greetings from the national archives. i'm david ferriero archivist of the united states and it's my pleasure to welcome you to today's virtual book talk with deborah willis author of the black civil war soldier. civil war was the first large and prolonged conflict to extensively be recorded in photographs. this visual record gives us a sense of immediacy that we don't have with paintings and prints from the revolutionary war are other earlier conflicts. we can identify individual faces and we can imagine ourselves on the actual battlefields in the aftermath of the fighting. thousands of those images are now in the national archives but photos of black soldiers are rare. in her book the black civil war soldier deborah willis shows us the faces of a number of black soldiers who took up arms to fight for their freedom. using photographs and the written record she examines not only the individual stories of the soldiers, but also the importance of african-american communities during and after the war. deborah willis is univer

the national archives through the pension records. trying to find stories about black soldiers and and their families and their experiences. this is a portion of henry brewster that's in the archives. it's probably about 1870 where his wife in 1905 susan brewster said her only photograph of her husband requesting its return and we see it still in the archives that the photograph is there in the department of interior and in the archives when she sent the letter she's asking for the return because and this it's the only image that henry was a blacksmith in a lake and a laborer and a tailor. he fought in the war he was injured and she wrote and she had a number of affidavits proving her marriage to two brewster, but also citing that he lost his sight in his eye and his and his right eye and he had kidney problems after he left the army. she was get his pension. so there are a number of letters in the pension records where black women are trying to survive after their husband's death. unfortunately, she'd never received his pension, but h

. >> from the national archives, i am the archivist of the united states and my pleasure to welcome you to today's virtual lecture, author of new career in october 1962 the world came to nuclear armageddon, the discovery of soviet missiles being installed in cuba trigger the most dangerous encounter of the cold war rivalry between the united states and the soviet union. after 13 anxious days they reach a resolution of the danger of mutual destruction. the showdown between two rivals it was a global crisis. they offer an international perspective on the crisis in the new career based on a range of other documents including white house recordings and the john f. kennedy presidential library and previously classified kgb records in moscow. he is a professor of ukrainian history and the director of the ukrainian research institute at harvard university. a leading authority on eastern europe and russia and published extensively on the international history of cold war his books include the last empire, the gates of europe and true noble. a moderator for today's discussion is michael dobbs, h

he had already donated the library to the national archives and the property it was on. and it's surrounded by the springwood estate. so eleanor said give us one year and e we will give it all to the national park service and i'll move up. >> where did the roosevelt family money come from? >> it's an interesting story, because it really is about the wealth and development of new york city. originally the claus von who came to new york probably around 1660. he started out as a farmer. and then over the generations they became investors. they owned property. they were involved with the sugar trade. they were involved with railroads. they were involved with banking. one of fdr's descendents helped start the bank of new york with alexander hamilton. they were involved with a lot of different things. they were never a financial status like the vanderbilts or the melons, but they were in the upper class of wealth. most of it came from investments. >> okay. can you talk a little bit about the descendents, we often get this question, are there any descendents involved with the li

i am honored by this invitation to speak of the national archives about the core principle of human inequalityand this day after the inauguration of our second catholic present and first woman vice president. we as a nation pride ourselves as living in a land of equality and opportunity the two being intricately in anexorably linked. it is also obvious that the united states has a long history of struggling to make the ideal reality. given the political language of this country which tends to promote the concept of equality. we must ask why we still fighting to ensure for instance that black lives matter. so let's go back to the start the two american founding documents each made clear the core problem for the united states. declaration of independence of 1776 you surely know these words we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty liberty and the pursuit of happiness. thomas jefferson provided a perfect expression of human inequality, but what did jefferson mean by se

the national archives foundation hosted this event and provided the video. our featured speaker today is katherine jellison catherine. is professor of history at ohio university where she teaches courses on us women's and gender history. she's published a number of books and authored of biography on jacqueline kennedy in the blackwell companion to first ladies. she's a frequent frequently appears in print and on television and radio as a commentator on first lady is in the role in us politics and history and that is why she is here today katherine are you with us? i'm here patrick. thank you for the nice introduction. excellent. how are you doing? and how's that? athens is what right now raindrops are falling on my window, but at least not on my head, so i think i'm ready to go whenever you are. terrific. why never got a great presentation so i'm gonna pass the screen to you and take it over. okay. let's see. here we go. i think oh. yes. um as patrick said i am a historian here at patrick's alma mater. ohio university and i was very pleased when patrick invi

