And american art. View a slideshow of images at americanart. Si. Edu. Up next we visit the smithsonian american art museum where an exhibit features paintings and photographs created during the civil war curator eleanor jones harvey gives a group of journalists a tour of the galleries and describes how the conflict transformed photography and art in ways that are not always obvious. This is part two of a twopart program. One of my favorites is an artist that oh, i would say next to none of you know much about and that s conrad wise chapman. Conrad is the radical confederate in the family. He is 21 years old when the war breaks out conrad grew up in italy. And he ends up coming back to the united states specifically to fight he is that rabbit about all of this the nine little oil sketches in the matching frames that you see here are all his works conrad wise chapman is at his heart a landscape painter and i think he and sanford gifford actually are kind of doppelgangers for each other i
The us and france in defending values like free speech and liberty. This is what franklin roosevelt said in dedicating this juicero memorial in 1936. He said we shall link mr. Joseph hall s name forever with the names of lafayette and the whole shambo and degrass and the other valiant frenchman who service to this country entitles them for all. To the grateful remembrance of all americans it is an inspiring dedication and it reminds us of the central. Enlightenment values that we share in the us and france the central role of france in making american independence possible and our shared commitment to free speech. So we re going to explore that today with four of the greatest scholars and commentators of free speech in america and france, and i m so delighted to introduce them to you and then to begin our discussion. And i will do that now makoliviere be re is staff editor and reporter for the ideas debate section of the moment. He his articles are illuminating and i learned from them
Breaks out conrad grew up in italy. And he ends up coming back to the united states specifically to fight he is that rabbit about all of this the nine little oil sketches in the matching frames that you see here are all his works conrad wise chapman is at his heart a landscape painter and i think he and sanford gifford actually are kind of doppelgangers for each other if you look at gifford s pictures and you look at chapman s pictures, there are a lot of parallels in the way that they handle the skies and the emotion and the little teeny tiny figures and they re better doing little ones than they are doing big ones because basically their landscape painters conrad his dad finally gets him reassigned away from the action. He shot. He shoots himself in the head at shiloh, which maybe one of those selfinflicted. You know stress moves. It doesn t obviously kill him. It just gets him out of action for a while and his dad basically appeals to the governor of virginia who is a general in the
engage series presented by highland capital. i m ken hersh, the introducer in chief. our goal here is to provide content that you can t get anywhere else. and we re honored today with this session to launch a wonderful insiders look at presidential retreats and a glimpse of what life looks like for a president outside of the white house. it s a fascination that so many people have, and we re delighted to take a deep dive into camp david, crawford, kenny bunk port and the lbj ranch. tonight we have a series of guests who can also give us that special insight and to kick us off i d like to introduce the 43rd president of the united states. thank you all. thank you very much. so this is a special moment for laura and me because we ve got such fond memories of the presidential retreats. one of the things about the presidency that is kind of hard to explain is like what it feels like to be in a bubble. and you re kind of in a bubble, particularly in washington, d.c. so the presi
washington, d.c., across lafayette square at the white house with the slavery and the president s neighborhood. as we begin tonight s program please welcome the 15th rector of st. john s church, reverend john fisher. [ applause ] welcome, good evening. my name is rob fisher. i am the rector of st. john s church, and i am thrilled that our friends at the white house historical association asked us to provide space for tonight s conversation. stewart asked if i would share a little bit about the history of this very historic room that you are sitting in tonight and so i will share with you that this church was completed in 1816. the architect was benjamin henry latrobe. not only did he design this church, he was rewould abouting the white house after it was destroyed by the british in the war of 1812 and in 1818 he built decatur house which is now the home of the white house historical association and if you go inside the decatur house and you look up, you see a very simila