each week american history tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places you re looking at petersen house here in washington dc where president abraham lincoln passed away at 7:22. am on april 15th of 1865. up next a tour of the former boarding house located across the street from ford s theater where abraham lincoln was shot 150 years ago. this is an interesting house that has a great history. even before abraham lincoln was assassinated here. this house was built in the early 1850s by german immigrant to america william peterson, and he used this house as a boarding house up to 10 or 12 people lived here at a time. and so this is really a relic of 19th century civil war boarding house culture once upon a time everybody lived in boarding houses here congressman senators, even vice presidents of the united states lived in group homes. so this house aside from its history of being the place where abraham lincoln died is an important part of antebellum civil and civ
19th century civil war boarding house culture once upon a time everybody lived in boarding houses here congressman senators, even vice presidents of the united states lived in group homes. so this house aside from its history of being the place for abraham lincoln died is an important part of antebellum civil and civil war washington dc history aside from this being the lincoln death house. this house is also great museum of immigrant culture in washington and boarding house life in washington dc. i ve been coming here for years making pilgrimages here. i started coming here in 1986 when i joined the reagan administration and i ve been coming here for years and very excited that this year for the $150th anniversary. there s going to be a big commemoration for abraham lincoln because in past years, i m usually here alone. no one comes to this house on the night of this assassination. no one comes to honor lincoln. i might find one or two people here when i sit on the steps of
you re looking at petersen house here in washington dc where president abraham lincoln passed away at 7:22. am on april 15th of 1865. up next a tour of the former boarding house located across the street from ford s theater where abraham lincoln was shot 150 years ago. this is an interesting house that has a great history. even before abraham lincoln was assassinated here. this house was built in the early 1850s by german immigrant to america william peterson, and he used this house as a boarding house up to 10 or 12 people lived here at a time. and so this is really a relic of 19th century civil war boarding house culture once upon a time everybody lived in boarding houses here congressman senators, even vice presidents of the united states lived in group homes. so this house aside from its history of being the place where abraham lincoln died is an important part of antebellum civil and civil war washington dc history aside from this being the lincoln death house. this hous
upstairs, before we came down, asked me if this was going to be the edification. did i get that right? i guess it never hit me, but it might, in a way. i am a big fan of robert e. lee. what i m hoping to do, among others, besides give you a timeline as to what s robert e. lee it in the post war years, which i think is obviously the most often overlooked portion of his life, because the civil war will always be first and foremost, the other main theme of this lecture that we will try to get across to you, because the parks service is big on themes, that the amount of i wouldn t say he did a lot of work, but through his own personal example is probably the best way. through his own personal example, robert e. lee tries to reconcile the nation. but i think a lot of us americans today have forgotten is how far apart this country was in 1865. i think it is the view of a lot of people that lee surrenders at appomattox and bails. just forget about it. we will just hold hands and r
here, which i guess never hit me. i guess it might in a way. because i am a fan of robert e. lee. what i m hoping to do, among others, besides give you a time line as to what robert e. lee did in the postwar years, which is the most overlooked portion of his life, the civil war is always going to be first and foremost. the other main theme of the lecture i m going to try to get across to you, park service is big on themes. is that the amount of i wouldn t say that he did a lot of work in theory, but through his own personal example, is probably the best way. through his own personal example, robert e. lee tries to reconcile the nation. i think what a lot of us as americans have forgotten is how far apart this country was in 1865. i think it is the view that lee surrenders and people are like, forget about it, hold hands, reunite and continue down the path again. it takes the country decades, some would say a century, some would say not even yet for the country to really reu