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In today's episode of The BrainFood Show, Daven Hiskey dives into the surprisingly cool Presidential Library system, how it came to be and what they are actually for.
This episode is brought to you in part by the City of Quincy. To discover more about Quincy, check out the link - https://discoverquincy.com
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
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In today's episode of The BrainFood Show, Daven Hiskey dives into the surprisingly cool Presidential Library system, how it came to be and what they are actually for.
This episode is brought to you in part by the City of Quincy. To discover more about Quincy, check out the link - https://discoverquincy.com
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
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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