she was an archivist at the national archives administration starting at the lbj presidential library and museum, and the work at the archives in d.c. from -- 2012 when she she currently lectures and writes on the first ladies including michelle obama and is coed her of modern first ladies, she's also published articles on presidential libraries and access to presidential records. our last speaker, who was also for speaker, is dana karlyn. she is chair trevor, president america communications at st. louis university and is an administrator of the university of kansas, where she taught of course on the rhetoric of first ladies. she currently teaches lifelong learning classes on first ladies, and lectures on their influence. she is the co-author or author on books on chapters, books and chapters. martha washington, later johnson, hillary clinton, and michelle obama. diana, you are going to kick it off today, are you with us? >> i am with you, patrick. -- >> terrific, and we have a great presentation for us. i'm going to pass this to you and let you get started. >> okay, thank you. and g

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the national archives foundation hosted this event and provided the video. >> welcome to the national archives webinar on the girl explores. i'm caroline terkel's and. i'm the president in 2021 of the society of women geographers which is a great honor. just about me. i'm a geographer, cartographer. i have a gis background. i'm a dark sky proponent. interested in astronomy. i've worked for several government agencies including natural resources, including the epa and peace corps. i've interest in museums as well. i was working on my masters degree and she was one of the members of the society of women geographers. after i wrote my thesis, i started writing a book about her. i'm following in the footsteps of her. that's my connection. now let me introduce jayne zanglein. she's an author who is passionate about publicizing the accomplishments of women that have been ignored in history and chronicling the challenges that women face today. her book is called the girl explores. it features women explorers from the 1920's and the early days of the society of women geographers. it documents

the national archives webinar on the girl explorers. i'm caroline also known as sophie torkildsen. i'm the president in 2021 of the society women's geographers, which is a great honor. and a little bit just about me is i'm a geographer cartographer. i have a gis background. i'm a dark sky proponent interested in astronomy. and i worked for several government agencies included in mostly natural resources, including the epa and the forest service and the peace corps and at two science museums. so i've interested in museums as well and i'm found out about any pack while i was working on my thesis in master when i was working on my master's degree and she was one of the members of the society women's geographers and so after i wrote my thesis i started writing a book about her and i'm following the footsteps of her kind of a travel log plus following her footsteps. so that's kind of my connection and now let me introduce jayne zanglein. she is an author who is passionate about publishing publicizing that accomplishments of women that have been ignored in history and chronicling the cha

she was an archivist at the national archives and records administration starting at the lbj presidential library. museum and then work that the archives here in dc from 1973 to 2012 where she retired as the director of presidential materials division. she currently currently lectures in rights on the first ladies including lady bird johnson and michelle obama in his co-editor of modern first ladies their documentary legacy. she's also published articles on presidential libraries and access to presidential records and our last speaker who will be our first speaker as diana carlin. she's the flare treasure is professor emerita of communication at saint louis university and as a retired faculty member and administration of the university of kansas where she taught course on the rhetoric of first ladies, she currently teaches usher lifelong learning classes on first ladies and lectures on their influence. she's the co-author or author of books on chapters books and chapters on martha, washington. barbara bush lady bird johnson hillary clinton and michelle obama diana. you're gonna kick it of

it temporarily went to the national archives. it was about a year. it was given back to the cemetery. it wasn't until the 1990's that the box was put back into the building itself. there was other construction going on and they took the opportunity to place the box back in the building. then it wasn't revealed again until this year, 2020 when we were celebrating the anniversary of the amphitheater construction. we took the box out in april just before the anniversary because with the covid-19 situation, the cemetery wanted to make sure that we had the opportunity to let the public see the opening of the box. in preparation, we were doing online exhibits. we opens the box in april and by may we had the online exhibits available to the general of it. my role in opening the box was that i was one of a large team of staff. our historian took the lead. he is the one who did a lot of the research into the memorabilia box, what was in it, what it was constructed of. i associate with the opening of the box with the opening of the cornerstone first and then o

