brenda rosso the person in charge of the costume said the colonial williamsburg at this time was quote a colonial revival town. there was this romantic idea of old, virginia. in the 1970s at the time of the bicentennial with the rise of the serious study of american material culture. and the stress on the foundation's new curriculum on inclusiveness and social history the costume started becoming better researched and more accurate today the costume design center creates and maintains accurate costumes for all the employees of the historic area. 59,000 articles of clothing are owned by the foundation. they are made altered stored cleaned and tracked for 834 people in 1500 positions. there were clothing of the period between 1769 and 1781 with 1774 as a base interpretive year. the accuracy of costumes frees the wear to embody and communicate their version of their personas role in the 18th century. through interpretation one is able to express. deeply held personal values. colonial williamsburg allows for the expression of multiple messages that are embedded in his overarching education

basket member, -- maker, terry, sees it as permission to -- the lower sort people at colonial williamsburg she has worked at colonial in sport for over 25 years, she was the first female coachman at the museum. she told me she likes to talk about the basket as a way to open the topic of social class, because the people who need baskets were generally poor. teri sees her costume as providing an opportunity to discuss social class. as a door to many things, but also as a prop for the visitor, since visitors are often at a loss for appropriate topics to engage a costume interpreter, and questions about what they are wearing becoming obvious entry point. terry told me, it is a great educational opportunity to be able to talk with people about why i am wearing what i am. sorry, it's a habit, i have to put my hair up. it bothers me. i prefer to talk about the lower people because i think they get a short shift. here everyone likes the beautiful gowns. and i really like the working clothes. they are extremely comfortable. and even in hot weather they are nice. people are curious about them. it op

and this -- you know, they had come to colonial williamsburg the year before i think. and this particular year they were supposed to go to disney world and he opted to come to williamsburg instead. wanted to see this program. and he came, ready to help peter and his wife sarah get to freedom. and that -- i think that just changed everything. because now i'm about to be a father, i'm portraying this character who is about to be a father. i'm relating to this character in a very human sort of way. so then two things happened. one is i realized that through this work, i can help people see a different reality. i can help people, you know -- especially young people, think about how we see each other, engage with each other, talk to each other, how we are all flesh and blood, you know, and human aside from our external or our diversity. but that was one. and the other was, this museum stuff, this museum stuff might be a good avenue for me to use so that i can prepare the world for this daughter that's about to be born. and so, that was probably like that first moment when i

richard shows he was an interpreter of african american history at colonial williamsburg, portraying several characters including a runaway slave named peter. up next, he discusses why it's important to tell history from the african-american perspective and talks about the emotional toll of portraying historical characters. thomas jefferson's monte carlo provided this video. >> all right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to mount to tell -- livestream today. today, we have with us richard shows he, who is the founder and principal consultant for collected journeys and he was, for many years, he can tell you how long, i won't do that, he can do that. for many years was often cold first interpreter at colonial williamsburg and since then, has worked at the minnesota historical society and now works as a consultant helping, particular museums, historic sites like ours, think about and explore how we tell stories and how we do that together or how we use these stories to help bring people together. so richard, thanks for being here and welcome. >> thank you, i appreciate the opportunity. i

. >>> richard josie was an interpreter at colonial williamsburg, portraying several characters, including a run-away slave named peter. up next, he tells why it's important to tell history from the african-american perspective and the toll of playing historical characters. today we d josey who's the founder and principal consultant for collective journeys, and he was for many years. he can tell you how long i will i won't do that he can do that, but i can't for many years was a what is often called the first person interpreter at colonial, williamsburg. and since then as worked at the minutes, minnesota historical society, and now works as a consultant helping particularly museums historic sites like ours think about and explore how we tell stories and how we do that together. how do we use these stories to help bring people? together so richard thanks for being here and welcome. thank you. appreciate the opportunity. i'm looking forward to pretty no conversation today. i think i hope it will be and richard we've known each other for for a while. so we'll you know, maybe we'll start off.

t one of the principal things that our generation at colonial williamsburg did was to broaden the llfishnetif you will, to look at regional buildings.. and so wexd know that buildingse have in so williamsburg tell powerful stories, but they don'e tell the whole story because not everything survived.tory so it was our responsibility to try to put back pieces that tela a fuller story, particularly a story that afribmqódár( their race, their slavery. so we mounted a campaign over 37 years to go into countrysides and study buildings, particularly slave buildings. houses for enslaved people like this one, but also houses at nsm green hill, in which enslavedbl people werere domestic workers. so the whole plantation ensemble, if you will. since i retired, i'm continuingr to do this kind of work. i love doing fieldwork in the countryside. there's amazing material in the countryside that is largely overlooked, and it tells a mo theul story.y. so we were at green hill this en morning in campbell county. it's a remarkable plantation.la green hillntatio is probably th, or has been the most, or certainl

richard by talking a little bit about that career at colonial williamsburg, you know last week we had on our live stream. we had a jamar jones who currently portrays jupiter evans as amongst other people at colonial williamsburg and jupiter evans was the as, you know, just for a benefit of everyone watching it was the enslaved man servant of thomas jefferson. he was born the same year as jefferson and jamar did a fantastic job. i think first of showing portraying jupiter in a way that would reflect, you know something of the the view of the world that jupiter would have and then also talking about that. you know, how's that craft work kind of how you got started right and one of those people you betrayed jupiter, but she did a lot of other things too. can you tell us about that experience for you. like what was it like to then put on this clothing take on these the persona of these people from the past and in cases and slaves people so dealing with this context of slavery and race as well. what was what was all that? how'd you get started? and what was those that like sure, you know i

