our next speaker will be pamela scott, and pam is an old friend. i have known her for many, many years, and she is, i think, the authority on the history of public buildings in washington, d.c. she has been an architectural historian here in washington specializing in the architectural landscape and planning histories of the city and i have learned a tremendous amount from her over the years. some of her books include "the temple of liberty," "buildings of the district of columbia," "designing the nation's capit capitol", and "the fortress of

our next speaker will be pamela scott, and pam is an old friend. i have known her for many, many years, and she is, i think, the authority on the history of public buildings in washington, d.c. she has been an architectural historian here in washington specializing in the architectural landscape and planning histories of the city and i have learned a tremendous amount from her over the years. some of her books include "the temple of liberty," "buildings of the district of columbia," "designing the nation's capitol", and "the fortress of finance," and pam is going to talk about benjamin henry latrobe's work at the capitol. i month don is thrilled about that. ready to have the capitol become front and center in the limelight. and, of course, latrobe is also the architect of decatur house and st. john's across the square, and so hopefully you'll learn a great deal about this architectural genius this afternoon and enjoy the house tonight at the reception. thank you. come on, pam. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, bill. your friendship over the year

pamela scott showed me a drawing i noticed before but hadn't thought about in this context. a drawing by latrobe in december 1815 that shows george washington's buildings burned, ruins of them, and a large tavern nearby near the capital also in ruins. this is a year after the british were there. it seems as though they must have done the burning. >> thank you for that. did the british destroy any other buildings in washington other than public buildings. the one private building they destroyed was a building from which a sniper shot general ross's horse, missing general ross i think was the target. they didn't burn the building, part avatar i have, so they pulled it down. they destroyed offices of national intelligence but any sound a general and admiral would like to see the press suppressed. george coburn took out letter c out of the box so they couldn't write any more scurrilous articles about him. they had with satan, not to satan's advantage. he took a particular delight. he decided he hadn't done enough and got the press out as well. remember, in the aftermath of that

eastern pamela scott who wrote buildings of the district of columbia.lso william seal, author of the president's house, a history. andrew bernstein and nancy eisenberg who co-wrote "madison and jefferson." all that ahead live this afternoon on c-span3 american history tv. a note that all of today's symposium on the war of 1812 and war of washington will reair tonight at 8:00 eastern again here on american history tv on c-span3. events should get starting in a few moments. we're live on c-span three. >> welcome back. as a reminder, c-span is still filming. thank you very much, c-span, by the way. you guys are great. yes, a round of applause for c-span. [ applause ] remember to silence cell phones, keep talk to a minimum inside this room and outside. if you need to use the rest room. we're happy to see you back. i'd like to introduce william, who will be kicking off session three hosted by white house historical association. >> welcome back from lunch. i'm a historian at the white house historical association this afternoon we'll have our concluding sessi

eastern time, about 15, 20 minutes from now, pamela scott, the author of "buildings of the district columbia." she'll be fouled by william seal who wrote "the president's house" and then co-authors of "madison and jefferson." also tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span3's "american history tv," we'll reair this morning's speakers including donald hickey and ralph eshelman. that's all ahead on american history tv. while we wait for the event to resume at 2:10 eastern, we'll bring you a short piece from steve vogel, who spoke earlier, on the battle of bladensburg. >> this is what's today known as the anacostia river. back then 200 years ago it was known as the eastern branch of the potomac. it's a tributary of the at tpot and it plays a key part in everything that happens at bladensburg. this used to be a deep water river. in fact, when bladensburg was founded in 1749, this was a deep water port with ships coming from around the globe to take away tobacco that was grown in the country around here, but by 1812 silt had really filled in a lot of the eastern branch. so bladensburg was no longer any ki

pamela scott showed me a drawing i noticed before but hadn't thought about in this context.rawing by latrobe in december 1815 that shows george washington's buildings burned, ruins of them, and a large tavern nearby near the capital also in ruins. this is a year after the british were there. it seems as though they must have done the burning. >> thank you for that. did the british destroy any other buildings in washington other than public buildings. the one private building they destroyed was a building from which a sniper shot general ross's horse, missing general ross i think was the target. they didn't burn the building, part avatar i have, so they pulled it down. they destroyed offices of national intelligence but any sound a general and admiral would like to see the press suppressed. george coburn took out letter c out of the box so they couldn't write any more scurrilous articles about him. they had with satan, not to satan's advantage. he took a particular delight. he decided he hadn't done enough and got the press out as well. remember, in the aftermath of that occu

pamela scott, author of "buildings of the district of columbia." william seale talks about his book "the president's house: a history." andrew burstein and nancy isenber fwrks. tonight beginning at 8:00 eastern on c-span3. >>> coverage of the speakers at the symposium on the british burning of washington, d.c., during the war of 1812 continues with alan taylor, author of "the civil war of 1812." it's 55 minutes. >> so i now have the great pleasure of introducing dr. alan taylor. he joins us as the thomas jefferson -- just talking about that gentleman -- thomas jefferson chair in american history at the yuuniversity of virginia. this is a new role for dr. taylor. his previous two decades were at the university of california at davis. he is, as probably all of you know, a very distinguished scholar of the war of 1812 and wrote the book "the civil war of 1812" which really looks at that engagement in great detail. but recently, and very exciting for us who live in virginia, he published the national book award and pulitzer prize winning "the internal

