i invite all of you in our country to come to the national parks and gain a clearer view of the world. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. we have a lot of questions. >> not surprising. >> thank you for not making us a national park. mr. jarvis: that is in the future. >> you talked about new designations. you talked about the challenges of maintenance backlog. added designations, the new areas, the new acres hundreds of thousands of acres , added to your portfolio, does that benefit the park service or does it become more of a challenge because you have a $12 billion backlog? mr. jarvis: we added 22 new units to the national park system since i became director. that is but the congress answer bothdential action -- through congress and presidential action. in almost every case we have minimized our footprint. the actual amount of land or resource that we need to take care of and we have brought in, particularly through the work of the national park foundation, the on topic partners to assist with that and have been quite successful at raising funds. on one hand it does add to our overa

this is a map of the national capital region and the parks that we administer in the national capitalegion in the greens space are national parks service units. here's the canal, the park and where camp david

eastern, joseph wingo will become the next chief of the national guard. obal health experts discuss the outcomes of the recent international aids conference which looked at funding and research options and this afternoon live coverage of president obama as he speaks to a young african leaders initiative town hall meeting. tonight on c-span, homeland security secretary jeh johnson talks about terrorism, border security, and transportation security administration. he spoke to an audience at the christian science monitor. you can see that tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. 2, we will start at 8:00 p.m. eastern on afterwards history followed by sebastian gorka who wrote defeating jihad m of the winnable war. karen greenberg looks at rogue justice. michael flynn discusses the field of flight. all that starting on c-span2. q&a civil wart on historian meredith james robertson discusses -- james robertson discusses his book, after the civil war. >> state allegiance was very deep. as far back in generations asked settlers in the country. i think one has to keep tha

the u.s. largest national park. alaska. and it would take 2400 of the smallest of the headliner national parks to fill the biggest parks pristine mountainous terrain. elsewhere in alaska, climbing the tallest peaks, 2-4 weeks round-trip. the lowest and driest spot, travelers are advised to be prepared to survive. the longest cave system is not completely explored. america samoa, guam, puerto rico, u.s. virgin islands -- you can reach the details online at cnn.com. caller: good morning. i have been to a lot of national parks and i really enjoy them. the question i have -- a lot of people know about this and i'm why diding it myself, the united states get over to the united nations some of our national parks? host: we believe that there and go to stuart from virginia. welcome to the conversation. stuart and ime is am in virginia. battlefield parks, civil war -- i myself live on land -- i have my own museum here in petersburg, for genia -- petersburg, virginia. our land, this is an awesome place. host: we took a look at the ann

with poland to the pacific where the national guard stand to the middle east where eight thousand nationalguard members are deployed in the air and on the ground including wisconsin national guard as it supports the air borne and defeat isil and right here at home, kinder warriors like the national guards, i met earlier this year, wonderful folks, using the skills they gained in america's community to protect our networks and to do things like counterisil's influence online. in day-to-day activities and large scale operations and planning and execution and conflicts and novel threats, national guard will remain critical to accomplishing all of our nation's security priorities . the army will be doubling the number of rotations in national training centers for our combat teams. further, the guard will increase number of helicopters, enhancing caints and providing more flexibility for missions including here and now and homeland. the guard will be instrumental in shaping tomorrow's conflict as well. as cyber and space means become increasingly contests, the national guard will be on the vang

it went all over the nation. e we brought seniors to the park. it was specifically for seniors 62 ages or older. they purchase now -- thousands of passes for seniors and make sure they got into their hands at no cost and did work to bring people actively to the sites. it went all over the nation. it was also an expanded of the park prescription plan and people.parks, healthy i'm really glad you asked that question. i think everyone deserves to be in the national parks. it is something to really think about as we think about partnering with those we have maybe theed with or neighboring -- the neighbor or corporation of the road. do a lot together wanted her hands and hearts together and really make these to humana.es they did a great program where happen. i really hope that starts to reach further and further. people look up for that. we want to bring healthy parks to help bp will -- healthy people. >> can you give your name and her? >> i believe another person just past their on. i want to take a moment to mention

