Youre taking that with a little bit different. Whats your position now . Guest well, if i could go back briefly. A few years ago i had the honor of speaking at the getiesburg National Cemetery where the flag behind me is from the anniversary of the getiesburg address. I made a suggest sort of impor tuned people to consider contect liesing confederate monments. Making sure that there were alternative monments. And frankly Nothing Happened in the three subsequent years. Its not an easy thing to make occur. Its expensive, time consuming, requires consensus on text and methodology, and it didnt work. And since that time, other convullsive events have occurred most recently of course the killing of george floyd and the response has been directed at monments among other institutions that are deemed by many to be op pressive particularly confederate monments in the Public Square. And i did write an op ed recently during which i said that i think i was wrong. That weve had enough time, weve ha
Available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Next on American History tv, art historian Judy Scott Feldman analyzes artistic portrayals of the American Revolution and civil war. She talks about the influence of painting, sculptors, and memorials on how history is remembered. The Smithsonian Associates posted this event. Posted this event. We are going to look at the American Revolution and civil that. Ut a little beyond controversies about the stories we tell. I am going to focus, because it is impossible to cover such an amount of material in one talk, i will focus on the capital and the public buildings on the mall , which is the centerpiece of American Political Culture and our public culture where people come from all around the world in country to participate government, to learn about government, understand our heritage, so i thought, what is it we say to those people when they come to washington . What have been some of the controversies . What are some of the i
At this time im honored to introduce the speaker for today. Todd is both an offer and funeral f director. In fact, his family has been involved in that profession in delaware for four generations. The most recent book is last rites the evolution of the american funeral and todd will be speaking to us today about how Abraham Lincoln was at the center of the transformation of american funeral practices both during his time in the white house and also through his tragic death. Now, we will have a question and answer session at the end of the talk. There will be a couple of walking microphones. I would ask please take advantage of those because we want our cspan audience to be able to hear both of the questions and the answers. At this time i will turn it over to todd. [applause] thank you. Its my pleasure to present to you this evening. Now we all know what happens good friday, 1865. But what imta going to talk abt this evening is about how the grand event of that was Abraham Lincolns tra
Transformative book he has ever written. One thing i can tell you about tavis is he is serious about this museum and he is serious about dr. King. He will often kneel down and pray at this site because dr. King meant so much to his life to continues to mean so much his life. For those of you who never met he is ave got to know down to earth guy. He is just like your brother. He is a person that you want to talk to. My first introduction to tavis mosttavis gave some of the thoughtful commentary i have ever heard. Tavis is a brilliant young man and he has been brilliant for a long, long time. I know in some ways he is controversial. But what i will say to you is tavis always thinks for himself and whether you agree with him or not or like it or not, he does speak for himself. That is what i love about him. Friend. Longtime he is much like a brother. I understand that he did play at. He alpha chapter i could go on about travis tavis. I have loved him since i first him. Him and didnt know
War museum, is relevant today. Many of you are regulars to the events, history buffs who love to study the lessons of history. I would like to add a special welcome to some of you who are new to the preservationists who have joined us today in the audience. As we have over the decades in our existence, as the museum of the confederacy and the American Civil War center which combined to form the American Civil War museum, we have always thought that it was our responsibility to engage constructively with public issues arising from the subject of the civil war. Whether that subject be monuments, the confederate battle flag, or the discussion of slavery as the cause of the war. Our purpose today is to promote a constructive and civil consideration of civil war monuments. We have organized a program that features scholars who come from diverse academic backgrounds and bring diverse viewpoints to the subject. Collectively they will provide background and perspective on monuments and give us