American Artifacts Preview: The Life of Clara Barton - Historian Susan Rosenvold
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Part 2 of a visit to Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office in Washington, DC. In this segment, we learn part of her life story.
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- -: American Artifacts Preview: The Life of Clara Barton - Historian Susan Rosenvold
April 11, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Part 2 of a visit to Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office in Washington, DC. In this segment, we learn part of her life story.
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- -: American Artifacts Preview: Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office
March 29, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Between 1861 and 1868, Clara Barton, known as the Angel of the Battlefield and founder of the American Red Cross, lived in a Washington, DC boarding house. She employed twelve clerks on the third floor in her "Missing Soldiers Office," where they received over 60,000 letters from families search...
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- -: American Artifacts Preview: James Madison's Slaves
March 5, 2012 (about 12 years ago)James Madison, fourth President of the United States & often referred to as the "Father of the Constitution, owned approximately a hundred slaves at Montpelier, his 4600-acre estate in Orange County, Virginia. American History TV traveled 90 miles south of the nation's capital to learn about an ...
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- -: Career of Abolitionist John Willis Menard - Preview
March 16, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Menard was elected to the House of Representatives from Louisiana in 1868 but because of a contest did not serve. He did make the first speech on the House floor by an African American, however; pleading his case for office.
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- -: American Artifacts Preview: Madison & Slave Cemeteries at Montpelier
March 16, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Montpelier Foundation Director Michael Quinn gave American History TV a tour of the Madison family and a slave cemetery at the Orange County, Virginia estate dedicated to the fourth President.
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- -: The Presidency Preview: The Politics of Theodore Roosevelt & Barack Obama
February 22, 2012 (about 12 years ago)This discussion compares and contrasts the political philosophies of Theodore Roosevelt and Barack Obama. www.c-span.org/history
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- -: American Artifacts Clip: Madison's Montpelier - Michael Quinn Tour
January 27, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Montpelier Foundation president Michael Quinn gave American History TV a tour of the life-long home of the fourth President of the United States. In this clip, we visit the library where Madison worked for years to compile his "Notes on the Federal Convention," documenting the 1787 process of cr...
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- -: American Artifacts Preview: "Three Jamestowns" Explained - Bly Straube
January 16, 2012 (over 12 years ago)American History TV visited the Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeology Project to learn how they conserve and study the 1.5 million artifacts they have catalogued from the 1607 English settlement. This is one of three American Artifacts featuring Jamestown.
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- -: C-SPAN: American Artifacts Preview: Archaeology at Jamestown, Virginia - William Kelso
January 3, 2012 (over 12 years ago)American History TV took an "In the Trenches" tour with Jamestown Rediscovery project director William Kelso, who began unearthing the 1607 English fort in 1994. The project is part of Preservation Virginia.
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- -: American Artifacts Preview: Conservation & Archaeology at Jamestown, Virginia
January 16, 2012 (over 12 years ago)American History TV visited the Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeology Project to learn how they conserve and study the 1.5 million artifacts they have catalogued from the 1607 English settlement. This is one of three American Artifacts featuring Jamestown.
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