are just kind of here. they are part of the blank slate for when the story begins. you can see that happening here especially. she was partly famous for this and this is the first

we referenced the ford company's archive.one watching this can go online and find extensive access to henry ford and ford motor company, and also with mr. edison. how did the particular companies themselves deal with these less savory parts of their main characters? jeff: i would say that, as i was researching the book, the ford motor company was very helpful, though somewhat concerned that the book might just be about some of ford's less attractive beliefs and qualities. but if you go to the ford museum in dearborn and you go to the benson ford research center there, they have right there for anyone to see who wants to, every copy of the dearborn independent with all the very unfortunate things that are in it. their archives contain the materials that demonstrate just what an antisemite henry ford was. thomas edison research park in west orange, new jersey, the same thing. the archives of their lives that had been preserved for us are very objective, and you can find in them what you look for. when i'm writing a book, i'm no

it's in the senate archives or the national archives and not over here.k he may move to that point, but not just yet. >> christine, i want to bring you in on an argument you're making. you're saying this allegation against biden and the way it's processed in our politics gets to a double standard. you're saying you believe biden is due and is owed the presumption of innocence but that biden and his allies are applying a standard here that they have not always applied. explain what you're arguing there. >> well, look, i think like anyone accused of a serious crime, joe biden deserves due process and a presumption of innocence that is not the standard that's been applied by advocates in cases like brett kavanaugh but on college campuses for example, when joe biden was vice president, the joe biden administration expanded title nine regulations on sexual assault on campus and an after effect, many young men accused of sexual assault were not given due process, not allowed to confront accusers. i want to know from joe biden, look, i'll presume his innocence b

maybe not as home of the archives. and this is a book that is very special for her. i'm sure they're going to talk about the journey to getting this book to publication. i want to start. how did you get started on this topic and when did you learn about it. what hooked you in. thank you so much for having me. i would like to show this picture it so siri. this is the moment in time where i met carol bailey and curtis pitt. in all of the aviation people who might be on here. one of the coolest airplanes ever was designed by him. i went by myself and couldn't get any friends to go with. and someday pointed out that the shade of the hangover there. and he introduced me to carol. as the 1981 aromatic championship. i found out that she formed that in world war ii. i never heard of that. i thought what if i've never heard of them it was an incredible woman who did a lot of great things i will set myself on a mission and 27 years to get here. but i've been sending them and telling their story ever since. >> that is fantastic. it's deftly part of the war that a lot of us are

this video is courtesy of the national archives. it can be found on the national archives youtube channel. guest explores the connection between cigarettes and american political institutions throughout american history and describes a shift in attitude toward tobacco use. she is a back -- professor of history. a former fellow of the virginia foundation for humanities. she has written on the tobacco and the, e-cigarettes, fight to battle climate change. the research describes how everyday americans influence government policy. today is day two of the publication. .lease welcome sarah milov [applause] thank you so much for being here. honorsuch a treat and an for a historian to come and speak at the national archives. the other day i saw that the twitter account of the national archives tweeted out information about this event and i thought as an historian it was kind of namehaving yourself checked by beyonce. this is the mothership so thank you all for coming. cigarette: a political history, seeks to understand tobacco not through t

. >> you can watch archival films on our weekly series, railamerica. reel america. that is all here on american history tv. tv is onhistory c-span3 every weekend, featuring museum tours, archival films and programs on the presidency, the civil war and more. here is a clip from a recent program. >> in the same year, in 1955, we have a 15-year-old teenager who refuses to give up her seat on the bus. in the end, you see everyone rallies around her. she wound up pregnant and then they backed off. in april of that year, a month she has an incident on a bus where she is arrested for resisting to give up her seat. smithober, mary louise refuses to give up her seat before rosa parks. we don't know about her because her father came down and paid her fines before the naacp anything about it. mary louise smith said we were not in the inner circle. we were too dark, we were too poor. the family were catholics. that put them outside of the circle in that sense. we have at least three women who have done the same thing in the same year as rosa parks. the rosao scratch off parks w

that it would not be withthin te national archives.: let's bring in lynda lacasse, the former neighbor of tara reaeade, who has accused democratic presidential candidate jojoe biden of sexual assault. tara reade accused him in 1993. we just played the clip of tara describing what happened. forward just came recently in the business insider peace and has corroborated tara reade's account. this is your first time speaking on television about this. can you tell us what happened in the midid-1990's?s? how did you know tara? tetell us what she told you and why you're coming forward today. >> tara w was my next-door neighboror. i moved into the apartmement rit nenext to her. we became close at that time. we actually -- she told m me abt it when we were h having a conversation. forth in the articicle i was business insider, outside e and i had just receivd some papers. i was upset t about them. she came over. violencealking about because i had experienced viololence myself. she started telling me about joe biden and what he had done. putcally

archive: escorted by the royal guard, the bride groom drives in state through the streets.s. all princes were there. princely patrons with turbans on their heads. dance girls used to be brought there, musicians and all that. that lasted for several days. and he recalls getting his first taste of this other world. for the first time, i saw bread, butter, sandwich, everything. because that was not known to us here. my father said "you eat this. this is bread and this is butter." i liked it. there were small pastries. i still remember that made in england, london, there was one huntly and palmer biscuit. important thing is that the formal photograph of his highness, mahabat khanji iii. the nawab‘s own most legendary indulgence was was his love of animals. his main hobby was for dogs. he was mad after dogs. i think almost all brands and varieties of dogs from all the world were here. he used to arrange marriages for dogs and celebrated parties and then they were sent for honeymoon. sent for a honeymoon! yeah, he used to do it! horns blare with the advent of independence, the po

