And there is the pigtail at this point. Now im making a little hook. It looks like this, called the teardrop hook. Now the next step is to make the actual hook itself. Once again, i have to heat it back up. In making the forge, i have come to find out theres only five or six of these in the entire country and they do have an original one, which i did go and see down in chickamauga, chattanooga battlefield. I did take some pictures to get the finer details of the chains on the hooks, so this forge is a very, very accurate. Now, i do not want to ruin my pigtail, so i have to cool it off in water to harden it. Ok . You can see this as black and this is still orange. This will be very easy now to bend. I put it over the war and of the annville over the horn of the anvil. Straightened it out. And there is my curve. Now cut this off here and i will make the top and, called the teardrop. Ok. Ready to heat it up again, boss . John baronich yep, heat it back up. I use a tool called a cut off ha
American story. Visit cspan. Org history for more information. We traveled to the Minnesota Historical society and hear about the 1920s and 30s gangster era. Bank robbers were seen as kind of anti heroes who were evening the score after the depression which is totally untrue. They were killers who wanted money, but the public saw the gangsters and a more romantic light. And you knew as you drank with them that they wouldnt kill you because they all had the deal between the cops and crooks. We start with a look at the influence st. Paul had on f. Scott fitzgeralds. You want to understand the modern world and where we are today there is no better place to start them looking at f. Scott fitzgerald because he was so complex, dealing with the complexity of American Life and that still resonates today. St. Paul, texas, a huge impact on fitzgeralds and he had an impact on st. Paul. St. Paul was the most important town of adam Scott Fitzgeralds legacy. He lived all over the world but the vast
See online at booktv. Org. As a part of booktvs recent visit to saint paul, minnesota, we stoppe stopped by the minnesa Historical Society library to learn about the impact st. Paul has had on pop culture on a national scale. Our Library Stacks and the like to think of it as a library of libraries. The native american material which is especially rich in the minnesota native americans. We have a nearly complete collection of books from the 19 century on the civil war and beating of that on the abolitionist movement. So this is a little bit of a glimpse. What ive done is pulled some of my favorites, the things that i consider treasures and love and im going to show those to you individually. A good place would be to start with our map collection. Weve collection of 50,000 maps and they go from the mid1500s to maps that were probably on the press yesterday. We get maps daily. This is a map from 1581, and i like starting with this would have a group of schoolkids because theres no here, h
When i had the opportunity to come to the ballroom, it is such a thrill for me because i know that this provided inspiration for fitzgerald, and the kind of stories that he was interested in to make money. The saturday evening post stories. This is the epitome of that huge volume of work that he produced that he felt a little bit ashamed of, but are wonderful stories. And so i see this as a real positive place for his career. There was one particular party at his house that actually fitzgerald didnt attend, and apparently a young man it was a costume ball, and they like to have costume balls and this room would have been filled with many people in different options. A young man differently dressed up in a campbells outfit and went to the wrong house. Who knows why . Anyway, the next day fitzgerald heard about the story and he said he tried to find out more information, but then he just sat down and wrote a short story called the camels back. Fitzgerald said he didnt particularly like t
President obama gave the commencement address at the u. S. Coast Guard Academy this past wednesday. On American History tv, we are looking at president ial commencement addresses from a decade ago. You can watch george w. Bushs 2005 address at the Naval Academy tonight at 9 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan3. Each week, american artifacts takes viewers to museums and Historic Sites around the country. On april 9, 1865, general robert e lee met ulysses s. Grant in the village of appomattox courthouse and surrendered his army of Northern Virginia, effectively ending the civil war. Next, we visit the museum of the confederacy in appomattox to see items related to the surrender. We also toured the museum, looking at the wars aftermath. Welcome to the museum of the confederacy appomattox. I am the site director here. For museum has been open for almost three years now. We are an extension of the museum that was originally founded in 1890, opened in 1896 in richmond. We house a lot of the artifacts