Eastern here on cspan 3. ÷ucc why up close view Princeton University professor officer of democracy and black÷u arthur of barack obama the story watch in depth live on sunday on book tv. Zv talks about how artist depicted George Washington. His presentation includes famous portraits by John Trumbull, gilbert÷u stewart and this is jt over an ymzvchour. Something constructive, of course, but also notc lightn by any means, but something a little less serious. By that, i mean, theres going to be a lot of visuals in this and ic figure a visual intelligence of something we can a little bit acclaim to, for those of you who need the moreu traditional sort of scaffolding like an outline. We can start off with two pages of that and thats also what thats all zvabout. For those of you who respond to competitiveness competitiveness. c were just going to weigh through two centuries of works of art x mostlyu painting. I should say a little bitzv about myself first. I said im chief historian.
History is important, what his writing process is like, and how he heres previews his upcoming work about the pioneers of the u. S. Territory. This for our 30 minute event wow, good morning. I am happy their students here from palm beach atlantic university. The people i want to reach most are the children and grandchildren of the people in this room. Today i am introducing a dear friend, americas great historian, David Mccullough. Im also very happy to introduce his wife, rosalie. I said to david, is rosalie coming to the lecture . He said, i cant go anywhere without adult supervision. [laughter] is awesome. Rosalie is to david what Abigail Adams was to john adams. She is the fabulous. [applause] she is the fabulous, indispensable life partner. She is not only beautiful inside and out, but she told me last night when she met David Mccullough, she was only 17. The first time they want to a coming out party together, they danced until 7 00 in the morning. Gon she took her heels often to
In the center of your screen will be among those speaking. The 32,000 square foot house is revolutionary wars weapons, personal art and theaters and historical recreations. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, please recognize the color guards from each of the original 13 states as their introduced in the order in which each state ratified the u. S. Constitution and entered the union. Delaware, first delaware regiment. [applause] pennsylvania, first troop Philadelphia City calvary. [applause] new jersey, old barracks museum. Georgia, sons of the revolution in the state of georgia. Connecticut, the governors foot and horse guard. Massachusetts, 54th massachusetts volunteer regiment. Maryland, maryland society, sons of the American Revolution. [applause] south carolina. South Carolina National guard. [applause] New Hampshire, first New Hampshire regiments. [applause] virginia, the Virginia Military institute regimental color guard. [applause] new york
And journalist cokie roberts. This is about an hour and 40 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, please recognize the color guards from each of the original 13 states as they are introduced in the order in which each state ratified the u. S. Constitution and entered the union. Delaware. First delaware regiment. [applause] pennsylvania. First troop Philadelphia City cavalry. [applause] new jersey. Old barracks museum. [applause] georgia sons of the revolution , in the state of georgia. [applause] connecticut. The governors foot and horse guard. Massachusetts. 54th massachusetts volunteer regiment. [applause] maryland. Maryland society sons of the American Revolution. [applause] south carolina. South Carolina National guard. [applause] New Hampshire. First new hank shir regiment. First New Hampshire regiment. [applause] virginia. The Virginia Military institute regiment colorguard. [applause] new york. Ninth new york field artillery, veteran corps artillery of the state of new york. [applause]
We have an engineer and eight textileconservator a conservator with us to talk about the tent. As you will hear many people say, it sometimes take a village to preserve these artifacts. If you have questions afterward, please feel free to grab any of us after the event. We will divide this up into three sections. I will talk about the history of the object itself and when we began to contemplate putting it on to display at the new museum of the American Revolution. Alex will talk about the engineering challenges of taking what was possibly the most historic and significant textile object since the starspangled banner has been put on display in a museum. So, to face the unique challenges of displaying this threedimensional textile object. Virginia will talk about the challenges of conserving that object and preparing it for display. The history of the engineering and conservation science to ensure the longterm reservation of this markable object. I will start with history. Where do we b