Im looking forward. Its not too far away from virginia tech. Looking forward to having dr. Joins dr. Jones. Hes an expert in a civil war era history. Especially in Civil War Veterans with opiate addiction. Phd athe subject of a binghamton university, also published a recent article in the journal of the civil war era. Hes worked on a book on the topic. This is his topic. He knows it better than anyone. We are fortunate to be the subject of his talks. He will speak for about 35 minutes, so we will have plenty of time for discussion at the end. Inay you can engage discussions with dr. Jones is pretty q and a future. Onwont be able to turn cameras or microphones of the attendees. We will do everything through the chat box. Type in your question, and we will see it and hopefully be able to get to all of the questions. We will wrap up around 8 15. You can ask a question at any time. If something occurs during the talk, we can you can type it in and we will respond to them as we are able. Th
In 1940s, a photographer named alexander land noticed in riis book how the other half lives, that on the title page it says, with illustrations after photographs by the author. So he said to himself, well, where are these photographs . And after several years of searching, he tracked down riis son and with much coercing got riis son to try to find the pictures which turned out to be in the attic of the familys home in queens, new york, that was about to be torn down. So his son discovered a box filled with 400 negatives, 300 odd lantern slides and almost 200 paper prints. And delivered them to alexander hollande, the photographer, who again, taking a couple of years, created an exhibition of from the negatives making beautiful prints, modern prints from the negatives and working with the curator at the museum of the city of new york to put on an exhibition called battle with the slum named for one of riis books in which these beautiful, enlarged pictures along with excerpts of riis wri
Now refer to institutionally as the press. Lectures in history on American History tv on cspan3 every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Youre looking at a timelapse video recorded by the library of congress showing the process of constructing the exhibition jacob riis revealing how the other half lives. Next on American History tvs american artifacts, we visit the exhibit in the librarys Thomas Jefferson building to learn about the life of the danishborn journalist, social reformer, and photographer. This program is just under an hour. Im cheryl regan, exhibit director in the Interpretive Programs Office at the library of congress. Im barbara baier, curator, of this exhibit and im the historian in the Manuscript Division of the library of congress. This exhibition, jacob riis revealing how the other half lives, is a copresentation with the museum of the city of new york. It is the first time that th
From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. Governor Gavin Newsome facing backlash tonight after attending a Birthday Party in wine country, thank you for joining us tonight at 9 im pam moore and im grant lotus in tonight for ken wayne this dinner was held last week at the swanky French Laundry restaurant, this is in napa counties youngsville a dozen people from different households attended it. And this is one of the situations now where a lot of people are saying is it do as i say not as i do. And darren joins us live from yelp bill tonight he joins us with more on the governors response maupin and grant the governor has admitted that attending this party was a lapse of judgment and that he should not have gone to this dinner here at the French Laundry as the state continues to re tighten some of its covid19 restrictions with the holidays drawing closer. The governors credibility is definitely taking a hit. Governor gavin, newsome is catching some heat for attending
But opening up to essentially mostly sunny skies to cover the balance of your saturday live shot coming in from the golden gate, this is usually the fog trapped in the morning not seeing that not too bad at Half Moon Bay either smart was talking about looks like mostly sunny from Vantage Point however theres that dense fog covering chunks of the east bay up to the north bay picking the valleys even into the Santa Clara Valley as well. Give you an idea how this all mixes out Going Forward to the Morning Hours. Again the advisory still 9 but we should clear out to the mostly sunny mode as we get to the late Morning Hours just a quick check on Storm Tracker little bit of traffic up to the north of some scattered clouds that will be with us. Temperatures a chilly even with this rain look at bottle coming in at 3236 for santa rosa with what ground wow thats interesting 43 going on for napa and we have a couple of 50s here and there, but usually moisture helps keep temperatures supported not