house right now. it was built in 1755 and 1759 and was the home of george mason and his first wife. if you look at the house, the carving and decoration outside, the house tells us that george mason belonged to the strata of society he thought he did. he was a wealthy man. the house tells us that in the details. the driveway you come up was lined, in his lifetime, with cherry trees. he didn t ever add-on to the house. the house you see now is what mason built in 1769. it s kind of interesting because most other founding fathers did add third floors or wings, like mount vernon and monticello. george mason saw people like jefferson and others of the founding generation going into deep debt doing things like this. today we would think of it as keeping up with the joneses or keeping up with the kardashians. mason did not want to be in that position himself. so, we are going to have a chance to explore all of the spaces in the house. we will learn who george mason was and why we r
virginia premise collar slavery in virginia. it was usually the most interesting part of the landscape and as a professional chef or 10 years and i found myself in a few spaces for the children had to cook and i realized there were no answers to the questions about their lives and contributions. my work in my book is focused on the 18th to 19th century plantation homes than the larger ones. but the ones where where the cook mind of the the cook might ve been a longer set than any, but the ones that they send for it kitchen that was run like a business. those particulars had a mastery of flavor, the mistress, the wife, so the cook would have to cook for all of them and of course it s virginia. all of the culture of hospitality and so they would have to be cooking for neighbors to visit it. there was no social world outside of these plantation homes during this period. all of the court shall life involving parties and mary and their children off to the next person down the road
rulers. sunday at 4:00 p.m., on reel america, the 1956 film, a city decides about the historic supreme court decision, brown v. board of education. delegates from all the high schools in st. louis. well, all i know is at our school, there are some kids who just don t like colored people. some of the kids at our school don t like white people either. i think it s the individual that counts. how are you going to get to know a person unless you meet them. when the supreme court ruled that segregation was illegal, these children were ready. and at 6:00 p.m., on american artifacts, we look at a selection of clifford barryman s popular political cartoons for the early 20th century. and clifford barryman continued to draw for the washington evening star for the next 42 years. his cartoons appeared almost daily, usually on the front page of the paper, very prominently placed, and he had quite an ill lustrous career. watch american history tv every weekend on c-s
project. she is joined by several archaeologists and preservationist, and team of tremble incorporated who came along to have a series of 3d laser scans. we are here the to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. this is part of a independent project that i am doing that is called saving slavehouses which is a database of all of the slavehouses in the united states. it is a acting as central depository of documentation and information about slave houses in the united states. i have partnered with turnbull which is the company that makes the survey equipment that i have used to do kind of the highest level of documentation that is available to us today which is 3d laser scanning. it is important the to do this, because one, documentation is a type of preservation. slave houses are buildings that are disappearing from the landscape, and so by documenting that, that is one way of preserving them. and documenting them through my database is also a way
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. we re here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. this is part of an independent project i am doing that s 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