it is definitely what makes provo provo. >> all weekend, american history tv is featuring provo, utah. c-span cities towards staff recently visited many sites showcasing the city's history. it is located approximately 40 miles south of salt lake city utah lake, the largest freshwater lake in the state. learn more about provo all weekend here on american history tv. but i you are looking at a time last video at the library of congress.

provo provo. all weekend, american history tv is featuring provo, utah. c-span cities towards staff recently visited many sites showcasing the city's history. it is located approximately 40 miles south of salt lake city utah lake, the largest freshwater lake in the state. learn more about provo all weekend here on american history tv. it never gets old. coming into a dinosaur museum or itking back in collections, is always a sense of discovery. that isleontologists, what i guess we feed off of. the sense of discovery. whether it is in the field of the collections or in the lab in preparation. we are always discovering things. when you walk through a museum that has mounted dinosaurs you see things you've never seen before. it is discovery all over again. >> james jensen was a really unique character. he went about things his own way. he left high school without graduating. the interesting thing about it he reallying that didn't like to be at one place for very long because he liked learning. you like the adventure. he liked different places all the time. e

provo, utah. provo house is the only missionary training center for the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints in the u.s. other stations are throughout the world, including brazil, england, and south africa. hosted by our comcast cable partners, the c-span2 or staff recently visited many sites -- c-span tour staff recently visited many of the sites in the city's history. was an early mormon apostle and u.s. senator. being an apostle of the church running for national office did not sit well with some. there was a long series of called totestimony occur for elder's mood he would be allowed to sit in the senate before he would be allowed to sit in the senate. the called on the testimony of leaders of the church and others . ofeph smith was the founder the lds church. , and italled to testify would ask him a series of , mostly about the practice of polygamy. at that time, president smith was a practicing polygamist. there are some very good political cartoons related to this time. looking through the papers, unfortunately, i did not see any about smoot, but these relate to the time. some might be related to the fears going on. to the testimony of president smith. things were said to put the church in a bad light, put him , that maybe were at thatmost helpful time. someone is showing how people felt after hearing president smith's testimony. there were many political cartoons of that time. there books published about that. while this was going on, and polygamy being the main focus of these hearings going on, what is interesting about that is that he was not a practicing polygamist. his father was. other members of his family were. other members of the church were, but he was not. at that time, he only had one wife, alpha, or alley. , he servedirst term for four more terms, five total, for a combined 30 years in the senate. , he washat time involved with several very important pieces of legislation. i will focus on a couple here. he had been a big proponent of the national forest service, which had been around for several years at that time. was friendly toward the idea of government being able to manage public lands of the nation. he tried to pass several bills basicallyal years, establishing a national park service, but unfortunately, they failed for one reason or another. in 1916, senator william kent of was trying to draft legislation basically establishing a national park service. read smoot jumped on board to try to help him in duty could -- and do what he could to push that legislation forward. successful they were . to him, it was a great day. he saw it come to be. in his personal diary, july 12, , i attended a meeting of the public lands committee that the senate failed to establish a national park service, a member i have been interested -- an issue i have been interested in for a number of years past. the nationalfter also worked toe establish zion national park in southern utah. a visit thatto of went on in the 1920's with .resident warren g. harding the second most prominent piece of legislation that senator in eventuallylved tariff actn as the of 1930. in the first stages of the great depression, the main goal was to as well asrican jobs farmers from foreign competition. this act was really a way to combat that. however, as people got into the meat of it, raising tariffs to was seen bys economists at the time and even as quiteiness leaders controversial, and many of them protested it. at the time, senator smoot felt this was positive and would boost the economy, help for tech jobs and interests. in his entry on friday, june 13, 19 30. he talked about the fact that he speechesg several .bout the tariff act at the very end to the said the house will agree with it and it will be sent to the president for his approval and i know he will do so. unfortunately, this was one of his last acts as a senator and it's kind of gone down as one of , notnfortunate legacies the most positive way to end his time as a senator. senator smoot in 30 years of washington became pretty good friends with many of the presidents there and many of them respected him highly. within his papers are a few letters we have from some of the presidents he served under. a couple i wanted to point out. one here -- there are a couple here, actually, from theodore .oosevelt this is an original copy, and it , is basically, dear senator had not seen that report, but if i had, i should have known it was false. thank you for writing me. year after the hearings started. it shows that senator smoot, even with all of these hearings going on was still doing his job and able to function as a senator at that time. we have a copy of a letter in ,ossession of the smoot family but i wanted to bring it up just it's indicative of how president roosevelt felt about senator smoot. it says i have your letter of the 20th. are a staunch friend and you have been sound for the nation and the people on all questions that have come up. what you say carries great weight with me. , thiss a young senator there he influential president -- very influential president is able to leave a very positive impression. another thing i was impressed by as i read through the papers is how personal of a relationship he had with these presidents. this letter from woodrow wilson just august 14, 1914, few month after president wilson .ost his first wife to illness of course, this is also during the beginning of world war i. been on his mind. it was a very difficult time for him. toator smoot had written president wilson, giving his condolences for the loss of his wife. president wilson writes back, i am sincerely grateful to you. sympathy does strengthen and sustain and i want to say that your kind message was a most welcome evidence of your kindness and personal thoughtfulness. being from different parties as well, i think that says a lot. about that relationship he was able to have, and kind of bridge those gaps. >> our cities for staff recently 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heart of the community. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to provo, utah to learn about its rich history. learn more about provo and the other stops on our tour at c-span.org/citiestour. watching american history tv all week and every weekend on c-span3. on lectures in history, boston college professor teaches a class on the new roles women assumed during the late 19th century. she describes the gains women made in field such as nursing, teaching. she also looks at the growth of political organizations run by women that focus on issues like prohibition and women suffrage. this class is just over an hour. >> let's go ahead and start. the theme of this course comes from the theme of civil war dramatically changed. once the war is over, this is an important day. everybody has different ideas of what the nation is posted become. they had some ideas of what it should be. the northerners had ideas of what america should be. the indians, and the chinese, had ideas, and and certainly the northern men. the critical question was who was going to have to stay in it. you've gone through that as well. who was going to have