they are in the national parks. y are the books that need to be opened and read in a different way in a different narrative to all of the places that we hold dear as a nation i firmly believe as a people wherever you are on this planet you preserve and you protect the things that are important to you our nation has protected and held aside 413 national parks full of the stories in places that are important to us as u.s. citizens and encourage us to begin to look at those stories through a whole different perspective i honor those who came before us in the work that they did and as we move into our next century i think i would like to charge the young people that are sitting and listening to this may be even in the audience if you've always wanted to be a national park ranger this is your time this is your time to step up and tell your story. to guide people in the places of our heritage. as i think about the youth that i work with in indian country. i think about the generational trauma that they carry with them but

eastern we're live from the national park services most visited historic home, arlington house, the robert. lee memorial. join us with your phone calls as we talk with robert stanton, former national park service director and the former arlington house site manager who will oversee the upcoming year-long restoration of the mansion, slave quarters, and grounds. today, the 100th anniversary of the national park service live from arlington house at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on cspan3. >>> the 1600 acre monocacy national battlefield is about 45 miles northwest of the u.s. capital. the national park service property includes the best family farm, built in the 1790s by a family of french caribbean immigrants who owned about 90 slaves. c-span met joy beasley, the cultural resources program manager at the national park to learn how remnants of the 200-year-old slave quarters were discovered in 2003 and partially excavated in the summer of 2010. >>> we are at the best farm, which is named the best farm after the tenant that occupied this farm during the civil war.

some background on the national park service. was signed into law on this date by president woodrow wilson in 191. congress established yellowstone national park back in 1872 as the world's first national park. 1916, the date president wilson signed the law creating the national park service and the system began to include areas of historical significance back in 1933 designated by president franklin d. roosevelt. and earlier this summer, president obama commemorating this centennial anniversary. president obama: we have to have the foresight and faith in the future to do what it takes to protect our parks and to protect this planet for generations to come. and that's especially true for our leaders in washington. it's what lincoln did when he set aside this ground for all posterity. that's what roosevelt did when he inspired the national park system. that's what our generation has to do. we have to sum up that same vision for the future. we made good strides and we're reducing carbon pollution and preserving landscapes. we're ra

but we actually have the physical asset where history was made. in a nationalocation like yellow stone or yosemite, you can tell the story of animal life or climate change. but in a place like gettysburg you can tell not only the physical activity of the civil war but the meaning behind it, such as the release and freedom of over 4 million africans that became african-american citizens. >> what would you say has been the most important change in the park service in the last 50 years? >> well i think that on one part we haven't changed that much. we still have our strong mission orientation, public service to the american people, and that has been a strong continuity. but i think broadening the story, trying to fill in the gaps in the american experience, it's not one narrative, it's multiple narratives. and i think using strong scholarship, working with his storians to better understand the complexities of the american narrative is how the park service has changed. >> how has technology changed the visitor experience? >> well, you know, there are those who are

thursday is the 100th anniversary of the national park service and to mark the occasion president obama designated woods national in maine as a monument. here's a video that the white house tweeted out. president obama: hey, everybody. >> several members of congress also celebrated the anniversary of the national park service on twitter this tweet from nicky songas from massachusetts from n.p.s. 100. celebrate and find free admissions. note the special emoji created for people using the #snps100 and frind your park. the senator from montana with this tweet, enjoying national yellow stone park with cindy today. glacier park tomorrow. celebrating national parks centennial. and he took the opportunity to share an article from the citizen's times and are calling for $232 million in repairs to the great smoky mountains the national mountains that divides tennessee and north carolina. american history tv will be marking the 100th anniversary of the national park service at 7:00 p.m. eastern that's on c-span 3. we'll be live at the robert e. lee memorial at the arlington cemetery to discuss ne

