This is about 45 minutes. So thank you all for joining us today. We are pleased to have the creators and actress asia hinds from underground railroad today. Unfortunately did we get the video back . Okay. So well show a couple of clips too. So thank you. So thank you all for joining us today. For those of you who dont know, i love television. And i love the underground railroad. So im excited that this show has allowed me to combine both loves. I would like to thank wgn america and Sony Pictures entertainment for making this possible today. So thank you. In 2016, wgn america launched underground, a thrilling tv series that continues to receive critical acclaim for its gripping portrayal of the underground railroad. The show follows a group of courageous men and women who use their ingenuity and power and perseverance to attempt the greatest escape in history and break free, despite the dire consequences that awaited them on the other side. The finale aired last week, so its really auspicious that youre here today. Though i know we dont want to ruin the tip in all lay for those who havent had a chance to watch it yet. Well, no, everyone watched it, right . Underground is the first show, tv series, to deal specifically with the underground railroad. What made you decide to focus on this period of history . You know, when we first started talking about it, we started doing research, i think we didnt quite understand why we wanted to focus on this period of history. I think the more research we did, the more information, the more we saw what was really going on in the underground. We it was that idea of, we havent given voice to the revolution. Wed seen the occupation but we really, you know tv and film hadnt seen the revolution yet. And that was really important for us. Joe, do you have anything to add . What she said. Despite the show now we know the shows quite popular. Why do you think you guys had such a hard time finding a network to put the show on and air the show originally . I think people didnt understand that it was the most heroic, exciting story ever in American History. I think weve always watched kind of the sleepy sepia tones. And i think we, you know we had a hard time getting it on the air. We wrote the script. People finally got it. We found a genius like john legend. We had to really just keep reminding people that it was as exciting as the show could be. When question filmed the show, people finally got it. In interviews you guys have talked a lot about the amount of research that has gone into creating the shows and the scripts. What is the most fascinating thing that you guys uncovered in your research about the underground railroad . The biggest thing for me was that the underground was the spy network for the civil war. You know, it was this builtin system that was eventually used to, you know, fight the big fight. Theres so theres so many Everyday Research is just you keep uncovering things and peeling back the onion and uryoure like, wait, what . Wait, huh . For me its the personal things. Its things like a guy an enslaved man telling the story about how he walked all the way to the other plantation to go to the plantation dance to see a girl. And he got a paddling for it because he didnt have a pass. To me im like, oh my god. Like thats a story to me that makes what has a little bit been dehumanized for me, humanized. Humanized, is that a word . And so its all those personal stories that i love, that i like to see. Some have taken issue with the shows historical accuracy. Who . Who did that . Tell me right now. Ill write their names down after the show. But some have taken issue with the historical accuracy. But how important is historical accuracy for the shows creators . Or you guys trying to do Something Else . I think its really important for us. I dont think were trying to do anything else. I think when we make a decision, for instance, patty cannon was actually deceased by the time the show was, but shes still in the show. When we make those kind of decisions its because patty cannon was such an interesting character and we dont know about those characters. Then theres stuff like the baseball mitt hadnt been invented at the time, and we kept that in because it was a cute line. But when it comes to those things its very few and far between. Its one of those things that people come and they say about Harriet Tubman, she didnt have an ax and a gun . Im like, didnt she . Shes known to carry a gun. I feel like its not inaccurate at all, in my opinion. Its telling a story thats true to what was the feeling of what was going on at that time. I do agree with you, i think sometimes if we get caught up in the minutiae of the details, then yeah, no its not historically accurate. I think you guys get across a lot of the big ideas. Africanamerican agency. The strong roles of women being involved. And the importance of rivers. I think you guy dozen all that. So maybe some of the specific details may get lost in translation. But i think viewers will come away with a greater than understanding of some of the big ideas that make the underground railroad so compelling. At the end of first season you guys introduced Harriet Tubman to the show. Actually at the end of the first season you introduced her as a shadowy figure. This season she came out of the shadows in an exciting fashion in the shows first episode, if we can play that clip, 201. Beyonces playing right now. Move ill shoot your head clean off. I could say the same. My arms are tired, end this quick. This be over quickly you dont shoot your mouth. Going to be more trouble than its worth, trying to get a man who cant walk to collect the reward. Anybody can see his ankles broken. Why dont we make a sale right here, ill give you 5 for him, same as yall would have got, 5 for your hassle. We got three runaways and you want to pay us for one . You aint got nothing yet. 10 or two bullets, its your choice. I aint scared of no nigger bitches. And aint nobody scared