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Individual you have all seen but whose name you may not recognize, natalie larson. Natalie larson is the unsung hero of mount vernon. She is responsible for physically recreating beds, curtains, and household textiles that make mount vernon believable as a home. Natalie is widely recognized as on leading american expert furnishing textiles of the 18th and 19th century and is the sole textilesr of historic incorporated of williamsburg, virginia. She began her career as an archaeologist, deeply interested in the ways people lived in the past and how they lived with and expressed themselves through their material possessions. Over the past 30 years, natalie has taken that approach above andnd by studying documenting surviving furnishing textiles to recreate them for use and house museums. An began her career as archaeological draftsman and Colonial Williamsburg before becoming a versions specialist. At williamsburg natalie refurnished nearly every exhibition building, including the most r
A hint of being a criminal himself, which is a pretty predominant theme. Had it not been for one such harpers monthly magazine, no one would have known who wild bill was and no one wouldve cared. Months after the conclusion of the civil war, in july, 1865, James Butler Hickok shot and killed a former confederate soldier in springfield, missouri on the town square. The shooting was written about an harpers monthly magazine and painted hickok as a remit as a romantic figure. While in springfield we visited the Greene County archives and looked at Court Documents from the trial. Onlyring the war was the county in southwest missouri whose population went up. That had to do with the soldiers who were here, as well as the refugees that were coming in from all over southwest missouri, indian territory, arkansas, southern kansas, prior to the outbreak of the war it was a couple thousand people. It was the biggest it was the only urban center in southwest missouri. By the end of the war, there
Next, we continue our coverage of this weekends meeting in washington, d. C. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us this late on a saturday afternoon. I am the executive director of us icomos. I will describe who we are and set a little context. Welcome to the session on World Heritage and the New Birmingham National Civil rights monument. Joining us today on the panel, we will be doing brief introductions. Glenn eskew from Georgia State university who is coordinating the civil rights World Heritage nomination. Brent leggs, stephen morris, and patricia sullivan. First, a little bit about us icomos and why i am here. While i am listed as the chair of this session, glenn eskew is the architect of this session. I am here to provide context for the significance of the investments of Energy Taking place. Us icomos dates back to 1965. We are one of the 110 or so National Committees of the International Council of monuments and sites. It is an
Rights in egypt . Again, i agree that it is not a coincidence. An opportunity in january of 2011 to have a discontinuation, to have a cut off point to say this was the have transparent and Accountable Government and lets at least the senior level of administration to see who needs to be transferred to maria trained and prosecuted or at least relieved from duty. Byre was at least an attempt the very first cabinet that came, that was appointed after mubaraks ouster, there was an attempt to have laws that would not have criminalized, not have ushered in prosecutions for past corruption, what did that socked , torevent future corruption really address the root causes of corruption like conflict of interest laws, more transparent and publicly accessible budget making postings and final outcome. The military council that was in power that came after mubarak had a vested interest in. Aintaining the mubarak state that is why we did not see a coherent prosecution strategy for past corruption an