House as well as emancipation in the district of columbia. He has a collection of stories. He always wished he had time to tell when he does tours of the capitol one of the things you may not know is that he can do tours of the capital not only in english, but also in german. So today we re going to hear in english stories about the capital honeymoon fad of the late 19th century the at times fraught development of the capital infrastructure itself and an often overlooked violent episode on the senate subway so join us for an unusual tour robert. Take us on your tour. I am indeed a tour guide. So i have a really odd relationship with the capital. I i mean there s a lot of people that work there. Creating laws or changing laws or lobbying to change the laws or just the hundreds of people that that are responsible for keeping that the whole place going. Um, and of course then the tour guides themselves, but my job is to take people for whom this may be their only opportunity to see the ca
Our lunch bites with steven jane with a special guest robert poll. Robert poll has worked for many years. He started out as a computer programmer, but he recovered from that to become a fulltime stay at home dad. Now his sons in school and so he s expanded his horizons and become a selftaught historian. He s written books about his house as well as emancipation in the district of columbia. He has a collection of stories. He always wished he had time to tell when he does tours of the capitol one of the things you may not know is that he can do tours of the capital not only in english, but also in german. So today we re going to hear in english stories about the capital honeymoon fad of the late 19th century the at times fraught development of the capital infrastructure itself and an often overlooked violent episode on the senate subway so join us for an unusual tour robert. Take us on your tour. I am indeed a tour guide. So i have a really odd relationship with the capital. I i mean the
He always wished he had time to tell when he does tours of the capital. One of the things you might not know is that he can do tours of the capital, not only in english, but also in german. Today we are going to hear, in the english, stories about the capitol honeymoon fad of the late 19th century. At time front development of the capital infrastructure itself. And often overlooked violent episode on the senate subway. So join us for an unusual tour, robert take us on your tour. I am indeed a tour guide. I have an odd relationship to the capital. I there s a lot of people that work there. Creating laws, obtaining laws, lobbying to change laws, or just hundreds of people that are responsible for keeping the whole place going. And of course then the tour guides themselves. But my job is to take people for whom this may be their only opportunity to see the capital and get them on a tour. That gives me a chance to speak a little bit about the capitol as i get there. But of course the major
House as well as emancipation in the district of columbia. He has a collection of stories. He always wished he had time to tell when he does tours of the capitol one of the things you may not know is that he can do tours of the capital not only in english, but also in german. So today we re going to hear in english stories about the capital honeymoon fad of the late 19th century the at times fraught development of the capital infrastructure itself and an often overlooked violent episode on the senate subway so join us for an unusual tour robert. Take us on your tour. I am indeed a tour guide. So i have a really odd relationship with the capital. I i mean there s a lot of people that work there. Creating laws or changing laws or lobbying to change the laws or just the hundreds of people that that are responsible for keeping that the whole place going. Um, and of course then the tour guides themselves, but my job is to take people for whom this may be their only opportunity to see the ca
As a curator in the museum room particularly the history museum, i am always struck by how art objects, documents on display have the power to stand in for larger historical narratives, convey so much more than what they are structurally defined by the object itself. For those of you who missed last week s program let s talk about this book, the civil war and 50 objects. Well, it came about as i confessed last week because louise asked me to undertake the project for the historical society. You ll remember we got to see three times 50 objects already before us on some conference tables in the historical society, so it was a matter of picking representative objects, exciting objects, which as you say stand in for the big history of the civil war item by item, personal story by personal story and it was remarkable at the end that we constructed the history of the war from the abolitionist movement to the 13th amendment which abolished slavery. It was fun to work with you on that project