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Moon landing. This was part of an event hosted by Space Center Houston to mark the missions 50th anniversary. Good morning and happy Lunar Landing day. [ cheers and applause ] its great to have you here. Tracy lamm we are the Visitor Center for the nasa Johnson Space center. As a nonprofit entity and smithsonian affiliate and the worlds First Certified Autism Center as a science center. We believe in equity, inclusion, accessibility. And we take that on as a great badge of honor that our staff h...

Good afternoon, we are going to talk about june harris. Those of us who are old enough to remember. Well talk about this case in a couple of different sections. Will talk about the case itself. This affected the outcome. I want you to keep two things in the back of your mind. Will come back to talk about these. I want you to think about how this case is similar and different from the murder trials. The second is a question of why do you all know who lizzie is. Before going talk about why some ca...

Summer recess. Our clerk could you please call the role. roll call . Clerk we have a quorum. Could you please read the next item. Clerk Citizens Advisory Committee report. This is an information item. Mr. Larson, good morning. Good morning chair peskin and commissioners. I am chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee to report on last wednesdays meeting of the cac. They reviewed the motion of support for 26 million in prop k allocation and one 100,000 prop k appropriation request on item 5 on the...

And satellite provider. 50 years after the moon landing, apollo 11 astronaut, Michael Collins, reflected on the Apollo Programs impact at the time as well as on todays politics, diplomacy, Foreign Policy and space initiative. Welcome. It is truly a thrill to see space diplomacy a topic near and dear to me. Thank you so much for joining us this evening. I am a historian of science and technology and a curator at the smithsonian air and space museum for the apollo space collection. 50 years ago th...

History in general. Were going to set aside our political history for now. Next couple of weeks, its military history all full go. All right . So, heres the thing. There are certain challenges that folks who study military history are going to encounter. Like what . What are some of the things you can see military historian s having problems with . One or two. History being written by the witnesses. Yeah. I like to change it up and say to the winners goy to history because what they end up doing...

Good morning. Welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for tuesday september 10, 2019. The first meeting back since summer recess. Our clerk could you please call the role. roll call . Clerk we have a quorum. Could you please read the next item. Clerk Citizens Advisory Committee report. This is an information item. Mr. Larson, good morning. Good morning chair peskin and commissioners. I am chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee to report on last wednesdays meeting o...

Emancipation proclamation which was issued eight months later. On this day 157 years ago an act for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District Of Columbia became law. The d. C. Emancipation act and enslavery in washington, d. C. Freeing 3,100 enslaved individuals. For the past year as war raged between the union and the confederacy opponents of slavery had decried the scandal of slavery continuing to exist within the nations capitol. 8 1 2 months later president linc...

Effect situation i think it caused that because because of this, the situation at top and with this dangers of the working area, it led to all of these labor laws and safety act that protect us now. So without this, and these women standing up for themselves and improving all those people wrong, we went have the safety act and laws we have today. Thank you all very much. Thank you. We are featuring American History tv programs as a preview of whats available every weekend on cspan3, lectures and...

Today we are going to discuss an overview of america in the 1970s. In the beginning of the century we talked about how it takes a bit of time or historians to understand what an era is about at least 25 years of perspective. The 1970s were seen as a bit of a joke of a decade. Bellbottoms, disco, bad hair. In recent years historians have seen the 1970s is very important. In some ways william more important than the 1960s which seems to get a lot of attention. One of the themes historians have tal...

All right, welcome back, everyone. I want to introduce the next panel which is going to focus on the implementation of the refugee act of 1980. And moderating that panel is eric schwartz, former assistant secretary of state for population frunles and migration under the Obama Administration. He was Senior Adviser for humanitarian affairs during the Clinton Administration on the National Security councils. And most importantly he is on the hias board. He also happens to be the president of Refuge...