. >>> richard josie was an interpreter at colonial williamsburg, portraying several characters, including a run-away slave named peter. up next, he tells why it's important to tell history from the african-american perspective and the toll of playing historical characters. today we d josey who's the founder and principal consultant for collective journeys, and he was for many years. he can tell you how long i will i won't do that he can do that, but i can't for many years was a what is often called the first person interpreter at colonial, williamsburg. and since the

using examples from known colonial williamsburg, talks about how history is interpret said through costumes. and enjoy american history tv every weekends on c-span 3. >>> on facebook and dak dorsey talk about combatting misinformation before a commerce virtual hearing. watch live at noon eastern on c-span 3 or listen on the free c-span radio app. >>> congresswoman, ayanna pressly sat down with former mayor of san juan, puerto rico, to see how they can best effect change in a post pandemic and how the pandemic has effected the homeless crisis. >> today, it is my pleasure to welcome all of you to our inaugural town hall at mount holeio college. i'm professor of english at the kennedy foundation. a warm welcome to our campus community, students, staff, faculty. to our world wide network of alums too, neighbors in our local communities. to friends of mt. holy oak throughout massachusetts. i want to made known the fact that we've made spanish translation available. and access can be found available in the chat. we would like to begin the important event by acknowledging that those of us in weste

richard shows he was an interpreter of african american history at colonial williamsburg, portraying several characters including a runaway slave named peter. up next, he discusses why it's important to tell history from the african-american perspective and talks about the emotional toll of portraying historical characters. thomas jefferson's monte carlo provided this video. >> all right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to mount to tell -- livestream today. today, we have with us richard shows he, who is the founder and principal consultant for collected journeys and

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using examples from colonial williamsburg and civil war battlefield reenactments. she explores how history is interpreted through period costumes the library of congress american folklife center hosted this event and provided the video. hi there, everyone welcome. i'm betsy peterson the director of the american folklife center here at the library of congress and on behalf of the staff and everyone. i want to welcome you and i also for the record one and to be reflected that we do have pretty much a full house moving into

using examples from known colonial williamsburg, talks about how history is interpret said through costumes. and enjoy american history tv every weekends on c-span 3. >>> on facebook and dak dorsey talk about combatting misinformation before a commerce virtual hearing. watch live at noon eastern on c-span 3 or listen on the free c-span radio app. >>> congresswoman, ayanna pressly sat down with former mayor of san juan, puerto rico, to see how they can best effect change in a post pandemic and how the pandemic has effected the homeless crisis. >> today, it is my pleasure to welcome all of you to our inaugural town hall at mount holeio college. i'm professor of english at the kennedy foundation. a warm welcome to our campus community, students, staff, faculty. to our world wide network of alums too, neighbors in our local communities. to friends of mt. holy oak throughout massachusetts. i want to made known the fact that we've made spanish translation available. and access can be found available in the chat. we would like to begin the important event by acknowledging that those of us in weste

motivations and objectives of living history professionals and hobbyists, using examples from colonial williamsburg and civil war battlefield reenactments, she explores how history is interpreted through period classrooms. watch tonight beginning at 8 pm eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span 3. on thursday facebook ceo, mark zuckerberg, sundar pichai, and jack dorsey testify on combatting online misinformation before a subcommittee virtual hearing. watch live at noon eastern on c-span 3, online at c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. a number of advocates and public health officials testified on ending domestic violence before the house education and labor subcommittee on civil rights and

using examples from colonial williamsburg and battle reenactments, he explores how history is exploredgh custom. enjoy american tv every weekend on c-span3 -- american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >> on wednesday, president biden has his first news conference since taking office -- on thursday, president biden has his first news conference since taking office. watch live on c-span. host: we want to get your comments about your top policy issues. democrats call in at 202-748-8000, republicans at 202-748-8001, and all others at 202-748-8002. send us a text if you would like at 202-748-8003. a couple of democratic senators who threatened to withhold support for either nominees, this is the latest. senators back off the valve -- off the valve. b --ack off -- back off the vow to withhold support of by the nominees. tammy duckworth and mary her mono had lashed out earlier in the day at the lack of asian-american and pacific islander representation in biden's cabinet. they would withhold nominees into the issue is addressed. senator duckworth said she would not stand in the way of qua

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richard josey was an interpreter of african-american history at colonial williamsburg for trying several characters, including a runaway slave named peter up next he discusses why it's important to tell history from the african-american perspective and talks about the emotional toll of portraying historical characters thomas. jefferson's monticello provided this video. all right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to monticello's live stream today. today we have with us richard josey who's the founder and principal consultant for collective journeys, and he was for many years. he can tell you how long i will i won't do that he can do that, but i can't