We are open 365 days a year. We are always free from 10 00 until 5 00 every day. When you come to washington d it is a wonderful place to visit. Theres always something in bloom. Theres always something to see and hopefully something you have not seen before. You are watching American History tv 48 hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter for information on our schedule of upcoming programs and to keep up with the latest history news. Next on American History tv pastors, historians, Church Choirs and an actor portraying Frederick Douglass reflect on the passage of the 13th amendment which abolished slavery. The event is held at the new york avenue Presbyterian Church. That is where president lincoln frequently worshiped. This Lincoln Group of d. C. Event marking the 150th anniversary of the 13th amendment, is about two hours. As roger started to allude, this is lincolns home church. We try to keep the Current Ministry and legacy of lincolns
That document describes a come and save compromise emancipation plan, his last ever to get slaveholding border states to sell their slaves to the federal government so that they could be out of that is this. When he rejected that, he began to discuss the process of the emancipation proclamation. We believe, as ron white points out, that pastor girlys relationship with mr. Lincoln helped mr. Lincoln develop a higher understanding of his relationship with his god and allowed him to think through clearly from a religious perspective, how vehement patient proclamation can best be described and encompassed. With that, we are ready to begin the program. I would like to introduce edna green medford. History professor and chairperson at howard university. Shields degrees from Hampton Institute and the university of illinois and her phd is in history from the university of maryland. Dr. Medford specializes in 19 country United States history and teaches courses on the jacksonian era and civil w
This by the way is not the Original Church. This church was torn down and replaced with this church in the exact spot similar to the Original Church in 1950. The pew was preserved where he and his family would sit. He would be listening to passage or any of girly you with the profitable it. This was the Original Church used up until the time of futile peter marshall. We preserved his memory through the lincoln window. These stain think less windows were dedicated 1968. Maybe in the end you can book to the one second in the last of lincoln standing in prayer which was his custom fitting in this pew during the services here. You probably past the hitching post out front. That would have been used by the president that would not have been moved. You may have heard the bells of this church, the lincoln chimes for a gift of the Robert Lincoln family, his son after robert died his wife and daughter presented the church in 1927 with the terms that were brought forward to the new church. It is
There you have it in its entirety which premiered 100 years ago by filmmaker dw griffith. We are going to open our phone lines as part of our reel america series. Joining us is hari jones, the curator of the African American some order civil war memorial and museum. Joining us is the author of birth of a nation. Thank you for being with us. Our phone lines are open. 20270 just how consequence are consequential was this film . In terms of film history, it was hugely consequential. It is a foundational moment in american film history. It was a breakout moment. Until then, films were 10 minutes or less. The incredibly ambitious dw griffith wanted to tell a big story in a big way and he produced this epic film employing all sorts of innovative techniques people had not seen before. This was literally americas first blockbuster film. This one sentence in your book that summarizes this film. You called it a masterpiece. You called it bigoted and slanted and set it was a dramatic flashpoint i