i can only observe what is happening in certain regions based on the archival trail that i have. if a doctor is in a place like south carolina, in a rural place, and it is a big treatment hospital, then i know. if we go into the interior of louisiana, and you have black communities, which they called the 19th century parlance grannies providing health care. according to the logic of the medical division, if said area was in fact given medical assistance and help from a granny or midwife, they would just move along. they only went to regions where there weren't. if there was not a communal roural understanding of health, the doctors did not stay there. they were fine. i always think about this when i was teaching. i remember teaching this to my students. it reminded me on how to think about the sources. one of the things to think about is who is your audience. the audience for all of these doctor reports are federal government officials. the doctors do not speak in a lexicon, or jargon, that would be translatable -- they spoke in a language that would be translatable to federal of

so i began my research with the german archives and they prove to be extremely beneficial. but while doing that research to look at the terrain i went to the map -- the battlefield to see but was written made sense why would i put a machine gun here? why is that type of order so the neck step is the doctrine and did it make sense from the archival research? and then to add science but archaeological digs but they say there was a us paul broca and an evidence? and finally what about the analysis? shipping off to those who have no interest says yes or no. sova multi disciplined approach plus archaeology plus for the six equal a high degree of accuracy. this delineates the archives that were visited to garner the information to dig deep into the york story. in the end it was 1,000 out -- hours in the archives and 1,000 on the ground then looking for the artifacts specifically. some of the vital components is the people of the maps are photographed. they are there waiting to be found. you can see in the upper left that this was put together in 1929 after the americans got wind

obviously, you start in the archives. and i would ask any aspiring researcher out there not just to focus on north american archival data. that's a big problem with my view a big problem of american researchers, is we have a bias towards what's conveniently available on side of the atlantic. if your story deals with something in france or england or germany, you have to visit the around archives. i know there might be a language barrier, it's cost prohibitive got kit. but if you want to get the story right, got to do it that way. so i began my research, of course, in the states and then in the german archives, and the german archives proved extremely beneficial. while doing that research, of course, taking a look at the terrain, looking at what the americans and germans said about the battle. i went to the battlefield, spent 100 days there altogether and see if what was written made sense from a soldier's point of view with terrain analysis. why would i put a machine gun here? why would the americans execute this kind of

going into the archives i couldn't go into the archives up with whole papers of ota benga so you have to look in unexpected places and you have to look harder and you have to go to the people who kept him. you have to go wherever you think there may be something. after a while the interesting thing about this project, while it was so horrid the first two years and at one point i thought i may have to give the money back. i'm not going to be able to do this. it's too hard. things just started tumbling out of closets. it's like when you look so long it's like you hit something and then it started unfolding. i felt like i was being stalked by a ota benga. look there are, oh no what they are. i was having these incredible finds. i couldn't have even imagined that i would be able to literally trace his footsteps on her almost daily basis in 1904 in 1905, in 1906. i could never have anticipated the kind of detail that i was able to get of his life. that's because the elite people of new york society kept a lot of records. they didn't feel the need to hide anything because who was going to l

archive archived the web since 1996, having robot crawlers contacting every web page and site everyths, take a snapshot and start again, snapshot, snapshot. it's starting to get big. >> reporter: how big? really big. we archive at a billion pages a week. we are about 450 billion pages that are available through the way-back machine. it's enormous. >> reporter: the online way-back machine allows anyone to rummage through the decades gone buy. you type in a web address, and it shows a past version, and you select a time, and you say "i want to surf the web as it was in, say, 2004 or 1998", and go and explore, and the idea is to try to keep the web alive even though the servers may be long gone. >> reporter: unlike books in a library or enscriptions carved in stone, the internet is a bunch of electrodes blipping around, raising questions about durability. specialists are concerned as hardware, software and computer coding languages change over time. vast amounts of knowledge may be lost, locked in obsolete digital formats that can no longer be accessed. >> there are things 10, 20 years

