the only law in place that the smithsonian is under is the nmna act that requires the smithsonian totories of the remains to federally recognized tribes. that does not cover other populations and demographics within the collection and does not cover black americans. a lot of the black americans whose remains are this collection, their families would have no idea and the smithsonian is not obligated to reach out to any of them or even release publicly any inventory. we don't really have a sense of how they're going to move forward in informing families, and looking how to address those remains, but we also know black americans was a population that hrdlicka specifically targeted. he talks about that in his writings and his manual in 1904 that he puts out in looking for human remains. as we know from the articles, the largest racial groups in the united states that had brains taken was black americans. it is unclear what the smithsonian will do about that. amy: we will continue to follow this story as i'm sure both of you will. claire healy and nicole dungca of "the washington post." w

the smithsonian institution itself has sort of its own restitution. situation centered on the national museum of the american, which was established in 1989 as part of the smithsonian and new museum, was built. the national mall, where it still is. it's a wonderful institution and part of their task is the repatriation of collections in the care of the smithsonian. so uc davis is involved with nac ra because we receive federal funding and so you can learn all about nac pra and repatriation at uc davis dedicated website. uc davis also had about 500 ancestors in the universities collection. many of these ancestors were excavated in california at sites nearby as part of campaigns of salvage, archeology, and they were deposited in the university in the last few years. and uc davis has made enormous advances as at engaging with the appropriate native american groups has repeated dated many of these ancestors and has made headway with the with consultation what to do with many of the others. it's an enormously the bureaucratic difficult and long process but

and baird was establishing the smithsonian as a world-class scientific institution. so both men took a little bit time off during the civil war hayden didn't really want to go to war but sort of with forced into it in 1862 and served as a physician because he had a medical degree because that's how you actually did the coursework that would enable you to become a geologist during this period of time so he went off to the war came back in 1865 and then started as i noted to lead to surveys on his own. at this point yellowstone really was one of the only unmapped places in the nation. as i noted before when we had the poll yellowstone is hard to get to now it was even harder to get to thanally before 1869 with a completion of the transcontinental railroad. there were some amateur explorers who were getting in there though. there had been some scouts and some trappers who had gone into yellowstone and came out with stories of you know exploding geysers and bubbling upon bubbling streams and mud volcanoes and cliffs made of glass and nobody believed them right because sc

and baird was establishing the smithsonian as a world-class scientific institution. men took a little bit time off during the civil war hayden didn't really want to go to war but sort of with forced into it in 1862 and served as a physician because he had a medical degree because that's how you actually did the coursework that would enable you to become a geologist during this period of time so he went off to the war came back in 1865 and then started as i noted to lead to surveys on his own. at this point yellowstone really was one of the only unmapped places in the nation. as i noted before when we had the poll yellowstone is hard to get to now it was even harder to get to thanally before 1869 with a completion of the transcontinental railroad. there were some amateur explorers who were getting in there though. there had been some scouts and some trappers who had gone into yellowstone and came out with stories of you know exploding geysers and bubbling upon bubbling streams and mud volcanoes and cliffs made of glass and nobody believed them right because scouts and

they sent back to the smithsonian.quite a good writer he understood the power of language, of travel narratives in particular played a very interesting role in the developmentci of the genre of popular science writing. i've included the title page from his monthly piece about the hayden expedition journeys into the yellowstone. space on thomas moran's very famous painting which we will pe talk about in a minutes. this piece and i included a link to it there is a remarkable piece of writing and it takes you along on their journey. and explains the science to you and very accessible language. so, his job he had many things to write after he got back from that yellowstone he's writing a more technical piece, it more scientific journal, he was also writing a huge report many hundreds of pages for congress. also outspending out specimens so they would send in his report to try to ride her on everyone. he understood in this moment he asked william henry jackson to tocome back to him the photographer, to help him to organize

