ian cooke: hello and welcome. i am ian cooke of the national portrait gallery. it is an article of faith that every picture tells a story. this series exists to connect some of the thousands of stories we have on hand and make one step from stories to history. our presenter today is jim barber, an historian at the portrait gallery. jim has lectured extensively on the civil war. he has finished a new exhibition on babe ruth and given talks on everyone from thelonious monk to albert elswick. please welcome jim barber. jim barber: welcome to the national portrait gallery. ira aldridge, we will talk about a little bit right now. very appropriate for february is black history month. why ira aldridge? with this "face to face" series, we connect three different people throughout three consecutive months. we began last month with pocahontas. this month is ira aldridge. the connection is the thread back in 2007, the state of virginia commemorated two huge anniversaries. one, the older one being the 400th anniversary of the founding of jamestown. the second anniversary wa

ian cooke: hello and welcome. i am ian cooke of the national portrait gallery.

i am ian cooke of the national portrait gallery.ure tells a story. this series exists to connect some of the thousands of stories we have on hand and make one step from stories to history. our presenter today is jim barber, and historian at the particularly -- portrait gallery. jim has lectured extensively on the civil war.

ian cooke: thank you all for coming. next month jim barber with everett dirksen. [applause] >> you're watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook, @cspanhistory. >> american history tv recently visited longwood university in virginia. the program was cohosted by the university at appomattox courthouse national historical park. next, a talk about the military maneuvers of the union and confederate armies that brought them to appomattox. >> thank you, patrick. our final speaker tonight is christopher calkins. he a proud graduate of longwood university. longwood college when he went here. you were one of the first male graduates of longwood. chris has had a long career with the national park service. he worked at appomattox, spotsylvania, and was chief of interpretation at petersburg for many years. in 2008 he took over the position of park manager for battlefield state park. it is only 15 minutes from here. he has done an amazing job in revising sailor's creek. -- revitalizing sailor's creek. as

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. >> hello, everyone, and welcome i'm ian cooke of the smithsonian's national portrait gallery. here at the portrait gallery, it's an article of faith that every picture tells a story. this program series face to face exists to connect some of the thousands of stories that we have on hand and to make one step from story to history. our presenter today is jim barber, a historian here at the portrait gallery. jim has written and lectured extensively on the civil war. he's finishing a new exhibition on babe ruth and he has given face to face talks on everyone from they will loanus munch to elmer elsworth. please welcome with a history of ira aldrich jim barber. [ applause ] >> again welcome toll the national portrait gallery. ira aldridge, we'll talk about a little bit right now and very appropriate for february's black history month. why ira aldridge? and with this face to face series we connect three different people throughout three consecutive months so that we began last month with pocahontas and this month is ira aldridge and the connection is, the thread back in 2007 the sta