>> hello, i'm carla hayden. as many of you know and have experienced this week, our country is facing many many challenges. the continuing struggle for human rights, civil rights and freedoms goes back to our founding. 's cultural institutions like libraries and museums are offering historical context, but also reexamining and continuing to look at how we present information and history to our republic, and making sure that we are part of the solution on the road, and not part of the problem. i am honored tonight, and today, to be joined by the secretary of the smithsonian institution, dr. lonnie bunch. he is also and was the founding director of the national musicians museum of african american history and culture and, as a librarian, my first purchase, very recently, was online, his new book, a fools errand, creating the national museum of african american history and culture in the age of bush, obama, and trump. we appreciate you, doctor bunch, for being with us today, and we have a lot of things we would lik

. >> hello, i'm carla hayden.f you know and have experienced this week, our country is facing many many challenges. the continuing struggle for human rights, civil rights and freedoms goes back to our founding. 's cultural institutions like libraries and museums are offering historical context, but also reexamining and continuing to look at how we present information and history to our republic, and making sure that we are part of the solution on the road, and not part of the problem. i am honored tonight, and today,

eastern, library of congress holds an online conversation between librarian of congress carla hayden and smithsonian secretary lonnie bunch about how historical institutions can come to the country's aid. p.m.p.m. eastern, 5 pacific on lectures in history, university of pittsburgh professor marcus retiker teaches a class about the atlantic slave trade. >> bert: my name is bert barnett. i am one of the park rangers and we are going to talk about somebody who was not here but did a great deal of business during the war. first we are going to talk about general william t. sherman and what he did in 1865, at least the first avenue his campaign in 1865 when he left the state of georgia and began to move north into south carolina. he built up a little bit of a base at the conclusion of that campaign and began to talk about heading

librarian of congress, carl hayden and lonnie bunch about how cultural institutions can come to the country's aid during difficult times. the library of congress provided this video. carla: hello. welcome to a very special edition of national book festival presents. as many of you know and have experienced, this week, our country is facing many many challenges. struggle forg human rights, civil rights and freedom dates back to our founding. cultural institutions like libraries and museums are offering historical context but re-examining and continuing to how we present history and information to our publics and making sure we are part of a solution on the road and not part of the problem. so i am honored tonight and they to be joined by secretary of the smithsonian institution, dr. lonnie bunch. he is also and was the founding director of the national museum of african american history and myture and, as a librarian, first purchase, very recently was his new book, a fools errand, creating the national museum of african-american history and culture in the age of bush, obama, and trump. we appreciate you for being with we have a lot of things we would like to cover. free

librarian of congress, carl hayden and lonnie bunch about how cultural institutions can come to the country's aid during difficult times. the library of congress provided this video. carla: hello. welcome to a very special edition of national book festival presents. as many of you know and have experienced, this week, our country is facing many many challenges. struggle forg huri