of you. My daddy taught me how to carve up a tree real good. I imagine your skin would be a bit easier to handle. Now you heard me say my arms is tired. So whats it going to be . Every crime includes an injury. Every injury includes a violation of a right. This is as true today as it was when Justice Wilson said it 60 years ago stop the clip. Thank you. I read that you knew from the very beginning you were going to introduce hair ret tubman as a character. Why did you feel it necessarily or want to make her a part of the show . We always talk about this as being a superhero show. And we our line is basically, you cant tell a story of the Justice League without mentioning superman. Thats kind of how we feel about harriet. We wanted to start very personal with people you dont know, but Second Season obviously we wanted to open up the world and understand the underground as a network. And you really cant understand the underground without touching on harriet. Do you have anything to add, aisha . The next question is actress aisha hinds who plays Harriet Tubman. How much did you know about tubman before playing her on the show . I thought that i knew a whole lot. And i realized after doing the show and i continue to realize even having done a beautiful exhaustive tour here yesterday in the town of dorchester, going to cambridge, that i really probably walked in with maybe 9 of education about her. And that 9 was pretty dense, you know, to me. And so it certainly was a massive education. Just learning the intricacies of who she was. I think that certainly i was trapped where most people are trapped, you know. Exalt in this heroic figure. Being sort of stuck in the place of worshipping, you know, this idol and hero and forgetting to think about her as a human being and all of the intricacies that made her who she was and the little girl that she was and the wife that she was and the daughter that she was and the friend that she was. All of those things i think were a revelation for me. What the next question is also for you, aisha. What is the most important thing you try to get across in your portrayal of tubman . I try to sort of give her the layers i think that we miss. You know, when we look at those onedimensional figures, i try to sort of create the dimensions of her. I certainly walked into the project feeling incredibly inadequate and feeling that i had not lived enough life to really be able to access the depth of her faith that she was able to access to do the things that she did. I certainly am still scratching the surface on accessing the depth of her courage, her bravery, her selflessness. But i wanted to be able to articulate those things. And make sure that everyone knew that this was truly a very ordinary woman, you know, in a pocket of the earth who did this extraordinary thing. And so it was important for me to convey what was conveyed to me, which was that there is a piece of harriet inside of me and there is a piece of harriet inside of us all. Thank you very much. This season that you guys dedicated entire episode entitled mentee to submans story. In the episode hinds delivered an hourlong, monumental and definitive speech as tubman. The episode was described as one of the greatest in television history, received rave reviews across the board, called remarkable by both the Associated Press and the new york times. Heres a clip from that episode, 201b. B. 206b . 206b, sorry, yes, sorry. Black folk, we know pain. Known it a long time. I got more scars on my body than i can count. Susan, the woman i was hired out to, she gave me a lot of them. The first day she told me to dust and sweep the grate with no instruction, just pushed a broom in my hand and left me to work. And when she returned she werent happy with what she saw, so she took a rawhide and she had me come at it again. No word about what i done wrong. I tried my best to collect every piece of dust, i had that thing in my hand, dusting my own blood. But when she returned i took up that broom once more. And again i never cried out once. I wouldnt give miss susan the satisfaction. Thats how i learned to live with pain. Every time i got hit, i took it as an opportunity. For defiance. To not give anyone the reaction they expected. Then i thought again maybe that there was freedom. But i couldnt reconcile why something everybody held so precious come from pain. There had to be an easier way to it than that. Now this is for the question is for the shows creators. What made you decide to write this episode and write it in this way . How did you guys come up with the script . I mean, i think it started we were doing research, miesha was just like, i just read this amazing thing that frederick dug lats and William Still asked harriet to speak, to fundraise, to fire up abolitionists. And like everything she did, when she did it, she did it better than anyone else. We read and she did voices and sang songs and people were so engaged. It became pretty clear that we lean into the format of television, tell the story of her life through her words. Now do you have something to add to that . Um, yeah i think it was also important for us with the character like harriet, who you think you know because of that little paragraph in your book, and now you know its only 9 of it, that we did want to give some of her story, her real life, and get more into it. But its 19 its 1858, so we had to figure out a way to tell that without, you know, being boring, without just going through it. And to find out she was speaking to people again, for me, it was that reaction of, this is a person. William still is a person. Frederick dug lats was a person. All of these people were interacting at the time in the movement. And that to me was really exciting and interesting as well. And just to add to that i mean, being that harriet htubma is one of the greatest revolutionaries in American History, it was only fitting i think that underground, which has sort of identified itself as a show that deals