thank you so much nancy and of course, thank you to the national archives foundation for sponsoring this event tonight and giving me and nancy and diana an opportunity to share stories about the important stories about first ladies and their impact on civil rights in our nation. i'm here to talk to you about barbara bush laura bush and michelle obama. and with barbara bush made the decision to focus on literacy while she was on a run in memorial park in houston in 1980 after the presidential campaign. coming into the white house's second lady. she wanted to do something that could help people and what she believed if is more people could read and write and acquire the basic skills necessary to navigate the world with dignity and achieved the greatest possible opportunity in their lives then so too could more of the world's problems be solved. she was instrumental in the passage of the national literacy act of 1991 and the establishment of the national institute of literacy to track the disparities across the country. in her words the national literacy act put into policy my belief that e

so before the national archives and i i might challenge i'd say before the presidential libraries where where does one find first lady the actual primary source materials. well my library to give ohio in can't know ohio is gaining more actual research materials. it's a relatively new institution. and i think there is definitely a push to acquire more document holdings there. unfortunately some of the early first ladies, you know, their papers have been scattered hither hither and yawn some were sold, you know at auction to private holders, so i'm going to turn that back around on the national archives and say time there is a garage sale of first ladies documents out there patrick. you need to be first in line. i'll have to talk to the arguments the united. it's a good it's a good mission to have we're katherine. this has been terrific i have to acknowledge besides having bobcat nation and support that. you've done something that no other speaker or panelist has done in all this time of doing virtual programs the last 14 months you have shown us the best birthday cake that i think that w

greetings from the national archives. i'm the arc of its united states and i welcome you to today's virtual panel discussion led by lisa napoli the extraordinary story of the founding mothers. .. lic radio in 1978 spent more than 40 years in broadcasting commentator for abc news and npr, she won countless awards, inducted into the broadcast cable hall of fame incited by the american women in radio and television, one of the greatest women in the history of broadcast. longtime member of our national archives foundation for working tirelessly on behalf of our education and outreach activities. ten years together, we would find ourselves in the rotunda of the national archives conversation turning to the signing of the declaration of independence and the constitution. there were no women. her rise intelligence and passion for the role of women in our society will be missed but never forgotten. born and raised in brooklyn, new york early in the rise of the worldwide, she covered technology and culture the eunuch times on msnb

rotunda of the national archives building in shrines the constitution of the united states, but the four pages exhibited there are the beginning of this guiding document of our national government. shortly after its ratifications 1788 the 10 amendments we know is the bill of rights were passed and over the next 200 years. we have appended 17 more amendments. in inventing equality, michael bublia looks closely at three of those amendments the 13th 14th and 15th past after the civil war to extend freedom and rights of citizenship to formally enslave persons. as the records of our nation's show ratification of these amendments was not the end of our debate our voluminous court records preserve cases brought before the united states courts, even up to the supreme court seeking equal treatment under the law. using these records be allele brings us an examination of the evolution of the battle of true equality in america. michael buble is the author of numerous books including revolutionary outlaws arming america. 1877. america's year of living violently and the people's history of the us mili

. ♪ >> greetings from the national archives, it's my pleasure to welcome you to today's virtual authorek areture with -- lecture with serhii block key, the discovery of soviet missiles being installed in cuba triggered the most dangerous encounter of the cold war ubrivalry between the united states and the soviet union. after 13 anxious days, the two nations reached a resolution both aware of the danger of mutual destruction. but it wasn't just a showdown between two twoe rifles, it wasa global -- two rivals, office a global crisis. including white house recordings from the john f. kennedy presidential library and previously classified kgb records in moscow. serhii is the professor of ukrainian history and the director of the ukrainian research institute at harvard university, aar leading authoriy on eastern europe and russia. he's published extensively on the international history of the cold war. his award-winning books include the last empire, the gates of europe and chernobyl. our moderator is michael dobbs, born and educated in britain but is now a u.s. citizen. he was a longtime

