They were 40 to 100 slaves in this area of drayton hall. But to run this house itself, the draytons head cooks, butlers, stable hands, blacksmiths. They had carpenters. We have gone through the slave lists and identify the names of these individuals. We have tried to highlight those places that are distinctively african american, like the africanamerican cemetery that dates to the 1790s. We have done careful research to show the area to have been a cemetery. Making it the oldest documented africanamerican cemetery in the nation still in use. Descendents of the africanamerican can any from drayton hall can be interred there. The last person to be interred there was richmond bowens, born in 1980. He died in 1998. He was a remarkable source of oral history for us and that a lot of work in educating people on the cane to drayton hall about this site as he remembered it growing up. Parents and the Africanamerican Community here used the Natural Resources around for medicinal purposes. Acces
Tonight, stephen welcomes daniel craig. An and musical guest blackberry smoke. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen hey hows it going . Yeah hey thank you very much. Thank you very much. Hey, everybody how are you . How are you . Ladies and gentlemen, weve got a big show weve got a big show for you tonight. Welcome to the late show. Urt. Big day here in the big apple. Donald trump has come back to new york, and new yorkers were really happy to see him. New york hates you clapping new york hates you stephen now, to be fair, that is a standard new york greeting. You might remember, it took donald trump two days to condemn the white nationalists and the neonazis who held that really down in charlottesville. Thats why. Audience about ooo. I know the feeling. Thats why i sent him this card. Fresh irveg. Thats fresh ink. But even though many criticized how long it took, the p
Stephen colbert. Tonight, stephen welcomes daniel craig. Tiffany haddish. And musical guest blackberry smoke. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen hey hows it going . Yeah hey thank you very much. Thank you very much. Hey, everybody how are you . How are you . Ladies and gentlemen, weve got a big show weve got a big show for you tonight. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Big day here in the big apple. Donald trump has come back to new york, and new yorkers were really happy to see him. New york hates you clapping new york hates you stephen now, to be fair, that is a standard new york greeting. You might remember, it took donald trump two days to condemn the white nationalists and the neonazis who held that really down in charlottesville. Thats why. Audience about ooo. I know the feeling. Thats why i sent him this card. cheers and applause fresh ir
That does seem particularly appropriate because she will be discussing her new book capital dames the civil war and the women of washington, 18481868. Cokie roberts is best known as one of our nations most respected broadcast journalist. Her broadcasts on in the our offer critical insight into the worlds politics, government and washington, and as is the case with every Campaign Season she will be one of the most important voices we all listen to in the months ahead as the 2016 president ial race unfold and i know how busy you will be trying to cover by that time i was going to say the candidates that keeps growing forever. I do want to mention in the r and nbc are her day job. You know the Cokie Roberts grew up in a political family she has seen political life from the inside and out and understand where political dynamics fitting to American History and for that reason it is not surprising that along with her commentaries on contemporary politics shes a student of American History an
That enjoy and appreciate the National Park system and as we close out here happy centennial to the National Park service. A reminder this program will air tonight at 10 00 p. M. Eastern time once again in its entirety and youll see a full tour of arlington house just as if you were here yourself. Thanks for being with us. Each week american artifacts takes you to museums to reveal what artifacts reveal about American History. Next he leads a tour of arlington house. The 19th century mansion situated on the hill above president john f. Kennedys grave in Arlington National cemetery. Today it is the most visited historic home in the National Park Service System which is marking its centennial this year. Arlington house will close at the end of 2016 for a yearlong restoration made possible by a 12. 35 million gift. I am a park service ranger. I have been here many years. I sometimes joke i spent more time in this house than robert e. Lee did. Although it was his home for 30 years. Its per