The white house because her husband dies after a month in office. Letitia tyler, she passes away just a year and a half later. The president remarries julia tyler who is the first photographed first lady. This sunday night at 8 p. M. On cspan examining the public and private lives of the first ladies and their influence on the presidency. From Martha Washington to michelle obama, on American History tv on cspan3. As a common to the series, the book first ladies president joe stories on the lives of 45 iconic american women. Available in hardcover in an ebook. I am president of the United States colored troops living history association. Im in north carolina. Today, we are having a reenactment called the grand review parade. This is a reenactment of the victory parade that was held at the end of the civil war 150 years ago down pennsylvania avenue. However, at that particular parade, the United States are troops were not allowed to march in the victory parade. What are we doing today .
American history tv is featuring cspans original series, first ladies, influence and image on sundays for the rest of the year. Cspan produced a series with cooperation with the White House Historical series and questions , from cspan viewers, we tell the story of first ladies. This is about 90 minutes. She was not happy that her husband had been elected president. She was not looking forward to being first lady. The problem was of course that he died only one month into his presidency and she never made it to washington. In 1836, when john tyler resigned from the United States senate he and his wife letitia and their family moved here to williamsburg. Its right here that Letitia Tyler suffered her stroke in 1839, john tyler learned that he was elected as Vice President to William Henry harrison and its also here in the spring of 1841 where he was informed that he became 10th president of the United States and that Letitia Tyler learned that she became the first lady. She has another t
To mark the 150 anniversary of the surrender of general lee to the u. S. Grant will go to appomattox courthouse. We visited the park to find out i lack find out a blacksmith force. The blacksmith would just starting a fire. No, no. Thats good. My name is John Baronich. I live in spring hill, new york. This is a replica of the traveling forges that the artillery and the cavalry would have them. Would have with them. Our basic purpose is to repair items that would break, such as handles and chains. Also the farriers would use the forged to reshoe the horses. I left to tell people our job back here is very similar to a nascar pit crew i like to tell people our job back here is very similar to a nascar pit crew. We were the nascar pit crew of the 1860s. We would take care of the canon wheels cannon wheels, wagon wheels. The coopers, the ones who would work on barrels, fixing and repairing barrels. We also had a harness makers. And of course, the blacksmith, whose primary job, as i said was
And it really is. American history tv is featuring cspans original series at 8 00 eastern on sunday nights throughout the rest of the year. Cspan produced the series in cooperation with the White House Historical association through conversations with experts and questions from cspans audience, we tell the stories of americas 45 first ladies. Now we look at two administrations led by widowed president s and the women who serve as first ladies. We begin with Rachel Jackson and Emily Donelson. This is about 90 minutes. Rachel was not a fan of anything that took Andrew Jackson away from the hermitage. Her preferences apparently didnt strongly influence him but rachel was always the thing that he would come back to. She ran the plantation or the farm and kept everything in order. Everybody loved her who worked there or was enslaved there. She might not have been like Abigail Adams but she could write a nice letter and she had nice jewelry. She was not as frumpy as she was reputed to be. Th
President. She was not looking forward to being first lady. The problem was of course that he died only one month into his presidency and she never made it to washington. In 1836, when john tyler resigned from the United States senate he and his wife letitia and their family moved here to williamsburg. Its right here that Letitia Tyler suffered her stroke in 1839, john tyler learned that he was elected as Vice President to William Henry harrison and its also here in the spring of 1841 where he was informed that he became 10th president of the United States and that Letitia Tyler learned that she became the first lady. She has another terrible stroke and dies and her husband goes into great mourning. And then he meets Julia Gardiner who is this another young lovely in her 20s. Julie, i think of as the madonna, you know, of first ladies. [laughter] she loved publicity. She had actually posed as a model at a time when that was maybe, say, frowned upon but all accounts was bewitching. Juli