Many years, jim downs, and we put together a series. We had a panel called history and headlines, we got historians to talk about how we wanted to make sure that we were plugged into these larger issues. We put out a book a year on a topic thats a burning issue, certainly the confederate statues and memorialization when we put it together. A roundtable of scholars in 2017, published in 2019, wanted to really address something that would be contemporary and fresh. We discuss silent sam, the statue on the university of north carolina. The protest against it wanted to pull it down. The board of overseers taking a position against removing it and more protests to follow and then eventually the sale of it is a really interesting issue. Money being donated for the her mobile. This end of happened at vanderbilt as well. You had a confederate memorial hall. Iony paid for the erect of the hall. When it was determined by the university to move it really the century later he paid you name the peo
Edith turned it over to the National Trust in 1961 on her death. It has been lovingly cared for. We welcome you tonight. I wanted to tell you about how we started this speaker series. Manager said to me this summer when i first started the job there is a commission on the suffrage and i think we should go to that meeting. It is the womens Suffrage Centennial commission. I said ok. I will go with you. We went down to the library of congress and we sat at a big table. They were about 20 women in the root. A big square table. There were another 20 women on the telephone. Everyone goes around introducing themselves. They are from the alice paul house, this commission and that commission. From the National Portrait gallery. All these places. It comes around to us and introduce myself. Im from the Woodrow Wilson house. Suck and a collectives sigh, and maybe one or two cases of whiplash. There was no oxygen left in the room. They turned to look to us to say, do you know where you are . What a
Palace. What you are looking at is actually the last visual remnants of the presidio. It was originally built in the 1720s and was the residence for the captain. What we are looking at today is a romanticized version of what this building would have been. Again, it was the military headquarters. During the days of who was one of our preservationists in worked verytonio hard when she recognized this building as being the original garrison and preserving it. On overtime ased well. So this is where it all began. A little oneroom house built for the captain. The original house was built with adobe bricks in 1722 based on a letter the governor wrote to the king in june of that year. Talked about 25,000 adobe bricks they needed to make and 40 additional laborers they needed to hire to build the compound. You can see behind the wall at the top there, the adobe brick. That is the original from 1722. The architect found this when they were doing the restoration and decided to open it up so peop
Railroad conductor, and union army scout during the civil war. Next, karen hill of the Harriet Tubman house talks about Harriet Tubmans lesserknown role as an activist in the Womens Suffrage Movement. The president Woodrow Wilson house hosts this conversation as part of a series commemorating the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. Elizabeth welcome, good evening. My name is elizabeth carter, and i am the executive director at the Woodrow Wilson house. It is truly my pleasure to welcome you to the first of a series of speaking events that we are going to have on a suffrage series. The wilson house, if you have not been here before, is part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Wilson and his wife edith lived in this house. They turned edith turned it over to the National Trust in 1961 on her death. And it has been lovingly cared for. And so we welcome you tonight. I wanted to tell you a little bit about how we started this speaker series. Our senior manager
Of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Wilson and his wife edith lived in this house. They turned edith turned it over to the National Trust in 1961 on her death. And it has been lovingly cared for. And so we welcome you tonight. I wanted to tell you a little bit about how we started this suffrage speaker series. Our senior manager of collections and interpretation said to me this summer when i first started the job there is a commission on the suffrage, and i think we should go to that meeting. It is the womens Suffrage Centennial commission. And i said ok. I am going to go with you. We went down to the library of congress, and we sat at a big table. And they were about 20 women in the room, a big square table. There were another 20 women on the telephone. And everyone goes around and they are introducing themselves. And they are from the alice paul house, this commission and that commission. And, you know, from the National Portrait gallery. All these places. It comes aroun