leaaron foley, sandra washington, dr. melinda chateauvert, dr. cornelius bynum. we have two great authors that have done great work on biographies. >> both are available in the vendor area. >> once again, i'm alan spears from the national parks conservation association. it will be emily, adam, and matalin. please raise your hands. if you have any questions about npca, stop by and visit us and pick up a copy of our brochure. hot off the presses. i would be remiss if i did not close by saying this ends the opening of the 99th annual association -- and we will be back next year for the 100th. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> you are watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook. american history tv traveled to the library of congress in washington, d.c., established in the year 2000 and endowed by a philanthropist. to center hosts 100 sch

my name is sandra washington. >> okay, great. >> my name is sandra washington. i work for the national park service. as alan said i'm associate regional director in the midwest region and i would rather instead of talking about what i do right now, i'll tell you about what i do -- what i have done in the past. when it came to the national park service, i had worked for a state department of natural resources and i thought that my highest and best career choice could be as either a field ecologist, or as a forester measuring timber. and those are the things that i studied in school and i thought the people were interesting but not essential. and it was meant go in that direction and i came to the national park association and the regional planning and you will do community -- you will do a sort of community park service. it does interesting things outside the national parks. and i was challenged to consider things a lot more interesting than i might have thought otherwise and the other part of my job at the beginning was to look at places for their potential to b

melinda, sandra washington and lee aaron fully. we are going to have presentations from each of our panelists that will run 15 minutes or so. we will have some dialogue and discussion once panelists finished follow-up questions. if you have questions, be prepared to ask them. we have the mike appearing front -- we have the microphone up here in front. i would like to turn it over to dr. bynum. >> good afternoon. thank you for being here. i will give you a brief background on myself. it's an important way of coming to understand my journey with randolph as a research topic. i'm originally from louisville, kentucky and went to the university of virginia where i did my undergraduate work and graduate work. it was during those years between 19-21 when i came to an tiffany about history and my life -- epiphany about history and my life. i took a civil rights history course and we were talking about black soldiers in the war, the second world war. it got me to thinking about my own personal narrative. i went home over winter break and be

i want to go to sandra washington. from the park service next, the park service is really adapt at tackling tough history, the tough issues. there this potential pullman site we've got some tough history. we've got an 1894 strike that's violently repressed. we have a union that's formed to address issues of inequality that has to struggle for over a decade before they can get collective bargaining agreements. how does the park service get to tell these stories. what's the mission and vision of the agency for telling them correctly so that it's an all inclusive package with that interpretation so to speak. >> very good question. thank you. i would say we're getting much better at telling tough history about telling the weaknesses of the country which in some odd way are our strengths. the fact that we can he have conversations about the failure of democracy and still rooer ma remain a democracy is a good thing. the breaking of the pullman factory in 1894 was a call for the national guard, the federal troops came there t

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1:30, attend a groundbreaking at the diplomacy center in washington with former secretaries of state. clarence thomas, samuel alito, and sandraotomayor at 8:30 p.m. eastern. that's this week on c-span. for the complete schedule, go to www.c-span.org. and army health official says 5% of soldiers who have served in iraq and afghanistan have those genetic stress disorder, were ptsd. discussedbecca porter mental health issues recently, huffington post senior military correspondent david would and can really dozier were severely injured in a car bomb attack in iraq. they were also a part of the discussion. >> good evening. i am a student project manager at the clark forum for contemporary issues. on behalf of the forum i would like to welcome you to tonight's event. ptsd, a panel discussion. in the past decade, post-traumatic stress disorder or ptsd, has come to the forefront of national discussion -- in part because of its prevalence in veterans of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. ptsd, however, is not a new medical condition. it was observed and soldiers from the world wars where it was called shell shock at the time. ptsd does

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washington. no one is talking about concussions. >> they are. >> we're talking about football and how great football is. >> we are talking about those things but i guess what sandraas said for weeks now on end is that one thing trumps the other. >> and i've been saying, a year from now we won't talk about this but it could change the culture of the nfl if handled properly. there's pressure on goodell even carrying us through this point of the controversy. do you see any change in all of that? is goodell going to stay at the helm? >> once with you see who saw what and who knew was in the ray rice case, that will tell a lot. one person is not telling the truth. it's either the player or the commissioner of the nfl. all right. so if it turns out that he's the side that didn't get the facts straight, then you can become to asking who is at the helm but right now he's making corporate owners happy. he's delivering those audiences that you're talking about and that's his job. >> so harris, you started out by referencing the concussions and jessie, we'll disagree with you a bit. cover of the "new york times" is covering the concussion issue right now. >> i don't know if