beecher stowe, and active reform worked in the nineteenth century. you will find collections around and i slavery and abolition in new england, conn. as well as women's history as it relates to the suffrage movement. the center began collecting works on and by harriet beecher stowe and her family as early as our founder in 1930s and 40s, she founded the organization in 1941 and collecting ever since, in the 1970s the house is ready rare documents. they were looking at collections that focus on harriet beecher stowe who wrote uncle tom's cabin. the most famous antislavery novel which galvanized the anti slavery movement for abolition in the 1850s. these materials we look at today really on the platform for which we are able to instill -- tell the story. and the building she lived in, can tell her story the best we know it but these are tangible references to the past, these are papers and documents she touched, these are books that people all over the country and beyond red, waiting for the next installment and give it as a gift, but these objects rea

harriet beecher stowe's house was a domestic environment.nother one of the things she wrote about was how to manage your household. she thought and wrote a lot about how women should -- she helped advance the idea that managing your house and thinking about the kind of domestic environment you've built made a better family and made a better america. this house reflects that. it is not just one design, but it certainly reflects the aesthetic movement of the 19th century, as it's called. it's also a house that reflects that these people had long lives and had deep family connections. it is familial. it is friendly. it is comfortable. it is used. we work hard as a museum to not have it be too tidy. at the writer's table, there might be crumpled tables on the floor. we want to evoke a home that is lived in. it's not pristine. it is a home that was lived in. sitting down with harriet beecher stowe, i think, from her writings and other people's reports, she was a quiet person. she was an introvert. so there's a lot going on in her , head. people s

houset beecher stowe's was a domestic environment. one of the things she wrote about was how to manage your household. she thought and wrote a lot -- sheow women should helped advance the idea that managing your house and thinking about the kind of domestic environment you've built made a better family and made a better america. this house reflects that. it is not just one design, but it certainly reflects the movement of the 19th century, as it's called. it's also a house that reflects that these people had long lives and had deep family connections. it is familial. it is friendly. in his comfortable. it is used. we work hard as a museum to not have it be to tidy -- too tidy. at the writer's table, there might be crumpled tables on the floor. we want to evoke a home that is lived in. it's not pristine. sitting down with harriet i think, from her writings and other people's reports, she was a quiet person. she was an introvert. there's a lot going on in her head. people said things like, you would think she wasn't paying attention, bu

so the beecher family really was an amazing group of reformers. or a beecher stowe's father dr.lyman beecher was the foremost calvinist minister in new england when she was a child. so he raised sally levin of his children to be forced as a society had to do good, had to make positive change and could appropriate sphere of course applied to the 19 entry that meant the girls had to find other thoughts about farm to speak. harriet beecher's goes way was publishing stories in the early 1830s in a series of letters at this point she was writing short. she was the mother of children at this point and she was struggling to make ends meet. her husband was a professor, which wasn't a career that paid well. she had to take care of the children. the best thing to do is write the letter and that's what she did. she decided to write a short story of foreign elements, meaning four chapters for a newspaper called the national era. so she begins to write, but she quickly realizes that it's going to be a much longer tori. so she needs to provide substantive documentation even though the novel t

there we have a photograph of harriet beecher stowe sitting in her front parlor. she is sitting right about where i am standing. you can get a feel for what the room looked like at the time. you can get a feel for what she looked like. what we will try to do is talk about some of the documents she may have been seeing in the 1850's when she comes up with the ideas for uncle tom's cabin. in many ways, these documents represent the debate that people are having over slavery at the time. on this table, we have some historical documents we have reproduced for visitors. we want to give our visitors a feel for the debates over slavery that were occurring during her time. for example, we have some coasters for fugitive slaves that may have been found in the north at the time. we have songs written by abolitionists that would have been sung at different meetings of abolitionists. we even have teaching for abolitionists children. you a feel for the alphabet but also gives you a form attached to each letter that talks about some negative aspect of slavery. these things were

we will visit the home of harriet beecher stowe. but first, learn about mark twain and his role as a father and has very -- and husband. >> when mark twain moved to hartford, it is a very wealthy town. it was supposedly at that time the richest city in the nation per capita. mark twain's legacy attracts people from everywhere. they get to come inside this house and sort of time travel back to a different time. samuel clemens we know today as mark twain. samuel clemens was born in florida, missouri. grew up along the banks of the mississippi river. when his father died he was 12 years old. sam had to be apprenticed as a typesetter. it certainly influenced a lot of things later in his life. mark twain began looking into hartford as a place to settle with his young wife and their family. his publisher was here with american publishing. he fell in love with the city. wrote letters back to his own family. saying this place was beautiful. libby had a major inheritance. she would use her money to till -- build the house and decorate it. th