yang, finding his photograph in the national archives just validated our research. and it was those little nuggets that kept us going, because, trust me, they did not come all at once. we had to continue to search and continue to search. and it was painstaking, but so rewarding. that is why getting this book published, huge. tyler: satisfying at the end of a long journey. and part of this challenge must have been that the chinese-americans unlike african-americans or japanese-american, they were in every branch of the theater of war. samantha: yes, they were. when we first started this project, our advisor out of williams college in massachusetts, dr. wong said to us there were only 12,000 chinese-americans who search. we are scratching your head,, going that is a low number. but we will take your word for it and as we searched more, the numbers kept growing until we got to 22,827, that is the final count. and since we published the book, there have been more. we are getting more service notificationsand we've gotten at least a half-dozen since we publish. and we've

national archives hosting this event in 2009 and provided the video. mr. flood died in 2014. >> today we gather to hear more about his latest book. we celebrate the anniversary of the birth of the 60 resident, there are a bunch -- an abundance of lectures and books goes is don abraham lincoln. we -- the author we have with us today has chosen to focus on another year of lincoln, 1864. everything bearing down on him, the war, the rapidly eroding said public support -- eroding public support for the more, and a struggle to win a second term. 1864, what happens? ulysses s grant is brought east to replace the general of the union armies. some are confederate general raid on washington sends a scare to the union capital. lincoln himself will proceed to the front to see things from fort stevens. soon we'll valley campaign in the nation will learn more about will sheridan. all the while his working his way towards atlanta and after capturing that city will proceed on his famous march to the sea. he is facing opposition from both the copperheads and radical republ

. >> greetings from the national archives, my name is david archivist the united states is my pleasure to welcome you to today's virtual panel discussion led by lisa napoli, author of "susan, linda, nina, & cokie". the extraordinary story of the founding mothers. one of the founding mothers of today's book is sadly not with us. cokie roberts who died in september of 2019 and joined national public radio 1978 and spent more than 40 years broadcast. as a political commentator for abc news and she won countless awards and she was inducted into the broadcast cable hall of fame and was cited by the american women radio television is one of the 50 greatest women in history of broadcasting. cokie roberts was a longtime member of our national archives foundation board who worked tirelessly on behalf of our education and outreachom activities. over ten years together, cokie roberts and i often found ourselves in the rotunda of the national archives of the conversation turned to the. murals depicting the signing of the decorate at the declaration of independence and constitution. and cokie rober

the rotunda of the national archives building in shrines the constitution of the united states, but the four pages exhibited there are the beginning of this guiding document of our national government. shortly after its ratifications 1788 the ten amendments we know is the bill of rights were passed and over the next 200 years. we have appended 17 more amendments. in inventing equality, michael bublia looks closely at three of those amendments the 13th 14th and 15th past after the civil war to extend freedom and rights of

the suez army phone from the national archives describes how psychological warfare was used during the korean war. the film shows radio programming, you flip distribution, and speakers that broadcast across enemy lines. some are beyond this ridge is the enemy. his strength has been sacked by study aerial strike. heavy artillery barrages. he stole a long way from being defeated, and still has the will to fight. how can we weaken that will? how can we defeat it? by physical force? yes, that's the most effective way. but there's still another force for fighting combat that we don't generally think of as a weapon for war. that weapon is words. yes in a situation like this, words are weapons. now that the enemy has had a strong dose of our military power, the impact of words may provide the final persuasion. words that go something like this. soldiers of north korea, you're surrounded, your comrades are dying. you will die next. just one. hope leave your positions tonight. this is psychological warfare, or it's one, thing as psychological war, psychological warfare is -- it's as old as war

the national archives hosted this program and provided the video. andrew jampoler is an alumnus of columbia college and the school of international and public affairs, both of columbia university in new york city. end of the us state department's foreign service institutes school of language study. during more than 20 years. on active duty with the united states navy he commanded a land-based maritime patrol aircraft squadron and a naval air station. later, he was a senior sales and marketing executive in the international aerospace industry. he has been writing full-time for a dozen year dozen years, excuse me. his previous books include adak the rescue of alpha foxtralk 586 the last link in conspirator john surratt's flight from the gallows and congo the miserable expeditions and dreadful death of lieutenant emery. taunt usn. following his talk and q&a. he will be signing copies of his book one level up outside the archives store. please help me in welcoming andrew jampoler back to the national archives. thanks very much. i always listen very atte

