. >> each week, american history " visitserican artifacts museums and historic places. >> i'm the curator for the house of representatives, and that means i take care of a lot of the artifacts, the artwork, the object that document the house's rich heritage. >> my job is to collect biographical information on members of the house, to gather a data and historic list and .onduct oral histories we answer reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill, and we try to tell the story of the house, which is this very big, very old institution in a way in which people can kind of connect with us at a human level. we do that by telling biographical stories or through clips from oral histories. >> this is a campaign poster for shirley chisholm, the first african-american woman in congress. i love this because it says unbossed."nd it's actually for a campaign she waged in 1972. she's the first african-american woman to run for president, and she did it on a shoestring budget and had very admirable showing, but she had a national before 1972.ll she is elected to congress