here we have a photograph of harriet beecher stowe in her front parlor where we are. she is sitting right about where i'm standing now. and you can really get a feel for what the room looked like at the time. also get a feel for what harriet looked like. so, what we're going to try to do is talk about some documents that she may have been seeing in the 1850's when she is coming one if the the idea for "uncle tom's cabin" and they represent the debates people were having over slavery. on this table here we have some historical documents we rebruised for our visitors etch went to get the visit years a feel for the debates over slavery that were occurring during her time. we have some reward posters for fugitive slaves that may have been found in the north at the time. we have songs written by abolitionists that would have been sung at different meetings and -- of abolitionists. then we even have teaching tools for abolitionist children. so this kind of gives you a feel for the alphabet and gives you a poem attached to each letter that talks about negative aspect of slav

hillard was an abolitionist working with sumner, harriet beecher stowe to help pave the way for runaway slaves to come to boston along with the poet longfellow. most interestingly george hillard became the united states commissioner. commissioners were responsible under the 1850's fugitive slave law returning runaway slaves to their rightful owners in the south. enough, while hillard is doing this by day he at night, there is half the page family living in his attic. one wonders how much his heart was in abiding by the fugitive slave law or whether he was engaged in his own one-man protest against it. he lived with the hillard's until the end of the civil war. he was taught a trade and started to mingle with austin african -- boston african-american elite. he met his wife at the 12th baptist church and married her in 1868. she was the sister of george ruffin, the first african-american man to graduate from harvard law school. his wife was a well-known suffragette. after the war our gl returns to norfolk, becomes a member of the general assembly during reconstruction and goes on to be a

harriet beecher star was still writing, she is pro-famous and she had inched that the close of fame in her 40's and now she's in her 60's and she was still writing to support the family. theinally, we will visit museum and learn about mark twain's success is when he lived in this home from 1874. >> marked and began looking into hartford as a place to settle with his young wife and new family. he fell in love with the city and was tickled to death. family,t us back to his mothers and fathers, said this place is beautiful. the family would come into the library after dinner, it was a special spot. our instance, the paintings on the wall and the next on the mental, they would ask for a story and the war was he had to and, with the cap ipv or a start there. they had certain rules. from there, he had to move across the mantle and incorporate each and every knickknack and not repeat himself into and the painting of emmaline. that would satisfied the girls. announcer: watched the c-span cities to on american history tv on c-span. .cs and cities working with our cable affiliates and visiting c

beecher edges out edger. with less than 2/10 of a second faster than her competitor. >> we just want to do our best team this year. we are all strong in working together. >> i am here for fairview. i want to do my best for the team. i just love the team experience i am getting in high school. >> and finally a dominating performance in the pool, sandra freeman put on a show in the 200 yard i am. she had a quick -- i and -- m. her time was the fastest by over five seconds. >>> and with wrestling, centaurus high school hosting the top of the rockies meet. there were some great matches on saturday night, none better than the 138 pound final. tied it 6, legacy's ryan deacon breaks the tie with this reversal. sandoval got his third eight -- straight top of the rockies final. trouble with shy and east's seth green. he got the technical decision by a final of 25. he says this is all part of his master plan. >> i try to get out there to a great start and what i wanted to do was score a lot of points, not just hold ont

some >> for this mission last year but did to people were surveyed and ask questions of an ethical beecher. they found people were more ethical when they were drunk. let's be specific. they deal with the trade problem you have to decide if you killed one person to save another. it is more ethical to save somebody if you kill somebody else to do. to test this out i went to my favorite bar. it was of little bit empty but i found just the right behan to be a subject for retest. sixth drinks a and i gave him a number seven. what do you do do you kill and there you go. the second question he had more trouble. there is a person above the tracks the only person that can stop the trade if you push the fat man on to the tracks the five people would be saved or let the of that band go. what do you do one? >> save the fact that. >> now the third question we thank round out the fat piano on the bridge sabotaging the brakes. day you push have? >> yes. because he admitted he sabotage the trade. to disprove the story the basic conclusion is that when you are drunk you think through less that they leave y