to the national seashore a lot. mpared to some other coastal communities, it is gorgeous to be able to see the uninterrupted ocean and the seascapes and the dunes and you don't have hotels right up against the beach season just look around. bird and surf and swim and camp. and boogie board. that is one of our favorites. i also have a favorite in wisconsin. john: teacher family grew up going to parks? anne: i went to the grand canyon with my parents and my family. my sister and i explored out west a lot. we went to rushmore and the badlands and arches and down to the grand canyon, also and yellowstone. backs a lot of fun going this august with my daughter in seeing it fresh through her eyes. you wantthere a park to visit or place you really want to go to? to paris,to go france. not really a place in the united states. john: it sounds like mom has a few ideas in mind. back to you. that would be a whole different question is paris, france became part of the national park system. we have about 10 more minutes in our focu

it became the national women's party in 1916. this group of women spent seven years actively lobbying the president and congress for a federal suffrage amendment at which time, once they received it in 1920, they wrote and began lobbying for the equal rights amendment. during the period when they were lobbying for suffrage, they were working all over the country. actively garnering support from western women voters and bringing the fight directly to the president's doorstep. they had headquarters over on lafayette square where they could walk out their door and be right at the president's doorstep in a matter of minutes. and they began picketting the white house. one of the first groups to do so. when the united states entered world war i in 1917, at that time the pickets were quite peaceful. but they quickly turned to ugly when crowds watching believed them to be unpatriotic. so crowds would throw things at the women they would converge on them and tear the banners from their hands. in june of 1917, the women began being arrested

also, congress in 1967 established the national park foundation which is the arm of the national park service. it has raised and continues to raise substantial sums of dollars. i think the target during the centennial year is for foundation to raise from the private sector from individuals and various organizations i believe in the neighborhood of $350 million that will be used by the national park service for preservation, interpretation, education. donations, major gifts have been integral to the park system. i think that will continue. >> how do you balance access and protection? we said this is the most visited of the historic houses. when you think about redoing it and the numbers of people in this place, how do you balance those? >> it's really tough. we want people to see these places. 650,000 people a year, we can do a million. we know we have well over a million people walking around the grounds here. at the same time, this is a 200-year-old house. you really have to balance that. we're looking at bringing people into certain parts of the house that can handle more foot traff

she began her career as the cartoonist of the national women's party. her first work appeared in 1914. one of the interesting things about her early work is that a lot of it focused on poverty, child labor, the exploitation of women, and labor legislation. her first work appeared in -- on the cover of the suffragist in june of 1914. she did more than 150 cartoons for the pages of the suffragist over a period of seven years. they appeared almost weekly. we have great attention to how that news sbaktd or was influenced by what was happening in the suffrage movement. here is one of her early works. this is one of my favorite pieces, actually, in the museum. this is called the inspiration of the suffrage workers. you can see how she's commenting on a lot of different ideas in this piece. she's talking about the importance of the vote as a way of changing the condition of women. you see the woman holding her child and her other little girl is standing in the -- sitting in the street playing with a cat, and there's trash surrounding her. this is obviously in a

the national park system. during the struggle for independence in the colonial nation put the itself on a course unprecedented in the world. delaware ratified the constitution, the first to do so. in march 2013, president statedesignated the first monument as part of the national park system. no one knew this better than tubman who led slaves to safety on the underground railroad. in 2013, president obama designated harriet tubman a national monument. the third african-american to attend an academy -- his career took him from the unit known as the buffalo soldiers to the pursuit of poncho villa and to cemetery.arlington on march 20 5, 2013, president designated the tomb of charles young as a national monument. home impact cars with african-americans, especially slaves. he train them, provided them a living wage, give them a uniform and a code of conduct. speed up the growth of the black middle class. they were also organized by a .oung philip randolph his organizational skills would be applied to the civil righ