reason --ok at our our recent visit to provo, utah. >> provo has a difficult early story. narrative isig coming into this place and making it work even though earlier american and even british and other explorers never chose to settle here. this was seen as a difficult place to live and not a desirable patch of land. that was part of the log

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provo in 1839. this weekend, watch c-span cities tour in provo utah -- provo, utah. workingan cities tour, with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. announcer: coming up next, a review of the supreme court's most recent term. then a senate former -- foreign relations hearing on combating isis. at 7:00, "washington journal" is live with your calls and a look at today's headlines. announcer: the supreme court ended its term under with decisions on abortion, gun control and public corruption. talked legal experts about the big decisions and surprises we saw from the court. at this event, hosted by the american constitution society. it is one hour and a half. >> good afternoon, everybody. i would like to welcome you to acs's annual supreme court review. i am caroline fredrickson. i am the president of the american constitutional society. as i think all of you know, we are in organization that was founded in 2001. we are a national network of lawyers, law students, judges and policymakers that believe that the law should be enforced to improve the

are cities tour staff recently traveled to provo, utah to learn about its rich history. learn more about provo and other c-span.org. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> a panel of historians talk about race relations in the post-civil war memphis and it looks at the lives of three in the city both before and after the riot that resulted in the massacre of african-americans. they discussed the testimonies of women who were assaulted and the role of several colored troops near the city. this event was hosted by the university of memphis and is a little bit over two hours. >> first, let

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provo in 1849. this weekend watch c-span's cities tour to provo, utah. saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's book tv, and sunday afternoon at 2:00 on american history tv on c-span3. the c-span cities tour working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >>> now a visit to the smithsonian national air and space museum facility near washington's dulles airport. we'll see the airplanes that have carried americans aloft from the earliest days of the 20th century. >> hi. may name is tom crouch. i am the senior curator of aeronautics at the national air around space museum. and we are here this morning at the national air and space museum housing center. this is the place where our museum keeps all of its largest objects and some pretty darn spectacular things when you come right down to it. we are standing almost in front of one of my favorite machines. it's the 1903 langley airplane. aerodrone, as he called it. samuel langley was the third secretary of the smithsonian institution. from the mid 1880s until the time of his death in 190