with this narrative in a way thats engaging and entertaining, enlightening and edgy, that they would tell her story in a completely revolutionary way. Because the way in which they rolled out this particular episode was revolutionary for the medium. Its something that has never been done in television history. Underground was only in its Second Season of the show. So its a fairly young show. Taking a huge risk, you know, at doing something that has never been done in the history of television. Wgn obviously is a network that was young in its format of taking on longformat television. So everybody on board, you know, was doing a thing that they had no idea how it would land, you know. Which i think is sort of emblematic of Harriet Tubman sort of leading people you know, not knowing what the outcome would be, but being certain that this was the way that it had to be done, you know. And i think that it was i celebrate misha and joe for taking the risk of doing this thing, her legacy in such a way that to tell her story they would do it in a way that she told her story, regardless of whether audiences were ready for it or not. And thankfully audiences were ready. And this brings me to a question for you, aisha. What was the most challenging thing for you as an actress in filming this episode . Getting the script an hour before it. No. A little over an hour. Certainly the anxiety of taking on all of the information and articulating all of the information. I wanted to certainly spend as much time with it as possible. And so i walked in thinking that dear misha and joe would gift me with the script, these 45 pages of dialogue, certainly well in advance so that i could live with this thing long enough and not be reaching for lines or, you know, and struggle through it. You know, we started the show shooting the production in three months. I was like, so, you know, when do you guys want to when i get that script . They were like, ha ha, what . Thats at the end. I was like, oh, okay. All right. So i played it kind of cool. Maybe id get it maybe two months in advance. Two months came, still no script. Then one month in advance. Surely i was like in the pocket, one month in advance, i had it in my head, this is what were going to do, this is the curriculum for when you get this script, one month in advance, were going to take a page a day and saturate yourself in it because were going to get the script a month in advance. A month in advance and there was no script there wasnt a word on the page, they were all trapped in here and there. And so here we are ten days before were supposed to shoot the episode and misha decides to grace me with the first half of the script. And so, you know, i rush over to their office and i was like, hey, guys, can we just have a cold read . Now im just throwing out terms because im so afraid to sort of engage the script. Like i have actual anxiety. And i dont want to sit and read it myself because i dont know how to approach it. So i go into the office and im reading and its making no sense to me. Im just throwing words out. The words are on the page, im just spitting them out. So we finish and joe was like, okay, well, that wasnt terrible. You know, and so they make a few little changes. Then i go home and i start to get into it, you know. I create what i call the crisis curriculum which is just i start calling all my friends who are in the theater, im like, how do i do this . Is this possible . I send an email to my college professor. I was like, how do i memorize 45 pages in a week . Is it possible to do that . Can you tell me what he was like, not possible. Period, send. And so i was like, wow. And so i went into this thing really, you know, thinking that i was approaching the impossible. And so the anxiety began to naturally well up even more. And misha delivered the second half to me seven days before we were supposed to shoot. So here i am holding 45 pages of impossible. And so thanksgiving was canceled, which is when i got we were at that point in production, it was just before thanksgiving. Thanksgiving got canceled. I flew home to l. A. A friend of mine who lives in new orleans, she was someone i went to college with, she flew home. Flew to l. A. To be with me. And we literally slept, ate that script from night to day, day to night. And so it went in, it went in, and it was just about getting it out, you know. So we had talked about all of these safety nets, you know. Maybe we could have a teleprompter for you. Maybe well have a ear piece for you where misha can spit the lines to you if you should lose your place in the story. So i memorized with this idea that the safety net was in place for me. So i get back to savannah where were supposed to shoot and find out theres no teleprompter. And then we get to the first day of shooting, which we have three days now to shoot 45 pages. And so that too was a revelation because im like, wow, you guys. Usually theres nine days to shoot an episode. Were going to just cut that by more than half . Okay. So we get there and the first day i show up to the sound cart and i tell the guy, youre the most important person for me to see today. So he sticks the earpiece into my ear. And misha comes over to give me me hey, how you doing. Were probably two sentences into conversation, im hearing all of this feedback, feedback from the earpiece thats in my ear. So i was like i turn to the sound guy, can you turn this down a little bit . And he says to me, oh, no, thats standard. Youll hear the feedback until misha starts talking in your ear. So i was like so im supposed to be delivering this thing with this shhhhhhh in my one ear . I was like, no way, im going to be like this the whole thing. Instinctually my hand reaches to my ear and i pull out the earpiece and i hand it off to the sound guy. And i knew in that moment as i faced this mountain of impossibility that the only thing that i could really, really, really count on was not my preparation, because i didnt really have