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Could keep the army a live, keep it in the field, and had washingtons confidence. And he proved his work his worth. Throughout the weekend, American History tv is featuring greensboro, north carolina. Our staff recently traveled there. Learn more about greensboro and other stops on cspans cities tour at cspan. Org. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. Each week american artifacts takes you to national sites. The museum has hosted several events since 2008 called save our african american. Treasures. People can bring in family artifacts and talk to curators about how best to preserve them. We talked to museum staff and participants at the museum and washington, d. C. My name is esther washington. I am the director of the museum. Here we are with our save our africanamerican treasury program. We have visitors, and find out the history, the materials they are made from and they tell the public how to preserve them. Here we see several photos a and t
Our family was from alabama. I always felt that i had Something Special. Back then very few africanamericans in 1937 had cameras. My grandmother said my mother did not have a father, but she had a camera. She took pictures all the time. I always knew this was Something Special she had put together that she left the family and left the world. Mr. Evans has brought in what. Amounts to a visual social history of black life in brooklyn, new york, preand post postworld war ii. And the variety of scenes that his mother took. So, kids on street corners just at play or posing in a playground or trips to the beach. Going to coney island. Going to coney island. Young couples that are literally clearly according. There are a range of activities and scenes. The background constitutes this as a social history of brooklyn and the black experience in a time of immense change at around world war ii, a time of gender changes as well as economic and social changes. We are looking at a window of black li
Elsewhere, so it is a onceinalifetime kind of collection. An opportunity to see. It is an awesome responsibility for the museum to be the caretaker, the steward of this collection. Find out where cspans citie s tour is going next. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Each week, american artifacts takes you the National Museum of african American History and culture is currently under construction. An expected open in 2016. The museum has hosted several event since called save our 2008 African American treasures. People can bring in family artifacts and talk to curators about how best to preserve them. We talked to museum staff and participants at the museum and washington, d. C. My name is esther washington. I am the director of the museum. Here we are with our save our africanamerican treasury program. We invite the public to bring three objects. We have reviewers here find out , the history, the materials they are made from and they tell the pub
Publicly debated. Two actors take on the roles of lincoln and douglas and Harold Holzer moderates. The metropolitan museum of art posted this event. [applause] holzer in their entire eventful lives, be met only three times, maybe for at most. And when they finally did, they spent their time together locked in political combat. One was a proud radical, and avenue an advocate for Racial Justice who ran out of patience with the status quo. The other was an ingenious master of the arts of compromise exquisite political timing, leading when necessary from behind. One would save the union and slowly cure its major defect, slavery. The other would free all slaves immediately, even if it meant destroying slavery and the union together. They expressed their views with uncommon eloquence, two of the most famous or hrs in an age that prized oratory. They developed a mutual respect, and ultimately genuine mutual admiration. Two great men, who is furious dissidents and pursuit of what ended up as c