and ever here at this land by naming this street in her honor, the elizabeth thomas way.rd work that they have done to acknowledge this great anniversary and to build a great relationship with our community so that our parks, our national monuments are really a part of the communities and the people they serve. so i hope you will join me in acknowledging really two great women who are leading the national park service in d.c. and fort stevens and right here in ward four. our superintendent, give her a round of applause. [ applause ] and our park manager kim elder, give her a round of applause. [ applause ] they have -- and i know the difference between leaders who want us in the parks and leaders who don't. and we have people that want to keep these parks alive and we need to acknowledge their service. we have 150 great years of history to celebrate here, and i wanted to calm not only to represent the 75,000 people of ward four and the 20 great neighborhoods i have the privilege to serve, but also our city. i went to the council and there was unanimous decision to acknowl

what law -- >> she alluded to the fact a free black woman by the name of elizabeth thomas who owned a little over 11 acres of land. that's what we considered today to be imminent domain. you can do that in time of war. that's exactly what happened. >> and all of those other forts, the same practice. >> this was called necessity in time of war. yes. descendants have always said that president lincoln promised her a great reward and she never got one and the descend ants will say they never saw a reward and so forth. the property owners would receive it back if it was there land and the timbre remaining in the forts. the claims after the war in archives and many record groups is where you go to fine the records of what had happened. this was universally used in the south wherever the military had occupied land and destroyed property. fences, barns, everything else. that is kind of the story there. f some of these forts were retained with garrisons and gradually the fears of any resergeants of the rebellion or the threat from the french in mexico or the british, the army realized they we

this woman, elizabeth thomas, she was a free african-american, owned 11 acres. i think back then women didn't tend to own land at all. free black woman was really unusual. her land was taken for fort stevens. just down from fort stevens is this land right here. goes right up behind the trees. this was private property. it was threatened with townhouse development. it was awful. some of us got together and said we've got to do something, national park trust to get it out into fort stevens. down here two african-american historically significant properties. i encourage you later to read about them, the military road school. here is a map. this will help most of all knowing around fort stevens. the battle all the fortifications manned up, didn't know where the confederates might go down, down from the south, they were coming from the north. it's this whole range up here, the northern tier that come into play. here is fort bunker hill. that's in brookland. taughton, slocum, manner park. a neighborhood of ours. my husband and i live in tacoma. fort stevens. we live h

and ever here at this land by naming this street in her honor, the elizabeth thomas way.rd work that they have done to acknowledge this great anniversary and to build a great relationship with our community so that our parks, our national monuments are really a part of the communities and the people they serve. so i hope you will join me in acknowledging really two great women who are leading the national park service in d.c. and fort stevens and right here in ward four. our superintendent, give her a round of applause. [ applause ] and our park manager kim elder, give her a round of applause. [ applause ] they have -- and i know the difference between leaders who want us in the parks and leaders who don't. and we have people that want to keep these parks alive and we need to acknowledge their service. we have 150 great years of history to celebrate here, and i wanted to calm not only to represent the 75,000 people of ward four and the 20 great neighborhoods i have the privilege to serve, but also our city. i went to the council and there was unanimous decision to acknowl

hear at this land by naming this street in her honor, the elizabeth thomas way.y want to act knowledge the hard work that they have done to act knowledge this great anniversary and to build a great relationship with our community. so that our parks, our national monuments, are really a part of the communities and the people that they serve. so i hope that you will joan me in acknowledging, really, two great women who are leading the national park service in d.c., at ft. stevens and right here in ward 4, our superintendent tara morrison. give her a round applause. and our park manager, karen elder. give her a round of applause. they have been great allies and neighbors and this is something that we can't take for granted. now, i have the greats honor of national park facilities in our city. i know the difference between leaders who want us in the parks and leaders who don't. we have people that want to keep these parks alive. we need to act knowledge their service. we have 150 great years of history to celebrate here. i want to come to represent the 75,000 people

this woman, elizabeth thomas, she was a free after kaj-men, and i think back then, women didn't tend to own land at all, and a free black woman was really unusual. her land was taken. and just down from ft. stevens, this goes right up the forts, this was private property, it was awful, some of es got together and said we've got to do something, and get it added to ft. stevens. down here, two more after kaj american historically significant properties, and i encourage you later to read about them. here is a map. i think this will help beth of all, knowing around ft. stevens, because the battle, while all of the fortifications manned up, you know, they didn't know where the confederates might go down, so it's this whole range up here, the northern tier that came into play. it starts down, here's ft. bunker here, here's ft. taughten, the metro station, so you could know that, ft. slocum is in manor park, a neighbor of ours. ft. stevens, we live up here. here's ft. stevens. we're very close. ft. derusie was in play, very that leads up there. it should be a great recreation spot, even tho

what law -- >> she alluded to the fact a free black woman by the name of elizabeth thomas who owned a little over 11 acres of land. that's what we considered today to be imminent domain. you can do that in time of war. that's exactly what happened. >> and all of those other forts, the same practice. >> this was called necessity in time of war. yes. descendants have always said that president lincoln promised her a great reward and she never got one and the descend ants will say they never saw a reward and so forth. the property owners would receive it back if it was there land and the timbre remaining in the forts. the claims after the war in archives and many record groups is where you go to fine the records of what had happened. this was universally used in the south wherever the military had occupied land and destroyed property. fences, barns, everything else. that is kind of the story there. some of these forts were retained with garrisons and gradually the fears of any resergeants of the rebellion or the threat from the french in mexico or the british, the army realized they were

