Authored several books including rebooting the american dream. Join us as we take your phone calls, facebook comments, and tweets for tom hartman. Afternoon, this exploring the events of the april 20 6, 1913 murder of mary fagan in mariana, georgia marietta, georgia. Sunday afternoon at 4 00 p. M. , the 1975 documentary on the supply and demand of fossil fuels in the u. S. And the look at alternative energy sources. Get the complete we can schedule at cspan. Org. Weekend schedule at cspan. Org. All weekend, American History tv is featuring santa rosa, california. The 1906 San Francisco much ofke destroyed santa rosa, with extensive structural damage to downtown. Comcast Cable Partners worked with staff to explore the rich history. Learn more about the history on American History tv. We looked in the north. A looked like smoke out of train or something. House into the storm because we thought it might be storming. We had to tie wet rags over our mouths just to keep from smothering. The oldtimers said they had never seen nothing like that. Sealed, but that dust came through somehow. Even the stucco houses. You had to mount really good when it was over mop really good when it was over. Today we will be looking at our dust bowl migration archives, which we have had since 1994 materials gathered beginning in 1974, primarily by journal gerald haslam. Lettersved dozens of offering to provide him with material. He also gathered material directly from people who worked in the camps. Charles todd and robert sunken are probably the most infamous of the people that worked in the camps on a daily basis between 1940 and 1941. There goal was to gather stories and songs, either remembered by migrants from their previous times, or their relatives, or stories about their migration and experiences in the camps. So, a lot of those recordings are housed in the librarys congress in a dust bowl oral history project. Served music has always a purpose in peoples lives, especially in troubled times. I think one of the values for the migrants in their songs with it was probably, besides their belongings, the one thing that could bring with them stories and songs. I think as they were exposed to the difficulties of life in new environment in california, and exposed to the difficulties of earning money, and the difficulties of working for landlords who are not always kind and did not always give them living wages, they develop songs that reflected their new lives in the camp, and they included songs about wages and the difficulties of being a wage earner and not making enough to live on. And the possibility of striking there were a lot of labor and strike songs that were gathered. I think all of those songs together represent People Holding on to what will keep him home and keep them able to survive this difficult experience. I am going to share with you some announced the notes that were written by charles todd and Robert Sonkin when they arrive in each of the camps. They began recording their experiences in typewritten form. 1940. S an example from we arrived at the farmworkers community at 3 00 p. M. The clerk on duty in the office directed us to the camp store to find mr. Do we rogers, assistant camp manager. Neattore is a new, very building. According to the wife of the store manager, the blueprints from the office were upside down. Indicated a sloped to the roof, which was obviously slanting in the wrong direction. Direction. they go on to the people they dewey rogers, heavy set rapid speech, eager to help. He took us to the library where we set up our machine. Cotton davis, extroverted, full witty sayings. Khan davis ended up giving sonkin and todd a lot of material for songs. Toone that comes now research the time, and they do a wonderful job of introducing who these individual people were, so it is not just a mass of 350,000 okies. It is individual stories that have been a superb job of recording. That is why the library of congress has collected these materials. We have a number of photographs migrationt bowl archives. Most of the photographs were taken by a photographer in ventura. Almost all of the photographs are officially Farm Security administration photographs of life in the migrant camps of california. A few examples that are quite sign fromclude this the u. S. Department of agriculture Farm Security administration identifying the farmworkers community that arets that these children posing in front of. Sonkin todd and robert collected songs and stories, and this photograph showing them in front of a microphone, getting ready to sing their songs for the phonograph placed in front of them is, again, both an iconic photograph, and also one that is very, very specific to these two people and their experience in the camp. Pipkin holding a baby, sitting outside in the bright sun. A wonderful picture, speaking to the times. Her face looks much older than i am sure she was. Details the daily life in the cap and identifies many of these people, really helping to highlight family life what individual experiences were like. One of the collections, the sub collection is a collection of camp newsletters. These are copies of original materials that were handed out to everyone in the speech of the camps, where they were written. The unique thing about them, they were written by the migrant laborers themselves about life in the camp. I will review a few desserts from one of the news latest s dated october 28, 1939. The title of the newsletter is the covered wagon. Comments from your cap manager i am very glad indeed to have this opportunity to work with you splendid folks. It is my desire to become better acquainted with all of you. Folks, this is your home and mine. When our little boys and girls grow up, how will they go toward the homes we have made for them my sense from reading the camp newsletter . ; is that you had newsletters . My sense is you had government workers mixed in with migrants, and they all worked very hard to avelop and maintain government. They assigned committees that included not just picking up trash, but developing art, literature, having a game night, trying to build a sense of community, and they did not stop there. They developed workers rights alliances and groups and did not just talk amongst themselves. They organized and went on to larger conferences. I think it is an incredible of what people in very difficult circumstances are able todo to be in community and haveeel alone and to something to look forward to, to have something to share, to have hope for their children. I think each of these newsletters reflect that in one way or another. I think there are so many individual stories from the dust will migration and any migration migration and any migration, especially migration that is forced. People do not want to leave their land and their property, but they had no choice. I think some of the history of that is reflected in the passion with which people want their stories to be told. Weekend,hout the American History tv is featuring santa rosa california. Our city staff travel there to learn about its history. Andn more about santa rosa other stops on the tour at our. An. Org citiest youre watching American History tv all weekend and every weekend on cspan3. Greent, historian john. Hronicles in 1952 election he examines the myth that ran against their own convictions. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this event. It is a little over an hour. So, good henry so, good evening. I am the former director of Public Affairs. Or, perhaps befitting my new parttime status as a visiting fellow at the university of kansas, maybe i should say director of Public Affairs emeritus. Me, ier you want to call am off of the payroll here, but i cannot stay away