rally people do not archive things the way we do. there are very many reasons for that part of that is the climate or the tradition of story with the notion of history that is very fluid history is something you share with somebody else. it is removable but to say that is wrong i remember it to from a. so there were hundreds and hundreds of photographs and trophies and ticket stubs from the detroit tiger games , i will not give it all away but the of but gave away so much information and. i looked at these is it okay to look? i would spend many days. they would say you can take them with you. i visited the home of one of the oldest swimmers and i forget which say but i wonder what they think of may. to have a three-year for paper shopping bags and this happened over and over again with everyone that i visited >> the untold story and their quest for olympic glory >> and i was in my late 20s and might be funny. i thought it might be funny to hang had exactly one year. in so we called him up with director with the democracy and then the

archive has been archiving the worldwide web since '96. there are robot crawlers going to every website every two months take a snapshot, and everyagain snapshot, snapshot. it's starting to get big to go we archive 1 billion page as week. we're 450 billion pages available through the way back machine. it's enormous. another his online way back machine allows anyone to rummage through digital decades gone by. >> you type in a web address then it shows what are the past versions of them. you select the time and you say i want to serve the web as it was and take 2004 or 1998. and go and explore the idea to try to keep the web alive even though the servers may be long gone. >> but unlike books in a library or in inscriptions carved in stone, the internet is really just a bunch of electrons flipping around. that raises questions about digital durability. many specialists are deeply concerned that as hardware, software and computer coding languages change over time, vast amounts of knowledge may essentially be lost, locked in digital format that

joe jackson: i went to a lot of archives. i went -- the biggest was the lindbergh archives in st. louis where they kept everything about the flight. and then bird collected letters and everything -- byrd collected letters and everything, at the research institute in ohio state . some of these guys published books. i searched the archives on all of them that i could find. i also flew in a crop duster so i could get the feel for these little old planes and how bumpy the air felt. i spent a lot of time on this. a lot of the collections the letters and papers are in the library of congress or the air and space museum. so the library of congress the manuscript division has an incredible amount. as does the air and space museum. >> thank you. joe jackson: write down here -- right down here. this fellow. >> first question. involves nothing that you spoke about. i happen to share the initials of a fellow named bruno hoffman. -- haupmann. the person who is ostensibly tried for for the kidnapping of the lindbergh baby. does your book touch on that at all? joe jackson: slightly. most of the

enough existent material enough people living who remembered, with whom i'd be able to triangulate archival material and try to figure out what the story really was because it has calcified into this incredible myth or legend. no one had written it down. in any long form at all. and any short form. no books no really long article. nothing on the mainland since then 1930s and '40s. for all of those newspaper article existed many of them in archives that were in japanese, some in hawaiian, but a lot of them -- "new york times" and the things i mentioned places are mentioned. german newspapers, australian, british newspapers. so as i began to look at what was existent, was there was and whether i could pull from the memories of men and women in their 90s and pull from them, only with their permission, work with them, and ask them, interview them and try to bring them to a deeper level of remembrance. i found that they could remember more deeply as we talked, and then i could take materials they remembered and match it with the public record in the newspapers, and then match it with their scrap

we need to do the hard step of going in archives. what the internet can do with some of those documents, an increasing number are available on the internet. second you can directly contract contact other experts on the idea of sending a letter or making a phone call. you don't have a clear record talking on the phone. it has those advantages. i would not hurt -- i never used a quote from somebody else's boat. so if i read about another historian and they take a quote, i have to go back to the original source because i can't trust exactly how they quoted it. it's not a pejorative to them. they may have cut it out in some way. i always have to go back to the original sources but the internet can help you find the sources can't actually access some of them and can be drawn on as a political resource. it has speeded up how quickly i can do a book that i think is credible history. take the time cut in half. >> one thing about richard's project. if you're in just an experience of the people imprisoned, there are a few memoirs, they miss me

the first screening of the films was held at the archives last saturday. the audience was bigger than she expected. it included people that lived through the battle and young people learning about it for the first time. >> translator: civilians were the biggest victims. i came to understand that by looking at the film. >> translator: i think everyone should know about what happened in the past and understand it then we can build a peaceful world. >> translator: more people should see the images one of the ugliest in history and better understood and help contribute to world piece. she hopes the films will continue to tell the story of the battle of okinawa even after she's gone and help people around the world learn its harrowing lessons. >>> we'll have more stories throughout the day and our special coverage of the war 70 years on. later, we'll take you like to okinawa where a memorial service will be held. >>> june 23rd 1945, the end of more that two violent months that became known as the battle of okinawa. 200,000 people died from the fighting in the u

