jobie's been a big part of that project. they can find it on google maps. if they go to encyclopedia virginia's page they can see several of the historic sites that virginia foundation for the humanities has already captured. if you search it online, you can find it anywhere. >> so what's your background? how did you get involved in doing this type of work? >> my background is really in public history and museums. i've spent most of my career working with museums. i was working with colonial williamsburg. a museum in farmville, and about a year ago i joined the virginia foundation for the humanities to help other historic sites build their capacities. so one of the things we do, we provide granlts to historical and cultural institutions, libraries, universities, for programming, for research, for capacity-building projects. we do our own program and produce our own radio shows, a backstory with good reason. my particular responsibility now is actually working with the general assembly. they recently commissioned the virginia foundation for the humanities to

withve worked quite a bit jobie and her work across the state of virginia. expandived a grant to one of our projects called encyclopedia virginia. we are increasing it and traveling across states and documenting slave dwellings with google 360 software. we're allowing virginians, americans to see these sites from their living room or office space. they can find it on google maps. if they go to encyclopedia virginia's page, they can see several sites they have captured. if you search online you can find it anywhere. >> how did you get involved? >> my background is in public history and museums. i spent most of my career working with colonial williamsburg, and farmville. the virginiajoined foundation of the humanities to help other sites. one of the things we do is provide grants to historical institutions for research. we do our own programs. we produce our own radio sho -- shows. commissioned us to document as many existing african-american historical sites as possible. all of this work goes together. places, andhistoric we are trying to marry all of this co

." >>> since 2011, architect and preservationist jobie hill has been writing about slave locations in the united states and interpretation and preservation of slave history. up next on "american artifacts" we travel to southern virginia near ne north carolina border to visit the former brandon plantation with jobie hill and learn about her saving slave houses project, joined by several archeologists and preservations and a team that came to document brandon plantation with a series of 3d laser scans. >> we're here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. this is part of an independent project i am doing that's called saving slave houses, which is a database of all the known slave houses in the united states. it is a staffing central postory of instrumentation and documentation of slave houses in the united states. i have partnered with turnbull, the company that makes the survey equipment that i use, to do kind of the highest level documentation that is available to us today, which is 3d laser scanning. it's important to do this because one documentation i

we visited it with jobie hill and a team of resignation is -- team of preservationists.she was introducing when we arrived.

." >>> since 2011, architect and preservationist jobie hill has been writing about slave locations in the united states and interpretation and preservation of slave history. up next on "american artifacts" we travel to southern virginia near ne north carolina border to visit the former brandon plantation with jobie hill and learn about her

travel to southern virginia near the north carolina border to visit the former brandon plantation with jobi hill and learn about her saving slave houses project. she's joined by archaeologists and preservationists and a team from trimble, inc., who came along to document brand pop plae the brandon plantation with laser scans. >> we're here to do laser scans and documentation of a slave house that is here. this is part of an independent project that i am doing that's called "saving slave houses," which is a data base of all the known slave houses in the united states. it's to act as a central depository of information and documentation of slave houses in the united states. and i have partnered with trimble which is the company that makes the survey equipment that i use to do kind of the highest level of documentation that is available to us today which is 3d laser scanning. important to do this because, one, documentation is a type of preservation. you know, slave houses are buildings that are disappearing from the landscape. and so by documenting them, that's one way of preserving them. doc

special agents krystal greiner and david bailey, officers nicole, alexander jensen and kevin joby our in the u.s. capital and the city of alexandria. for the rapid response to a cowardly attack upon the republican baseball team, which was dangerously exposed on a quiet neighborhood ballfield. thanks to their selfless actions placing themselves in mortal danger, all present that they are with us this day to spy tey to the presence of courageous men and women in our midst. bless them with all your graciousness as the medal of honor is bestowed upon them here. may they and their families and loved ones know of our appreciation for the sacrifices they make every day so the security of the capital and the city of alexandria is guaranteed. and may we all be inspired to service of others as we are able to express it in our lives and work. and we pray in your most holy name. amen. >> colorguard. >> please be seated. thank you very much. honored guests, members of congress, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to today's ceremony. this morning is an opportunity for our department to recognize five he

we had joby work who wrote another book on the rise of isis and one of the teachers, you allude to how isis emerged out of al qaeda.the fisher from the nonexpert perspective seems to be should the group seek to gain control over and hold territory or should it focus on the kind of pan- regional movements that strikes the united states and it makes that kind of a priority? >> can you clarify sort of, it seems to be both at the same time but what that is and i can't resist this because al qaeda had been so linked to the charismatic personality of bin laden whose was taken out in 2011 but what about the number two? i'm surprised with all of the national technical means and new capabilities like drones but it is still with us. >> i think the interesting thing about isis, i don't think it's all that different from al qaeda, the ideologyis the same . isis portrays itself as the true exemplar, the most fateful air to bin laden and that's part of the rivalry between almon dottie, the father of isis and al-zawahari. isis is the id and al qaeda is the ego. the unrestrained, inpatient, it's far m

we visited green hill with jobie hill, founder of the saving slave houses project and a team of preservationists and 3-d scanning technicians who documented several buildings associated with slavery. she was introducing the team to green hill when we arrived. this program is about 50 minutes.

. >> you can learn more about jobie hill's saving slave houses roger by visiting c-span3. saving slave houses documented -- documented a trip to virginia. c-spanpartners work with cities tour's staff when we traveled to sioux falls, south dakota. it is the largest city in south dakota. learn more about sioux falls all weekend on american history tv. lived on the site of on foroux falls profit thousands of years. in the 1850's, two rival town companies, one from dubuque, iowa and one from st. paul, minnesota, both set their sights on the falls as a townsite. interestingly, both companies had parties who arrived here within a few weeks of each other. established a townsite, it was really speculation, land. lotsplatted it out into and waited for settlers headed west to buy lots in the town that did not quite exist yet. 1857, and really in the 1850's they got along well with the indians who happened by here on their way to other places. there were 42 people living in sioux falls. in the summer of 1862, there was some conflict with the sioux indians and what was called the star

travel to southern virginia near the north carolina border to visit the former brandon plantation with jobiill and learn about her saving slave houses project. she's joined by archaeologists