Through the cspan store. Coming up next, we visit the National Portrait gallery in washington dc with jim barber who gives us a look at one of the Oil Paintings of ira aldridge. He was born free in new york and became famous in europe after being able unable to find work in america. This is part of the series, face to face. Hello, welcome. Here at the portrait gallery every picture tells a story. Face to face connects some of the stories we have on hand and to take a step from story to history. Jim barber is a historian at the portrait gallery, and he has written extensively on the civil war and he is finishing a new exhibition and is giving face to face talks on many people. And a short story on iraq out of rich ira aldridge. Jim barber this is appropriate for february, black history month. Why ira aldridge . With this series we connect three different people, throughout three months. We began last month with pocahontas. This month is ira aldridge and the connection is, the thread, ba
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