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were held in the national archives. at the ronald reagan presidential library researched and written correspondence monitored conversations with foreign leaders and give speeches and much more. the book has created from a number of sources into the "washington post" that the legacy continues to fuel the choices facing his would-be successors and the astute biography is further evidence that the 40th president continues to cast a long shadow over a largely conservative political order. please welcome h. w. brands to the stage. [applause] >> thank you for that kind introduction. i'm delighted to be back at the national archives because i can say that none of the books that i've written in this series of which reagan is the last would have been possible without the records in the national archives. so keep up the great work and make it possible for people who might need to do what i do. the book i'm going to talk about today is in fact a final volume of the series i started about 20 years ago. and it was originally planned

i go into the archives. when i really want to do is get to know people. i consider this to david and many other historians. they know what i mean. otherwise it seems kind of strange. the people i write about are more real to me than most of the people i see on the streets every day. this is something that scares my wife. she has gotten used to it after all these years. it really is true. and what you begin to do when you know you know this is when you get to a situation and you can predict what they're going to do and they do it. at that point you think, ok, i really have reached some kind of understanding. much of the research is technical. the core piece of research is i read other people's mail. i mean, that is what i do. in the 19th century the thing i like about these guys is i really came to respect the business letters. to the point, not long, has to i can't, guys honest, but i be 50 -- has to be pithy. i can't, guys honest, but i would call them frank. they say things that i couldn't believe there were saying until i come to the bottom of the lett

archive archived the web since 1996, having robot crawlers contacting every web page and site everyonths, take a snapshot and start again, snapshot, snapshot. it's starting to get big. >> reporter: how big? really big. we archive at a billion pages a week. we are about 450 billion pages that are available through the way-back machine. it's enormous. >> reporter: the online way-back machine allows anyone to rummage through the decades gone buy. you type in a web address, and it shows a past version, and you select a time, and you say "i want to surf the web as it was in, say, 2004 or 1998", and go and explore, and the idea is to try to keep the web alive even though the servers may be long gone. >> reporter: unlike books in a library or enscriptions carved in stone, the internet is a bunch of electrodes blipping around, raising questions about durability. specialists are concerned as hardware, software and computer coding languages change over time. vast amounts of knowledge may be lost, locked in obsolete digital formats that can no longer be accessed. >> there are things 10, 20 yea

really big. >> we've been archiving at 1 billion page as week at this point. we are about 450 billion pages that are available through the way back machine. it's enormous. >> his online way back machine allows anyone to rummage through digital decades gone by. you type in a web search, you can search the web as it was in 2004 or 1998 and explore. the idea is to keep the web alive even though the servers may be long gone. >> but unlike books in a library or inscriptions carved in stone the internet is really just a bunch of electrons blipping around. that raises questions about digital durability. many specialists are deeply concerned that as hardware, software and computer coding languages change over time, that's the amount of knowledge that you think could be lost. >> writer and historian. >> now digital preservation is much more like tending a garden. where you have to make sure that the digits stay alive on the machines that are spinning. >> the best spinning. >> to preserve materials is to keep them accessible and keep them loved. >> it will take money an

a nonpartisan watch dog. >> a system of noncompliance, a system of national archive employees supposed to be objective delicately dealing with the potential of illegal activity. >> reporter: entrusted with supervisory authority over the executive branch territories making sure that the records are properly stored but the officers offer precious little authority over hillary clinton. the issue was written about with the preservation of high-level memos generated within s/es. that's within the department's secretary. they will be establishing their own recordkeeping system. after "the new york times" broke the private e-mail system months ago, gary stern privately e-mailed the national archivist himself to say nara does look into allegations of this type. this case if true would present a concern. and james springs, nara's acting inspector general, swiftly e-mailed to ask, were we aware the government e-mail system was not being used by ms. clinton? and it was written back i will talk to james. >> i remain mystified that a private e-mail account went unnoticed or unremarked upon during a