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the most fascinating part, nicholas, the photographs have been in the national archives. it's a possibility that family, of course, lost a lot during that time and there are some people that destroy some of the photographs. that's an important point. so there is a correction. thank you. communities has always been. thank you. black civil war soldiers are generally black or white. someone -- was there someone of the statute? there was a black photography and had a studio in ohio and he was known as an activist and abolitionist. there was a photographer. his studio was often visited by soldiers who were helping blacks escape the war and he was active and here we begin to see. i'm sure that we can be able to find private collections that have black photographers within their private collections. sorry if i'm mispronouncing your last name. she was a nurse. her grandson was a civil war soldier, but she also talked about abolition as an activist. so her activities and her books, there are a number of people who have written about her and her story is important. tom rails, do yo

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my camera colleague john to and i we were together at a little square in front of national archives here in nairobi which is in the central business district it's a popular gathering people whether sitting you know just enjoying the freedom day and also also watching as activists were gathering 40 activists more or less. came there to protest very peacefully also always reminding themselves to abide to the rules and you know maintain social distance they were demanding you know improvements or support by the government especially for low income populations and there will be especially affected by the call that 19 measures and the pandemic and the lockdown especially so we were there we filmed that and we saw we heard a shot and we thought ok what's going on we saw the tear gas and then we saw also the police and so we also felt of course that we you know inhaled it so you know it affected our eyes and our noses but then. we dispersed and then later on when i thought it's a bit calm you know we just tried to get out of the way. we interviewed a lady who was also a protester and it was jus

hammatt also answers viewers and national archives foundation executive director patrick madden.ndation hosted this event and provided the video. >> dawn hammatt is the director of the eisenhower presidential library and museum in abilene, kansas. she is in her current role -- she's been in her current role since 2016. prior to the archives she managed the design and fabrication of a 22,000 square foot exhibition for the mississippi arts of entertainment experience. working in the museum field her entire career, dawn has overseen disaster recovery efforts following two disasters. her work has chiefly been in management and administration. dawn, are you with us today? >> i am. thank you. thanks, patrick, for inviting me. okay. i don't know if we have your video yet. let's see. we'll make sure we got your video going. it's great to have you on. before we let you jump in, let me ask, how are you doing, how is the team doing there during the pandemic? >> so, i think we're doing pretty well. as you know, our site is closed to the public as the other presidential libraries. we've been

recently released documents from the national archives confirm the fact that 99 -- gorbachev was promised that in return for germany reunification, that nato would freeze its pace and would not travel further 1 inch. nato is up on the russia border and find out that john mccain was lobbying to get -- to join nato. my question for you, can you tell me who the villain is in this piece? guest: i will not say that there is a villain. i think that there was a profound misunderstanding. the question about nato expansion. gorbachev insists that he was promised that nato would not expand to the borders. other members insist. when the opportunity came for the nations to apply to nato, there was no prohibition and clearly nothing in writing that prohibited the entry into nato. obviously that is in contention for russians, no matter what. talking about expansion to georgia and expansion to the ukraine, i think those are more provocative actions in light of all of the conflicts in georgia and russia, it is unlikely that nato will expand to ukraine or georgia. that is also a problem because ukraine an

thank you for all the work that you and the national archives foundation. does you know each one of the presidential libraries has a private foundation as well in our case the truman library institute and it's a it's a wonderful relationship that non-profit 501c3 status is so important and that private public partnership can be so effective and so efficient and i'm very grateful for the library institute and certainly likewise the national archives foundation all that you all do for all of us. we got some slides here and you'll see the first one coming up is a slide of our new entrance. i'm going to walk you through the renovation we've done we've just completing a 26 million dollar capital renovation of the truman library all new exhibits modest expansion the building. this is a new entrance on what used to be the back side of the museum. it is now where the parking lot is. it's now the main entrance and we're very very pleased and proud of all this and excited to get to share it with this audience. you know, i've seen this on drawings and renderings and a