the time to do it. Was not my i didnt have time to infuse all of the things that i do as an agt actress. I didnt have time to write the letter from older mentee to younger mentee and journal in the voice of mentee. I didnt have time for that, you know. It wasnt my craft, it wasnt that honestly, it was the spirit of Harriet Tubman. In that moment, she consumed me. And she occupied the space that we were in. And we went up to do a first rehearsal which i hadnt i hadnt had one single rehearsal after we go up to shoot this first rehearsal. And i remember anthony was like, were going to shoot the rehearsal, onkay, just in case. Just in case. The story tells itself. Thank you. Your intention in writing this, particularly in the last episode, the last scene, watch it. Its just so much rooted in right now, our moment, this moment in time. Did you guys intend that . Other episodes. Nina simone said, you cant help but be a sign of the times as artists. We talk a lot about, its not parallel but its a connection from here to now. This is a lot of whats wrong in our country today which started at this time period. And to really see these stories, you cant help but see that, those connections, and understand that. And then, you know, we talk a lot this season about citizen versus soldier and what that means, for you to decide to be a soldier, that doesnt mean just taking up arms, it means what it means for you to fight back against injustice. I think harriet is the perfect example of that. And so that last five minutes where she talks directly to camera about today, just felt right. Im going to step back and open questions to the audience. Im going to ask. My question is for aisha. Playing both Harriet Tubman and your character on shots fired, they seem both really emotional. How do you do that how do you prepare as an actress for that . Hello, can you okay. Yeah, they are very two very emotionally charged women. Obviously they are women who are Freedom Fighters in their own right in two different time periods. However, maya angelou says that, you know, i am the dream of the slave. And i think that pastor janay is the dream of Harriet Tubman, a manifestation of the sacrifices of Harriet Tubman. Were there no Harriet Tubman, there wouldnt be a place in the world for voices like pastor janay. These two incredible women i think are facing injustices and taking up the mantle to lead so many. And so yes, they carry a heavy burden. And with that comes tremendous emotions. And these are emotions that i invite. I dont necessarily try to push them away. I dont necessarily try to, you know, take part in a lot of selfcare. Because im aware that im living a life, you know, that is blessed because of the sacrifices of these women. You know, and so where else do i put these emotions . You know . On a broken heart i mean, where else i would put them but into the work, you know, and to afford these emotions a voice and a space where they can be used to tell these stories, to push these narratives forward. I dont think its by mistake even that these two voices, you know, are housed on the same night, you know, in the same vessel. I think that god is pretty deliberate about, you know, the way in which he moves and does things. And im grateful for that and im grateful to be the voice of both pastor janay and Harriet Tubman for this generation. Thank you. I saw your presentation at the black Journalists Convention before the underground open. And i wanted to know sitting in the audience very reluctant, like, i dont know about this thing. A show about slavery. Adventure series, action series, all those things you all said. So i still havent seen it, but everywhere i go i keep hearing people praising the show. So ive decided that im going to be bingewatching this summer. My question is, how have you dealt with the reluctance of some people to even entertain the idea that you can have a Television Series about a subject so serious . At the same time to prepare people for freedom, to prepare people who are essentially traumatized by slavery, was also part and parcel of what made her so effective. The spiritual world view of these people is why they trusted her. So how can we i think the only thing i wish i could see more of in Harriet Tubman is her loving connections with that community of strong people that she led. She didnt lead weak people, she led people who supported her. Who mothered her is my question . Who supported her and fortified here and what did those loving connections do to show people their selfworth and that they deserved freedom . I dont know, theres a lot of questions in there. Thank you guys. I sort of heard what you were saying in all of that. And the interesting thing is that the one thing that kept standing out to me i think was a conversation that harriet has with the character of noah. And a lot of people were very responsive to that. Because i think noah was sort of searching for the thing that informs his own belief. Its a thing that he has intrins intrinsically, which is also i think harriet also had intrinsically. Because harriet couldnt read a single word. So it was astounding to me because i consider myself a woman of faith and the way in which i build my fade is by reading the word, is by church attendance. So this was something that she didnt have the luxury to do. But yet her faith, her faith rivaled that of some of the most learn eed theologians in the universe. So it speaks to the birth of faith and how that thing is fostered, you know in a way that, you know, probably many of us cant even really access. And so i think thats also articulated with noah, who knows a thing but doesnt know why he knows a thing. She asks a certain number of questions to him, sort of probing him to really connect to the thing that he knows and to even look beyond that. She speaks about it in the episode 206, you know. Just talking about freedom as it relates to your faith, you know. And true freedom being, you know, the ability to know a thing, but