Richmond. It is just over 50 minutes. Dr. Edgerton teaches early american and 19thcentury u. S. History, he earned his phd in 1985, so he is no stranger to richmond. His 1993 book is one of the most important studies of one of the most important slave compares these conspiracies in American History. He was invited to speak at the university of richmond 20 years ago and he will be interviewed about that book later today. Most of his work has been on the subject of slave resistance, colonization, and evolutionism. You will find a partial list of his publications in his program. He has worked at the intersection of race and politics and his most recent books deal with the mid19th century. Years of meteors, Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln in the election that brought on the civil war, and the wars of reconstruction, the brief violent history of americas most progressive era. His talk today will draw mostly from the final book and his title of the talk today is black activism during the
Joining us here all around the nation and around the world. Thank you, guys. And be good, all right. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] you are watching American History tv, 48 hours of programming every weekend on c span 3. Follow us on 20 for information follow us on twitter for information on our schedule. Artifacts,american we visited the National Gallery of art to visit the shaw memorial. The sculpture honors colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th massachusetts volunteer infantry, one of the civil wars first African American units. The work commemorates the july 18, 1863 storming of fort wagner in which 1 3 of the men were killed or wounded. Prideibit tell it with shines the spotlight on the members of the 54th and a group of abolitionist. Good morning. I am the senior curator here at the National Gallery of art. I am the cocurator of this exhibition. Began to work on this memorial in 1883. Initially, he
Programs and to keep up with the latest history news. We visit the National Gallery of art to learn about the shaw memorial, the sculpture 54th infantry. The work specifically commemorates the july 18, 1860 three storming of fort wagner and which one third of the 54 men were killed or wounded. Spotlightt 60 shine a on the group of abolitionists. Good morning. I am the senior curator here at the National Gallery of art. I am the cocurator of this exhibition. Augustus Saint Gaudens began to work on this memorial in 1883. Initially, he was going to make it a monument just dedicated to shaw himself. If you look at some of the examples we have in the case behind you you will see that one of his first ideas for the monument was to depict colonel Robert Gould Shaw on a horse. That kind of depiction is often referred to as the man on the mount. However, colonel shaws family objected to that. They thought such a depiction was too grand a way to show their young son. He was, after all, only 25 y
Us, lees miserables. Every weekend, marking the anniversary of the civil war about the people and event chas shaped the area, saturday at 10 00 and 6 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan. Anniver civil war about next on american artifacts, we visited the National Gallery of art to visit the shaw memorial. The sculpture honors colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th massachusetts volunteer infantry, one of the civil wars first African American units. The work commemorates the july 18, 1863 storming of fort wagner in which 1 3 of the men were killed or wounded. The exhibit tell it with pride shines the spotlight on the members of the 54th and a group of abolitionist. Good morning. I am the senior curator here at the National Gallery of art. I am the cocurator of this exhibition. Augustus Saint Gaudens began to work on this memorial in 1883. Initially, he was going to make it a monument just dedicated to shaw himself. If you look at some of the examples we have in the case behind you you will se
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