who began setting up satellite communities and three families in 1849.ed provo this weekend, watch the c-span city's tour of provo, utah. 2:00 onfternoon at c-span3. working with cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. secretary ashton carter announced that the pentagon would lift the ban on transgender people serving in the armed forces. he says that the new policy will allow us to access talent of service members to strengthen the success of missions. he made the announcement in a press conference yesterday. it is about a half hour. secretary carter: good afternoon, everyone. thanks for being here. i am here today to announce some changes in the defense department's policies regarding transgender service members. before i announce the changes we're making, i want to explain why. there are 3 main reasons having force,ith the future current force, and matters of principle. the first and fundamental reason is that the defense department and the military need to avail ourselves of all talent possible in order to remain what we are now the finest fighting force , the world has ever known. our missio

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up family communities with 33 mormon families establish a settlement in provo in 1849 papers we can watch c-span city tour of provo utah on c-span2 spoke tv on sunday afternoon at 2:00 on american history tv on c-span3. >> coming up tonight on c-span2 defense secretary ashton carter on lifting the ban on trained gender service -- transgender servicemembers. defense secretary ashton carter announced the u.s. military will now allow transgender members to serve openly in positions including front-line combat. also health services for transgender soldiers will be fully covered under the pentagon's health care plan. here is the 30 minute reef. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon everyone. thanks for being here. i am here today to announce some changes in the defense department's policies regarding transgender servicemembers. before i announce what changes remake and i want to explain why. there is three main reasons having to do with their future force, our current force and batters of principle. the first and fundamental reason is that the defense department and the military need to avail ourselves of all tal

provo in 1849. this weekend, what's the c-span cities tour of provo, utah, at 2 p.m., on the c-span cities tour on c-span3. the c-span cities tour, working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. announcer: nina allender was the political cartoonist for the national women's party from 1914 until 1927, contributing over 150 cartoons supporting the campaign for women's suffrage. next, we visit the belmont paul national women's equality monument to see her work. jennifer: my name is jennifer krafchik. i am deputy director and director of strategic initiatives at the belmont paul women's equality national --ument, which was formally formerly a museum on capitol hill in washington, d.c. this house was the fifth and final headquarters of the national women's party. the national party was hounded by a woman named alice paul in 1913 as the congressional union for women's suffrage. this group of women spent seven years actively lobbying the president and congress for a federal suffrage amendment. at which time, once the received the amendment in 1920, they began, they wrote and began lobb

