James Madison Museum - What is Slavery Exhibit
This project was for the James Madison Museum in Orange, Virginia for a new exhibit about slavery. It was designed to accommodate three vertically oriented flat panel screens, arranged in a U-shaped configuration, with the viewer standing in the middle, more or less, facing the center screen.
All the talking head shots were taken on cell phones so there was considerable cleanup (both video and audio)to make them presentable. Most of the archival stills needed to be reconstructed in order to fit and fill the 16x9 vertically oriented screens. I was honored to be a part of making this exhibit come alive and would look forward to working on similar projects for other exhibits.
James Madison’s Montpelier
Travel to Orange County, Virginia to catch up with the Executive Director of James Madison's Montpelier, Kat Imhoff. Explore a center for constitutional education and museum of American history, including the powerful exhibition The Mere Distinction of Colour.
Montpelier- James Madison's Home
Home of the 4th President of the United States located in Orange, Virginia!
James Monroe Highland
Tour of James Monroe Highland 5th president of the United States of America
Touring Presidents' Homes in Virginia
Over spring break, my mom and I travelled to Virginia to tour the homes of some early American presidents including Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, James Monroe's Highland, and James Madison's Montpelier. It was a fun week-stay being able to step inside the places that our country's founding fathers once lived in!
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James Madison
James Madison, Jr. (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, political theorist and the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817). He is hailed as the Father of the Constitution for being instrumental in the drafting of the United States Constitution and as the key champion and author of the United States Bill of Rights. He served as a politician much of his adult life.
After the constitution had been drafted, Madison became one of the leaders in the movement to ratify it. His collaboration with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay produced the Federalist Papers (1788). Circulated only in New York at the time, they would later be considered among the most important treatises in support of the Constitution. He was also a delegate to the Virginia constitutional ratifying convention, and was instrumental to the successful ratification effort in Virginia. Like most of his contemporaries, Madison changed his political views during his life. During the drafting and ratification of the constitution, he favored a strong national government, though later he grew to favor stronger state governments, before settling between the two extremes late in his life.
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My First Visit to Montpelier: the house, the grounds, and the garden
The home of James Madison, fourth president to the United States and Father of the Constitution, is located near Orange Virginia, a mere thirty miles from Monticello. Here I learned of the house, the archaeology going on to restore the house and the grounds to their original state when James and Dolley Madison occupied the residence, and the breathtaking views which seem to be a mandatory staple in any historical residence.
President James Madison House in Philadelphia Staring Jules
4th President of the United States James Madison lived on the 400 block of Spruce Street. Did you know Dolly Madison invented Ice Cream? Class taught by Professor Jules
Andrew Jackson's Hemitage Museum, part 2
Hemitage: Andrew Jackson Museum, part 2
Sunset Report. Fredericksburg, VA (James Monroe Museum/Memorial Library). 3/28/17. W/ Adam Taxin.
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The Jefferson Building
Thomas Jefferson, born April 13, 1743, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, sold his personal library to Congress after the British burned the Library of Congress in 1814. His contribution is commemorated in The Jefferson Building, completed in 1897, a new home for the Library of Congress.
In the Great Hall of the building, two artifacts are prominently displayed: the Gutenberg Bible, and the Giant Bible of Mainz.
And in the Main Reading Room, where fields of knowledge are represented, is a statue of Moses representing religion with an inscription from Micah 6:8: “What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God.”
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American Artifacts Preview: Madison & Slave Cemeteries at Montpelier
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.
Mount Vernon Estate, Museum & Gardens
Mount Vernon, located near Alexandria, Virginia, was the plantation home of the first President of the United States, George Washington. The mansion is built of wood in neoclassical Georgian architectural style, and the estate is located on the banks of the Potomac River.
Mount Vernon was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is owned and maintained in trust by The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and is open every day of the year.