tv, wemerican history will visit the home of harriet beecher stowe which he published more than 30 books. >> she moved in with her husband whom she married in 1836 and he was 10 years older and a professor of theology. he was retired. she moved in with her oldest children, 20 girls, her -- twin rls, in their 30's. she was world-famous and she had reached the pinnacle of fame in her 40's. now she is in her 60's and still writing to support the family. >> we will tour the mark twain house and museum and learn about mr. twain's professional successes and private lives -- private life. twain looked into hartford as a place to settle with his new wife and children and came to the city. he was tickled to death. he said this place is beautiful. his family would come into the library after dinner. it was a very special spot. for instance, the paintings across the top on the wall here and the knickknacks on the mantle, they would ask for a story. to startwas he had within cat on the end. he had to continue across the mantle and incorporate each and every knickknack and could not go out of order a

river to bath and wash bedclothes i repeat grasshoppers and butterflies and anything i could get from beecher. and need to describe this spring as a season of life it comes back. but spring is death because people suffer during the winter and the people die in the spring. so i have bad memories of spurring -- spring. it is so different. in to die for the starvation. and then she left me a note to go to china. the morning after my appendix maybe seven days later i could barely walk she said we can go to china that day. i did not question why they would help us. they did not ask many. that is how we crossed in 2007. so in china i summon another raped before my eyes. they told me to be in china i have to be sold my mom said what you want to do? i was 13 years old. they were negotiating prices. but i was fortunate. so my mom was sold 65 i was 265. he conducted by the iphone in this country for that money but that is somebody's life. the people did nothing wrong. but then the enslavement. they let me go there to be for the first time you can be free if you go to south korea. what does that mean? y

. >> reporter: even mike beecher, who is still deciding between jeb bush and donald trump, says he's heard enough. wouldn't you wan see another debate to really be able? >> i don't need it. >> i don't need it at this point. >> if trump is running any risk, it's that some voters in i may say this is immature, but i think that risk is relatively small, particularly for the people already supporting trump who will look at this not as a petulant move but e of strength. >> reporter: though polling suggests the bigger the turnout the better trump will do caucus night, there's still little sign the campaign has followed through on its get out the vote effort. late tonight trump announced a counterevent at drake ersity. now all of the attention is back on the front-runner, and, lester, as you know, he's never liked to be he's grown increasingly sensitive on the trail lashing out at reporters and now refusing to face a tough moderator. >> all right, katy, ks. with democrats hillary clinton and bernie sanders days away from their showdown in iowa, sanders was here in washington, d.c., specific

the celebration started in front of the lyman beecher brooks library at 11-45. then-- it continued to the l douglas wilder performing arts center. members performed the road less traveled in honor of the civil rights icon. the event was free and open to the public. a local amusement park is taking action - busch gardens donated more than (four- thousand pounds of food - to area food pantries. the theme park joined efforts with the grove christian outreach center to donate fresh, frozen and packaged food items to the grove neighborhood. the center helps people living in small communities along route 60 to put food on their tables. a representative said the park has the largest donation after christmas town ends. that s because the food will reach its expiration date before the park opens again in the spring. there s a dangerous new illness worrying vets and pet owners across the country. thousands of dogs have been infected with (dog flu . adriana diaz has the story. ashley leise pronounced as lease walks dogs in the seattle area. she s paying extra close attenti

. >> reporter: beecher was still deciding between jeb bush and donald trump, said he's heard enough. wouldn't you want to see another debate to really -- >> i don't need it. i don't need it at this point. >> if trump's running some voters in iowa may say, this is immature. but i think that risk is relatively small. particularly for the people already supporting trump who will not see this as a petulant move. >> reporter: the better trump will do caucus night, there's still little sign the campaign has followed through. on its get out the vote effort. late tonight, trump announced a counter event at drake university. now all of the attention is back on the front-runner. lester, as you know, challenged. increasingly sensitive on this. lashing out at reporters and now refusing to face a tough moderator. >> with democrats, hillary clinton and bernie sanders days away from their showdown in iowa. sanders was here in washington, d.c., specifically the white house, where he met with president obama. a meeting planned weeks ago. i caught up with senator sanders right after his oval office ch

