Preservationist jobie hill has been writing about slave dwellings in the united states. Her interdisciplinary work includes photograph, interpretation, and preservation of slave history. Up next on american artifacts we travel to southern virginia near the North Carolina border to visit the former Brandon Plantation with jobie hill and learn about her saving slave houses project, joined by several archeologists and preservations and a team that came to document Brandon Plantation with a series of 3d laser scans. Were here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of an independent project i am doing thats called saving slave houses, which is a database of all the known slave houses in the united states. And it is staffed as a central repository of instrumentation and documentation of slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with turnbull, the company that makes the survey equipment that i use, to do kind of the highest level documenta
Me is the dam that sits just to the north of pierre. 1962 by the army corps of engineers, 160 years after lewis and clark made they where made their way to this area up the missouri review. Come with us to the Historical Center to learn more about their journey. Although the lewis and Clark Expedition is a key to u. S. History, the idea of the expedition was to encourage American Travel up the missouri river, and more american trade with the American Indians. What the story is in south there is some interesting tales. First of all, when you come into south dakota you have Sergeant Floyd had just died where the current city of sioux city is. But where they got to what was now they elected patrick gass. Ave, york, was allowed to vote in that election, highly unusual situation. They got to the top of spirit mountain, they saw their first bison. There was acres and acres of bison on this flatland. These areter member, men coming from the eastern United States, who were used to trees and fo
Me and from the side Henry Kissinger said, by definition, the people who cannot hear will not respond. [laughter] youre at the Wilson Center and today is another in our books at wilson series featuring the latest book by the remarkable james reston who is a Wilson Center global fellow. The topic of the book deals with a contentious period in the history of the vietnam war, and the book itself deals with the contentious debate over how to mark that war and the american role and sacrifice during that period. That was fraught with politics and contention over the appropriate artistic expression to memorialize that dramatic period in American History. The Gold Standard of book reviews remains the new york times. They reviewed it this week and described the book as superb and affecting in terms of the emotions it evokes as one reads it. It is a fantastic volume. Jim has been affiliated as a fellow at the Wilson Center. It is remarkable the topics he has taken on in 17 books. The range from
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Brandon plantation and learn about her saving slave houses project. She is joined by several archaeologists and preservationists and a team from trimble inc. Who came along to document the plantation with a series of 3d laser scans. We are here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of an independent project that i am doing that is called saving slave houses, which is a data base of all the known slave houses in the united states. It acts as a central repository of information and documentation of slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with trimble, the company that makes the survey equipment i use, to do kind of the highest level documentation that is available to us today, which is 3d laser scanning. Its important to do this because, one, documentation is a type of preservation. Slave houses are buildings that are disappearing from the landscape. So by documenting them thats one way of preserving them. Documenting them and thro