since 2011, there is a database of former slave dwellings. and her work includes architectural architectural documentation, photography, interpretation and preservation of slave history. up next, on american artifacts , we travel to southern virginia near the north carolina border to visit the brandon plantation with jobie hill and learn about her saving slave houses project. she s joined by several archeologists and a team who came along to document brandon plantation with a series of 3d laser scans. we are here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here, and this is part of an independent project that i am doing that s called saving slave houses, which is a database of all the known slave houses in the united states. and it is a repository of information and documentation of slave houses in the united states. and i have partnered with the company that makes the survey equipment that i use to do kind of kind of the highest level documentation t
house. my job is to collect biographical information on members, to gather data and historic lists and to conduct oral histories. we answer reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill. we try to tell the story of the house, which is this very big, very old institution, in a way in which people can kind of connect with it at a human level. so we do that through telling biographical stories or clips from oral histories that give people kind of a human sense of a very large institution. today, we thought we would try to do that by telling you about the history of women in congress, which is a history that dates back to the early 20th century. this is a nifty piece of campaign after mueller. it is four clear booth loose, her reelection campaign. it is quite handy, it tells her what to do. use this column for clear boots loose. you go into the voting booth, and make sure you are pulling the levers to reelect her. clare boots loose would be a r
i m the historian at the house. and my job is to collect biographical information on members, gather lists and to conduct oral histories. we answer reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill and we try to tell the story of the house which is this very big, very old institution in a way in which people can kind of connect with it at a human level. we do that through telling biographical stories or clips from oral histories that give people kind of a human sense of a very large institution. and today we thought we would try and do that with you by telling you about the history of women in congress which is a history that dates back to the early 20th century. this is a nifty piece of campaign femora. it s clare boothe luce memorabilia. and clare boothe luce would have been the republican counterpart of helen douglas. she was well known to the general public. her career really had started as a writer and editor. she later married henry luc
served in congress. prior to the mid-20th century, many served as territorial delegates and commissioners as opposed to voting representatives. archives hosted this event and provided the video. historian at the center for legislative archives. thank you for attending today s talk on this last day of july. this is the last talk in the series until we resume in september. for those of you in attendance, our guest hardly needs an introduction. matthew wasniewski is the historian of the u.s. house of representatives and a member of the advisory meeting on the records of congress. friend andgtime supporter, as well of us as well as a source of guidance to the center through his service on the advisory committee. matt is here today to discuss hispanic americans in congress, which was published last year. this is the third in a series that has come out of the house office under his leadership. the previously published volumes being women in congress 1917-2006, black americans in
this was the first of a two-part program. you can view this and all other american artifact programs on our website, c-span.org/history. each week, american history tv is american artifact visits museums and historic places. next we take you inside the house wing of the u.s. capitol to learn about the history of women in congress. in the second of a two-part program, we continue the story into the 1940 s with republican congresswoman clare booth luce. i am sarah elliott. i am the curator for the house of representatives. i take care of a lot of the artifacts, artwork, objects that document the house s rich heritage. i am the historian at the house. my job is to collect biographical information on members, to gather data and historic lists and to conduct oral histories. we answer reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill. we try to tell the story of the house. which is this very big, very old institution in a way in which people can co