. >> reporter: even mike beecher, who is still deciding between jeb bush and donald trump, says he's heard enough. wouldn't you want to see another debate to really be able? >> i don't need it. >> reporter: okay. >> i don't need it at this point. >> if trump is running any risk, it's that some voters in iowa may say this is immature, but i think relatively small, particularly for the people already supporting trump who will look at this not as a petulant move but as a move of strength. >> reporter: though polling suggests the bigger the turnout the better trump will do caucus night, there's still little sign the campaign has followed through on its get out the vote effort. late tonight trump announced a counterevent at drake university. now all of the attention is back on the front-runner, and, lester, as you know, he's never liked to be challenged. he's grown increasingly sensitive on the trail lashing out at reporters and now refusing to face a tough moderator. >> all right, katy, thanks. with democrats hillary clinton and bernie sanders days away from their showdown in iowa, sande

police caught up with the teenager at the corner of mateland avenue and beecher street five miles away from the lake county bus depot where the joy ride began. the bus driver parked and went to use the restroom and when she came found her bus was gone. thanks to her quick thinking using gps to track that bus, police found the teen before anybody was hurt. >> it's concerning qh juveniles commit any crime, particularly stealinga school bus. we're glad that he was taken into custody without any significant injury to he or anyone else. >> police estimate damage to that bus at about 1,000-dollars. flash forward to sunday space-x in the middle of the ocean. you may remember just last month space-x successfully launched and then landed a segment of a rocket right here at canaveral. sunday the space company will launch a weather satellite and once again they will try to land a rocket segment, this time on a ship drone in the middle of the pacific ocean. launch is set for 1:42 p.m. in california. and a scare outside the international space station, two astronauts aborted their space walk after

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. >> reporter: even mike beecher said he's heard enough. wouldn't you want to see another debate -- >> i don't need it. i don't need it at this point. >> if trump is running any risk, some voters will say this is immature. i think that risk is relatively small. particularly for the people who are supporting trump who will look at this not as a petulant move, but a move of strength. >> reporter: though the polls suggest the bigger the turnout, there's still little sign that the campaign has followed through on the get out the vote effort. >>> turning now to the democrats and the increasingly close race between hillary clinton and bernie sanders. yesterday, the vermont senator took time off the campaign trail to have a private meeting with president obama. afterwards sanders spoke with nbc's lester holt. >> it was a private conversation so i won't get into it. but i think if there's anybody in the world who understands what campaigning in iowa and new hampshire is about and putting together just an extraordinary grass roots movement that took

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hillard was an active abolitionist working with sumner, harry beecher stowe -- to help pave the way for runaway slaves to come to boston along with the poet longfellow. hillard became united states commissioner. commissioners were responsible under the 1850's fugitive slave law to return runaway slaves to their rightful owners in the south. interestingly enough, well, hillard was doing this by day, and goes home by night, and half the page family was living in his attic> . his hearts how much was into abiding by the slave law. rgl lived with, the hillard's affiliate event of the civil war and taught a trade. he started to mingle with boston's african-american elite. at the 12thife baptist church. he married her in 1868. she was the sister of george ruffin, the first african-american man to graduate from harvard law school. was well known. after the war, rgl returns to norco, becomes a member of the virginia's assembly, and goes on to become a lawyer, banker, and very wealthy fellow. he and his wife and my children, page wasom, florence dorothy ferebee's mother. were graduates of hampton

it was 1992.this official document shows beecher and coetta long bought two eye- level mausoleum crypts at around 25-hundred dollars each. the total price...more than 5-thousand dollars...all paid in cash. "this is it here with someone else's body in it."but when the long family went to see their crypts in november -- another name had been put up side. "i feel like they stole our property."turns out -- temple hill cemetery sold one of their crypts in 2004 -- for almost 4 thousand dollars.they did this without any notification. "temple hill should have called us in 2004 and said hey we sold your mausoleum."the cemetery admits they made a mistake -- and offered a couple solutions. move the current body from the chapel of love --give the long family an outside mausoleum -- or refund their money for the amount it was purchased --but the price of the crypts is now nearly double what is was in the 90's,so none of those options seem right for this family -- "we feel like we've been jerked around and they don't want to do anything about it. it's just sad." the company is not allowed to talk to

it was 1992.this official document shows beecher and coetta long bought two eye- level mausoleum crypts at around 25-hundred dollars each. the total price...more than 5-thousand dollars...all paid in cash. "this is it here with someone else's body in it."but when the long family went to see their crypts in november -- another name had been put up -- and a body buried on one side. "i feel like they stole our property."turns out -- temple hill cemetery sold one of their crypts in 2004 -- for almost 4 thousand dollars.they did this without any notification. "temple hill should have called us in 2004 and said hey we sold your mausoleum."the cemetery admits they made a mistake -- and offered a couple solutions. move the current body from the chapel of love --give the long family an outside mausoleum -- or refund their money for the amount it was purchased --but the price of the crypts is now nearly double what is was in the 90's,so none of those options seem right for this family -- "we feel like we've been jerked around and they don't want to do anything about it. it's just sad." the compan