. >> i want them to stay >> reporter: the smithsonian national zoo in washington, d.c.nnounced that their three bears will return to china. >> they're a staple. they're, you know -- i think of the smithsonian zoo, i think of the pandas. >> reporter: it marks the end of a more than five-decade run for the unique animals at the national zoo that first began after president richard nixon's historic visit to china it was a major diplomatic victory for the chinese that led to similar relationships with other countries. >> there's been no greater ambassador to getting people to love animals, love nature, love conservation than the giant panda. >> reporter: when the giant pandas leave washington, it will leave only one zoo in america with the animal the san diego zoo's partnership ended in 2019 the memphis zoo in april of this year atlanta's agreement ends in 2024 but zoo officials are hoping for an extension. it all comes at a time when political tensions between the united states and china are on the rise. the smithsonian's arrangement was not with the government specificall

at the smithsonian's national zoo with more. what, ryan?oo with more what, ryan the pandas are going home? >> say it ain't so. >> reporter: kplooid my kids are huge fans of the pandas, as well for more than 50 years these giant pandas delighted zoo goers here now the two adult pandas and their cub live here now, are scheduled to return to china at the end of the year. and the future of giant pandas in the united states is very much in doubt. they are among the biggest stars in the nation's capitol. >> i'm excited to see the panda! >> reporter: and their time in washington is coming to an end tian tian and mei xiang are gian pandas who call the zoo home tian tia celebrated his 26th birthday on sunday. >> two rare giant pandas are coming to america. >> reporter: they came to washington, d.c., in 2000 as part of a conservation and breeding partnership in china the original agreement was 10 years but was extended several times. during that more than two decade run, they gave birth to a son whose arrival was documented with a live panda cam draw

many honored and the historic plane the access one and the resting in the smithsonian institution.aptain yeager's feat was only one sign that the jet age and the air force had caught up with each other despite. its low budget and great technical. as rapidly as could, we were developing modern aircraft like the very big saber jet, splendidly ready to prove themselves in battle, ready to serve our country by giving new strength to the rising power of the united states airport. let's started does not make covid seem like a very distant

the ratification in the 100th anniversary national archives and smithsonian concerning the history offrage. it was constructed across the unitedra states and they were on women's suffrage and voting the commission level two states and localities and other locations to help commemorate the anniversary. now i would like to turn it to our panelist today are leaders in various activities. let's start with the offer of interpreting the legacy of women's suffrage at museums and historic places can you tell us about your book and why it is important to think critically about the story of women's suffrage at exams and other historical locations? what did we learn from the centennial and how will it affect future interpretations? >> thank you so much and thank you to the national archives for inviting me tonight. i look forward to what will certainly be a wonderful conversation with my colleagues. the book is interesting. it started as an idea when i was executive director of the belmont house museum in washington d.c. for those of you who know the museum it was the fifth and final headquarter

the institutions including the library of congress and the smithsonian exhibits to promote concerning the history of women's suffrage. the art was constructed across the united states and over 100 books were published on women's suffrage and voting. in short it was a terrific year from the. efforts the commission level to the states and localities and other organizations that help commemorate the anniversary. now i would like to turn the conversation to our panelists who are all leaders in various centennial activities. let's start with the offer of interpreting the legacy of women's suffrage at museums and historic sites. can you tell us a little bit about your book and why it's important to think critically about how we approach the story of women's suffrage at museums and other historical locations? hwhat did we learn from the centennial and how did that affect the teacher interpretation? >> thank you so much and thanks to the national archive as well for inviting me and the rest of the speakers tonight. i look forward to what will be a wonderful conversation with my colleagues. so

. >>> and the smithsonian is apologizing for how it will massed its vast collection of human remains. from the museum addressed how the institution collected tens of thousands of body parts during the first half of the 20th century. they wrote they were taken largely from black and indigenous people. mostly without their consent. this comes after "washington post" investigation revealed that the smithsonian's natural history museum is in possession of more than 30,000 human body parts from people in the philippines, peru, germany and the u.s. >>> news articles will soon look very different on x formerly known as twitter. elon musk confirms that headlines will be removed and instead pictures or other graphics from the link will show a lone under the user's post. this is meant to limit what users can see before clicking the link. musk says this directly from him. >>> and mark zuckerberg announced that desktop version of the new threads app is coming soon offering users another alternative to x. zuckerberg's profile is already up and accessible. the site will roll out over the next few d

