As well as instructor for this freshman seminar course, today it is my pleasure to introduce dr. Christine henry, an assistant professor of Historic Preservation as well as the original designer for the course. Professor henry holds a ba from the university of william and mary. She holds a degree from the catholic university. She holds a phd from the university of maryland at college park. Her Research Interests focus on the concept of place making and social justice issues in the discipline of Historic Preservation. In addition, professor henry is forever a student of natural architecture, including focusing on roadside architecture, which dovetails nicely with this class. Welcome, professor henry. Prof. Henry good morning , everyone. It is great to see you. Thank you so much. So this is what i think of when i think of a road trip. The open road. All semester, you all have been studying all kinds of themes of the freedom of the road, of who is allowed to travel when and where. Travel
Her Research Interests focuses on the concept of place making thesocial justice issues in display of historic preservation. Focusing onnry is roadside architectural. The blue hole, an icon. Prof. Henry good morning everyone. It is great to see you. Thank you so much. So, this is what i think of when i think of a road trip. The open road. All semester, you all have been studying all kinds of themes of the freedom of the road, of who is allowed to travel when and where. Travel as a process, rather than a destination. The mythology of the car and American Society and roadside architecture in the 20 century. You a i am going to tell story that ties those themes together. Morning, it is going to be about a quest to find a magical piece of the place that i remember from my charter. The story begins in the 1990s. I the opportunity to travel to ohio on business. I had the opportunity to travel to ohio on business and i wanted to see if i could find my favorite roadside attraction, the blue hol
Jim was a lawyer in boston for 38 years before he began writing about American History. His previous book is lincolns white house the peoples house in wartime, which won the prestigious lincoln prize. If you would like to ask jim a question at the end of our broadcast, please type it in the comments section of the facebook feed and we will get to as many questions from our online audience as possible. Jim, welcome to white house history live. James thank you, it is a pleasure to be here. Colleen we are honored to have you. The first question is the setting for your book. There have been numerous books about Thomas Jefferson and about his presidency. You have a unique focus of this book on the white house as the setting for jeffersons two terms in office. Can you tell us why you decided to focus on the white house in your book about Thomas Jefferson and his presidency . James sure. My book about lincolns white house i guess inspired me to move backwards to jeffersons white house. I foun
Historic preservation as well as the original designer for the course. Professor henry holds a ba from the university of william and mary. She holds a phd from the university of maryland at college park. Her Research Interests focus on the concept of place making and social justice issues in the display of historic preservation. In addition, professor henry is focusing on roadside architecture, which dovetails nicely with this class. Prof. Henry good morning everyone. It is great to see you. Thank you so much. So, this is what i think of when i think of a road trip. The open road. All semester, you all have been studying all kinds of themes of the freedom of the road, of who is allowed to travel when and where. Travel as a process, rather than a destination. The mythology of the car and car in American Society and roadside architecture in the 20 century. Today, i am going to tell you a story that ties those themes together. This morning, it is going to be about a quest to find a magica
Documents on out of mission, slavery and recruiting freeman freedom in the union. Army so now, i would like to turn our attention to some objects that help us describe the civil war. As a curator in the museum room, particularly the history museum, i am always struck by how art objects documents on display either Standing Firm larger historical narratives. So for those of you who missed last weeks program, lets talk for a moment about this book. A civil war in 50 objects. How did it come about and how effective do you think it is hot in the display talk about that narrative sweep in 50 objects . Well, it came about a second fast last week because louise meir asked me to undertake the project for this. It was a lucky day for me. You remember that we got to see, three times 50 objects before some conference tables in the Historical Society. I was a matter of taking representative objects which as you say stand in for big history of the civil war item by adam, personal story by personal s