An a ante bell um. Please welcome the 15th director of st. Johns church. Welcome, good evening. My name is rob fisher. I am thrilled to our friends at the White House Historical association asked you to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share history about this historic room, so i will share that this church was completed in 1816 not only did he decide this church, he was working on rebuilding the white house he belt the Decatur House, and if you go and sign the Decatur House, you look up, its a similar it was built as a greek cross, so an even four sides. Just six years later in 1822, they expanded the building to make room. We dont know who the architect was tragically latrobe had already died. If anyone is in interesting of helping us solve the mystery, we would love to know, the belltower is a very beautiful addition to the church. Indiana side the belltower, it houses a bell forged by paul reveres son, its stamped 1822, boston revere. Its not the on
I am the rector of st. Johns church, and i am thrilled that our friends at the White House Historical association asked us to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share a little bit about the history of this very historic room that you are sitting in tonight and so i will share with you that this church was completed in 1816. The architect was Benjamin Henry latrobe. Not only did he design this church, he was working on rebuilding the white house after it was destroyed by the british in the war of 1812, and in 1818 he built Decatur House which is now the home of the White House Historical association and if you go inside the Decatur House and you look up, you see a very similar entrance. It is almost like a miniature of this dome that we have in our church space and the Original Church was built as a greek cross. So it was an even four sides and just six years later in 1822, they expanded the Church Building to make room for more seating. We dont know who t
During the colonial era. The Abigail Adams Historical Society cohost of this event. Anne welcome. Welcome to the ham heritage museum. I have the privilege of serving as executive director whose home here is that the hearing im heritage museum. What a treat to welcome you all here tonight in this sold out program. I would like to thank, on behalf of our board of directors and small staff, i would like to thank you all for making us part of your week. I would also like to thank jared hardest ski for travis traveling across the country to see us. For filming us, thank you to cspan. For those who cant see it can see it at a later date. Thank you to Abigail Adams and their board of directors who offered us this wonderful opportunity and to partner with them as we did last year with their speaker edith. Abigails rich history in this region inspires us every day. Thank you. The hingham Historical Society helps us understand all voices. We are currently in the midst of a campaign for the linco
That is Sexual Violence. We will come back a little bit to talk about jacobs in comparison to our case today, that of celia. We also talked about wpa narratives, and one of the things we noticed about those narratives is the extent to which some issues, including Sexual Violence violence generally, and Sexual Violence, in particular was rather muted in the slave narratives. And so here, we have with the celia case the opportunity to take another pass at this question, to try to see this dimension of slavery through the experienceli so, why do i say try to see this dimension of slavery . As you have all begun to see in your readings for today, there are many ways in which the record and the evidence upon which we rely to discover, explore, and understand the case of celia is a challenging record to make use of. So part of our work today will be to talk about the evidence in the celia case, how it is we recover from what is in essence the record of a trial a rather fragmentary, carefully
Such a sweeping story . Harold we have tack till objects, images, but probably as you force us to describe this in civil war fashion, ill get that later. The hardest thing is to preserve, you know better than most, for textiles and the objects were going to discuss today, some of them are really extraordinary and n terms of how they survived. Valerie absolutely. And without further ado, lets get to our four things this evening. We have a military button, and a drum. Very interesting, and fashion, maybe, maybe not. But in aggregate, they do tell the story of uniform courage, outfitting the civil war soldier. Lets start with this uniform. Surviving uniforms, or textiles in that matter in five conditions from the civil war are very rare. And this one is impeccably preserved, and its unique. You have to admit, a pretty cookie costume to wear into combat. Can you tell us about this outfit . As you say, in a uniform, believe it or not, the soldiers who wore these dudss were considered the to