some background on the national park service. it was signed into law on this date by president woodrow wilson in 191. congress established yellowstone national park back in 1872 as the world's first national park. 1916, the date president wilson signed the law creating the national park service and the system began to include areas of historical significance back in 1933 designated by president franklin d. roosevelt. and earlier this summer, president obama commemorating this centennial anniversary. president obama: we have to have the foresight and faith in the future to do what it takes to protect our parks and to protect this planet for generations to come. and that's especially true for our leaders in washington. it's what lincoln did when he set aside this ground for all posterity. that's what roosevelt did when he inspired the national park system. that's what our generation has to do. we have to sum up that same vision for the future. we made good strides and we're reducing carbon pollution and preserving landscapes. we're

this is a map of the national capital region and the parks that we administer in the national capital region in the greens space are national parks service units. here's the canal, the park and where camp david is. monoxy battlefield, monassas battlefield, another civil war engagement, harper's ferry. famous locations around the region. piscataway park down here in ft. washington. piscataway park is a beautiful park right on the potomac river. early historic settlements as early as 1630, we have pre-historic indian sites all along this location. if you look at washington itself, you'll see an incredible amount of d.c. is green, that means it's more e administered national parks service. rock creek park is one of the largest urban parks in the united states. it's the third oldest national park service unit, i believe, so you have lots of wonderful little green spaces that are parks here in washington and the washington metropolitan area. what i think is most amusing is within our region you could put our region inside yellowstone national park about 500 times, but at the same time one

was swallowed up by the national cemetery. some of it does still exist and it is part of the robert e. lee memorial to be preserved as long as nature itself can preserve it. here we also have the one portrait of robert e. lee in the mansion. it shows him as a young army officer. it is not the version of robert e. lee most people expect. of course, most people think of robert e. lee as the great confederate general. but what arlington house represents is his life before the civil war. his family life. he married his wife here. six of his seven children were born here. this was the place he sacrificed to make the choice he did at the beginning of the civil war to side with virginia, to fight for a larger concept of what he considered to be his home and family, and that was virginia. but it came with a very knowing sacrifice. while robert e. lee would be in the minds of many during that war and the years to follow, somewhat of a villain in history, labeled a traitor by the u.s. government and still a controversial figure, many dur

i invite all of you in our country to come to the national parks and gain a clearer view of the worldank you. [applause] >> thank you. we have a lot of questions. not making us a national park. mr. jarvis: that is in the future. >> you talked about new resignation. you talked about the challenges backlog.d with the new acres, hundreds of thousands of acres added to your portfolio, does that benefit the park service or does it become more of a challenge because you billion backlog? mr. jarvis: we are of 22 new units to the national park system since i became director. in almost every case we have minimized our footprint. the actual amount of land or resource that we need to take care of and we have brought in, particularly through the work of philanthropic, partners and have been quite successful at raising funds. to ourhand it does add overall responsibility, but i think we have been judicious in ensuring that it does not add sick effectively -- significantly to the backlog. >> we have crumbling roads and bridges, outdated electrical and sewer systems. how are you going to tackle that

i have been in the national guard for 25 years and i have lived the transformation of the national guardident, that it was to the operational force that it is today. it has lived up to what the air force demanded it be and we have similar equipment, the same tactics, a force that any commander will have in his force anywhere in the world, in any place. this mission is our number one focus and it has to be. i see general millie taking the national guard in a different direction and i could not be more -- we have no other choice but to leverage the business model of the reserve component as we go forward and i believe that with all of my heart. the homeland peace, this is connected. we bring resiliency to america all over the place. many pieces of this country, the men and women under the command of these generals are the only uniforms these people see. we are in every state, territory, and district of columbia and we do things as they organize them. we are prepared every day to defend the homeland and secure our community. i got a call yesterday from my governor from texas who told me con

