You, many of my friends in the white house and our great Vice President is right here. So thank you, mike, and so many of our wonderful cabinet. Its really a terrific day, and its so much fun, so much fun to have you here to celebrate a very important element of our culture and our life, africanamerican History Month. Right . Were very glad to be joined by our outstanding Surgeon General dr. Jerome adams. Jerome, thank you very much. I also want to recognize our great secretary of housing and urban development dr. Ben carson. Where is ben . [applause] great guy, great friend. And thank you to all the members of our cabinet and all of you who are here, and some of you came from far because this was very important for you to be with us today and thank you very much. Hope Christian Church choir, i said that is a beautiful sound i am hearing. And david a king is my friend. I saw you moving to the music. Thank you very much. Special, special person. Really, right from the beginning. Thank y
President trump thank you very much. I appreciate your being here. It is an honor for the first lady and i and a true honor to have many of my friends in the white house, the great Vice President is right here. Thank you mike. So many of our cabinet. It is a terrific day and so much fun, so much fun to have you here to celebrate a very important element of our culture and life. Africanamerican History Month, right . We are very glad to be joined by our outstanding Surgeon General dr. Jerome adams. Thank you very much. I also want to recognize our great secretary of housing and urban development, ben carson. Where is he . Good guy. Good friend. And thank you to all of the members of our cabinet and all of you who are here. Some of you came from far because this was very important for you to be with us here today. Thank you very much. To the Hope Christian church choir, i heard that sound outside. I said, that is a beautiful sound i am hearing. Friend. Ing is my i saw her moving to the m
Joining us here all around the nation and around the world. Thank you, guys. And be good, all right. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] you are watching American History tv, 48 hours of programming every weekend on c span 3. Follow us on 20 for information follow us on twitter for information on our schedule. Artifacts,american we visited the National Gallery of art to visit the shaw memorial. The sculpture honors colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th massachusetts volunteer infantry, one of the civil wars first African American units. The work commemorates the july 18, 1863 storming of fort wagner in which 1 3 of the men were killed or wounded. Prideibit tell it with shines the spotlight on the members of the 54th and a group of abolitionist. Good morning. I am the senior curator here at the National Gallery of art. I am the cocurator of this exhibition. Began to work on this memorial in 1883. Initially, he
Programs and to keep up with the latest history news. We visit the National Gallery of art to learn about the shaw memorial, the sculpture 54th infantry. The work specifically commemorates the july 18, 1860 three storming of fort wagner and which one third of the 54 men were killed or wounded. Spotlightt 60 shine a on the group of abolitionists. Good morning. I am the senior curator here at the National Gallery of art. I am the cocurator of this exhibition. Augustus Saint Gaudens began to work on this memorial in 1883. Initially, he was going to make it a monument just dedicated to shaw himself. If you look at some of the examples we have in the case behind you you will see that one of his first ideas for the monument was to depict colonel Robert Gould Shaw on a horse. That kind of depiction is often referred to as the man on the mount. However, colonel shaws family objected to that. They thought such a depiction was too grand a way to show their young son. He was, after all, only 25 y
Us, lees miserables. Every weekend, marking the anniversary of the civil war about the people and event chas shaped the area, saturday at 10 00 and 6 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan. Anniver civil war about next on american artifacts, we visited the National Gallery of art to visit the shaw memorial. The sculpture honors colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th massachusetts volunteer infantry, one of the civil wars first African American units. The work commemorates the july 18, 1863 storming of fort wagner in which 1 3 of the men were killed or wounded. The exhibit tell it with pride shines the spotlight on the members of the 54th and a group of abolitionist. Good morning. I am the senior curator here at the National Gallery of art. I am the cocurator of this exhibition. Augustus Saint Gaudens began to work on this memorial in 1883. Initially, he was going to make it a monument just dedicated to shaw himself. If you look at some of the examples we have in the case behind you you will se