Babe ruth and given talks on everyone from Thelonious Monk to over elvis [indiscernible] please welcome jim barber. Jim barber welcome to the National Portrait gallery. Ira aldridge, we will talk about a little bit right now. Very appropriate for february is black history month. Why ira aldridge . With this face to face series, series, we connect three different people throughout three consecutive months. We began last month with pocahontas. This month is ira aldridge. The connection is the thread, back in 2007, the state of virginia commemorated two huge anniversaries. One, the older one being the 400 anniversary of the founding of jamestown. The second anniversary was the 200 anniversary of the birth of robert e. Lee. One of the hardest things to do for anyone is to get a sense of time. Think back to hundred years 200 years if you can to robert e. Lees era. And then another 200 years back to jamestown. That is hard to do. If someone just says 400 years ago, we cannot really envision
Freedom be finally secured. This kind of the world will never be built by bombs or bullets. Yet the infirmities of man are such that force was often precede reason and the waste of war the works of peace. We wish that this were not so, but we must deal with the world as it is if it is ever to be as we wish. Join American History tv on april 9 and 12 for live coverage of ceremonies marking the 100 80th anniversary of the surrender appomattox. In april of 1865, confederate general robert e lee met Union Village ulysses s. Grant and surrendered his army of northern virginia, effectively ending the civil war. We will be live from the National Historical park in virginia on both april 9 and 12 as historians reflect on the last battles and explore the aftermath and legacy of appomattox. We will also bring you reenactments of some of the key moments from 150 years ago and open our phone lines to take your calls for the authors. The surrender appomattox, live april 9 and 12 here on American Hi
Well, it was an experiment, an experiment that did not work. They wanted us to start out flying 260horsepower vehicles rather than cubs which were 45horsepower, and theres a major difference. The flying part did not bother us, but they made the mistake of putting 20 redblooded american boys in jarvis hall of tcu, the girls dormitory. Back in 1943, that did not work. Everyone else forgets, but i can tell that i played football for texas christian university. Time goes on, after a few more, i might have been all confidence. Truth is i never did get in the ballgame. We broke kid of arms and a fractured cheekbone, and the navy pulled us out. We broke two arms and a fractured cheekbone, and the navy pulled us out. Did not get to finish. It was an interesting program. They dropped the qualifications for navy pilots to have a College Degree after the battle of midway. They dated they needed pilots. They took me in, obviously. I had a very poor background in high school and every Educational I
Switzerland hes well received. Austria, poland and especially his zenith will be in russia. And, again doing these different shakespearean plays. Its in poland where hes thinking about in 1867 hes thinking about returning and hes lining up a 100 performances back here in the united states. On the eve of his departure, he falls sick and dies and is buried now in woodage, polandeandpoland. And thats where his tombstone is. Thats 1867. 1867 robert e. Lee has surrendered the army of Northern Virginia in appomattox in 1865 and that celebration, commemoration, will be this coming april. And he is now the new president of washington university, which will become washington and lee. And lee will live until 1870 where he dies of heart trouble. Lee is buried of course, in the lee chapel at on the campus of washington and lee university. Where does this go after next month . So the connection is pocahontas jamestown pocahontas pocahontas, robert e. Lee, ira aldridge both born in 1807. Both men, a
It is an article of faith that every picture tells a story. This series exists to connect some of the thousands of stories we have on hand and make one step from stories to history. Our presenter today is jim barber, an historian at the portrait gallery. Jim has lectured extensively on the civil war. He has finished a new exhibition on babe ruth and given talks on everyone from Thelonious Monk to albert elswick. Please welcome jim barber. Jim barber welcome to the National Portrait gallery. Ira aldridge, we will talk about a little bit right now. Very appropriate for february is black history month. Why ira aldridge . With this face to face series, we connect three different people throughout three consecutive months. We began last month with pocahontas. This month is ira aldridge. The connection is the thread back in 2007, the state of virginia commemorated two huge anniversaries. One, the older one being the 400th anniversary of the founding of jamestown. The second anniversary was t