right like you can see a figure like henry david thoreau writing in his journals. i hate museums. they are dead nature collected by dead men right that there's that there's beyond what the the founders of these museums are saying about what they're trying to do we can we can really access the thoughts and experiences of people who you know might be thinking in other ways about you know, what knowledge looks like and what should be included or not. and i guess like the last thing i'd say about that is you know curators might imagine this kind of official route to creating knowledge within a museum collection. but of course we know that there would be things left out stories not told and i think that those kinds of issues and questions really resonate a lot across a lot of the a lot of different institutions during this period yeah, and i think the idea that museum making as a cultural process is so integral to those first years of the early republic. what are some of the ways that these institutions buttress or shape american federal growth and even american identity? yeah, absolut

kind of i pulled for the american artist for the american writers that i think we you know henry david thoreau's my favorite and herman millville, tony morrison my angelou, you know, so people like deeply admire you get the time i read every day all that's all i do in an informs my history books, so i'm reading writing. silent spring revolution on rachel carson, so i'm trying to figure out what was it like in the 1950s when we had the trinity explosion in new mexico than hiroshima nagasaki you have atomic fallout. we're testing weapons in nevada. eventually we find out people get sick. we're spraying ddt and mccarthyisms going on and then there's some people that are saying this is the greatest prosperity ever in the 50s, and then there are people saying we are destroying the planet at a rapid rate. usually it's the novelist to come up with that the destruction narrative ones, you know, the i read a book for example, that's not that well known. that's really good called earth the bides by george r stewart in heat deals with what happens when a strange virus takes sober and kills everybody except