What's the Deal With Presidential Libraries?
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Occasionally accused of being “Modern day Pyramids” or “Monuments to someone’s ego”,
presidential libraries have long been divisive institutions, especially when first established.
However, while some have such perceptions of these libraries, it turns out there is vastly more
to them than many people realize, and the more distant we become to the eras these leaders
lived in, the more and more valuable the Presidential libraries become to our understanding of
history and our own evolution as a society, and as humans because of what they contain in an
absolute treasure trove of materials- where it’s not an exaggeration to say that a newly minted
college graduate historian could enter a given Presidential Library one day, spend the next five
decades of their career inside, and only scratch the surface of what that single library holds that
no other institution in the world has. So what exactly are presidential libraries really? What do
they contain? And how did this whole Presidential Library thing start in the first place?
Author: Daven Hiskey
Producer: Samuel Avila
0:00 Intro
2:03 First!
8:04 How It All Started
19:36 The Next Step
22:53 The Archives
28:14 The Accuracy Problem
32:29 A Greater Purpose
36:37 What’s the Process to Create a Presidential Library in Modern Times?
40:40 Teaching History and the Funding Controversy
50:30 Bonus Fact
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