Museum and Education Center currently under development at the department of state. It will be a multimedia, publicly accessible, engaging space with Public Programs that help the general public understand a little bit more about what is diplomacy. What is diplomacys relevance to their lives today and how, possibly, they could become involved. We are actively collecting artifacts, researching history, and developing Public Programs. We are very busy. We have a very active Public Program already for students. One of the ways we tell the story of diplomacy is through the wonderful items we have in our collection. Absolutely. Lets jump right in. First object we would like to show is the oldest in our collection. It is the first treaty that the United States entered into, in 1778. Most americans and International Folks understand that american independence in 1776. Part of the recognition was not only did you have friends and allies that were going to fight your enemies in Great Britain, b
Publicly accessible, engaging space with Public Programs that help the general public understand a little bit more about what is diplomacy. And how, possibly, they could become involved. We are actively collecting artifacts, researching history, and developing programs. We have a very active Public Program already for students. One of the ways we celebrate diplomacy is through the wonderful items we have in our collection. Absolutely. Lets jump right in. The first item we would like to show is the oldest in our collection. It is the first treaty that the United States entered into, in 1738. Most americans understand that american independence in 1776. Not only did you have friends and allies that were going to fight your enemies in Great Britain, but also, the establishment of economic security. This is something that was really on peoples minds. Adam smith and people who understood the wealth of nations understood that poor nations were weak nations. Part of the negotiations with fran
House right now. It was built in 1755 and 1759 and was the home of george mason and his first wife. If you look at the house, the carving and decoration outside, the house tells us that george mason belonged to the strata of society he thought he did. He was a wealthy man. The house tells us that in the details. The driveway you come up was lined, in his lifetime, with cherry trees. He didnt ever addon to the house. The house you see now is what mason built in 1769. Its kind of interesting because most other Founding Fathers did add third floors or wings, like mount vernon and monticello. George mason saw people like jefferson and others of the founding generation going into deep debt doing things like this. Today we would think of it as keeping up with the joneses or keeping up with the kardashians. Mason did not want to be in that position himself. So, we are going to have a chance to explore all of the spaces in the house. We will learn who george mason was and why we remember georg
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