His impact on World History is well known. Historians are just now beginning to piece it together to find out new information and understand his impact on the revolution and figure out how he sits among the great heroes and villains of american intelligence history. Katherine egner gruber will help us to understand who this enigmatic man really is. She is a curator at jamestownyorktown foundation and a member of the team responsible for research and development of exhibits in the forthcoming American Revolution museum at yorktown, which i will tell you more about today. Between 20092014, she worked at the Colonial Williamsburg foundation where she developed the research and production of the field trip series. She served as a library fellow, and most recently was content specialist in the digital history center. Although she is a museum professional interested in early american consumerism economy, material culture, and how these aspects of Colonial Life translated during the American
His impact on World History is well known. Historians are just now beginning to piece it together to find out new information and understand his impact on the revolution and figure out how he sits among the great heroes and villains of american intelligence history. Katherine egner gruber will help us to understand who this enigmatic man really is. She is a curator at jamestownyorktown foundation and a member of the team responsible for research and development of exhibits in the forthcoming American Revolution museum at yorktown, which i will tell you more about today. Between 20092014, she worked at the Colonial Williamsburg foundation where she developed the research and production of the field trip series. She served as a library fellow, and most recently was content specialist in the digital history center. Although she is a museum professional interested in early american consumerism economy, material culture, and how these aspects of Colonial Life translated during the American
Pursuing issues that were important to her like education, literacy, and womens health. Laura batch, this laura bush, this sunday night. Examining the public and private lives of the women who filled the position of first lady, and their influence on the presidency. From Martha Washington to michelle obama, sunday at 7 00 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to American History tv live from Colonial Williamsburg. On the eve of the American Revolution williamsburg, virginia was a bustling capital , home to a large enslaved population. American history tv returns to the williamsburg at the 1770s where we are live from the historic district. Burgesses, where George Washington once served, and the Governors Palace, home to king george. We will also be taking your questions as we talked to historians, curators, and interpreters that will all be aboard the cspan bust today. Joining us is Colonial Williamsburg president mitchell reiss. Thank you for being here this morning,
On the eve of the American Revolution williamsburg, virginia, was a bustling capital city, home to a large enslaved population. American history tv returns to the williamsburg at the 1770s where we are live from the historic district. We will see revolutionaries and loyalists mingle on the streets. The house of burgesses, where George Washington once served, and the Governors Palace, home to king george. We will also be taking your questions as we talked to historians, curators, and interpreters that will all be aboard the cspan bust today. Joining us is Colonial Williamsburg president mitchell reiss. Thank you for being here this morning, i appreciate it. Williamsburg president mitchell reiss. Thank you for being here this morning, i appreciate it. Mitchell my pleasure. For someone who has never visited Colonial Williamsburg, how do you describe it . Mitchell well, i think it is important for people to know it is more than the sum of its parts. You have 88 buildings that have you have
This is the operation room, this is the largest section of our facility. In here we have one supervisor, two pattern and makers. And the rest of the people you see working diligently are tailors. We build and maintain all the garments for the historic area of products. So maintaining includes laundering and dry cleaning. This rack right here is often issued to people and then its going to they can come in and pick it up and take it out for their use. Generally when you come to work here, youll get an allotment. Thats based on what it is you do and how you do it. Its about 60 to 65 articles of clothing. We we clothe from the head to toe and skin out. The average allotment is worth about 4,000 so quite an investment for the foundation. Here we have the two outfits that were manufactured in this building. On the right here is a fife and drum uniform. We have a large the fife and drum corps which is the musical component of the Virginia State garrison. You have red with blue facings. These