Brothel. Extreme history is a nonprofit that is located here in bozeman. We bring history to the public in fun, engaging and relevant ways. We do historic walking tours throughout the summer. We do a lecture series in the winter and we do workshops and other events around history. We try to get people to engage in history. What better way then in a historic brothel . In the 1980s, there was a real push to uncover more of the social history. In doing that, there is more to history than just wars and generals and all of those things that we have been studying as historians for many years. We started looking at womens history. We started looking at Minority Community history. We really discovered that there is so much more to tell within these narratives that we constructed over the years. That is really how the extreme history project was formed. A colleague of mine started thinking about all of the stories that you were not hearing about the people who founded this town like Marion Richard mcdonald, standing mill lewis, Lizzie Williams who was an africanamerican woman who came here and started a business on main street. We started looking at these histories and trying to plug those in because they werent here. They were left out. This house was built in 1891 by one of our founding fathers. Houseph linley built this as a brothel right in the middle of the red light district. There was much uproar about that from some of the bozeman citizens. They were not too happy with that, especially the ladies of the town of bozeman, but he did it anyway. He built this building and this house. He rented it to a woman named libby hayes. She was one of our more longterm madams that worked out of this house. She was here from about 1900 to 1912. We call this the libby hayes house because she was here the longest. Libby was the madam in this house. She had a lot of girls who work with her here in the house. They came and went but she always stayed. She moved out in 1912 and died shortly thereafter. She was young when she died. She was only 34 years old. She died from cancer of the uterus, probably from her line of work. Libby grew up in kentucky then came out west at an early age with her sisters. It was mattie, hattie, and libby that worked in this red light district. Her sisters worked in the same line of business. They lived just down the street and worked out of a house down the street. Libby died at 34. Her sister also died very young at twentysomething. Also from probably venereal disease that was a result of her work here in this district. The older sister lived to be 90 something. She died in 1964. After this red like district shut down, she moved to casper, wyoming and she finished out her life there in the entertainment business. The Three Sisters, we often tell the story of the Three Sisters that we can now tell the story of libby from this house that she worked in. We know about some other prominent women, like anna wilson, but we dont always have the stories behind these women who lived more transient lifestyles like prostitutes area and we are excited to be able to tell more of those stories. It gives us an excuse to dig into the stories and flush them out whereas we might not have the opportunity to do that. We have been excited about learning more about libby hayes, lizzie woods, martha huss, some of the women who worked in this house and lived and worked in this district. We find that their lives are fascinating. They have a rich, full lives just like emma wilson did. They contributed to this Community Just like any other woman living here. They went to church and supported the church and library. The Elementary School was located just down the street. You can see it from here. This district was integral to the town and the community. These women were, as well. We try to separate them and to segregate them from this town, but they were part of this town and they helped build this town, just like any other women living here. In this house, on the census records, there are usually five girls who work here altogether. So it wasnt a house with a lot of working girls, but there were always a few. In bozemans red light district, at the height, we had eight houses. In reality, that is not as many as other towns, but in those houses, there were usually five or six girls. So 40 something girls working in this red light district. So this was probably a very lively place in its day. There was a lot of fun being had. A lot of drinking and music and dancing. Probably they would dance. It was a fun location. There was also just to juxtapose that, however, there was not, there was a lot of violence that happened in this red light district as well, between the women themselves then also between men and women. So, i dont want to portray this as a fun time had by all. Because it really was not. These women worked very hard. They didnt always make a lot of money. The madams did, but not a lot of the others did. And there was a lot of violence that happened here. When people are drinking, and there was probably drug use here, in these houses, a lot of the women died of drug overdose. Opium, morphine, laudanum overdoses. There was a lot of suicide in this district. So there was fun, but there was also a tragedy here as well. I hope that this house eventually becomes a center for history, a center for people who can come and do research, learn about some of the history of bozeman that isnt as wellknown, some of the history of montana that isnt as well known. This community has its own history that so much ties into the National History that is happening as well. Our tour staff recently traveled to bozeman montana to learn more about its street visit watch more video, cspan. Org cities tour. You are watching American History tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan3. This weekend, on american artifacts, we visit the Virginia Museum of history and culture to learn about africanAmerican History, from reconstruction to the civil rights era. Here is a preview. Voted with the right to and the access to political participation, we see black men erasing those opportunities and getting very involved and active in virginia politics. Peter jacob carter is one of about 100 black men who served in virginias General Assembly from the end of the civil war through 1900. He was one of the longest serving representatives from Northampton County in virginia. He represents this really flowering of black political activism and it was through assembly men like eater jacob carter and other black olives to politicians that helped create the Public School system in virginia, readjusting virginias debt after the war and other measures like that. Some of the objects we have related beaker jacobs peter embraces the eager activism of black men once they got the right to participate in politics. There is a poll book from norfork county which lists the color voters as they were described who registered to vote in 1867. There is also a broadside about democraticeting of a Republican Association which was aligned of black men and white Union Supporters who were advocating to give black men the right to vote, in the days of the civil war. The political activism started early on. Learn more about africanAmerican History and our tour of the Virginia Museum of history and culture, sunday at 6 p. M. And 10 p. M. Eastern on american artifacts. You are watching American History tv, only on cspan3. Cathy National History day is a program that culminates in student competition. Students are encouraged to pick a topic in history. That can be anything. It can be world history, local, national, state, ancient, modern, everything in between, as long as they are interested in it. Then they go out they do research in find the resources to tell them the story but also try to figure out the significance of their topics in history. They are going into archives, into museums, into libraries,