Full Tour of Andrew Jackson's Hermitage Mansion and Grounds 7th president of the United States
Full Tour of Andrew Jackson's Hermitage Mansion and Grounds 7th president of the United States 2019. #hermitagemuseum #andrewjackson #pous Welcome to our channel. If would like your event featured on YouTube please contact us for a quote pgtracey@hotmail.co.uk
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Abigail Adams Birthplace Renovations
The birthplace of Abigail Adams, located in Weymouth Massachusetts, has undergone extensive renovations in the last 5 years. Walter Beebe-Center from Essex Restoration, describes what his team has done to the birthplace to restore it and what steps are needed to maintain this historic treasure.
Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps | Wikipedia audio article
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Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps
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Presidents of the United States have frequently appeared on U.S. postage stamps since the mid–1800s. The United States Post Office released its first two postage stamps in 1847, featuring George Washington on one, and Benjamin Franklin on the other . The advent of presidents on postage stamps has been definitive to U.S. postage stamp design since the first issues were released and set the precedent that U.S. stamp designs would follow for many generations.
The paper postage stamp itself was born of utility (in England, 1840), as something simple and easy to use was needed to confirm that postage had been paid for an item of mail. People could purchase several stamps at one time and no longer had to make a special trip to pay for postage each time an item was mailed. The postage stamp design was usually printed from a fine engraving and were almost impossible to forge adequately. This is where the appearance of presidents on stamps was introduced. Moreover, the subject theme of a president, along with the honors associated with it, is what began to define the stamp issues in ways that took it beyond the physical postage stamp itself and is why people began to collect them. There exist entire series of stamp issues whose printing was inspired by the subject alone.
The portrayals of Washington and Franklin on U.S. postage are among the most definitive of examples and have appeared on numerous postage stamps. The presidential theme in stamp designs would continue as the decades passed, each period issuing stamps with variations of the same basic presidential-portrait design theme. The portrayals of U.S. presidents on U.S. postage has remained a significant subject and design theme on definitive postage throughout most of U.S. stamp issuance history.Engraved portrayals of U.S. presidents were the only designs found on U.S. postage from 1847 until 1869, with the one exception of Benjamin Franklin, whose historical stature was comparable to that of a president, although his appearance was also an acknowledgement of his role as the first U. S. Postmaster General. During this period, the U.S. Post Office issued various postage stamps bearing the depictions of George Washington foremost, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln, the last of whom first appeared in 1866, one year after his death. After twenty-two years of issuing stamps with only presidents and Franklin, the Post Office in 1869 issued a series of eleven postage stamps that were generally regarded by the American public as being abruptly different from the previous issues and whose designs were considered at the time to be a break from the tradition of honoring American forefathers on the nation's postage stamps. These new issues had other nonpresidential subjects and a design style that was also different, one issue bearing a horse, another a locomotive, while others were depicted with nonpresidential themes. Washington and Lincoln were to be found only once in this series of eleven stamps, which some considered to be below par in design and image quality. As a result, this pictographic series was met with general disdain and proved so unpopular that the issues were consequently sold for only one year where remaining stocks were pulled from post offices across the United States.In 1870 the Post Office resumed its tradition of printing postage stamps with the portraits of American Presidents and Franklin but now added several other famous Americans, including Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Alexander Hamilton and General Winfield Scott among other notable Americans. Indeed, the balance had now shifted somewhat; of the ten stamps issued in 1870, only four offered presidential images. Moreover, presidents also appeared on less than half of the denominations in the definitive sets of 1890, 1917, 1954 and 1965, while occupying only a slight major ...
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site - Beautiful Upstate New York
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site is is located 20 miles south of Albany, New York, and two miles south of the village of Kinderhook, New York. The National Historic Site preserves the estate and thirty-six room mansion of Martin Van Buren, the eighth President of the United States. Van Buren purchased the estate, which he named Lindenwald, in 1839 during his one term as President and it became his home and farm during his retirement (wikipedia).
With me were my wife and son as we visited this site in the summer of 2018. Other stops on this trip were Saratoga, Fort Stanwix and Cooperstown (the Baseball Hall of Fame).
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Americans in Paris: Monroe as Diplomat
Introduction to James Monroe's years as American ambassador to the court of Napoleon.
Waxhaw Museum and Andrew Jackson Memorial
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