and, of course, they bought the names from the national archives. and, they put it on the computer desk. and it was met and freely distributed. you can type in your name. and go all the way back to 1865 when lincoln emancipated the slaves. and that will help you then have a journey towards that. that's the role of the church. and you will see black churches working with them. >> let's go back to that. please join us. >>> welcome back. if you been with us, you know that they talked a lot about the involvement of our churches. you heard the expression i'm spiritual not religious. >> yes. i believe that i don't know what you mean by your spiritual but not religious. i think that we are all god's children. i tried to simplify the notion. we all have cell phones. most of them have gps requirement. and to be religious and spiritual, that means that you have to be in a tune with that heavenly father or some supreme being. where was heaven itself. religion teaches us that his eye is there. so, if it's easy for us to understand that a satellite can follow us

the national archive foundation provided the video and hosted the event. >> welcome to the webinar ont about me is i am a geographer, cartographer, i have a gis background. i have a dark sky proponent. -- i am a dark sky proponent. i worked for government agencies in national resources and force services and the peace corps and two science museums.

when you leave the white house to do an exit interview with the national archives. when you are at a fairly senior rank you do a long interview and the university of virginia which is a very fine school. what you find as you go 40 years out of 30 years out people don't remember. i started out locating people who have had key positions. i found that their memories were pretty foggy. so although i did do interviews i am much more dependent on the written record. or the tape record. because i know that is reliable. i've even had some cases where people were telling me things that they really believed. but they don't counter to what the written record said. that is why i urge people, i have seen some work done on that. i think some of the world interviews from the burj arrow for instance tried to make the board if you're more like a rag and then he was. it is really a counterpoint to regular pay and more similar to sue carter. a lot of the people when you get later that memory of ford does not always jive with what ford actually did or said. that value particularly when

on a lark i asked for the case file from the archivist at the national archives.hey brought out an index that had all of the cases brought before the d.c. court in the early. when i opened it was in 1813 date and the court term became clear that the family who brought that freedom suit five, six, seven, eight other freedom suit. so what began as a story of one freedom suit quickly became a story of a family's pursuit of freedom across many generations. and as i trace that case back in time to the maryland earlier history, hundreds of freedoms could so i just did not know existed. so change my entire understanding of this period, from the instability of the law and how important these cases were collectively and individually. as i started to pull the threads of the freedom suit i tried to follow them back in time and forward in time. what happened to queen who lost her freedom suit in the supreme court. what happened to her daughter? what happened to their descendents? and as i pursued this research also became clear that my family and prince georges county at abou

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i went to the national archives, and somewhat on a lark i asked for the case file from the archivistnational archives and it brought out an index that had all of the cases brought before the d.c. court in that early period. when it opened it to the 1813 date, and that courtroom, it became clear that the queen family who brought that freedom suit brought five, six, seven, eight other freedom suits. what began as a story of one freedom suit quickly became a story of a families pursuit of freedom across many generations. then as i traced that case back in time to the maryland earlier history, hundreds of freedom suits that i just didn't know existed. and so it changed my entire understanding of this period, of the instability of slavery and the law, and if the abort these cases were collectively and individually. as i started to pull the threads of the freedom suits i try to follow them back in time and forward in time. i wanted to know what happened to mine the queen who lost her freedom suit in the supreme court? what happened to her daughter luisa queen? what happened to their descen

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the national archives hosted the event and provided the video.learn about a civil war kernel and the 54th massachusetts volunteer infantry, one of the war's first african-american units. the senior curator of photography shows us the relief sculpture by augusta singh gardens. and then we look back to queen elizabeth the second's address to a joint session of congress. >> today in the midst of a very historic week with the inauguration of our new president, we have a fitting and timely book lecture. over this week, as i view some of the different news programs, a continuously repeated refrain by many commentators was that president obama stands on the shoulders of key historical figures who paved the way for him.