Shameless Plug for a Friend

  My good friend and former colleague Delia Rios recently joined C-SPAN as a history producer  and helped create a new 12-part series based on the audio and video archives of the 12 Presidential libraries (from Hoover to Clinton). She worked on the Hoover, Truman and Reagan segments. Truman airs tonight.

From the C-SPAN web site:

[The series is a] first-person view of the modern presidency from the men who held the office and those who served around them. Join us as C-SPAN presents Presidential Libraries: History Uncovered — the product of an unprecedented, yearlong search in cooperation with the National Archives for rare and unseen recordings from all 12 of the nation’s presidential libraries. This continually growing web site houses hundreds of newly discovered films, audio, and video recordings and serves as the companion piece to C-SPAN’s television and radio series.

There’s a ‘media evolution’ aspect to this: the web site contains much of the material they found at the libraries and is as much a resource as the TV shows themselves. In other words, their reporting on this story was “platform neutral” — you can watch the shows on TV or the web, and you can dig into what they found on their web site.