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Lawyer and former New Hampshire representative charles douglas. Thank you for agreeing to show us around. For people who have not been here, this is my first time what , do they need to know about concord, New Hampshire . Well it is the state capital , of little New Hampshire. It is in the southern central part of the state, about 60,000 people, right on the banks of the merrimack river, and it is usually the headquarters for president ial campaigns every four years, but as the state capital, there are about 10,000 state workers within 20 miles of where we are sitting. Ashley you mentioned to ...

Have been coming to again and again this month. This is the fourth installment of the series. We have focused mostly on architecture. You might recall we had House Speaker on the folklife, but this one is different to me. It speaks very clearly and closely to my heart as a historian. I know visitors that come to d. C. , they want to go to library of congress, they are in on and they should be. Researchers cannot wait to read in the main reading room. It lands a certain something lends a certain something to the seriousness of what they are doing. Scholars that really know the score walk right ...

A little bit of background. For those of you dont know or have heard, who has ever heard of the ludlow massacre . Midto thousands mid 2000s archaeologists in the , university of denver did a survey and found a lot of people had not heard of the massacre. Out of those that had heard of the ludlow massacre, they thought it was about native americans killing white settlers. A bit of background. From my experience, i grew up in southern colorado. My family has lived here for 150 years. Ludlow was my first field trip in the third grade. I went to college and ended up studying with an individual who...

In the main reading room. It lends a certain something to the seriousness of what they are doing. That is the way it should be, but scholars are really know the score walk right past the Jefferson Building and go into you may not like the way it looks, but the Madison Building is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts collection is, and there are 60 million items. This is from the website. 60 million items over 11,000 separate collections, truly the greatest manuscript treasure of American History and culture. To talk to us about that collection is Jeff Flannery, an old friend of the so...

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...