And its my pleasure to introduce dr. Arthur scott stephenson, the president and ceo of the museum of the American American revolution, who will be speaking tonight. His talk is entitled among his troops George Washingtons war tent and a mystic chords of memory. A native of pittsburgh, pennsylvania, scott scotts broad public history experience spans nearly three decades and has been marked by public and professional acclaim for his creative and innovative approaches to engaging audiences. He has developed and collaborated on exhibits, films and interpretive programs for numerous historical sites and organizations, including colonial williamsburg, the smithson in the canadian war museum, the National Park service, George Washingtons mount vernon, the heinz history center, and the museum of the other of the cherokee indian. From 2007 to 2018, scott led the development of the museum of the American Revolutions Award Winning exhibitions, multimedia experience as an educational programing, a
From George Washington, a bomb shelter, and a signed photo of woodrow wilson. I am the curator at tudor house and historic garden and we will take a look at some of the Amazing Things we have in our collection. Tudor place was home to the peter family from 1805 until 1983, five different generations lived here. It was the wishes of the last owner that the house become a museum so that the public could enjoy the amazing collection of objects. I want to talk about the architecture. When thomas and martha peter purchased the house it was eight and a half acres and only the two end wings were here with nothing in between. Originally planned to add more to the house but never did. They started talking with their friend, a doctor and amateur architect, about designing a grand house for them. He designed the Octagon House in washington. Wingsorporated the two and a center block of the house into a fivepart house, and architectural style very typical and the chesapeake and they 18th and 19th c
You again in 2018. Thank you very much for coming. You are watching American History tv, all weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation like us on facebook at cspan history. Monday night on the communicators. Michael beckerman, president and ceo of the Internet Association made up of 40 Internet Companies including google, facebook and amazon talks about new internet regulation proposals from the fcc and how to preserve a free and open internet. He is interviewed by Margaret Harding magill. It looks like the fcc is proposing to move internet traffic exchange. Can you explain why that might be a problem for your members . Day it isend of the about consumers. You are looking to access the internet. You pay your Internet Service provider and you are paying a lot of money and you want access to the entire internet. If your experience is altered in some way or your site is blocked and other things are going on, as a consumer you do not know where that is happening. It could be happening at
Grant hi, i am the curator at tudor house and historic garden and we will take a look at some of the amazing objects we have in our collection. Tudor place was home to the peter family from 1805 until 1983, five different generations lived here. It was the wishes of the last owner that the house become a museum so that the public could enjoy the amazing collection of objects. I want to talk about the architecture. When thomas and martha peter purchased the house it was eight and a half acres and only the two end wings were here with nothing in between. The owner originally planned to add more to the house but never did. They started talking with their friend, a doctor and amateur architect, about designing a grand house for them. He designed the Octagon House in washington. He incorporated the two wings and a center block of the house into a fivepart house, and architectural style very typical in the chesapeake and they 18th and 19th century. The key is the domed portico. And a marble
Tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Artifacts american takes you to museums and Historic Places to learn about American History. Dc, tudor Washington Place was the home of Thomas Hayter and his wife. This was the granddaughter of Martha Washington. Six generations of the peter family lived in the house from 1805 to 1984. We take a tour with the curator who shows us a letter from George Washington, a bomb shelter and a signed picture of woodrow wilson. Curator at the house of house and garden. We are taking a look at some of the amazing objects. This is from 1805 to 1983. Five different generations of the peter family lived here at to replace. This was of the public could come and enjoy this amazing collection of objects. I would to talk about the architecture of the house. When he purchased the property , they5 with a. 5 acres were here with nothing in between. An earlier honor had always intended to build a larger house but never did. By this time, though it had already won the d