Lincoln visited with Wounded Soldiers spent time with self , emancipated men, women and children, and drafted the emancipation proclamation. Joan cummins is a public historian, artist, and educator. As a program assistant, she supports their public facing programming, particularly for students and teachers. She works very closely with one of their programs called students opposing slavery for young abolitionists working to combat human trafficking. She is the cohost of a podcast, which i think is a terrific name, called q and abe. Welcome to history happy hour. Thanks so much for having me. Im excited to be here and to share you all about lincolns experience during the summer of his presidency. He lived at president lincolns cottage for three summers while he was president. The summer of 1862, 1863, and 1864. The family was planning to come out here again for the summer of 1865 when the president was killed. There were three main reasons the family moved to the cottage as opposed to st
First integrated hotel in Washington DC: Wormley Hotel
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Courtesy of Linda DrummyA Fontanet Institution: Riggs s in Fontanet, was located a mile north of the school; Linda Drummy has many fond memories of the many Beantowners who visited the store.
It seems like an impossibly long time ago, but I still remember being driven by my Grandfather Tommy to a little store in a little town called Burnett, just a few miles down the road from his knotty pine-lined house and long dusty drive.
In Front of Helman’s: Jo Ellen Thomas, at lower left, poses with family members near Helman’s on North 9th St. in 1958.Submitted photo
colors, made by madam hyde denuville. hyden clay and martin van buren were notable whose rented the decatur house. these were some of the many people, many notable people, par sonages if you personages, whom jennings got to know. even as a slave, it helps to know people in high places. he was well connected, a networker and he took appropriate advantage of the connections in his pursuit of the right to rise. and i feel obliged to say that the door at dolly madison s house moved all over the place. first in front. then it moved to the side where you see it in that photograph. later that door was made a window. today it is further down on h street. you see president polk whom jennings worked for you. can believe that dolly kept all the earnings. and dolly herself, who is a little bit fuzzy, she is not holding her, her head straight enough is to the right of polk as you are looking at the photograph. here its the lafayette square gates. here is lafayette square gates. this giv
african-americans and the circumstances surrounding their visits. this is 1:10. as we learned this morning, many did not enter service at lafayette square vounl taele vv. jefferson, madison, monroe, jackson, tyler, polk, taylor, owned slaves and brought them to the white house and from their plantations in the south. until 1862, when slavery was abolished in district of columbia slaves worked alongside paid black freemen and european servants at the white house. for most of the 19th century, the structure of the white house staff remained generally the, the same. at the top was a steward, federal employee who was bonded. the congress created this position to safe guard the silver and furnishings in the white house. the steward was on the government pay ll lroll. it required patience, strayed tiff administrative ability and great sense of discretion. beneath him, maids, footmen, cooks, laborers, and about 1/3 of the servants lived there in the basements. some in a
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