the story guides the collection that makes the archives and then when people go to the archives to see about the pascoe what they come out with is often a replicate of the story guided the archive to begin with. there's more going on but to get back to in a moment but there is this intense reciprocal relationship going on. what to do with native americans who were clearly here? basically a talk in the book about how the ongoing presence of native americans both then and now has represented for american exceptionalism and especially difficult problem because american exceptionalism often does not begin with native american. it begins with the arrival of europeans. that's with the story begins and the story is meant to tell a certain kind of, come to enhane certain values which ditch don't work you begin with a history of native americans. here's a various people solve this problem. belknap and women and others. basically make native americans a part of the wilderness setting against which the story of america unfolds. they are like the trees, just kind of here, they're part of the blank

the story guides the collection that makes the archive when people go to the archive to see about the past, but they come up with is often is a replica of the story that guided the archive to begin with. as mark which i will get back to in a moment but there's this intense reciprocal relationship going on. so what to do with native americans? talking a book about how the ongoing presence of native americans have represented for american exceptionalism and especially difficult problem. american exceptionalism often does not conflict native americans, it begins with the arrival of europeans. it's meant to tell a kind of value doesn't work the history native american. basically make native americans part of the wilderness setting against which the story of america unfolds so they are kind of like the tree, they're just kind of here. part of the blank slate for when the strike begins when europeans arrived. we can see it here so emma was partly famous for her historical map and this is the first map in her book called an introductory map. it's an account of what the native american nation

introduction, doctor is in a professor at texas woman's university and coincidentally, is home of the archive. and this is a book that is very special for her and i'm sure she will talk about her journey to getting this book to publication. i want to start, something i'm always fascinated by, how did you get started on this topic, when did you learn about it, what hooked you in? >> that's a great question and thank you so much for having me in talking to me today, i would like to show this picture, this is the moment in time where i met carol and that is her in the aviation people who might be on here and no that their buying one of the coolest airplanes over, and in oklahoma of june of 1993, i went by myself, i could not get any friends to go with and somebody pointed out the fact that curtis pitts was in the shade of the hanger over there and he introduced me too carol as a champion of the 1951 championship on his plane and then i found out that she flew in 26 of world war ii. never heard of her and never heard of any of them. i thought if i've never heard of them, who else hasn't and one o

archive: independence has not yet brought them peace.y into horror and mourning. in dramatic scenes, more than a million people died in religious rioting, and many millions more were displaced. this all used to be one, but now it's divided in two. and now the border itself has become a tourist attraction. that way is pakistan? that way is pakistan, about 70 kilometres up north. that is where the india—pakistan border is, which lies along the middle of kutch, which is a geographical valley. at nearly 500 metres above sea level, the highest point, kalo dungar hill, allows us a dramatic view of this geological phenomenon, the rann, or desert of kutch, which continues into pakistan. i wanted to get up closer to this natural wonder. it's quite incredible, the sand. i mean, it'sjust hard crystals, white salt. you can probably taste it. really unusual to see something like this. the further out i walked, the less lovely it became. it's actually quite incredible. it's more like snow or sludge than white sand or white crystals when it gets wet ar

in fact, we had the opening book event here, national archives. in the course of doing the research over many years, i came to really value the photographic archival history. the images, the film, from the vietnam war. helping me understand what i was reading in the text. being a visual person, anyway, i suppose, i gravitated toward it and about four, five, years ago, in fact, created a facebook-based group, vietnamhistory.org, as a way of reaching out to veterans and engaging with them and families and getting more information. and one of the draws, i think, of this group was these great photos that i was finding at the national archives. you know, i was going up to college park and digitizing these and, you know, i hat seen a lot of photos, but a lot of these i'd never seen before and it was such a revelation. and over the course of digitizing these photos, certain names popped in again and again. lathune, acheson, and hanson, and others. and when i formed the facebook group, began putting out these photos which i would digitally enhance, photos

news archive: luneburg heath, germany, may the 4th, 1945.neral admiral von friedeburg will sign first. seven clauses and no mere scrap of paper. rumours of a european ceasefire had been widespread as allied and russian troops linked up along the western front. we've both come a long way together. what does that mean, eh? what does that mean? how do i know? over the next three days, news of the surrender spread across the channel. crowds were on the streets long before the official announcement, swelled by a decision to call a national holiday. in whitehall, prime minister winston churchill waited for his cue from the bbc. generaljodl, the representative of the german high command, and grand admiral donitz, the designated head of the german state, signed the act of unconditional surrender of all german land, sea and airforces in europe, but let us not forget for a moment the toil and effort that lie ahead. darker times that were still very real, away from the cheering crowds in london. the channel islands, occupied by the germans for five yea

the national archives. i am requesting that the secretary of state ask -- the senate ask the archives to identify any record of the complaint she alleges she filed. if there was any such complaint, the record will be there. are you preparing us for a complaint that might be revealed in some way? are you confident there is nothing? mr. biden: i am confident there is nothing. no one ever brought it to the attention of me, 27 years ago. no one that i am aware of in my campaign -- excuse me, my senate office at the time is aware of any such request, and -- or any uch complaint, and so i am not worried about it at all. if there is a complaint, that's where it would be. that's where it would be filed. if it's there, put it out. i have never seen it. host: we will show you more portions of that interview from this morning from the former vice president. you can call us on the democratic line, the republican line and the independent line. if you want to text us, do so at 202-748-8003. please include your name, city