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Im matthew wasniewski, a historian of the house of representatives. Im farar elliott, a curator. We are here in the historic space. The ceremonial office, one of the oldest parts of the capitols house wing. There was built in 1857. This spot is an ideal place to talk about Historic Events in the capitol. In the artifacts we have in the collection that matt and i interpret all the time. We want to tell you about the history of the house page program, which is a history going back to the early 1800s. We dont actually know when the first pages served in the house. The tradition of having messenge...

We want to hear from you. You can also make a comment via twitter cspanwj is our twitter handle. Alex rogers is with the National Journal. Mr. Rogers, can you explain what is going on in the senate and what is going to happen today and perhaps over the weekend as well . Alex the send it is in a race against time. They are trying to figure out a few matters. The first on the schedule is a trade legislation that is not time sensitive but that the Republican Leadership wants to pass before leaving for memorial day recess. After that, there is going to be a time sensitive deadline. The end of the ...

Negotiations are going on right now to get these things passed . Guest what has happened so far is that the senate has pushed for this trade bill and got an advance only with lastminute maneuvering on the Chamber Floor yesterday. You had a band of senators who really want to get the Exportimport Bank passed and that also has a time sensitive deadline at the end of next month. And mcconnell got these senators on board and that bill was advance. Now they are tried to push through today and bunch of amendments and maybe final passage of this trade promotion authority, which would pave the way for...

This was part of the Antislavery Movement in a very hostile environment. So its very interesting in this use in the sense of women. Brenda, can you Say Something about coming from literature and writing history . Yes, yes. I am intrigued, but i am introduced as a historian, which is fine. I am flattered, in fact. History writing and historians were something that i had to throw out as my barrel of received prejudice against. But when, as i mentioned in the book, and certainly the books, and both of those cases i am writing about writers. Part of what always interested me is that they live in t...

Do not even know about them until 2009. He was honored at an event and there is a wonderful article about him in the smithsonian magazine. If you search for george kovar, really interesting stuff. But he was in oak ridge as well. Right now the Atomic Heritage Foundation has something called manhattan voices of the Manhattan Project and they have been working on gathering oral histories for a long time and they are now starting to put them up on line. That is a tremendous project. They are just starting to put them up on line now but thats very interesting. Thanks for your work. Thank you very ...