Artifacts explores the history of the United States through objects. House ofspeak to the representatives historian and house curator about the history of African Americans who served in congress and see a selection of artifacts from the collection. Onehe story is not everybody is familiar with. We had 22 africanamericans 19 etween 1970 and it has to do with the role of congress during the civil war, and the decade after. During the civil war, there was a group of radicals in congress, radicals because they believed in the equality of africanamericans, and wanted to create a society in the south after the war that was a multiracial society. Thaddeus stevens, the chairman ways and means committee. A liza washburn. In the Senate People like charles sumner. And they really drove the agenda and pushed the Lincoln Administration not only to prosecute the war more vigorously, but to have reconstruction after a war that was not so lenient toward southern state, not going to ensure that Politi
Tv reporter from boston. Good to see you. Just retired this year. [ room noise ] youre going to be right here, sir. Were going to start right on time this morning. Im dave cook from the monitor. Thanks for coming. Our guest is treasury secretary jacob lew. His last visit was in july 2015 and we appreciate his coming back before his trip next week to anchorage and then the g7 Foreign Ministers meeting in japan. Our guest flirted with a journalism career while he was editor of the Forest Hills High School beacon. He evidently thought better of it and while in college caught the washington bug, working for representative bella abzug and joe moakley, earned a bachelor degree at hafshtd and a law degree at jpmorgantown. Between 79 and 87 he learned politics from a master in his role as Principal Deputy policy adviser to House Speaker tip oneill. As a special assistant to president clinton in 93 and 94 our guest played a key role in helping design americorps. He was later Deputy Director and
The Senate Committee on Health Education and labor and pensions will please come to order. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then introduce our witnesses and senators will have five minutes of questions each. I am delighted to have the witnesses here. This is an Extraordinary Group of broad individuals of Broad Perspective about children and elementary and secondary education and we welcome your comments on how we implement the the new reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act. This is our third of six hearings to discuss the implementation of the every student succeed act which the president signed in december. It is the Second Opportunity for this committee to hear from states, School Districts, teachers and principals and others that helped us pass this overwhelmingly bipartisan law and are today working together to implement it in a way that is consistent with congressional intent. I want to focus my remarks on the administrations prop
American history. The opening session is on africanamericans and religion. While we wait for the conference to begin, a look at a 2011 trip to a storage site in a washington, d. C. Suburb with the director of the Smithsonian National museum of African American history and culture. He showed us some of the artifacts that will be on display in the new museum, opening on the national mall, september 24, 2016. Right now, we are in the Storage Units of the National Museum of African American history and culture. In essence, this is the heart of the museum of. Because whats behind me, and what we will see today are many of the objects that are going to be the soul of this museum. This is an opportunity to sort of preview some of the material that the public will see when the museum opens in stores. The story of the africanamerican experience is both a story of resiliency at achievement, but its also a story of struggle. Parts ofe hard exploring this history is that were athe people who the w
All weekend, American History tv is featuring hattiesburg, mississippi. Was founded by captain William Harris hardy, a Confederate Railroad builder. The city was named after the captains second wife hattie. About hattiesburg all weekend here on American History tv. We are in special collections in hattiesburg, mississippi. His collection is very large. We have boxes of archival material related to Theodore Bilbo. Signed photos his he would distribute to fans. He was a mississippi politician 20the first half of the century. He was a state congressman, and by the 1930s he had been elected governor, and he had put in two terms as governor. Term at the end of the 1920s, and of the 1930s and then served a term for years later. Then he was elected to the u. S. Senate in the mid1930s. He served until 1946 when he was removed from the senate. Removed from the senate after being elected for a third term because of bribery charges and because of his views regarding Race Relations. Very wellliked