Preservationist jobie hill has been writing about slave dwellings in the united states. Her interdisciplinary work includes photograph, interpretation, and preservation of slave history. Up next on american artifacts we travel to southern virginia near the North Carolina border to visit the former Brandon Plantation with jobie hill and learn about her saving slave houses project, joined by several archeologists and preservations and a team that came to document Brandon Plantation with a series of 3d laser scans. Were here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of an independent project i am doing thats called saving slave houses, which is a database of all the known slave houses in the united states. And it is staffed as a central repository of instrumentation and documentation of slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with turnbull, the company that makes the survey equipment that i use, to do kind of the highest level documenta
And there was some not so much thawing, but conversations happening. Yes. Attempts. We will say at times. Attempts. Ill say to exchange culture and to understand each other better between the United States and the soviet union. And so in 1959, there was this big exchange of National Exhibitions. So the soviets sent their National Exhibition to new york city. That was in 1959. Here is the exhibition booklet. As you can see on the cover, they featured sputnik. Their grandest achievement. So their exhibition covered sputnik and soviet industry, agriculture and cultural arts. Foretelling americas role, president eisenhower flew to washington for a preview tour in a lastminute decision. As for Vice President nixon, he and the russian delegation toured the elaborate show. All jovial despite the size of the crowd. The show is a counterpart of an american exhibition to be opened in moscow next month by mr. Nixon. In this elaborate cultural exchange, fullscale models of our sputniks art things
People thought i was being antisemitic, they thought i was denying it. I wasnt, i had never heard it before. So i would not say this is the ideal education. I would not say that. Watch after words sunday night at 9 00 eastern on book tv on cspan 2. Each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and Historic Sites around the country. Up next we visit the National Constitution center in philadelphia to learn about the creation of the u. S. Constitution in 1787 and to see several rare early drafts. Welcome to the National Constitution center, im Jeffrey Rosen the president of this wonderful institution which, as cspan viewers know, is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis and today i 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 Constitutio
The United States constant against the media and i think it is damaging both sides so my great concern is it is damaging thein press more. How has that changed . We saw this beginning in the campaign when first of all , the pundits as a whole did intake trump all that seriously as a sideshow of course he would never make it and everybody knew he would not beat e clinton. But but there were these gloom and doom prophecies about this controversy but we see that again now there is a sense in the Mainstream Press that many say about trumps presidency first that tells you that many reporters view him that he is unhinged or mentally unbalanced or incompetent but also a dictator with that range of descriptions. At the same time to go behind the scenes at the Trump White House i talk about how the president suffers from defiance disorder they tell them not to and he does it anyway it was very effective to lash out at the press which the supporters believed treated him unfairly in times when he
Mexico border. Only on cbs this morning, why his fiance doesnt buy the fbi theory that it was a tragic mistake. Plus a promising new treatment that could help children suffering from peanut allergies. How capsules containing peanut powder could be a life changer for millions. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. The problems of america stem from the fact that we as a human race have sinned against almighty god. The reverend billy graham dice at the age of 99. I look forward to this with great anticipation. Im looking forward to seeing god facetoface. 6. President trump is signaling an openness to modest gun control measures. We u. S. Has do more to protect our children. Survivors of last weeks Florida Shooting held a rally in the State Capitol today. In syria, pro government hair strikes triggered the deadliest violence in three years. In los angeles, the driver of a stolen truck led police on a high speed chase. All that. Lindsey vonn w