The National Governors association will host panels to talk about jobs, the Opioid Crisis as well as the future of agriculture and food availability. Coverage begins tomorrow at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. Located about 100 miles from washington, d. C. On the Eastern Shore of the chesapeake bay, the Harriet Tubman underground Railroad Visitors Center opened in the spring of 2017. Up next on american artifacts, a half hour tour of the grounds and exhibits to learn about the life of escaped slave, abolitionist, civil war spy and sufferist, har yacriet tubman. My name is ranger crenshaw. Welcome to Harriet Tubman underground railroad Visitor Center. She was born in madison and spent a lot of time in this area as well as buck town. It was here that she learned the skills that were vital to make her a successful conductor on the underground railroad, skills such as reading the landscape, reading the stars, forging for food, walking through the woods and being comfortable outdoors by herself. I wou
We will continue our look at the presidency of franklin roosevelt. Up next, a tour of valkill cottage in hyde park, new york. Certainly, this became the very First National Historic Site to be dedicated to a first lady and the only Historic Site dedicated to one first lady. Valkill encompasses two major buildings. The first building, the Stone Cottage, was built in 1925 to initially serve as a retreat for Eleanor Roosevelt and her two political mentors, nancy cook and Marian Dickerman. It was built on the easternmost end of the roosevelt property at the time. It was land fdr had purchased in 1911 to do forestry experiments on. But he offered to build his wife eleanor a Little Cottage here, because by the early 1920s, she was getting very active in political life, and she really needed her own space to bring friends and associates and have a place where she could talk politics and plan political strategy. Fdr realized the big house really didnt serve Eleanor Roosevelts purposes well, be
Preservationist jobie hill has been writing about slave dwellings in the united states. Her interdisciplinary work includes photograph, interpretation, and preservation of slave history. Up next on american artifacts we travel to southern virginia near the North Carolina border to visit the former Brandon Plantation with jobie hill and learn about her saving slave houses project, joined by several archeologists and preservations and a team that came to document Brandon Plantation with a series of 3d laser scans. Were here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of an independent project i am doing thats called saving slave houses, which is a database of all the known slave houses in the united states. And it is staffed as a central repository of instrumentation and documentation of slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with turnbull, the company that makes the survey equipment that i use, to do kind of the highest level documenta
Preservationist jobie hill has been writing about slave dwellings in the united states. Her interdisciplinary work includes photograph, interpretation, and preservation of slave history. Up next on american artifacts we travel to southern virginia near the North Carolina border to visit the former Brandon Plantation with jobie hill and learn about her saving slave houses project, joined by several archeologists and preservations and a team that came to document Brandon Plantation with a series of 3d laser scans. Were here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of an independent project i am doing thats called saving slave houses, which is a database of all the known slave houses in the united states. And it is staffed as a central repository of instrumentation and documentation of slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with turnbull, the company that makes the survey equipment that i use, to do kind of the highest level documenta
Rulers. Sunday at 4 00 p. M. , on reel america, the 1956 film, a city decides about the Historic Supreme Court decision, brown v. Board of education. Delegates from all the high schools in st. Louis. Well, all i know is at our school, there are some kids who just dont like colored people. Some of the kids at our school dont like white people either. I think its the individual that counts. How are you going to get to know a person unless you meet them. When the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was illegal, these children were ready. And at 6 00 p. M. , on american artifacts, we look at a selection of clifford barrymans popular political cartoons for the early 20th century. And clifford barryman continued to draw for the washington evening star for the next 42 years. His cartoons appeared almost daily, usually on the front page of the paper, very prominently placed, and he had quite an ill lustrous career. Watch American History tv every weekend on cspan3. Since 2011, architect and H