Before the nixon improvements, you can see a portion of his lydia can tell you better than me. The wine cellar, semicircular, is still down there. The mike, oh, okay. Traces of jeffersons wine cellar and after the war of 1812, when the house was rebuilt, where the west wing big building is now was a stable. It is under the dining room windows, wasnt a very clear decision. And it was paved all in there, and you can the big arch is still there, just filled in where the horses were admitted. So it is the west wing is a working wing and it receives plenty of attention, but it does have a job to do. Yes. I would like to know when was electricity put in the white house so that an elevator could be used by president roosevelt or if, for some reason, they didnt have a back up, were there ramps or anything of that sort to be used . The first elevator, which was a counterweight elevator, not electrical, was ordered by president garfield and put in later by put into operation by arthur. It was ne
This is one of the carbines used in the raid on Harpers Ferry by john brown. Exhibit illustrates the manufacturing might of the north. They could turn out hundreds of thousands of well fitted, will many factored firearms. Well l many of manufactured firearms. The manufacturing capability was one of the norths strengths in the civil war. Hand did on the other not have the industrial might that the north had. The new england and the Connecticut River valley was the home of dozens of gun manufacturers. So many wereld, needed by the union army that 33 different manufacturers were turning up the identical rifle purchase by the union army. The confederates were left up to their own. They had a few places, Harpers Ferry, when they ask we had possession of it. Richmond had a factory along the james river. And if you in north carolina, georgia, and texas. They could hardly supply the needs of the confederacy. They got most of the guns either captured in battle or imported from overseas. In fine
Artifacts,merican the second part of our visit to the National Firearms museum. We join the exam director in the civil war gallery. We are entering the civil war galleries of the National Firearms museum. On my left represents the union and on my left, the confederacy. We see numerous examples of the carbines the union was using. This was a time of rapid advance in firearms design. This is one of the carbines used in the raid on Harpers Ferry by john brown. One of the events that initiated the civil war. This exhibit illustrates the manufacturing might of the north. They could turn out hundreds of thousands of well fitted, well manufactured firearms. Though are ready to go to work. In the back, you see a barrel by smith and wesson from the civil war clear up to the time of world war ii. The manufacturing capability was one of the norths strengths in the civil war. The south on the other hand did not have the industrial might that the north had. As we talked earlier the new , england an
Made america rich. Museumhe cochair of the and serves on the smithsonian council. An advisory he has been the museums president and ceo since 2009. He has established several new initiatives including the center for Financial Education and Museum Finance academy. He has curated and worked on over half a dozen exhibits and displays including our current exhibit commemorating the Centennial Anniversary of the federal reserve. Today, david will explore how one of the treasurys greatest leaders help fight the war of 1812. I will now turn the program over to david cowen. [applause] thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to talk about the war of 1812. We are in the bicentennial of the events of the war of 1812. We will break it down into three different sections. We will have the background of what led us into the war. We will then do the war itself capable to the first two parts quickly. And we will get into the main event of what we will discuss today, the financing of the war of 1812. Us
Picture of the real madison, and what drove him, was a reference in that first inaugural address to the constitution as the cement of the union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities. He was promising to adhere to the same principle he demanded of the hamiltonians in the 1790s when madisons party was in the minority and both houses of congress and excluded from executive decisionmaking. He promised to continue republican measures, economy in public expenditures, keeping the Standing Army within the requisite limits and demoting state militias as the firmest bulwark of republics. But that interpretation of the constitution constrained from a from moving america in the direction of a permanently centralized military. That interpretation of an america constrained from building up a war chest, that government was supplanted by another. It had to be if continental expansionism that jefferson and madison both saw as ultimately desirable was to take place. So madison had to learn o