elizabeth thomas was a free african-american. owned 11 acres. her land was taken for fort stephens. just down from fort stephens was this land right now. this was private property. it was threatened with a town house development. it was awful. some of us got together and said we got to do something. down here two more african-american historically significant properties. i encourage you later to read about them. the school and the light foot house. here is a map. i think this will help knowing around fort seens. they didn't know whether conconfederates right now down. here is fort bunker hill. here is manner. tacoma. fort derucy was in play very much so. you will see a picture of that in a moment. i also have down here beyard and battery kimball. fort bunker hill, was a square block and high. park services is now repairing the trail that's lead up to there. it should be a great recreation spot even though none of the defenses are left. leading from there coming into where fort toten is part of the land that was bought for the fort circle drive. there is a drive along it here but i s

oliver, jack, harry, jacob, charlie, thomas. elizabeth is a senior sta activitian.just saw some of the names there. what's the trend this year? >> the top ten names have been stable. it was harry last year, but he's been knocked off by ol verse. in the boys' top ten, george has come in and oscar for the first time. more and more names have landed on the list. this year you have over 27 different boys names and 35 girls' names. >> what are some of the more interesting names that you've heard? >> there's quite a lot of interesting names out there. some people use really short names. for boys, qi. >> qi, like q-i? opposite of i-q. we also have traditional names coming back, some of the girls now in the top hundred again are names like darcy and beatrice coming back in again. >> you have one called george and one called qi. >> and people taking more the older names and bringing them forward now. does that have to do with where we are as a society or -- i mean, these go through cycles, right? >> yeah. i think there are trends in names, go up there and come back again. >>

see the laboratories of thomas edison in fort myers and hear the voices of the mormon tabernacle choir is a lake city. next, author elizabethitchell talks about her book " liberty's torch." it looks at the challenges faced by the french sculpture bringing is designed to tuition. despite hurdles, he would create what he would call "a colossus that would stun the world." this event is from the national archives. it is a little under one hour. >> good afternoon. archivist of the united states. it is a pleasure to welcome you to the theater at the national archives this afternoon. a special welcome to those of you joining us by youtube and a very special welcome to our c-span viewers. today was supposed to have been inational day of celebration john adams vision. it was on this day in 1776 the continental congress approved the resolution that declared the united states a free nation, no longer part of the british empire. adams believed the second day of july, 17 76, will be the most memorable in the history of america. as it turned out, we now celebrate the fourth of july, with the declaration of independence. elizabethnoon, mi

thomas edison wanted to make it talk. for more on the statue of liberty, let's welcome elizabeth mitchell.l us about the constructor of this statue. why did he make it? how long did it take him? >> he wanted to make a colas sas. he'd been in egypt and seen the pyramids and sphinx. he decided to build a colossas. he pitched it to egypt. the deal fell through. he came to america to try and sell it to us. >> how did he raise the money to actually construct this thing and get it over to america? i know you got a great anecdote in there about how joseph pulitzer was involved. >> this was raised really a nitty gritty penny by penny thing. he started in france first. he thought if he could get the statue made, the americans would get excited and make the pedestal. instead, the french were not very enthusiastic. he had to throw entertainments. you see there the torch of the liberty. he had that just separately put up down in philadelphia to get people to go in and pay ticket prices to see out from the torch. >> how much did ittorch. >> how much did it cost to make it? >> both sides had to ante up

elizabeth cohen, thanks very much. we're joined by the cdc director dr. thomas frieden. you just came from capitol hill.hanks for joining us. bottom line question first, how concerned should americans be right now about this ebola spread? >> if we're concerned about the world, we should be very concerned about africa. it is not a significant risk to the u.s., but there are some things that need to be done especially by health care workers. >> the u.s., thanks to you, the cdc, has now gone on the highest state of alert, level one. what does that mean? >> that's what we do internal to cdc. that doesn't mean other people should be concerned. we are surging. we're putting more than 50 disease control specialists into the region in the coming days and weeks to help these countries and the world health organization turn this around. but it is going to be a long, hard fight. >> let's say someone who has the disease, ebola, gets on a plane, flies from west africa to europe without any symptoms, flies to the united states and all of a sudden, develops symptoms. how contagious would that be? how many more people

ferguson police chief thomas jackson said he wasn't aware of the incident but made clear the media is not a target. the huffington post ryan reilly is with us along with elizabeth matthews who witnessed the aljazeera incident last night. ryan, thanks for being here. i will start with you. quite a night for you last night. the police chief today insisting the media are not a target. we had the president of the united states. we played this a while ago saying the police should not be targeting journalists. is anything different today? are you noticing a change in the police approach to this at all in interactions with the media? can you see a difference at all? >> absolutely. it's a complete contrast to what it was 24 hours ago. last night you had an army out there. you had people in full s.w.a.t. gear, people being aggressive about clearing the streets. way too many officers were then actually needed for a peaceful protest. tonight i think obviously we have -- they have backup and are ready for anything that takes place down the street. it's not necessary. this is a peaceful protest now. there are a few officers in their regular clothes not military gear accompa