to look past every single thing that you know and still believe in something better. So i think it speaks to that in terms of those loving relationships. I think just her relationship with rosa lee, you know in taking her under her wing and trying to guide her and letting her know, you know the Guiding Force initially was family. Then it becomes a purpose bigger than yourself. A purpose even bigger than your own family. Extends to where your entire community is family. So i think all of those little intricate details were woven into the season. Her relationship harriets relationship with the sewing circle, you know. And them strategizing together. But still them having a moment to fellowship together while cooking or having christmas dinner, you know. And so i think all of those Little Details are woven in. And you sort of extract from that what you need. Okay, so im so inspired here. You were chosen by god to play this role. Im going to try to say this without crying. This series im thinking about carol borestein weatherfords book moses and how she portrays harriets relationship with god. Will the series bring that forth as well . Because she had her own monologues with god as she prayed for courage. The museum has her quote that she asked god to make her feel, im paraphrasing, to sit here and listen to you talk about your own relationship with god and how he took you over, because he took you over to play her. I just want to weep. And to be sitting in the presence of harriets great great great grand kneels. Were going to have to talk, tina, afterward. What how will the show portray more of that . Because i think the world needs to see more of that, to fully understand who she was and why she was able to do what she did and that it is a speaking to america for today. I think all of this is prophetic. The visitor center, the undergrounds all happening at the same time, niagara. You have a platform to speak to the world about the misnomers and the truth of who she was and what a message. It trumps so many of the other, as you said, who very few compare to what she even john brown said that about her. So thats my question. The way in which carol borestein portrayed her in the childrens book, mentees also. Will the show give more voice to that, more i dont know, entree to that . Thank you. Im a little confused. More entree to the spiritual aspects . Connection to god. Her connection to god. Because it drove her. It drove her. And i think her father inculcated it into her first. He spent so much time talking to her and teaching her. In spite of all of her suffering and the beatings that she endured as a child, her parents imbibed her with that faith. How else could she have made it . How else shes one of the younger chirp. How else could she have connected them . And aisha, you may be familiar with freedom train which plays at the town hall, moves around new york city. Im a teacher so i make sure i take the children every year. The portrayal again of her relationship with god comes through so strongly. So thats my question to the underground. Whether it will delve more deeply into that area. I just think its a big territory to go into, yet its part and parcel of who she was. Yeah, i mean, i think we definitely for sure this season delved into it a lot and will continue. Because it is a part of who she is. And i think that going forward, you mentioned john brown too, to me its a duality of her spirituality but also the general as he calls her and how she was in going forth and understanding that. Because i think thats, you know, a big part of the Harriet Tubman we dont know about and hear about either is her time with john brown and how they interacted. And then what she went off and did after that. And in the 206 mentee episode its kind of that juxtaposition for her, making that transition to the general. And i think you got the spirituality obviously will be there. Because its who she was. All right, good morning and thank you for this panel. My name is janelle hobson, im an associate professor of womens gender and sexuality studies at university of albany. Im also a big fan of the underground series. I do work on black women in popular culture. My common question is around the portrayal of the women in this show. Im actually thinking about how this im just grateful for this series. Because i remember being disappointed in the way enslaved women in movies like django unchained, 12 years a slave, were completely objectified. And we dont get that, at least i dont think we get that as much in underground. Because the characters are so fleshed out. And so im thinking mostly about how there is a kind of feminist layer that i see working in the series. And i really wanted to know more about that. Mostly in terms of, well, when i was watching, especially this season, i remember having that visceral reaction when you have the overlay of beyonces freedom, interstices of harriet and elizabeth when theyre being their most beloved. Im also thinking of beloved especially with rosa lee on the run when shes fully pregnant. Im wondering what the musical and literary narratives are that run into this series, how much of that is an influence, are they influences, because i was curious whether or not as show creators you were relying on some of those other texts. Not just the historical narrative but the contemporary narrative that black women have been writing to address this particular history. And also i know you probably cant talk about your future, but i am looking forward to another season. I definitely want to see the harp Harpers Ferry thing go down, absolutely would like to see aisha hinds lead the river uprising, cannot wait to see that. Which by the way, i am hoping that you will get an emmy nomination for your role for the mentee episode, fingers crossed. And so, yes, i hope you did i have a question in there . I think i did, yes. Yeah, i think, you know, we talked a lot about, from the start when we first pitched the show, it was on the