an investigation by "the washington post" found most of the brains in the smithsonian collection wereoved from dead black and indigenous people and other people of color, often taken without consent from their families. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. for the fourth time in five -- time in just over four months grand jury has indicted former , a president donald trump as he continues to campaign as the republican front runner in the 2024 presidential race. this is the second time he has an indicted the last two weeks. this time, a georgia grand jury indicted trump and 18 of his allies stemming from fulton county district attorney fani willis' investigation into their attempt to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. d.a. willis announced the indictment monday at a press conference in atlanta about two hours after it was handed to the judge. >> today, based on information developed by that investigation, a fulton county grand jury returned a true bill of indictment charging 19 individuals with vio

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>> i think somebody is trying to get me fired from smithsonian associates. i am going to tread very carefully. >> i think people can see there are connections. >> i think that is right. across all times in all centuries, new ideas face great scrutiny and some people embrace them, perhaps because they seem like the right ideas were because they personally might benefit, and other people push back against new ideas, perhaps because they are newer will affect them adversely. many of paine's ideas can rightly be understood as a challenge to orthodoxy, to conventional wisdom. he is by mouth 18th-century standards a radical. radicals always have a tough time in every place in every century. thomas paine is nothing unusual here. if there is anything unusual about him it is that he keeps at it for decades and never really is silenced or shut down. on my final slide i have the big three works which we associate with him. he is not a one hit wonder. there is comments on this, which is astonishing. -- there is common sense, which is astonishing. but that he also writes

forestry tools are in the national museum of african american history and culture, managed by the smithsonian. my name is also on the wall of honor in the national museum of the american indian. really, i was interested in forestry much younger than my teenage years because my mom died when i was 15. but before that, when i was 9, 10, 11, she would take us out, in the countryside, in our '63 falcon. all the kids would pile in--there were three kids. and we would just go out in the country and find a pretty spot and look at leaves, or, or salamanders, or crayfish, or whatever. and mom really instilled that love of nature in me. i have pictures of myself when i was two and three years old, hugging a tree with my mom near me. i wanted to be a zoologist. but...because mom had died and there were a lot of bills, and then grandmother died, and there were even more bills to pay, i had to find a permanent job. and the forest service wouldn't allow me to be a wildlife biologist. they wanted the first black female forester. so, i switched my major to forest management. and i love the forest service, i

he's an astronomer at the ha that smithsonian center for asked or physics. and he's joining his life from some of the, in massachusetts. thank you very much for your time. absolutely. astounding that what we're seeing is a trade off that a comment released and the yet $68.00 b. c. i mean, in layman's terms, can you please explain to us, you know, what causes these macy or shells? right, well, so a comment, you know, is really a big snowball of ice with pebbles inside it. and as the ice sort of boils off, as it goes close to the sun, it leaves this trail of pebbles in his way. and there may be, you know, a few millimeters to a centimeter in size. i'm there happily orbiting the sun, doing no damage until the earth slams into them at about 200000 kilometers an hour. and that causes the pebbles to burst into flame in the atmosphere and make these spectacular light shows. it's amazing that such tiny pieces of rock can cause something so bright, but that's because of the speed upside. and so every year the earth passes through this trail of dust and so it's, it's

a program for the military is conducted by the us department of defense in cooperation with the smithsoniantute and other partners, how not to lose monuments of architecture, history and art in the war learned tatyana vorozhko and oleksia aspen flash fact military personnel from the usa, great britain, france, poland and for the first time from ukraine take part in the graduation ceremony after completing the security training program of cultural monuments during armed conflicts, the damage done to the cultural values ​​of each nation is damage to the cultural heritage of all mankind, because every nation makes its contribution to world culture, following this preamble convention of 1954, more than 80 countries of the world that signed this convention , including russia, committed not to resort to the use of value during military operations if this can lead to their destruction or damage, how to do it most effectively is taught in this program. the so-called list of objects prohibited for strikes these are territories that have cultural value and we as the military do not want to destroy th

