St. John stretch reverent rob fischer. Law welcome good evening my name is rob fischer i am the director 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 of a history of this historic room that you are sitting in tonight, and so i will share with you this church was completed in 1816. The architect was Benjamin Henri vitro, and not only did he designs church, he was working on rebuilding the white house after it was destroyed by the british in the war of 18. 12 in 1818, he built what is now the home of the historical association. And if you go inside the dictator house, and you look up, you see a similar entrance. Its almost like a miniature of this dome of we have in our church space. The Original Church was built as a greek cross, so it wasnt even four sides. In just six years later, in 1822, they expanded the Church Building to make room f
Teaching history in finding all the objects, we had about 124 objects, and which there are 63 portraits and i was hoping to commemorate the 19th amendment until the history of the 19th amendment and how women, lobbyist get this amendment passed and ratified, but also asked questions about it and ask what does it do, what doesnt not do and why 1965 in the Voting Rights act is considered another part two of the 19 the moment, so if you follow me ill take you through the exposition and show you a few of the objects the tell the history, lets go. Were in the first gallery of the exposition and i mentioned that we have portraits that drive the narrative but i also wanted to include pieces of art like the one that we are looking at which is titled the work at home and is by a female artist, she was acting in 1860 and i wanted to include this painting because it portrays young children, you have these four kids, one is a baby and they are celebrating in the mother and the surrogate or helper
Listen with their free cspan radio app. Cspan, your unfiltered view of politics. Next, a visit to the Smithsonians National portrait gallery. A historian gives American History tba guided tour of an exhibit marking the centennial of the 19th amendment. Using images of early suffrage leaders, she shows how the movement intersected with the abolitionist and temperance movements. This is the first of a twopart series. Kate welcome to the National Portrait gallery at the smithsonian institution. Im the curator of votes for women. For this exhibition i worked 3. 5 years researching, finding all the objects. In the exhibition, we have about 124 objects, 63 portraits. Rating the exhibition, hoping to commemorate the 19th amendment and tell the history of the 19th amendment and how women lobbied to get this amendment passed and ratified. But also ask questions about it. And ask, what does it do . What does it amount to . Voting 1965 and the rights act was considered a part two of the voting am
Well get into that as well. Deirdre bolton has all the fast moving developments from the big board. Neil what a week, what a week indeed. This is the worst week for the dow weve seen since 2018. Just the volatility alone today. As we can see down 470 points. We were down more than 900 points earlier. I want to highlight quickly some of the stocks that are limiting the losses on the dow. You have two pharmaceuticals, not a huge surprise in the backdrop of these fears about the coronavirus spreading and one staple which also does sell face masks. Merck and pfizer, we know merck has had a long history of developing vaccines. So you do have the stock moving higher limiting some of the losses. Pfizer as well, and 3m which does make the face masks. If you look at some drags on the average, part. Reason today, why were seeing so much weight you have apple, microsoft, two Huge Tech Companies that both have exposure to china. Apple in 2019 got 17 of revenue from china, microsoft about 10 . Both
Institutional roles that should rise above their policy differences. At 8 00 p. M. Ght eastern on cspans q a. Next, Smithsonian Institution secretary lonnie bunch and Philanthropist David Rubenstein discuss the central role of slavery in antebellum washington, d. C. At historic st. Johns church across Lafayette Square from the white house. The White House Historical association in hosted this event in recognition of their new initiative, slavery in the president s neighborhood. Quite please welcome the ,irector of st. Johns Church Reverend fisher. [applause] welcome. Good evening. Im the director st. Johns church. I am thrilled our friends at the White House Historicals associate association asked us to have tonights conversation. I will first share little bit about the history of this historic room tonight. This church was completed in 1816. The architect was Benjamin Henry and not only did he design this church but he was working on rebuilding the white house after it was destroyed b