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It is an article of faith that every picture tells a story. This series exists to connect some of the thousands of stories we have on hand and make one step from stories to history. Our presenter today is jim barber, an historian at the portrait gallery. Jim has lectured extensively on the civil war. He has finished a new exhibition on babe ruth and given talks on everyone from Thelonious Monk to albert elswick. Please welcome jim barber. Jim barber welcome to the National Portrait gallery. Ira aldridge, we will talk about a little bit right now. Very appropriate for february is black history month. Why ira aldridge . With this face to face series, we connect three different people throughout three consecutive months. We began last month with pocahontas. This month is ira aldridge. The connection is the thread back in 2007, the state of virginia commemorated two huge anni ....
From his beloved secondhome in georgia, the body of Franklin Delano roosevelt moved on the first stages of its journey to his final resting place. Scores of sufferers sorrowfully bid farewell to their great friend and benefactor. The president s dog follows his beloved master. Aboard a special train beginning the 20 fourhour trip to washington, the 31st president of the United States leaves warm springs forever. All along the 700mile route people gather to honor president roosevelt and his ideals. Slowly, the train backs in the Union Station in the united aids the United States capital awaited by a military guard of , honor and members of the late, great chief executives family. With Justice Burns and secretary wa ....
And did everything you would have in the north. You needed they had run out of southerners in that area. You needed a map to control the public space. Elsewhere, the grand army republic, it was africanamericans who cap memorial day alive in many places. They were the ones when they couldnt get to it, they would decorate the national cemeteries. Africanamericans are very key. There are pockets. There have to be enough people to be able to command the public space quite space. There was a huge Peace Movement in north carolina. That was dampened down because of various reasons. One was a charismatic governor was able to attack emancipation and turn it around. They were sick of the world are the war. You couldnt say they wouldnt have then happy to be back in the United States. We have to distinguish antiadministration. Conditional unionists who like many slaveholders, who decided ....
Upcoming books. In the beginning of june, live for the Chicago Tribune lit fest and the indepth program with Lawrence Wright and your phone calls. Near the end of june watch for the annual roosevelt reading festival from the franklin d. Vet president ial library. In july were live at the harlem book fair the nations flag ship africanamerican literary event with interviews and panel discussions, and beginning in september, live from the Nations Capital for the National Book festival celebrating its 15th year. Thats some of the events this summer on cspan2s booktv. Zb the new congressional directory is a handy guide to the 114th congress are color photos of every senator and house member plus bio and Contact I ....
Poise and skill under the most intense kind of pressure epitomized the character that accepts danger and surmounts it. There is the spirit that filled america. Your mission serves your country. It serves to remind us all of our proud heritage of a nation to remind us that in this age of technicians and scientific marvels, that the individual still counts, that in a crisis, the character of a man or of men will make the difference. Procedures, go. Afd, go. Network, go. Computer . No. That work, give me rtc, on conference . Rtc is on the conference. All right. Lets play it cool. Youre watching American History tv on cspan3. Follow us on Twitter Twitter cspanhistory for our programs and latest history news. Theres more on American History tvs Facebook Page includin ....