idea of rosa lee going this huge from this enslaved house, didnt want to leave, step off the plantation, to then at the end she and Harriet Tubman deciding to go back. Weve always talked about the women in our show but we dont talk about them specifically, because theyre people. So we talk about all our characters, we give them full breadth and full life. And of course beyonce, you know, lemonade influenced. You cant help but have that influence you when you see it. If you dont i remember i came in and i was like, were going to watch lemonade. You texted me the second after you saw on hbo, we need to find this for season 2. Im like, that will cost all of our money. Which it did. Do it. Yes. So that and Tony Morrison and everything. I just its that thing of trying to do not just historical stuff but fictional stuff as well. Because its those things where someone else has already taken and it tried to interpret it and you get something new from that. So definitely all of the influences. Okay, im sorry we only have time for one more question and somebody in here raised their hand. Oh, you guys, how are you doing . Hi. I have a comment. My name is tina martin wyatt. And i am a great great grand kneels of Harriet Tubman. And when you started talking about aisha, about her faith and how she did what she did, what i want to say about that is that from the very beginning of time, god has always been looking for someone to take up the banner and show his love. We are the only people on this earth that can embody that love. And hes always looking for someone to show love to other people. That is what she did. Everything she did was about love. Love is the message for her. And when she went out, what she did was looked to god. She turned her face to him in every situation, every circumstance. And she did not turn away no matter what the circumstances. So as you go forward and you say that, you know, youre falling in love with aunt harriet, thats whats happening as well. And because she has shown the love of god to all of us and inspiration of how to connect to him. And that is what the message is that he wants to get out to everyone in the world. I feel like we had a little bit of church in the church today. This is the last question. Good morning and thank you. Thank you for this show. In many instances you incorporate actual history and actual historical characters such as William Still and patty cannon. Will you incorporate some incidences that impacted the nation that are not very well known, such as the christian resistance, or the preek versus Pennsylvania Supreme Court case that reverberated across the nation, impacted slavery, in some regards still have an impact today . We would love to do everything. You know, its that. We have to pick and choose. But we try to pick and choose the littleknown stuff. But the truth is theres a lot of the bigknown stuff that we dont even know about either. So i think, you know, going forth, definitely now that weve incorporated some more historical characters, were definitely going to get more of that stuff. Just trying to find a way, like the sewing circles, to integrate it into the show. So yeah, for sure. Well, thank you. I hope everybodys enjoyed this as much as i have. And im sorry theres not more time for questions. Im just going to speak it into existence. Three more seasons of underground. I know you guys have written five seasons. But im going to speak it. And for those of you who didnt get a chance to ask your question, aisha hinds will be joining us in an afternoon session on Harriet Tubman and popular culture. Thank you very much for joining us here today. Its one of the most exciting groups. Thank you guys. Thank you. And we just have small tokens of our appreciation. Thank you. So you remember your time with us here today. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Im just going to turn it over to diane miller, the National Program manager. Thursday at 7 00 p. M. Eastern, join American History tv for a live tour of the museum of the American Revolution in philadelphia. The museums president and ceo Michael Quinn and collections and exhibitions Vice President Scott Stevenson will introduce artifacts and exhibits throughout the museum, including George Washingtons war tent and a piece of the old north bridge from the battle of concord. Hear stories about the American Revolution. And you can participate in the live program with your phone calls and tweets. Watch American History tv live from the museum of the American Revolution thursday starting at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan3. This Holiday Weekend on American History tv on cspan3, tonight at 8 00 p. M. , pulitzer prizewinning historian David Mccullough talks about how the founders, particularly john adams, valued education, viewed slavery, and persevered in the face of hardship, and how these ideals shaped american society. He grew up on a farm where they had no money. His motor was it literal, his father we know could sign his name, maybe could read, but there was a bible in the house and that was the only book. And they worked hard every day. From childhood on. But because he got a scholarship to this Little College in cambridge called harvard, and as he said discovered books and read forever, he became the john adams who helped change the world. For a complete american rea forever, he became the john adams who helped change the world. For the complete schedule go to cspan. Org. Join American History tv here on cspan3 this thursday, july 6th for a live program from the new museum of the American Revolution in philadelphia. It opened in april. Well be joined by top museum staff to learn about their artifacts and exhibits and theyll field your questions on the American Revolution. Next, a behind the scenes preview of the museum recorded in 2015 when the building was under construction and the artifacts were in storage. When descendants of george gg
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