>> national park service director jonathan jarvis on the 100th anniversary of the nation's park system. he talked about environmental concerns come increasing fees to cover the cost of park maintenance and other park service is addressing recent allegations of sexual misconduct. we will bring as much of this as we can until the start of the summer on bullying. >> good afternoon, and welcome to the national press club. my name is thomas burr. i'm the washington correspondent for the salt lake tribune and the 109th president of the national press club. our guest today is jonathan jarvis, the director of the national park service. i'd like to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences, and i would like to remind you that you can follow the action on twitter using the hashtag #npclive. that's #npclive. now it's time to introduce our head table guests. i'd ask that each of you stand briefly as your name is announced. please hold your applause until i have finished introducing the entire table. from your right, dylan brown, a reporter from e&e publishing; gene tighe, director of bbn techno

the national university would also have problems. those who flirted with the idea in america were self-conscious about wanting to maintain, even though it supposed to be a supplement to american institutions, the idea is it would need to maintain its independence. you wouldn't wanted to be captured by politics or partisanship in any way so it's probably been very good that there's been healthy distance. maybe we benefited from the fact that we have educational institution that take care of us in a much more pluralist function these days. >> what was george washington's view on it? >> part of it for george washington and james wilson as well is national greatness. you think of america at the time , it was a deeply important revolution, particularly retrospectively and they had an acute sense of the new world they were trying to bring about. they were also look down upon by most europeans in particular as not having the kind of cultural and educational institution you found in england are on the continent. that partly motivated washingt

eastern, we are life from the national park service's home, the robert e lee memorial at arlington national cemetery. join us with your phone calls as we talk with robert stanton, and the former site manager who will oversee the upcoming year-long restoration of the manager, spread quarters, and grounds. thursday, the 100th anniversary of the national parks service, live from arlington house at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. mr. burke: good afternoon and welcome to the national press club. my name is thomas burke, the washington correspondent for "the salt lake tribune" and the hundred ninth president of the press club -- my name is thomas burr. our guest is jonathan jarvis. we would like to welcome our c-span audiences, and you can follow the action on twitter. using the #npclive. now it is time to introduce our guests. i asked each of you stand briefly. please hold your applause until i have finished introducing the entire table. from your right dylan brown, the , reporter for the any publishing, jean tie director of , bbn technologies, a longtime national parks volu

level for the national parks service. e has more than 30 years experience in the parks service and one of her jobs of many that she held was the chief of interpretation for the lewis and clarke national historic trail during the bicentennial of the lewis and clark expedition and did a lot of work with the native peoples along the route of the trail, making sure that all sidesof that story were told so welcome carol, welcome panelists . [applause] and i am just going to get up on to the connect slide here.you'll forgive me for a minute. yes. this is where we were supposed to be in the slide. it's a pleasure to be here to talk to you and with you about national parks as places of healing and resiliency and expression. national parks as you know were started for the purposes of conservation and enjoyment for the public. i'd like to say that the national parks service is probably the only government agency with the word joy in our neighboring legislation and i invite you all to go and look at that enabling legislation in the r

the nation is divided. i think a lot of people are looking for an outsider to come .n and change the experience you need the cooperation of congress. here's a man who is obviously not liked by democrats and by a a lot of the members of his own party. he calls himself a deal maker but he has turned off a number of people he would need to make deals with, including paul ryan. so to get things done he needs to work with those folks and that remains to be seen, as to whether he can have a big victory. host: these are two photographs. you talk a trump and his second wife. he has reportedly said he was bored with his second wife when she was walking down the aisle. that after two failed marriages, he appeared to a found a partner who will filled his long-standing desire for a no maintenance woman who did not generate headlines or seek to upstage him. donald trump, especially with his first wife, had someone who was his match in beauty and brains. was a he actually business partner. he put her in charge of one of

otto agitated for the creation of a national park here. but the creation of a national park requires an act of congress and is much more difficult to do. a national monument can be established by a presidential proclamation. and so although john otto wanted a national park, it was easier to establish a national monument, and that is what happened when president taft proclaimed the area in 1911. the other distinction is, the resource base. generally, a national monument is set aside in recognition of one spectacular feature. in this case, the erosional qualities of the monument. a national park is like multiple national monuments all thrown together. so for example, yellowstone, which was the first national park, wildlife values in the mountain range, running through a high huge elevation lake, all the thermal features and so on. that is generally what sets parks apart from monuments. there are, you know, it is a fuzzy boundary between them. so there are areas that are parks that probably more rightly should be national monuments and vice ve