provo, utah. we visited many sites showcasing the city's history. it is located approximately 40 miles south of salt lake city utah lake. the largest freshwater lake in the state. provo all about weekend here on american history tv. riis smoot was an early morning apostle and u.s. senator. n apostle for the church running for national office did not sit well with some. long series of a occuronies were called to smoot before he could be elected said for the senate. they took testimonies of key leaders of the church and others including the president of the church at that time. they would ask a series of questions mostly about the practice of polygamy and at that time, the president of the church, president smith was a practicing polygamist. there are some good political cartoons related to this time period. s did not see any of the one reed smoot kept. there are a few that relate to this time. some of these might be related to the fears going on. some of these relate to the testimony of president smith. there are some things said that put the church in a bad light or put him in a bad light. most helpful to smoot.ith -- reed showing how he might have felt after hearing president smith's testimony. they were all over. there are many political cartoons of that time. there were books published about that. while this is going on, and polygamy being the main focus of these hearings going on, what is interesting about that is that he was not a practicing polygamist. it was in his family. the president of the church and others were practicing. he was not. wife.y had his one after the first term as a reed smoot served for four more terms. time he was involved in several important pieces of legislation that i will focus on . he had been a big proponent of the national forest service which was around for several years at that time. he was probably towards the idea of government being able to manage the lands, public lands of the nation. try to pass several bills over a aries of years establishing natural park service. unfortunately been filled for one reason or another. failed for one reason or another. senator warren kent of california was try to draft legislation -- trying to draft legislation to establish the national park service and reed smoot jumped on board to help him. were able to be successful and to him, it was a great day. finally able to see this come to be. 12,is personal diary, july ed a, he writes i tend meeting of the public plans committee and reported from the committee to the senate the bill to establish a national parks service. they measure i have been interested in for many years past. a few years after the establishment of the national smootervice, senator uses it was to establishment of the first national parks in utah. here's a photograph that was taken from a visit that he went president warren g. harding. the most prominent piece of legislation, the second-most that he was involved in was what became known as the smoot-holly tariff act. i felt the need to pass this deflation in 19 -- legislation in 1930. the first ages of the depression, the main goal the u.s. was going for was to protect american jobs as well as farmers from competition. this act, in the minds of the senators, a way to come back that. -- combat that. people saw the meat of this, raising the tariff to record levels seen by a lot of economists at the time and major business leaders as a somewhat, quite controversial and many protested it. time, senator smoot was extremely, he felt like this was a positive thing. he felt like this would boost the economy of america and protect their jobs and interest. in his entry on friday, june 13, 1930, talks about the fact that he was crowded with colors. -- callers. he talks about giving several speeches about the act and at the end he says, the house will agree to it and will be sent to the president for his approval. i know he will do so. unfortunately, this is one of haslast acts as a senator gone down as one of his unfortunate legacies. of the most positive way to end his time as a senator. senator smoot in his 30 years in washington actually became pretty good friends with many of the president that were there. many of them respected him. within his papers, there are a have froms that we that hethe presidents served under. a couple i want to point out, one here, a couple here from theodore roosevelt. this one is an original copy of one from president roosevelt that basically says, this is 1904, your senator, talk about a report that senator smith had sent him. smoot has had to. i had not seen the report. thank you for writing me. after theyear or so hearings had started and this is evidenceher piece of showing senator smoot during his time was still doing his job as a senator with the direction of the president and was able to function as a senator at that time. letter thatpy of a is in the possession of the family, the smoot family. i wanted to bring it out because of some of the things, he gets president roosevelt felt about senator smoot. i have your letter, you are a start friend of the poorest service. as far as i have seen, -- forest service. you have been sound for the nation and the people of all questions that have come up. what you say carries great weight with me. senator, withg the very influence of president, he is able to lead a very positive impression. another thing i was impressed with as i read through some of , is how personal relationship he had often with these presidents. this letter here it from datedent woodrow wilson august 14, 1914. this is just a few months after president wilson had lost his first wife to illness. of course, this is also during the beginnings of world war i. a lot must have been on his mind. a very difficult time for him. writtensmith had hadident -- senator smoot written president wilton. president wilson writes back, i'm sincerely grateful to you for your thought. sympathy does strengthen and sustain and i want to say that meets welcome evidence of the kindest and personal awfulness. being from different -- thoughtfulness. being from different parties, i think this says a lot. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to probe a utah learn about its -- provo, utah to learn about its history. you are watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> the hard-fought 2016 primary season is over with historic inventions to follow. conventions to follow. watch c-span as the delegates consider nomination of the first woman ever of a major political party and the first non-politician and several decades. watch live on c-span, listen on the c-span radio at and get video on-demand with c-span.org. you have a front row seat to every minute of both

provo, utah. to learn more about the cities on our current tour visit c-span.org/citiestour. we continue with our look at the history of provo. >> read smoot was an early mormon apostle and u.s. senator. being an apostle of the church running for national office did not sit well with some. there was a long series of hearings, testimony called to

provo. this weekend, watch the city store to provo, utah throughout the day. be sunday.it will the c-span city store, working with cable affiliates and visiting states across the country. next, a look at u.s.-mexico relations. expertsveral legal discuss the supreme court's most recent term. then, the global strategy for combating isis. former officials from the george w. bush administration were part of a discussion on u.s.-mexico relations and its impact on security and the economy. there were talks about the political rhetoric. this is one hour and a half from the atlantic council. >> good afternoon everyone. i am jason. i'm the director of the economic growth initiative. thank you all for joining us today for this incredibly timely discussion. i would call it a celebration on the importance of the u.s.-mexico relationship. there's a lot of misinformation about mexico and what it means to the u.s., and its time to put the facts on the table. i would like to thank the speakers who have joined us for such a critical moment. ambassador negroponte, jason furman

