Weekend, every weekend on cspan three. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. The history of burlington, vermont is tied directly to lumber, textiles and even politics. Next, we speak with local historians about the history of burlington and its role in vermont. Vince we are standing above what in the 1790s was referred to as Burlington Bay on Lake Champlain. Of course, the fact that it is on Lake Champlain is part of the reasons why we have the city here today. The early europeans, the new englanders who came up here, allen, saw the potential of Burlington Bay as a port city. Lake champlain flows north and it flows into the Richelieu River. Which then flows into the st. Which gives burlington, interestingly enough even though it is an in land place, access to the atlantic ocean. Early settlers saw that and became interested. But the area really did not take off, despite the attempts by ira allen to make this an important place by putting the university it the
Youre watching American History tv. All weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. Each week, american artifacts takes you to museums and Historic Places to learn about American History. Next, we tour the president ial vehicles collection at the Henry Ford Museum until dearborn, michigan. Transportation curator, matt anderson, shows us cars used by president s truman, eisenhower, carter, and reagan. And the and we look at the history of the automobile in the united states. And were actually standing in front of a series of president ial limousines, which tell the story of the development of president ial transportation over the last 117 years or so. Right behind me is a 1902 broem carriage that was used by president theodore roosevelt. By the time of roosevelts administration, its a common occurrence to see cars moving on public streets. Roosevelt, interestingly enough for all of the reputation he has as a real forwardlooking prog
Revolution and still not clear today, a confrontation between vietnamese ships and american ships which then led to a resolution ran through by Lyndon Johnson to a complete lack of focus and strategy on how to bring it to a close. And im very sympathetic because the one thing that overrode most of Lyndon Johnsons thinking appropriately was chin fa, that we certainly didnt want to have a confrontation athat would lea to a real conflict there. So it cautioned all of our actions so that it was a very gradual escalation which then not only didnt harm the enemy but strengthened their resolve and that led, of course, to all kinds of implications and repercussions. The new age, the use of drugs, demonstrations right out here on this mall there was a Million People or how ever many it was that it really split our society in a way that we sometimes forget. Mass arrests, demonstrations, chicago that all of us can look back and see on cspan but it was a tumultuous time and most of it was bred by
Dearborn, michigan. Were standing in the midst of railroad exhibit. Just as automobiles and airplanes were key technologies of 20th century, railroad was the key trmgs for 19th century. The steam engineer was thought of as equivalent to astronaut today. Its important we have a modest but important collection of railroad vehicles. What we have here are Railroad Locomotives that tell the story of railroaded in the 1830s up to the early days of electric locomotives in the 1920s. Behind me is our earliest example. This is a replica of 1831 locomotive cars used oppose hudson railroad. The replica built in 1982. It in and of itself is historic now. This gives us an idea of Steam Locomotives and trains looked like when railroads first come out of the scene in the 1830s. Mohawk located in new york state and became part of the railroad known as u. S. Central, one of the largest railroads in the United States. Railroads in the 1830s were very small, very local affairs. They might run perhaps 15,
Taking your calls, tweets, facebook posts for curators. Were joined inside with Robert Wilkins to talk about how this museum came about. He is the author of the book long road to hard truth. Thanks very much for being with us. Thank you. Its a pleasure to be here. So talk of this museum began back in 1916. It took a century to be built. Walk us through the process. Back in early 1916, in march or so, gentleman named ferdinand de soto lee, created a nonprofit called the National Memorial association, and its goal was to construct a physical memorial here in the Nations Capital to honor the contributions of negro soldiers and sailors who had fought in every war from the revolutionary war on up until that time. Within a couple years the organization broadened its mission to want to construct what they called a National Memorial building to negro achievement and contributions to america in all fields of endeavor from business to education to the arts, et cetera. Essentially a National Muse