We have raised and the money to complete the building and of fact by september we will be over 40,000 artifacts. 4000 of which will be in the museum. There are two people 200 people working to get the season. Let me ask my staff introduce themselves. Good afternoon everyone. My name is mary alea. Im a museum specialist. Curator, iseum curated the cultural commission. On the senior history curator and i was the cocurator of the exhibition changing america 1968 and beyond. Im a curator your as well. I will be taking you through the journey together is. On the curated curator of an exhibition of a power of place. I am this new project manager on the project. Im derek. On chief of smithsonian construction. Ill take root. Want to give you brief rundown of the status of the job. We have a lot of more protection down. Please be careful when they walk in a much for you are going to follow our lead and we will get out of your safety. Here safely. Let me start with talking about the building. Le
He has won many awards for his work. Navy war won a medal from the 20 12th George Pendleton prize. It was selected for the navys reading list. The forging of the american 2008 Samuel Alito Marston award. In 2018 he received the Samuel Eliot Marston award from the Constitutional Museum for his body of work. For this evening, george will speak to us for about 30 minutes. Then we will invite numbers of the audience to ask questions. Please note that cspan is your taping our author event, so speak into the microphone clearly. They will take this presentation as well as the q and a. We invite everybody to come on up. If you have a book, george will sign it for you. We have some of his back lists here as well. We have to 1812 book that i spoke about, as well as the fic book. Please join me and welcoming author george daughan. [applause] george thank you for posting this event. Thank you to all these wonderful people who have come here. Revolut is entitled ion on the hudson. New york city and
The civil war where you hear about the people who shaped the civil war and reconstruction. And the presidency focuses on u. S. President s and first ladies, to learn about their politics, policies and legacies. All this month in prime time and every weekend on American History tv on cspan3. Coming up tonight on American History tv in prime time, a look at the civil war and reconstruction starting with a look at how southern honor impacted the war. Then photos of emancipation during the civil war. Thats followed by a discussion of the politics behind reconstruction and how the end of the war was being explained and redefined at the time. Thursday on American History tv prime time, the 40th anniversary of the national air and space museum. The celebration took place in july with the Current Museum director, retired general jack daley, and a look at exhibits on the start of aviation and into space exploration. It begins tomorrow night at 8 00 eastern. Next on American History tv, author a
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New Haven, Conn. Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the finalists for the twenty-fifth annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most coveted awards for the study of the African American experience.