eastern, we're live from the national park service's most visited historic home, arlington house, the robert e. lee memorial at arlington national cemetery. join us with your phone calls as we talk with robert stanton, former national park service director and brandon bise, the former arlington house site manager who will oversee the upcoming year long restoration of the mansion and grounds. today, the 100th anniversary of the park service live from arlington house at 7:00 p.m. eastern on "american history tv" on c-span3. >> i think it ranks right up with washington's mt. vernon or jefferson'sicello in terms of impressiveness. it speaks of a man of significant wealth. jackson is still considered to be one of our wealthiest presidents. it's an 8,000-square-foot house. so if you're coming here, you have been very, very impressed by a house of this magnitude. andrew jackson and rachel bought this property in 1804, originally it was about 425 acres in size. and with buildings on the property. over

lou: why is the national media not being rationale here? they have an algorithm that requires that they aboicialg common sense? >> we'll have the rnc and dnc chairman. the same comairnman who has been there since 1984. it should be tied to the campaigns. these are vehicles for the campaigns. they are not anymore. they are self-sustaining things. the ideas saying we want to do this and don't want to do that is absurd. lou: one ridiculous statement was the response from the commission saying it's been in place since september 2015. so we can dispense with our minds and rationale. ration -- and rationality. >> men are trump supporters. and i promise some men will watch football. lou: i'll guarantee you this debate schedule doesn't stand. >> the problem is the university makes a lot of money off this. the campaign should be able to pick. lou: we saw what happened to bernie sanders. that bowl is over. he ain't bernie sanders. referring to donald trump, not ed rollins. we are coming right back. much more ahead tonight, and most of it is rather exc

this house was the fifth and final headquarter of the national women's party. it was founded by a woman named alice paul in 1913 as the congressional union for woman's suffrage. the congressional union for woman's suffrage became the national woman's party in 1916. this group of women spent seven years actively lobbying the president and congress for a federal suffrage amendment at which time once they received the amendment in 1920, they began -- they wrote and began lobbying for the equal rights amendment. during the period when they were lobbying for suffrage, they were working all over the country, actively garnering support from western women voters, and bringing the fight directly to the president's doorstep. they had headquarters over on lafayette square where they could walk out their door and be right at the president's doorstep in a matter of minutes. they began picketing the white house. one of the first groups to do so -- when the united states entered world war i in 1917, at that time, the pickets at the white house were quite peaceful. they quickly

and this was fairly common for the national women's party. and for allender also to pay tribute to these original suffragists. and all of the work and progress that women have made, but also reminding their members how far they still have to go. and then we circle over to this cartoon. this car soon is called "our hat is in the ring," and it was drawn and published on april 8, 1916. this cartoon is particularly representative of allender's belief that women needed to be presented with authority, strength and control. she created an image called -- that she called the allender girl. and this woman was a different image a lot of people saw particularly in images of suffragists and images of women that appeared in the press at that time. oftentimes political cartoonists would mock the suffrage movement by making women look haggard or ugly or fraught in some way. and allender instead turns that on its head. and she creates a youthful, invigorated, intelligent woman. in this image in particular she's very slender, her skirt is above her ankles, whi

what is the national university? it a number of leading a factors, thomas jefferson and the idea in short was the constitutional order created we took for granted in our day was in the process of being built and they turned to education as a way to foster and further the political culture and ideas to sustain the constitutional ord order. >> what would it look like and what would it teach? >> we go back centuries and look at what they looked like in the day and now the national institutions and by and large secular institutions of education, harvard, yale, princeton. that's not what they looked like at the time. at the time they were by and large parochial sectarian institutions, and theology was lost in the organizing basis of the curriculum. so it gets a backdrop and there was an idea that we had a profound mismatch between our educational institutions and republican form of government he hahave created. in fact, noah webster, prior even to the convention of 1787 said that our educational institutions are remnants o

