# Creating a Dynamic, Knowledge-based Democracy (morning session)

Morning session of a conference celebrating the enduring legacies of three key events that shaped America's knowledge-based democracy: passage of the Morrill Act, the founding of the National Academy of Sciences, and the founding of the Carnegie libraries. Speakers included James H. Billington, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), M. Peter McPherson, Michael F. Adams, Edward J. Ray, Mary Evans Sias, Lou Anna K. Simon, David Yarlott Jr., Ralph J. Cicerone, Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.), Barbara A. Schaal and Daniel J. Kevles.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2012
- By: Library Of Congress
- Genres: Education, History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2020720017/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2020720017?play=1)