Am so excited to show you a new gallery weve just opened. American treasures which contains the five rarest, early drafts of the u. S. Constitution in American History. Not even at the Constitutional Convention were these five drafts displayed in the same place and now thanks to a Great Partnership with the Historical Society of pennsylvania and the wonderful support of David Rubenstein, weve been able to open this gallery, display these drafts together and tell the story of the evolution of the text of the constitution into the draft that was ratified on Constitution Day, september 17, 1787. It is so exciting and i cant wait to show it to you. Lets go inside and come take a look. So in many ways, this gallery tells the story of this underappreciated hero of the Constitutional Convention, james wilson. Weve all heard of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton and the rap star of the moment and of course, president washington, but in many ways james wilson was the intellectual architect of
Washington journal on our companion network c pan. This week on american artifacts, we tour the american president s life portraits exhibit at the Herbert Hoover president ial library and museum in west branch, iowa. North carolina painter and sculptor chaz fagen created the portraits for cspan in 1999 and recently added president trumps. The exhibit created in conjunction with the White House Historical association was brought to the library by cspan in partnership with media come. Curator Marcus Eckhardt an shows us the additional objects the museum borrowed to accompany each of the 44 portraits. Were in west brank, iowa, in the museum portion of the building and this is our temporary exhibit which is cspans american president s life portraits. The idea for this came about from us thinking about bringing the temporary exhibit everybody cspan and then adding something personal from each man at this point each man to show Something Different about them, because we think of them this is
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