a later conversation she was talking about the struggles with her maid and of course, she had to beechersometimes because that is all male understood. i don't mean to suggest that those said they are concerned about but i haven't really reported on it directly but i should in the future because they think it is very difficult to talk about there are crimes their disproportionate the levitt asked the lawyers at the family will notice an object in her room from the country they think it is an object of witchcraft and then tried for sorcery. and the special unit of the secret police and the red hot lines to anonymously report and have them investigated. and it is taken very seriously talking to lawyers who say with a straight face that this is difficult and the fact they did not think it was the concern for those who suffer the effects it is something of a bike to look at. >> then she went back for her next book. [applause] please hold your chairs. [inaudible conversations]

when you visit harriet beecher stowe's house, you are going to have an experience unlike many other historic house museums. et's cover th >> our staff recently traveled to hartford, connecticut . you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> next, on american history tv, author kevin lippert talks about the history of conflict between the united states and canada from the small raids and attacks between the 19th century to the plans they had to invade each other following world war i. an hour long. [applause] kevin: thank you very much. i would like to thank david and douglas for inviting me here. and to you for learning about archival history, which i hope you find interesting and a little humorous. i want to start by telling you about how this project came about. i got a degree in history. like most people i needed to formulate a plan b as far as a career. after a trip to an architecture school, i ended up in publishing where i spent a lot of my days worrying about what kinds of books might appeal to people. in one of those conversations in my canadian dis

reason why we have bases there with a continental ballistic missile those that help us track and beecher that threat. so the isolationism will be very attractive because sheriff smith said you have to be there. that economic engagement argument is simply go back to 1914 to see that same rhetoric between kaiser germany and france and all that. and for those of you who know him but he had a great line to underestimate the people to do stupid stuff. but there is a more subtle argument that has to do with the type of trade if you have a country like china dependent on natural resources that increases the prospect one of the reasons the jury went to war in a wooded embargo the food then france try to take the iron ore. now those nuclear deterrence this is the artist to think about if you school beyond the stability and stability paradox if you have stability at the nuclear level with that second strike reaches have to get one of those places and that deters us should day ago went to taiwan's and both make a compelling argument that that nuclear strike capability that it opens the door for con

and number 300 beecher we keep america safe not trying to talk to us but by being smart?] but people would not agree on everything. so that it is constructive city to work together to find solutions for the kids and grandkids. i tried to give you a sense of power i think we need to answer those questions going forward and but i don't want to talk long because the lead to hear from you. we are pretty close to new orleans had a chance to travel with mitch as we were commemorating the anniversary of katrina. if you have any doubt about america to overcome anything talk to those neighborhoods in those families you see who is writing in the homes built and it is a reminder when we work together we cannot be stopped. we work best as a team. it is my hope that during the course of this year to have an extraordinary privilege to be your president to encourage more of you to get involved to feel that optimism in confidence of america. so let's start the conversation. we have microphones in the audience. [laughter] she said girl girl girl. that is not fair. >> wait until the mike g

were choosing the speed, the performance, the beecher's.security experts will tell you security really doesn't pay. >> watch monday night and 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> next on american history tv, kirsten wood looks at the use of political music during the founding era of the united states. she explains that patriotic music created in this period was used for many purposes, including political manipulation, taunting of adversaries, and enjoyment. performers from southern methodist uner

beecher stowe and about her time spent at hartford where she published more than 30 books. >> she moved in with her husband whom she married in 1836. it was about 10 years older and was a professor of the elegy and he was retired -- professor of theology. they had twin girls. they were in their 30's. her 60's and calvin was in his 70's. stowe was still writing. she was world-famous. she had reached the pinnacle of fame in her 40's. now she's in her 60's and she is still writing to support the family. >> we both were the mark twain house and museum and learn about mr. 20's profession -- mr. twain's successes and private life. >> mark twain began looking at the hartford is a place to settle with his young wife and their new family. he came to the city, fell in love with it and was tickled to death. he wrote letters to his family and send this place is beautiful. the family would come into the library after dinner in the evening. it was a special spot. top, ontings across the the walls, and the knickknacks on the mental, they would ask for a story. he had to begin with the cat painting on