its importance in terms of controlling or mitigating any aspect of environmental degradation. it is really a fascinating historical arc where t has changed a lot but it has straighthe garden stayed true to its mission of demonstrating to the american people the importance of plants although we are set up for. by congress, we are open 355 days a year, 356 on leap years free of charge. we get visitors from all over the world. we aim to delight people in the wonders of plants and put a smile on your face. and with that smile, we believe we can educate about some of the wonders and services the plant kingdom provides to human beings. aside from the white house, this missoni and s portrait gallery has the largest collection of presidential portraits. join me as david ward gives a virtual tour of the gallery s presidential paintings including those of andrew jackson, abraham lincoln, and harry truman. tonight at 6:45 eastern on c-span 3 as american history tv. each week, ameri
weekend, on cspan3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook. each week, american history tv s reel america brings you archival films that help tell the story of the 20th century. these are the proud heels hills of the state of virginia in the springtime of 1956. springtime reckoning to a small boy, urging him to wonder with the wind, over the pasture fence to catch a calf. not an easy thing because a calf is a youngster like himself. ride him? sure. well what is a day without a , little rough and tumble? when a boy needs comfort, there is always home. and mother and father. this is the world of randy kerr of oakton, virginia. typical, except for one thing. randy was the first child to receive an injection of salk polio vaccine. in the field trials in 1954. much had preceded this moment when randy kerr made history. in the all-out fight against polio led by the national foundation for infantile paralysis, there were many years of struggle and heartbreak. parent
promoting it, so she was always on the lookout for a match for thomas, yes, and he donald in philadelphia for a while, and she was saying, are there single women in philadelphia? she did that also for the other children as well. particularly, with thomas, and eventually he did come back and mary very well marry very well. you mentioned thomas and the letters, and i have been reading the letters now very closely and my impression of thomas has changed so much, the youngest son. first of all, there is a lot of that press with her relation with her sons generally. and how thomas s life turned out, thomas was ill a lot of the time, and she identified with that. she said he had inherited the family disease, rheumatism, and he was apparently very ill a lot of the time. she sent him incredible formulae for medical treatments. how they live with medicines how anyone survived with the kind of therapies that they suggested, bleeding and purgative s, and on and on purgatives, and on
generals from the union side and governor zebulun vance from the confederate side together in this room, and governor vance surrendered the state of north carolina in this room. morehead passed away in 1866 shortly after the surrender. by the time the surrender came along, he was not in the best of health so he was not a participant in the reconstruction of north carolina during the confederate period. i see governor morehead as someone who is really struggling with the world in which he lived. he lived in a world that included slavery that included a situation where women were not allowed to own property, were not allowed to vote. the state was in a situation where people could grow wonderful crops. they could make wonderful things, but they didn t have a market. i think he was frustrated that the rings were true these ends were true. he began to establish a system that would change that. i think what he started, he was taking a first step, and i think he would be incredib