Editing Robert Byrd (section)

===Senate historian===
[[File:Byrd baker book 1.jpg|thumb|right|Byrd and [[Richard A. Baker (historian)|Dr. Richard Baker]], the Senate historian]]
Television cameras were first introduced to the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] on March 19, 1979, by [[C-SPAN]]. Unsatisfied that Americans only saw Congress as the House of Representatives, Byrd and others pushed to televise Senate proceedings to prevent the Senate from becoming the "invisible branch" of government, succeeding in June 1986.
{{external media| float = left| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?8062-1/senate-17891989 ''Booknotes'' interview with Byrd on ''The Senate: 1789–1989'', June 18, 1989], [[C-SPAN]]}}
To help introduce the public to the inner workings of the legislative process, Byrd launched a series of one hundred speeches based on his examination of the [[Roman Republic]] and the intent of the [[Framers of the US Constitution|Framers]]. Byrd published a four-volume series on Senate history: ''The Senate: 1789–1989: Addresses on the History of the Senate''.<ref>
[[United States Government Publishing Office|Government Printing Office]], 1989–94</ref> The first volume won the Henry Adams Prize of the Society for History in the Federal Government as "an outstanding contribution to research in the history of the Federal Government". He also published ''The Senate of the Roman Republic: Addresses on the History of Roman Constitutionalism''.<ref>
Government Printing Office, 1995</ref>

In 2004, Byrd received the [[American Historical Association]]'s first [[Theodore Roosevelt]]-[[Woodrow Wilson]] Award for Civil Service; in 2007, Byrd received the [[Friend of History Award]] from the [[Organization of American Historians]]. Both awards honor individuals outside the academy who have made a significant contribution to the writing and/or presentation of history. In 2014, [http://www.byrdcenter.org/ The Byrd Center for Legislative Studies] began assessing the archiving of Senator Byrd's electronic correspondence and floor speeches in order to preserve these documents and make them available to the wider community.<ref>Evans, M. (May 2, 2014), "[http://www.historyassociates.com/blog/digital-archives-blog/digital-preservation-project-step1/ Preservation Week Project: Assessing 255 GB of Senator Byrd's Digital Files] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606205917/http://www.historyassociates.com/blog/digital-archives-blog/digital-preservation-project-step1/ |date=June 6, 2014 }}", History Associates (www.historyassociates.com), access date: May 30, 2014.</ref>