Live from the mississippi book festival a panel from the heritage of mississippi series discussed the bicentennial. I was good morning everyone thank you for coming to the panel. Im with the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Welcome to the heritage mississippi series panel. The director of the department of archives and history and a longtime member of the historicahistorical society twoe groups responsible for the book series will moderate the panel. Help me welcome katie. [applause] thank you very much for making this panel possible. [applause] i want to thank you all for joining us here in the mississippi stat state capital. We are proud of this building and it was recently designated to a historical landmark that was very appropriate. [applause] im pleased to host this discussion about the heritage of mississippi series which was also a bicentennial initiative. It will cover 17 volumes of 17 of them have already been published in the there are scholars working their f
Jackson as a frontiersman is too simplistic. He believes that jacksons upgrading upbringing in the south is more in line with an elite southern gentleman. This 50 Minute Program was hosted by the library of congress. Professor cheathem thank you. My name is jeff flanery, i would like to welcome you to the library of congress. The menu for the the Manuscript Library is related to American History and culture. Among our collection of personal papers of 23 u. S. President s and numerous other wellknown americans including such notables as Walt Whitman Orville and wilbur wright, carl sagan, and civil rights icon rosa parks. 170 years after his death Andrew Jackson still dominates the. Between the onslaught of the slavery crisis that overran midcentury america. One could mark the expansion of democracy, trace the development of modern political parties, and witness a wave of political partisanship that would not look unfamiliar to modern already and says. Modern audiences. The librarys manu
Jeff flannery thank you. I am the head of the reader and Services Section and i would like to welcome you to the library of congress. The Manuscript Division is custodian to approximately 63 million primary source documents. Among our other personal papers of 23 u. S. President and numerous other wellknown americans, including the poet walt whitman, aeronautic pioneers orval and Wilbur Wright , and a civil rights icon rosa parks. 170 years after his death Andrew Jackson still dominates the period between the founders generation and the onslaught of the slavery crisis. During the age of jackson, one could mark the expansion of democracy, trace the development of modern political parties, and witness a wave of political partisanship that would not look unfamiliar to modern art and since modern audiences. One of it is here that the collections and personal papers of the nations leading figures shed light on their hopes and ambitions. The division not only holds the most significant collec
Any of us or fish or mammals or its in some worms which come from a very Different Branch of the animal kingdom. Thats also interesting to those because those warms cause severe tropical diseases and if you kill all, you are able to kill the diseases, a different story. But yeah, a lot of biology that we dont understand. Why is it so good at jumping from host to host . Is it just because it spreads vertically throughout the population like i talked about with mosquitoes, is it also because its really good at jumping horizonly from one host to another. Maybe it gets infected by something. These are all questions theres actually a huge a thriving area of research. Still has a lot of unanswered questions. So weve so weve gone from cow poo to fecal transplants and back again. Thank you all for coming who are out of time. R i hope you all all come. [applause] [inaudible] cspan created by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your cable on satellite pr
Weekend here on American History tv. We are in special collections at the university of southern mississippi. Today we are looking at the Theodore Bilbo papers. His collection is very large. [laughter] we have over 2500 boxes of archival material relating to Theodore Bilbo. His career and his life. Theodore bilbo and this is one of his signed photos that he would distribute to fans was a mississippi politician in the first half of the 20th century. s career started around 1910, when he was doing a state congressman race. By the 1930s he had been elected governor. At the time in mississippi, you cannot serve consecutive terms as governor. He served one term into the 1920s, early 1930s, then skipped a term, then stroked another four years later. Then served another four years later. He was elected to the u. S. Senate in the mid1930s. He served until 1946 when he was removed from the senate. After being elected for a third term because of bribery charges. And because of his views regardin