Lived on the opposite side of the river in paulina, louisiana. This structure was donated to us about 10 years ago by the descendants of the original founders of that congregation. They bought the land in 1870. Two parcels of land for the express purpose of building a house of worship. In the sale document, which we have from the courthouse, they named their structure the anti they named their congregation the antiyoke baptist congregation. That message, being against the yoke or against slavery, is something thats important to our story here. And this is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river and so it is really important here in talking about the lives of people who saw freedom after the end of the civil war. So we like to start our tour of the whitney plantation here in this building so we could kind of see what happened to people, some of the things that they cared about after the freedom came. Whitney plantation is the only Plantation Museum in t
Folklife center. The library hosted this event as part of its summer lecture series. I am going to start the program off. I want to leave time for q a for stephen afterwards. I have a boatload of questions and i imagine the audience is going to as well. As littlewho know about the American Folklife Center as i did, i will share notes i jotted down. Our speaker today is Stephen Winick, who is with the Folklife Center. I will tell you more about his job and a second. The center is located at the library of congress, that is our theme for this month lecture series. The center was created in 1976 to preserve and present american folk life. Rather Ambitious Mission that involves researching,ocumentation, archiving performance, exhibitions, publications, everything that any Cultural Organization likes to do, the Folklife Center tries to do it. Is made up of 2700 collections, that is according to their website. It could it includes 150,000 sound recordings, 3 million items. Youll be sharing s
The media is piling on, the most rabid antitrump owned bezos, amazons owner. Read about it. 95 days until the election. The Justice Department knew about the cash for hostages swap and objected to it and they were overruled. This is the 400 million all cash ransom payment for the simultaneous release of the hostages. The Obama Administration says its coincidence. The main media have dropped it except for one. And the brits have the free money band wagon and keeping stocks at near record levels. Yes, Varney Company is out to begin. Trump wants to cut taxes for the super rich. [booing] well, were not going there, my friends. Im telling you right now, were going to write fairer rules for the middle class and we are going to raise taxes on the middle class whoa, did you catch that . That was Hillary Clinton on monday. Now, whether or not she misspoke or she actually means what she said about rising taxes on the middle class, i dont know, but the media certainly missed it, got it . And here
And we need to try to achieve them. These are the kinds of things that all flowed from that fundamental perception that special, and we need to do everything we can to keep it that way. Throughout the weekend, American History tv is featuring madison, wisconsin. Our cities tour staff recently traveled there to learn about its rich history. Learn more aboutm and other stops on cspans cities tour at cspan. Org local content. You are watching American History tv all weekend every weekend on cspan 3. Week american artifacts takes viewers into Historic Sites around the country. Baltimores fort mchenry is celebrated as the birthplace of the starspangled banner, withstoodican forces an allnight bombardment by the british navy and turned the tide of the war of 1812. But the ford continue to make history for years playing an Important Role in the history of the civil war, world war i, and beyond. American history explores the history of fort mchenry after starspangled banner. My name is vince v
Rogramming on American History every weekend on cspan 3. Cspan s on twitter at history for information on our schedule with the latest history news. Each week american artifacts takes viewers into Historic Sites around the country. Baltimores fort mchenry is celebrated as the birthplace of the starspangled banner, where American Forces withstood an allnight bombardment by the british navy and turned the tide of the war of 1812. But the fort continue to make history for years playing an Important Role in the history of the civil war, world war i, and beyond. American history explores the history of fort mchenry after starspangled banner. My name is vince vaise. Im chief of interpretation at fort mchenry historic shrine, the birthplace of the starspangled banner. One of the most asked questions are large cannons, the ones that are used to fight off the british in the war of 1812. The answer is no. These guns were manufactured during the American Civil War, 50 years after the war of 1812.