we do know that those archives tightened up and they are much more difficult to get into. mark cramer tells me that and others who try and do research in russia. and there was an opportunity when yeltsin was around when you could walk in the archives and find out all kinds of important things about soviet history and russian history. >> is there some desperate question? nobody is desperate. we're going to have another -- i thought this was a great session session. thank you very much. [ applause ] >>> here on c-span 3 a look at the supreme court's decision to allow same-sex couples to marry in all 50 states. attorneys discussed the ruling house states are responding and whether the decision will affect religious freedoms. it's being hosted by the heritage first down sdpags will we'll take you there live at noon eastern. >>> later in the day a discussion on education policy for k-12 students. the event focuses on a recent survey of public opinion on school choice and other issues. that's live at 3:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. >>> when congress is in session c-span 3 brings

>> we've been archiving a billion page as week at this point. we're about 450 billion pages that are able through the way back machine. enormous. >> the online way back machine allows anyone to rummage through digital decades gone by. >> you type in a web address and then it shows one of the past versions of them. and you say i want to serve the web as it was in 2004 or in 1998. and go in and explore the ideas to try to keep the web alive even though the servers may be long gone. >> but unlike books in a library or in inscriptions carved in stone, the internet is really just a bunch of electrons blipping around. that raises questions about digital durability. many specialists are deeply concerned that as hardware, software and computer coding languages change over time, vast amounts of knowledge may essentially be lost, locked in obsolete digital formats that can no longer be accessed. >> there are things that are scarcely 10-20 years old that are impossible to read because of obsolete software. now preservationists make sure that digits stay al

>> guest: we found this information in the un archives.archives also operate according to the 30-year rule. they're in terrible disarray. there are thousands upon thousands of documents in stacks on the floor. c-span: where? >> guest: at the un archive on 29th street. c-span: in new york city? >> guest: in new york city, and you sit there and you sift through these and you eventually come up to reports from the field. i received them from egyptian sources, from memoirs of the officers involved, from egyptian documents that existed in one particular archive in cairo, the and (unintelligible) archive, and a very interesting source for me - i also rely heavily on oral histories, and i really went around... c-span: which you did? >> guest: which i did in most cases. i didn't go to syria, i'll tell you. c-span: that's the only place you didn't go? >> guest: yes. c-span: you went to jordan, went to egypt? >> guest: yes. c-span: did you go to saudi arabia? >> guest: no. there were no interviews in saudi arabia. c-span: iraq? >> guest: no. c-span:

so when the atoms in the archives that are clearly and burned and then destroyed. big guy they didn't have a tree or anything in the 19th century. they leave it for me to read. so skating. most of what i do is "what they say about each other. they really do come to dislike each other a great deal. then i have to organize it by corporations. you can literally go on forever. when the yield of anything new really began to diminish, at that point it was time to stop. the of years is a long, long time. >> this is, i must say a prodigiously researched book. the narrative is truly phenomenal. very admirable. richard, he referred to the principles that appear in your story. kind of a grudging thomas for them. you enter into this very, very controversial area of corruption and tucker of their work. i am reminded of things that mark twain said, perhaps, in the famous novel he did the charlie, the gilded age. america has no native criminal class, except for the united states congress. i think another one was i'm once met a congressman who was in so be. why do i repeat myself?

