Also was the largest employer during his lifetime. When he died he was still operating his brewery, he was the oldest brewer in the world at that time. We are standing at his Dupont Circle mansion which was really his i have arrived statement after he made it in america and felt up his brewery power. This was built between 1892 and 1894. It was a technological innovation of its time. He lived here with his family until he died in 1945 and his wife died in 1956. Heurich is an american story and he is an important story in washington, d. C. History that has been lost over time. In washington we are used to focusing on federal government and whats going on in congress and our culture is focused on the smithsonians. They are histories that have been lost over time, people who built up the city. There are people who have lived here for generations and this is their story and where they came from. We are going to show you around the house today, it is one of the most intact Historic Houses i
Good evening. I hope youll excuse all this but i have been taking some time off from my job to look into something important to all of us that seems to be confused. What i mean is missiles, highperformance airplanes. Why do we have so many . Where are we going with all this. A fellow asked me that in london not long ago. Ansell give him a simple answer and thats the reason for all this homework. It seems to me that we have to understand just what we are building, how each of these missiles and airplanes and to whydetermined strength, and we have developed them and what we do. What i wishtell you i had been able to tell that follow in london not long ago. Some of you may remember, i was a bomber pilot in world war ii. I was back from the air force inventory was a simple one. There was longrange heavy bombers, i flew one of these an old be 24. This is one of my handiwork of airplane building. This is the oldfashioned wood type. This is my group tail markings lack background lacks right.
Upstairs and weve got to keep it that way. Lights burning, children asleep, and peace and security everywhere. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook. We are live in charleston, west virginia, for the next stop on the 50 capitals tour. The governor and Lieutenant Governor will be our guests on the bus during washington journal. And join darryl photographed a dozen american president s beginning with president eisenhower. Next in interview with him about his career working for United Press International and u. S. News and world reports. He photographed president kennedy minutes before his assassination, and the signing of the camp david accords. The Briscoe Center for American History at the university of texas at austin recorded this 40 minute interview and archived his photos along with others and nationally recognized photographers. We will talk to a little bit about some of the photos from your colle
We are here to do a laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of an independent project that i am doing thats called saving slave houses which is a data base of all the known slave houses in the united states. It is a Central Depository of information and documentation of slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with trimbell, the company that makes the survey equipment that i use to do kind of the highest level documentation that is available to us today, which is 3d laser scanning. Its important to do this because, one, documentation is a type of preservation. Slave houses are buildings that are disappearing from the landscape. So by documenting them thats one way of preserving them. Documenting them and through my data base is also a way to share information and get it out there and learn from them. So this is a way for people to learn about these buildings and save them, and make them available to a wider audience without having to nece
Will examine them from a different perspective. About indian removal in the 19th century and how it was shaped by the expansion of american democracy and the cotton economy. Indian nations like the cherokees were victimized by the United States government, the state of georgia, settlers, but the nations willingness to adapt and to press all possible advantages illustrates how indians continued well beyond the colonial area to change to make colonialism work in their favor. Mind, i want to revisit california today. I want to consider the ways Californian Indian societies continued this practice and helped to build californias , attract settlers, and transform the territory into a vital american state during the gold rush. Hinged onformation the work of indian people. As you remember, catholic missionaries where the vanguard of Spanish Colonial settlement in california. Franciscan missionaries envision the Northern Frontier in which indians would be converted into spanish subjects and wi