provo, utah. to learn more about the cities on our current tour visit c-span.org/citiestour. we continue with our look at the history of provo. >> read smoot was an early mormon apostle and u.s. senator. being an apostle of the church running for national office did not sit well with some. there was a long series of hearings, testimony called to occur for elder smoot before he would be allowed to sit in the senate. they called on the testimony of leaders of the church and others jobs receive smith. he was called out to testify and when they would ask him a series of questions mostly about the practice of polygamy. at the time president smith was a practicing polygamist. there's some good political cartoons related to this time period and in looking through the papers, unfortunately, i did not see any that reed smoot kept or not part of his original papers. here's a few that relate to this time period, some of these might be related to the fears that were going on. some of these relate to the testimony of president smith. there are some things that were said that kind of put the church in a bad light or put him in a bad light

are cities tour staff recently traveled to provo, utah to learn about its rich history. learn more about provo and other c-span.org. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> a panel of historians talk about race relations in the post-civil war memphis and it looks at the lives of three in the city both before and after the riot that resulted in the massacre of african-americans. they discussed the testimonies of women who were assaulted and the role of several colored troops near the city. this event was hosted by the university of memphis and is a little bit over two hours. us thank all of the organizers of this conference. it is a great conference, something that really needed to be done in the country. i just said to a couple of isple that the best memory to write it down. history, thertant people on this panel have been writing it down so that it will be preserved, not just for us, but for the next generation and the next generation. one german historian said that .istory always must be revised it must always be rewritten, because even we in this gene

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provo, utah coming up today at noon on c-span2's book tv we will be featuring our provo library programming, and decided to work moon will be showing us books from his multimillion dollar collection. >> provo has a difficult story. narrative ofig mormon settlement in the region is about coming to this place and make it work, even though other american and even british and other explorers never chose to settle here. this was seen as a difficult place to live, and not a desirable patch of land. that was part of the reasons that mormons took it. young wanted a place exit the isolated from other american settlers, so they wouldn't run into the same kinds of conflicts they had in the east. that dream was only partially realized. not only did the gold rush bring some 30,000 non-mormons are utah the 20first three years, --native americans here 20,000 native americans here, these stories became as difficult as the ones that mormons experienced before. misunderstanding cultural alienation, violent displacement . but native americans are moved out of their traditional homeland and it becomes a difficult story to tell. this month, watch c-span's coverage of the 2016 republican and democratic conventi

provo, utah, we toured the crandall historical printing museum, and discussed to the advances made in the printing process. >> we're here at the crandall historical printing museum in provo, utah. this museum has been here for around 18 to 20 years. here at the museum we tell the history of printing from the beginning. we do it by telling the history of the printing of the scriptures, which is appropriate since the first book printed using moveable metal type was the bible. so that's where we start. louis crandall is the founder and the owner of this museum. he is an old printer. he began printing when he was 14 years old, down in mesa, arizona, and has been printing his whole life and when he moved to provo he brought all of his old printing material, his old printing presses and the type and everything, and started showing the people and just sort of expanded from that, from -- the reasonable press is what we have here today. first thing they experience is learning about the printing -- using moveable metal type, beginning with the gutenberg printing press. this is the rep mix cal of the gutenberg printing press, the first thing printed using moveable type. what this is, it's a converted press. guttenberg, when he had to figure out a way to -- he saw the old olive press, the wine press and said, i'll use that. you have a screw down the middle there and throw that handle or that flat board. and then he built this. this is a place to put the type. this is called the bed of the press. and this is where you put the type. you have the type made, you put the type in here. now, every letter in here is an individual piece of pipe, put in one letter at a time. next thing we need in order to prin

provo provo. >> all weekend, american history tv is featuring provo, utah. c-span cities towards staff recently visited many sites showcasing the city's history. it is located approximately 40 miles south of salt lake city utah lake, the largest freshwater lake in the state. learn more about provo all weekend here on american history tv. but i you are looking at a time last video at the library of congress. "jacob riis: revealing how the other half lives." next on american history tv's artifacts, we learn about the life of the danish born journalist, social reformer, and photographer. this program is just under an hour. >> i am a curator of this exhibit. i am a historian. jacob riis was born in 1849 in denmark. he was the son of a schoolteacher and was basically raised in this very beautiful small town in denmark. he was a rebellious youth and even though he was the son of a teacher, he was not a good student although he loved to read. he played hooky a lot and when he was in new york, he had a lot of sympathy for truant young boys. a lot of his articles are