it is been accepted in the archives. >> can you tell us about this camera and how it works? >> it is a rudimentary camera. you put the film in the back. the only working part on the camera is this, what we will call the shutter. it simply blocks the light from coming in or allows the light to come in. that is the photograph. this technology actually dates back to the renaissance. they called it camera obscura. so this is the same except that has film in the back. i have been traveling throughout the country photographing this subject exclusively with this camera. >> if people are interested in your blog, how do they find it? >> pinhole project.com. [drumming] [fife and drum music playing] ♪ [applause] [drumming] >> you are watching american history tv. all weekend every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook at c-span history. the new congressional directory is a handy guide to the 114th congress with color photos of every senator and house member plus bio and contact information and twitter handles. also, district maps, a foldout map of capitol hi

a nonpartisan watch dog. >> a system of noncompliance, a system of national archive employees supposed to be objective delicately dealing with the potential of illegal activity. >> reporter: entrusted with supervisory authority over the executive branch territories making sure that the records are properly stored but the officers offer precious little authority over hillary clinton. the issue was written about with the preservation of high-level memos generated within s/es. that's within the department's secretary. they will be establishing their own recordkeeping system. after "the new york times" broke the private e-mail system months ago, gary stern privately e-mailed the national archivist himself to say nara does look into allegations of this type. this case if true would present a concern. and james springs, nara's acting inspector general, swiftly e-mailed to ask, were we aware the government e-mail system was not being used by ms. clinton? and it was written back i will talk to james. >> i remain mystified that a private e-mail account went unnoticed or unremarked upon during a

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. >> this morning that archive went live. >> generationhiv. >> that way, the history is not lost. >> the archive has been compared to another project, aids memorial quilt conceived here in san francisco 30 years ago. it began traveling the world in 1987. a section of it still hangs in grace cathedral. >> so videos are now the tapestry. >> i've been living with hiv since 1987. >> vince told us he was expecting to be on that quilt. >> i realized if i died i wouldn't live to tell the story. >> salvage operations are underway at the site of the king fire. >> tonight, as reporter george warren explains loggers are busy cleaning up. >> it will be over in 20 days. a tree in this forest hundreds of years. this will be happening to thousands of trees in the el door raddo national forest. all of them marked by a white circle of death. >> the salvage work is beginning in the camp grounds around stumpy meadows reservoir. and also, a sense of urgency to get the camp grounds open again for the 4th of july. the place is going to look different. perhaps the thing that can be said is that the timber

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i have the archives for monro county in the church records plus some of the government records that other people have disposed of a little bit of everything. i've pulled out several things that i thought maybe were just into c-span party. the general atoms into the various things that have happened here over the many years that we have been here. key west they either died or moved out into the spanish at the end of the first period. so it was never occupied when they owned florida. so no one had a permanent population until they bought florida and the commodore david porter was ordered to key west to establish the naval station and it really established the first civilization here who had bought the island. so we consider the letter to his captain in april, 1823 to be the founding document and there are the 17 guns that are to be fired at it o'clock in the morning from the battery in front of the town and it needs to be hoisted the flag step and duty called allentown signed by david porter and he calls it thompson island who was the secretary of the navy starting at about 1870 until 1900

wright was featured on an old archive. probably a few years ago. so i stumbled upon that and just found that it's very relevant today in particular with isis. so i found just the whole book. it was great. >> thank you so much. you know, i had a conversation with a shake of alice are the oldest university in the world in cairo. and the shake was involved in d radicalization projects in the presence. and his analysis was that people move in to radicalism they come through it 1st big step is liberalism. everything is literally true and then it becomes, you know, increasingly radical thoughts was that takes place for the.that you are justifying murder and that is when you become a terrorist at the very center of the circle. he said, if you have people inside the circle his experience was you can move them maybe one concentric circle away from the core maybe two but to get them all the way out was in his experience almost impossible and so the d radicalization project has mainly as its goal trying to unlock the violent aspect of it and try to move peopl

. >> each week, american history tv's reel america bring you archival films that value the story of the 20th century. ♪ narrator: june 9 1944. allied troops in normandy have moved inland. the work of the us navy and coast guard and combined allied sea forces has been done. work not without a price in men and materiel. it all began many months earlier . in chesapeake bay and other sections of the american kos untested sailors and soldiers learned the task from getting from ship to shore. that time, the shore was a friendly one. then, with part of their training finished, they left the united states. late in the winter and all through the spring, great convoys moved eastward across the atlantic. abort all the transports -- aboard all the transports, the troops relaxed and waited for the voyage to end. ♪ along the coasts of great written that spring, -- great britain that spring, training went on. forces practiced landing operations day and night. meanwhile, the larger landing craft, lst's and lci's, carried on their maneuvers, learn to land at a certain spot at a certain time. through all