today, the 100th anniversary of the national park service live from arlington house at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on cspan3. >>> the 1600 acre monocacy national battlefield is about 45 miles northwest of the u.s. capital. the national park service property includes the best family farm, built in the 1790s by a family of french caribbean immigrants who owned about 90 slaves. c-span met joy beasley, the cultural resources program manager at the national park to learn how remnants of the 200-year-old slave quarters were discovered in 2003 and partially excavated in the summer of 2010. >>> we are at the best farm, which is named the best farm after the tenant that occupied this farm during the civil war. but what we know today as the best farm forms the 274 acres of what was originally a 748 acre plantation. that plantation was known as laramie todge. it was established by a family of french planters who came to maryland in 1793 from the colony known today as haiti. the family was called the vincent deere family. they came to maryland to escape civil unrest associated wi

. >>> the smithsonian's national air and space museum in washington, d.c. celebrated its 40th anniversary july 1st. american history tv was there as the museum marked the occasion, and next we'll show you owl three hours of our coverage. you'll hear from the museum's director, general jack dailey as well as air and space historians as we tour some of the one of the kind artifacts in the museum's collection. we'll also show you the museum's signature event celebrating the anniversary. ♪ >> aviation is america's story. we went from the first power controlled man flight to walking on the moon 66 years. >> the air and space museum shows you exactly that history. >> everything that we have as a special significance to the development of aviation and space in this country. >> i came and saw this aircraft. i remember it so well. as a small boy. my father explaining to me what it was with the first airplane. to ever fly. >> here we are in the same room with the planes the wright brothers flew. >> one of the main perpetrator is to preserve the artifacts forever. >> s

within the national parks, particularly yosemite, some of the colorado parks, what's the national park service doing about purchasing the inholdings that commercial developers are trying to purchase and develop into resorts, things like that? the water conservation fund was one funding source. what's the status of that whole system? >> an excellent question. the land and water conservation fund provides revenues for acquisition not only by, as you well know, by the federal government, but also by state government and also land and water conservation funds are available to tribal governments and a government-to-government relationship. i know personally that there are many inholders throughout the national parks system. something i personally experienced when i was in the virgin island national park. the dollars that are available are not adequate to meet the acquisition of all the so-called inholder. progress is being made. there are some private individuals, some corporations, that are requiring of many of these inholders and then donating free of charge to the government to include a

the slavery issue was heating up all over the nation. so the justices that were on the state supreme court, two were slave owners and they believed the trend was to free slaves that were taken to free territory. they thought it was wrong. slaves were property and to take a person's property away because a person had taken it to a certain area of the country was not affair thing to do under the law. so they changed from the bench, the legislatured up to what the legal system was saying at that time in missouri, they were saying that the scotts would be returned to slavery. a new attorney named roswell fields and he talks to the scotts about a different strategy. he felt they could take their case to the federal district court here in st. louis. mrs. emerson remared and she transferred ownership of the scotts from herself to her brother. sanford was a resident of new york state at this time. the scotts were being held in bondage, technically by a man who lives in another state, a free state to boot. so he thought the strategy would be so th

this is not the first time that he remained seated during the national anthem. he did the same thing last week during another preseason game against the durn broncos. take a look at this picture from levi stadium. kaepernick is clearly sitting down while everyone else is standing for the national anthem. he told an nfl reporter he was not going to stand up for a country that oppresses black people. chip kelly had this response a couple of hours ago. >> we recognize the right of every individual to choose to participate or not participate in the national anthem. the league's stadium is they encourage them but it is not required to stand during the playing of the national anthem. it is his right as a citizen. >> journalist said kaepernick told him he was not backing down. >> >> i said to him, some people have their issues with the black lives matter movement or whatever. when it comes to the american flag, there is sensitivity. he says he understood. he is all in. he is 100 % behind this cause to the point where he says they can take football away. my endorsements

