American artifacts visits archives and historic places. The National Museum of African American history and culture opened in september of 2016. Malled on the National Near the washington monument, the museum has quickly become one of the most visited in the nations capital, with capacity crowds almost every day. Next, we visit the museum to tour the history galleries which began three stories underground. Welcome to the slavery and freedom exhibition. My name is mary elliott and i am a Museum Specialist and cocurator of the exhibition, which is one of three in the history gallery at the museum. We have three exhibitions in this gallery and those exhibitions cover 15thcentury africa and europe all the way through today. Some of the themes we cover in the exhibition include holding onto humanity under some of the most inhumane conditions. Reality ofthe harsh how africans and African Americans shaped the world as well as the nation. We look at how they were shaped by the landscape and sh
Welcome to the slavery and freedom exhibition. Im mary elliott. Im a Museum Specialist and cokurater of the slavery and freedom exhibition, which is one of three exhibitions here in this museum. We actually have three exhibitions in this gallery, and those exhibitions cover 15th century africa and europe all the way through today. Some of the things we cover include holding on to humanity under some of the most inhumane conditions. We look at the harsh reality of slavery and freedom and the resistance and survival of a people. We look at how africans and africanamericans shape the world as well as the nation. We look at how they were shaped by the landscape and shaped the landscape. Its important to point out that means socially, politically, economically, geographically, culturally and intellectually. Whats very important for people to understand is throughout this museum we look at these stories that are american stories. Theyre human stories and theyre told through the africanameric
Weekend on cspan 3. To join the conversation like us on facebook at cspan history. Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits museums, archives and historic places. It opened in september of 2016, located on the National Mall near the washington monument, the museum has quickly become one of the most visited in the nations capitol with capacity crowds almost every day. We tour the history galleries which began almost three stories underground. I am a Museum Specialist and cocurator of the slave freedom exhibition, which is one of three exhibitions here in the history museum. We actually have three exhibitions in this gallery, and those exhibitions cover 15th century africa and europe all the way through today. Some of the things we include holding onto humanity in some of the most inhumane conditions. We look at the harsh reality but resistance and survival of a people. We look at how africans and africanamericans shape the world as well as by a nation. We look at how the
Mary welcome to the slavery and freedom exhibition. My name is mary elliott and i am a Museum Specialist and cocurator of the slavery and freedom exhibition, which is one of three exhibitions in the history gallery. We have three exhibitions in this gallery and those exhibitions cover 15thcentury africa and europe all the way to today. Some of the themes we cover include holding onto humanity under some of the most inhumane conditions. We look at the harsh realities of slavery and freedom, the resistance and survival of a people. We look at africans and African Americans shaped the world as well as a nation. We look at how they shaped the the landscape and were shaped by the landscape. That means socially, politically, economically, geographically, as well as culturally and intellectually. What is important for people to understand is we look at these stories that are american stories. They are human stories. They are told through the africanamerican lens. Equally important to understa
And recovery. The morning. Good morning. Welcome to our panel on columbia burning a sesquicentennial reappraisal. My name is don doyle. I will make a few introductory remarks. I want to thank robin waits for all they did to make this such a success. Not just this panel, but the entire event. I think it has been a wonderful example of how to commemorate a painful episode in this citys history. Thanks especially to jessica whose idea it was to do something for this commemoration. We met over lunch, and from there it grew. We partnered with Historic Columbia. Sponsoring this event also is the History Center at the university of South Carolina. Another contributor was the graduate school at the university of South Carolina. Think all of you for your help and support. We brought for scholars four scholars together. We are beating almost exactly at the time, 150 years ago, that the union troops were crossing the river and coming towards the city, toward that moment at 10 00 in the morning wh