. >> each week american history's tv -- american history tv's real america brings you archival films that tell the story of the 20th century. >> this is england before june 6, 1944. from these shores the united nations were soon to launch the greatest military expedition of its kind in history, the cross channel investigation of europe against the not the power. fast preparations were being made. guns, half tracks, ambulances. in the midst of all this preparation and training for this structure there went on an opposite kind of preparation preparation for the business of saving a life of easing pain. a through the endless english months, ground forces work with europe. they endure the battle conditions and learn the prime importance of speed. as the grand strategy was mapped they drafted their plans to fit. this position of hospital facilities in england would be as follows. large institutions on -- equipped large institutions -- largest -- a large institutions equipped. it would pass all the casualties of arriving in england. it would be classified and routed to the chair and dashed

my archive. i hope to continue. at some point we have to get that stuff out of the house. >> host: have you approached by anybody except depaul university? >> guest: lbj library asked me if i was using it. there's a writer's collection at texas state university. i don't know why, renting a locker in one of these rental places. i don't know why i am hanging on to boxes and boxes and boxes of stuff. i once offered, i did a story about the sons of jim jones. this was 15 years after jonestown the branch davidian episode happened, it happened pretty much on the same anniversary. this is getting around to saying that i offered precious interviews to california state historical society and they didn't want them. i had decided my editor at the time tina brown asked me if i would go to waco and write about love branch davidians which were under siege. they of -- there are more reporters in branch davidians there. i don't feel i would be useful but i had been removed by the fact that just before this apoca

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you know this because there was one of those 1297 charters in your national archives. and of course, you can read it can't you? --the writing isn't in latin. it was granted by the king "of our own spontaneous goodwill." it was not granted on the advice of his counselors, who merely witnessed it. but, "in return for the grant and gift of these liberties, the archbishops, and bishops barons, knights, freeholders and all of our realm has given us a 15th part." -- pay tax. no longer a product of coercion, it was never the less a contract with the people. liberty and boulevard in return for the taxes the kings needed to maintain his state and wages war. henry the third was still around in 1225 to reissue the charter largely due to william marshall, his regent, the best night in all the world. 00 k-- knight in all the world. he defended the french army at the battle of lincoln. prince louis renounced his claimant to the english throne and promised to never assist the rebels again. the rebels were pardoned. they were still excommunicate but that didn't matter quite as much. h

there are all these jewels in the archives. you would never know it unless you look.think was 1979 boston magazine as mailer to write his own obituary and it's very very funny and it starts off talking about how his old friend bill buckley called him i can't remember what the words were because they were buckley words about 12 syllables long and the acronym was. >> rmv but the piece you are referring to is 1975 a charitable organization was auctioning off tonight with bill buckley. they were looking around saying who could auction off bill buckley alex willmar men mailer so in the archives i found this typewritten here to auction off the night with bill buckley and norman mailer writes this description of what bill buckley is like and i couldn't repeat it because the vocabulary word searches huge and it's really funny. i'd try to figure out what all the words were. i tried to explain it to somebody and they said those words don't make sense. he mailed off a clean copy to ugly right after the auction and he said for you and buckley writes back and he says thanks i have

all or a long article or the mainland from the '30's or '40's for trout with many of them in the archives with the japanese but "new york times" and the places i mentioned, as i begin to look with there i could pull from the

. >> each week "real america" brings you archival films for historical context on public policy issues of the 21st century. -- 20th century. historic events around the world in 1963, featuring the election and coronation of paul the sixth, the launch of the soviet rocket, fighting in south vietnam, the integration of the university of alabama, and president kennedy's trip to berlin. the film was nominated for an academy award and was narrated i actor charlton heston. -- by actor charlton heston. ♪ >> five cities were silent in may. on the first morning of the following month, they awoke with brushes in their hands and a calendar as a canvas. when god made the days, man the calendar and the five cities in june of 19 623. -- of 1963. ♪ >> 9,600,000 people -- were born in the month of june. no one knows what names of future history are among those born. of those that died, pope john xxiii. outside st. peter's basilica they waited with meditation, tears, and prayers. june the second, the vigil outside was over. within the basilica of a gathered in. mass -- in mass. their mission that to el