in his weekly address, the president talks about celebrating the 100th anniversary of the national parks service. and representative mimi walters delivers the republican response. she discusses the house republican legislative agenda and the impact on national security. hello,nt obama: everybody. earlier this summer, michelle and my children and i headed west to the national parks. and i have got to say it was a breath of fresh air. we explored hundreds of feet of underground, standing beneath stalactites in new mexico. we hiked up a trail next to a waterfall in california and i even took some pictures of my own, which i thought were pretty good. but the truth is, no camera, especially one with me behind it , can fully capture the beauty of america's national parks. in denali, to seneca falls, are more than 400 parks and other sites capture our history and our sense of wonder. as fdr said, there is nothing so american as our national parks. the fundamental behind -- idea behind the parts is that the country belongs to the people. this month, we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of th

eastern, we're live from the national park service's most visited historic home, arlington house, the robert e. lee memorial at auralrlington national sem tore. join us with your phone calls as we speak with robert stanton and the former arlington house site manager who will oversee the upcoming restoration of the mansion and grounds. today, the 100 anniversary of the park service live from arlington house at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >> the national monument was authorized back in 1934, basically, to preserve these prehistoric mounds. that's what they thought was here when the park was first authorized. back in the 1930s, before the park was even established, while the locals were still working with the legislature trying to get the park authorized and established, the locals also realized that this might be an ideal location for a new deal works project. so once again, working with the legislature, they managed to get this designated as a wpa work site. and with the smithsonian, they sent down two smithsonian archeologists and those two men oversee a work

the nation mourned. and for a time politics were forgotten. gh the country had lost a man that many loved, his death could not destroy the essential stability of the democratic process. the nation still had to choose a leader, and in time the campaigns began again. >> do we have a nixon poster? >> jim wilson, working for nixon in laconia, was looking forward to the republican national convention. the choices at the miami beach convention were richard nixon, governor nelson rockefeller of new york, who was now working hard for the nomination, and california's governor, ronald reagan. ♪ as the republican delegates gathered in this resort city, it soon became clear that nixon was also their choice by an overwhelming mandate. >> the next president of the united states, richard nixon. >> and i again proudly accept that nomination for president of the united states. tonight i see the face of a child. he lives in a great city. he's black. or he's white. he's mexican, italian, polish. none of that matters. what matters, he's an american child. he sleep

i'm an avid outdoorsman and so the national park site in arkansas is the first national river in our country the buffalo national river. i've been going there literally for about 55 years and so i have many, many miles on the river and wonderful happy memories of floating america's first national river, the buffalo national river. teddy roosevelt led the charge to protect america's wild places and special places. he believed in the strenuous life. and now more than of our young people, our families need to get out doors and enjoy america and that's why as you're watching this show i'm up in acadia, in maine, hiking in the park up in the northeast participating the 100 mile challenge. i urge everybody in america this fall, support our cen temp nnial for the national parks and get outside, america. >> join american history tv tonight live at 7:00 p.m. eastern time to commemorate the national park service centennial. sunday night on q and a -- >> imagine one racial lynching in the south. a brilliant psychological device to hold down a race because if you were black, you were afraid that

eastern we are live from the national park service's most visited historic home and the robert e. memorial at arlington national cemetery. join us with your phone calls as we talk to robert stanton and brandon byes and the former site manager that would oversee the upcoming restoration of the mansion, slave quarters and grounds. thursday, the 100th anniversary of the national park service live from arlington house at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >>> next on american history tv's reel america, from 1935, the land of the giants. this 24-minute interior department film documents the efforts of the civilian conservation core to develop california's national and state parks during the great depression. the film promotes the value of the ccc and shows the details of daily life for the men in the work camps. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> the home of the california was the first state park state. back in 1865 the federal government gave her the yosemite valley until it went back to uncle sam to become part of the yosemite national park. at the turn of the century she made a s

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