his structures have appeared in the smithsonian, art galleries, and for many years at the burning manal. michael: "totem of confessions," the piece that we brought to burning man in 2015. joe: he and dozens of volunteers are now toiling toward the deadline for this year's festival. cheryl humbert: he always has a--his vision and the way to execute it, and you kind of have to roll with it. michael: and at night it will be lit from the inside so it will be a beacon of beauty. joe: but after years making art for burning man, garlington says the tower of babel will bring down the curtain on this long chapter of his career. michael: this will be my final piece at burning man. i passed the torch to build these large structures on the playa. cherylwe'll see ifre means it. joe: if he does mean it, it'they who buys glue by the gallon and paper by the mile. michael: whenever it gets a little hard, i look at my daughter and my beautiful partner and it just gets me through the day. joe: a journey that began in the lens of a camera, coming into focus through the eyes of an artist. michael: mozart

and we will look at a shocking new "washington post" exposÉ revealing the smithsonian has a racial braincollection gathered in part by a racist anthropologist. >> there were children in the collection. there were men and women, fetuses. many of them were indigenous people, other people of color. many of them did not have their identities actually recorded, partly because they were looked at as specimens. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in canada, officials have declared a state of emergency in the british columbia city of west kelowna as a wildfire tripled in size. thousands have been evacuated. meanwhile, mass evacuations continued in canada's northwest territories capital city of yellowknife where all 20,000 residents have been told to leave. >> it is quite scary because with the smoke, of course it is lightning up a little bit but the smoke was very thick this morning. i mean, it is not a good situation, that's for sure. amy: over 1000 active blazes are burning across canada in its worst-ever wi

and you just mentioned this one, this is from the smithsonian magazine, oh they share this, this new series suggesting that a more more is a nitrogen ice pancake. we spoke to professor of a, just a physics who actually subscribes to this. now i would love you when i, when i play this to explain what he is us thing and telling gene you on before you replying to it. because it's a little complicated. have a look, have a nice a. i've been funded by nasa for a long time to help to buy strategies for looking for alien life on x on planets. and it's by trying to understand that you kind of go cycles on these planets and eliminating false positives. and every astronomer i've worked with, we're all confident that we're going to find evidence of alien life, maybe even within our lifetimes. but we know that we're going to do this by eliminating false positives and the same with the law. we have to lemonade, all the natural explanations, 1st know, responsible scientist is going to look at a home away and say it's alien technology if there are reasonable natural explanations like an enterprise f

design for the supreme court justices and shows here id the portrait as well as the surviving at the smithsonian and this is the oldest arriving judicial robe. ours is one of the brief you that it does survive. now this is partly colored and the justices rotated. it's difficult to match these letters. it's comparatively easy to procure. probably not a symbolic moveul when we think it's already happened by the time that marshall took the helm of the court in 1801. they had been in the lower court and some judges spoke on the bench. the student who's in the portrait there in the top left with the prominent virginia lawyer and statesman. 1772 he ordered from the merchant in london, quote, a robe such as the house of commons better than the one that i had which indeed was scandalous. i couldn't figure out what was so scandalous about the first robe, but it's customarily worn by the clerk and hopefully is a less scandalous choice. to pin down the moment when marshall starts getting credit for bringing it back to the national economic griffey but i suspected in the 20th century perhaps 1901 the celebr

often speaking about the book and have been cover bid the wall street journal, the today show, smithsonian, npr, c-span and many other print radio and television outlets. aftersi our conversation, mike will be taking questions from our live audience. please put your questions for mike in the chat and we will get to as many as possible at the end ofy our program. welcome to white house history live, mike. >> thank you, coleen, wonderful with you. it's honor to serve the nation. tell us about how you were selected as commander of camp david and what the process is like? >> well, we know it is camp david, navy command, maryland in town nearby and the name the operated maintained since it was started by president roosevelt. because it's principal is self-maintained a civil engineer officer is coordinating officer. in 1998 i was put as possible officer to be considered. i was interview with simmons and the executive director of the white house, a week later byte the -- got the call. >> amazing. tell us about your personal history with camp david. >> i knew what it was. i visited one as assignme

