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Joining us here all around the nation and around the world. Thank you, guys. And be good, all right. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] you are watching American History tv, 48 hours of programming every weekend on c span 3. Follow us on 20 for information follow us on twitter for information on our schedule. Artifacts,american we visited the National Gallery of art to visit the shaw memorial. The sculpture honors colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th massachusetts volunteer infantry, one of the civil wars first Afr...

Programs and to keep up with the latest history news. We visit the National Gallery of art to learn about the shaw memorial, the sculpture 54th infantry. The work specifically commemorates the july 18, 1860 three storming of fort wagner and which one third of the 54 men were killed or wounded. Spotlightt 60 shine a on the group of abolitionists. Good morning. I am the senior curator here at the National Gallery of art. I am the cocurator of this exhibition. Augustus Saint Gaudens began to work on this memorial in 1883. Initially, he was going to make it a monument just dedicated to shaw himsel...

Us, lees miserables. Every weekend, marking the anniversary of the civil war about the people and event chas shaped the area, saturday at 10 00 and 6 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan. Anniver civil war about next on american artifacts, we visited the National Gallery of art to visit the shaw memorial. The sculpture honors colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th massachusetts volunteer infantry, one of the civil wars first African American units. The work commemorates the july 18, 1863 storming of fort wagner in which 1 3 of the men were killed or wounded. The exhibit tell it with pride shines the...

Interesting. I was very nervous because i didnt know how she would receive this book. She called and said to me, well, its very different. [laughter] and then nobody said anything. I didnt say anything and she didnt i didnt know what to say different good or bad so just with quiet. She said, i think this about part of she talked to me about story lines. I realized wow, they are going to publish it. And we talked about it as we would talk about a man script that would be accepted. Im thinking, i cant believe they are going to accept this book. It was a crazy writing experience because of all th...

But the oppression of our voices have been for so many, many years, if you think back the first writer who was read in terms of Asian American was maxine kingston. I read her in high school and was greatly affected by reading about the woman warrior. Before her there were few. There were some but didnt make that economic splash. They were never read in a large way. Maxine was the first one we read her in school we knew of her. She was not out there like anny tan was when she wrote the joy luck club. So much of it is timing. It meant all the history and the voices before then had been silent. M...