ladies and gentlemen, please welcome kathy peiss. [applause] prof. peiss: thank you. it is such a pleasure to be here, and i need to give a very strong note of thanks to the national archives not only for inviting me but much more importantly for its collections and extraordinary archivists. i could not have written this book without the national archives, so i am deeply grateful. we know the big stories of world war ii, of combat, courage, death, and destruction. the complex decision-making behind military decisions and foreign relations and the reshaping of global geopolitics after the war. in recent years we have also come to appreciate the unusual alliance between the cultural world and the battlefield during world war ii, especially the american curators and museum specialists who saved art and culture in wartime europe, the monuments men, a unique unit of the american military during the war. there are still many hidden stories on the margins of battlefields that shed light on the war and its broad impact on american life. this is one of those stories. it was re

>> next in american history tv, university of pennsylvania history professor kathy peiss talks about her book information hunters: when librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in world war ii europe. she details how ordinary citizens collected books, newspapers, and documents to aid u.s. military intelligence. the national archives in washington, d.c. hosted this event. david: during world war ii, getting the correct information was critical to the war effort. while we might imagine spies, sneaking stolen secrets out of occupied countries, much useful information was found in published sources, books, newspapers, and other documents. kathy peiss' latest book explores how the quest for information led to the recruit ment of librarians, scholars and archivists in collecting and organizing books and documents. they were skilled in collecting and organizing books and documents. their work has left its own archival trail that peiss and other scholars can now follow. peiss herself has sifted through the state department records here at the national archives in college park and the

kathy peiss' latest book explores how the quest for information led to the recruit

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next on "american history tv" university of pennsylvania , history professor kathy peiss talks about her book "information hunters, when librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in world war ii europe." she details how ordinary citizens collected books, newspapers, and documents to aid u.s. military intelligence. the national archives in washington, dc hosted this event. >> during world war ii, getting the correct information was critical to the war effort. while we might ima