Visits integrate with the museums musician. They make sure that everyone sees the american revolution. I am flashing at you now wonderful note card that has a whale on she jenna, if you had seen George Washingtons tenant upstairs, jenna was the conservator who did all of the work to prepare that tent for display. They would sit very meticulously with these tiny needles and tiny threads and make sure that every thread on that entire home of George Washington was vacuumed out so we can be displayed. They cannot for making George Washingtons canvas condominium available for display here, but for writing this wonderful note which said heres a copy i absolutely devoured this book, because as you all know race is a philosophy, not a fact. Is there something that we as a nation need to grapple with is this question today. The relevance of this book to where we are today in society is absolutely shying shining through. Youre only getting a piece of this the talk of slavery. Catherines work wit
I am the director here. Did am going to talk about building we are standing in and a little bit about quakers. Visitors dont know peopleout the religion usually have background knowledge. We answer questions about whether or not quakers are amish people. This is a good place to have that basic education about quakers. It is the largest Quaker Meeting House in the United States and may be the world, but they are looking into it. The property was was the first barrel ground in philadelphia and im sure we will get to that later. We have them look around this space. Comparing of this site to other religious sites. We have people look around and let us know what is different here versus other religious sites they have been sent to. There arent stainedglass candles or even a place for a priest or deacon to stand. A place for a priest or deacon to stand. It is a christian religion, sonic typical sunday this is a congregation meeting for worship. People gather and they sit in silence for an ho
Bible, extracting the moral teachings of jesus from six bibles in four different languages. He had these passages bound in a volume in 1820. The Smithsonian Institution acquired the littleknown bible from 1885 from jeffersons greatgranddaughter. American history tv visited the smithsonian paper Conversation Lab to learn about the project to preserve the original jefferson bible. Im here to welcome you to the National Museum of American History paper conservation laboratory. I want to talk about an exciting project, which is the the conservation of jeffersons bible. You will learn how jefferson came to create this rare book. Standpoint of the museum, what is interesting to me is it captures what we do as a museum. We collect, we preserve, and we provide access to the public. Many of you are familiar with the bay conservation project the lastrred over decade, the preservation of the starspangled banner. This is a smaller object but of in terms ofance revealing to us something about the e
Costume and architecture and in music. I grew up with the belief that the sun never sets on the british empire. I collected stamps from all over the british empire. All americans knew george washington, john jay, sam adams, all the Founding Fathers were english men. Alexander hamilton was a scott born in the caribbean. As they came, so did settlers from germany, austria, hungary, polands, swiss, russians, chinese and all the countries came to the melting pot of america over the past 400 years since the founding of jamestown in 1607. My parents took me to the new york worlds fair in 1940 just seven years old to see many of the countrys exhibitions and among them, for the first time i saw magna carta at the british exhibition. The 1215 lincoln cathedral magna carta. On my first visit to britain as a serving officer in dwrupt states army, in 1957 i was returning to america to be discharged after serving in korea, my tour of duty completed, my first day in london, i went to the British Mus
Good morning. I propose to cover three things in my brief opening remarks this morning. Why me . Why now . Why are you here . Magna cartas relevance today. From an early age growing up in america, it was good king john the lion heart, bad King John Lachlan and robin hood and his merry men, not to forget maid mir yen, littlejohn, fryer tuck, henry the viii, shakespeare, costume and architecture and in music. I grew up with the belief that the sun never sets on the british empire. I collected stamps from all over the british empire. All americans knew george washington, john jay, sam adams, all the Founding Fathers were english men. Alexander hamilton was a scott born in the caribbean. As they came, so did settlers from germany, austria, hungary, polands, swiss, russians, chinese and all the countries came to the melting pot of america over the past 400 years since the founding of jamestown in 1607. My parents took me to the new york worlds fair in 1940 just seven years old to see many o