think about to commemorate the 100th anniversary, honestly felt we fell through the wall from the smithsonianredible job keeping politics out of it and the for this documented case, what we did do and tried to do and what the facts were. having said that, i felt the commission was not nearly as effective as it could have been amplifying the history of women of color and they are barely dismissed without the women's movement and full disclosure on the presidency coming home with the national historical, i am also a member of the sorority that is sophisticated with the suffrage movement and this movement of 1913 so i come at this having to live in this based on the time as a leader responsible for carrying for harriet tubman's legacy and she moves about 20 miles in 18491 year after the establishment. she dealt with the complexity of race andme how they impact all f these. let me say the commission should have done a much better job amplifying historic numbers and 2018, that was a real moment to have 100 plus women in national office. any political concern to amplify that to encourage all women

let's move to the smithsonian latino museum.y, break down a little bit of that. >> the funding was passed because of center-right republican senators who were persuaded by it latinos, on the other side and other folks that they are going to operate in good faith to make sure we have the latino museum, honor our diversity, make this all visible so they passed it but they didn't pass where they were going to locate the museum. the latino conservatives saw -- rachel: turned into a woke museum. >> the precursor is the exhibit. >> showing us all as victims. this is not representation but it is misrepresentation and pool funding. rachel: the board for the latino busy and looks like a celebrity list. >> the director of dnc financing as chairman and very partisan. rachel: always great talking to you. we look forward to paul numbers coming out. just finished the first leg of the navy swim. let's check with him and charlie. >> reporter: look who i found. pete hegseth completed the first leg. pete: god bless the navy seals. >> reporter: fi

this is a diorama from the smithsonian when they did an exhibit on this particular discovery.sry discovered in the lae 1800s. it's not marked, there is no trail that you're supposed be used to go to because of park service that's what you go in there and collecting stones understandably enough but it was preserved. so that was that. that was the end of piney branch as a real screen. all you havean left is about a quarter-mile of a flowing stream that goes down into rock creek along the parkway. and it's all very sad and very distressing that this had to happen and it still hasn't been remedied completely. the water that rushes out of those enormous outfalls flows down into rock creek and scholars out the creek even more and contributes to sediment pollution, so it's an ongoing technical problem the district is trying to deal with. however, my work just as a footnote to this, is actually centered in piney branch i started this project in 2013 to improve the habitat and what was left of the stream valley which was about 65 acres. we have been planting trees and we contract with

medal surface and expression of our nation's deepest gratitude and respect inmates place in the smithsonian going to get these people to go we volunteered to go on this mission and made them into her 1000 miles walking t through thm jungles of burma with just the pack on his back. that's how they got their equipment in. while moving through these jungles and cutting their way through their day faced enemy combatants, starvation and malaria. what sets these men apart is that during that time they would throw grenades in the water to have the fish right to the service of a good cook them in their helmets and deal with that starvation. only one received a casualty but they had to cut a part of the jungle two -- these men did not have artillery. they did everything on foot with what they had. mr. russell hamler was injured in combat and he continuedfi to fight holding it to where he was for 10 more days to keep the enemy away. merrill's marauders demand that went forward to establish that footprint behind enemy lines disrupted the japanese supply lines so america can establish a footprint in bu

thank you so women and their other tribes and have predominantly tribal councils 2021 including the smithsoniantribe currently has eight of its 11 seats by women is so the change is happening and can be slow and frustrating but as possible and women are working really really hard to make that happen. not to discount the men in our communities either, the working really hard read is definitely a process for rematriation that took 500 years to lead to the disenfranchisement so it's a lot to unpack and work on the time being. another bright spot that i have to add is virginia leadership today, we are accessing traditions of political leadership and unprecedentedly high amount these are just some of the amazing woman i know, these are the jobs and some of us have multiple jobs appear in the work is never done but it just would like to point out that we have chiefs, multiple chiefs that are women, many many councilwoman in our tribe. we also have the director of indigenous and native outreach within the secretary of the commonwealth in the governors office she's a virginia indian woman we have advis