things that were not in the national archives. not in the library congress. nobody had this stuff except for this college professor who was collecting dust in his office for 25 years. not just new material, new material that told a story. told a story that capone was a scapegoat and the federal government was hell bent to put him away, and part because herbert hoover needed some kind of public relations score. and they wanted to make an example of the nation's most famous bootlegger. and a guy who admitted he was a criminal and yet they couldn't put him away all these years. suddenly i had a story. i had a story about this notorious criminal guilty of so many things and the government can't put him away for even the least of these crimes, tax evasion. and that was it for me. that was the moment where i found found my theme as you put it. hampton: i had a moment very similar to that. early in the research for hell hound i was in memphis at the university of memphis. and a curator at the rare book and manuscript collections there said there's a gentleman by the

all the edge printer records are are -- archived.they transport to city hall and then fed to the machine for counting. that way all the votes cast on the machine are included in the election. voters are encouraged to vote at their assigned polling place. people who cast their vote at a voting place other than their polling place are called provisional voters. they are taken to city hall for verification by staff. verification is to check to see if the voter is registered in san francisco. if the voter is registered in san francisco, their votes are counted for the correct contest they are into. more than 60% of san francisco voters cast their votes by mail. ballots cast by city hall are also by ballot. they are processed at the distribution center at the largest mail processing facility in san francisco. >> so, it's quite a large operation. about 1500 employees throughout 3 shifts. it runs 24/7. 365 days a year and today we have all the ballots for the city of san francisco and today they will be processed for delivery. today we have

each week american history tv's railamerica bring to archival evidence that provides you historical context for public policy issues of the history. this documents the training of iraqi enemy police department. as with the annual day that raised funds for the insurance of police officer's. ♪ >> i will protect. they weren't were mindful of the day when nights in armor defended their cities against invaders. today there are no walled cities but the word is still the truth for the guardians of your city. here they experience every phase. familiar with the workings of the law. men who are proud of their heritage trade the detroit police department, it has deep significance. for 365 days a year, rain or shine, these are the men who served the city of detroit working together as a team for the protection and lives and property of the people of detroit. this is the story behind these men, and the organization that produces them. perhaps the most important part of the story is the selection of the men who were chosen to become members of the department and the methods by which they are trained. tak

"reel america" bring to archival films that help tell the story of the 20th century. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. >> if we as a people act wisely, our annual output can rise from $360 billion to $500 billion. >> the joint committee on the economic report has gone further. they say -- >> our economy can yield a potential gross national product by 1965 by about $555 billion. >> think what this can mean. it means a $155 billion increase in our economy in just 10 years. it means that within this 10 year period, all of us have the possibility to live 1/3 better right now. a power mower, lawn furniture an outdoor grill. the car is two-tone, new with power steering, power brakes, and automatic transmission. this will be a two-car family before long. time is precious to today's housewife. the industry has developed instant rice, frozen juices, easy to serve jesus, and complete precooked frozen dinners. this is creative marketing. an american today and fewer hours produces three times what his grandfather did. most americans are moving into a new middle last. by 1965 t

-- archives in completely new and exciting ways. the contraband camps are essentially these areas set up adjacent to union camp's. this is a better illustration. in many ways, they had tents they had some form of shelter some former resources. what happens is congregated in these camps exacerbates and accelerates the spread of disease. in the mid-19th century physicians have not yet reached the conclusion that will come with microbiology and with bacteriology. it took a long way to understand germ theory. they don't understand that an environment like this you could spread disease very quickly. in the 19th century, people believed you were sick because of your social status or because of a moral issue. perhaps you are a sinner. you were sick because you were shielding out the light of the creator. the reality of it is that they hadn't yet figured out how overcrowding, lack of ventilation, and other issues lead to the spread of disease. as a result, disease could spread a lot in these camps. these images are actually a lot better tha