the smithsonian did one just five years ago on the 100 most significant americans. lewis and clark made that list. they were also hooked together. sacagawea also made the list. this woman was considered one of the 100 most significant americans. there is an impression across the united states that the lewis and clark expedition was significant. there were people that were important for our country's history. today we will discuss the expedition and three main facets. we will look at classes and historical context, the event itself, and the significance of the expedition. i wanted to start out with this quote from thomas jefferson in a letter he wrote from the older brother of clark. this was written in 1780. a few years before the declaration of independence. a few years before the constitution is ratified. he says we shall form to the american union a barrier against the dangers of the british province of canada. we will add to the empire of liberty and extensive and fertile country thereby converting dangerous enemies into valuable friends. even during the time of

metal serve as an expression of our nation's deepest gratitude and respect and may its place in the smithsoniannney raleigh naze and robert passenisi. they were comprised of 3,000 volunteers. and so this wasn't hey, we're gonna we're gonna pick these people to go mr. russell hamler actually volunteered to go on this mission. that and made him in deer 1000 miles walking through the himalayas through the journalism burma was just the pack on his back. and a pack mule that's how they got their equipment in. now while moving through these jungles and cutting their way through there they faced enemy come and enemy combatants starvation and malaria. now what says he's been apart, right? is that during during that time and using out of the box thinking? they actually would throw grenades into water in order to blow up some fish had those fish rise at the surface so they could cook them in their helmets and deal with that starvation. one of the whatever they would receive casualties. they had it cut up parts of the jungle in order to be back those casualties out. these men did of artillery they didn't

often speaking about the book and has been covered by the wall street journal, the today show the smithsonian, npr, c-span many other print radio and television outlets. after our conversation mike will be taking questions from our live audienceue please pay your questions for mike in the chat we will get to as many as possiblean at the end of our program. welcome to white house history live, mike cook's thank you calling wonderful to be here. asas most would say it's a great honor and privilege to serve our navy and nation. and i appreciate that. >> notes are from the beginning you're sort of camp david? tell us how you were selected as commander of camp david but that process was light? >> we note as camp david it is that navy command that navies operated and maintained it. he started in 1942 by president roosevelt. because it's principally self maintained 40% are greats, civil engineer officers always the commanding officer in history. in 1998 i was put on a short list of possible officers to be considered, went to the white house. an executive director of the white house military office m

a shown here in this portrait bison wilbur stuart as well as his surviving robe which is at the smithsonian. ours is one of very few that does survive. this is described in the period as partly and as justices rotated off including jay it was difficult to match these rather unique garments. black is comparatively easy to procure and achieve a sense of uniformity so it's probably not a symbolic move and we think it had already happened by the time the marshall took the helm of the court in 1801. it's not like the black robes to an already exist. they had been used in england especially in lower courts and by lawyers and in the united states in late 18 centuries judges don stark robes on the bench. george with was a prominent lawyer and statesman and we know that he favored the black robes look. in 1772 he ordered from a merchant in london quote a robe such as worn by casa, the better that i had which was scandalous and i couldn't figure out what was so scandalous about the first show but a black robe is customarily worn and hopefully was a less scandalous choice. and i haven't pinned down th

and and the smithsonian editor did one just five years ago on the most significant americans and meriwether lewis and, william clark again made that list. and they were also hooked together. and sakaguchi, a, who accompanied the expedition, also made it so this young teenage woman was considered one of the 100 most significant american. so there is a an impression across the united that lewis and clark expedition was significant. and the people that went along are important for our country's history. today. we're going to discuss the expedition on three main facets. we're going look at it as the causes and historical context, the events south and the significance of the expedition. wanted to start out with this from thomas jefferson. this was in a letter he wrote george rogers clark, who was the older brother of clark. and this was written in 1780. so it's just few years before the. it's just a few years after the independence declaration of independence. and a few years before the constitution is ratified. and he says, we shall form to the american union a barrier against the dangerous ext