our next speaker will be pamela scott, and pam is an old friend. i have known her for many, many years, and she is, i think, the authority on the history of public buildings in washington, d.c. she has been an architectural historian here in washington specializing in the architectural landscape and planning histories of the city and i have learned a tremendous amount from her over the years. some of her books include "the temple of liberty," "buildings of the district of columbia," "designing the nation's capitol", and "the fortress of finance," and pam is going to talk about benjamin henry latrobe's work at the capitol. i month don is thrilled about that. ready to have the capitol become front and center in the limelight. and, of course, latrobe is also the architect of decatur house and st. john's across the square, and so hopefully you'll learn a great deal about this architectural genius this afternoon and enjoy the house tonight at the reception. thank you. come on, pam. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, bill. your friendship over the year

but pamela scott showed me a drawing the ore day that i had noticed before but hadn't thought about in this context. a drawing by latrobe in december of 1815 that shows george washington's buildings burned, ruins of them, and a large tavern nearby near the capital that was also in ruins. this is a year after the british were there and it seems as though they must have done the burning. >> thank you for that. did the british destroy other buildings than the government buildings. the only building was from which a sniper missed general ross. the britts didn't burn the building it was part of tariff. they pulled it down. they destroyed the office of national intelligence, any sound a general would like to see the press suppressed. george coburn took all of the letters c out of the box so they couldn't write anymore scurrilous letters. he took a particular delight. he decided he had not done enough so he got the press out and burned that as well. >> remember in the aftermath of that occupation there was a tremendous storm and there was a lot of damage done by the storm as well so that may

pamela scott, author of "buildings of the district of columbia." william seale talks about his book "the president's house: a history." and co-authors of "madison and jefferson." friday night beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >>> next, day two of the symposium marking the 200th anniversary of the burning of washington, d.c. during the war of 1812. first donald hickey, author of "the war of 1812:a forgotten conflict." then steve vogel, author of "through the perilous fight: six weeks that saved the nation." that's followed by holly schulman, editor of the dolley madison project at the university of virginia. and later remarks by ralph eshelman, historical consultant to the national parks service for the spar spangled national historic trail. now from day two of the symposium on the british burning of washington, d.c. during the war of 1812, hosted by the white house historical society, the u.s. capitol historical society, and james madison's montpelier. next, author donald hickey talks about his book "the war of 1812:a forgotten conflict."

pamela scott, author of "buildings of the district of columbia." william seale talks about his book "the president's house: a history." history." and co-authors of "madison and captioning performed by vitac >>> it was really inspite of rather than because of anybody's wishes. americans at the time considered political parties, political faxes dysfunctional. the european record seemed to be that factions led to civil war, so no one really favored the development of american political parties, but they emerged anyway. the initial division was over hamilton's financial program. that division widened after the french revolution went into its more radical stage in 1793, '94 '95, and i think the parties were pretty well solidified by the time the united states ratified the jay treaty with great britain in 1795. the federalists reluctantly supported that treaty, the emerging democratic republicans who are deadset against it. they deepened still more during our undeclared naval war with france in the late 1790s which was a byproduct of the jay treaty, one

. >>> you've mentioned the burj of the government buildings, but pamela scott showed me a drawing that i hadn't thought about in this context. a drawing by latrobe in december of 1815 that shows george washington's buildings burned -- ruins of them and a large tavern nearby, near the capital that was also in ruins. ed are one private billing -- is when they shot general ross's horse, the british didn't burn the building. it was part of a terrace, so they pulled it down. they also destroyed the offices of the national intelligence of any sound general and admiral would like to see the press suppressed. george coburns took all the letter cs out of the bock so they couldn't write -- the they compared him frequently with satan, and not to satan's advantage remember that in the aftermath of that there was a tremendous storm, and a lot of damage was done as well, so that may have been storm damage. >> thank you very much for being here. when -- as part of the -- coburn's operation and ross' operation of course there was the squadron under captain gordon which ascend it had potomac river, a r

but pamela scott showed me a drawing the ore day that i had noticed before but hadn't thought about in this context. a drawing by latrobe in december of 1815 that shows george washington's buildings burned, ruins of them, and a large tavern nearby near the capital that was also in ruins. this is a year after the british were there and it seems as though they must have done the burning. >> thank you for that. did the british destroy other buildings than the government buildings. the only building was from which a sniper missed general ross. the britts didn't burn the building it was part of tariff. they pulled it down. they destroyed the office of national intelligence, any sound a general would like to see the press suppressed. george coburn took all of the letters c out of the box so they couldn't write anymore scurrilous letters. he took a particular delight. he decided he had not done enough so he got the press out and burned that as well. >> remember in the aftermath of that occupation there was a tremendous storm and there was a lot of damage done by the storm as well so that may

pamela scott, author of "buildings of the district of columbia." william seale talks about his book "the president's house: a history." and co-authors of "madison and >>> next, day two of a symposium marking the 200th anniversary of the burning of washington, d.c., during the war of 1812. first, donald hickey, author of "the war of 1812: a forgotten conflict." then, steve vogel, author of "through the perilous fight: the weeks that saved the nation." that's followed by holly shulman, at the university of virginia. and later, remarks by ralph eshelmor the national historic trail. >>> now, from day two of the symposium on the british burning of washington, d.c., during the war of 1812. hosted by the white house historical society, the u.s. capitol historical society, and james madison's mount pillier. donald hickey talks about his book of "the war of 1812: a forgotten conflict." this is about 45 minutes. >> donald hickey is a professor of history at wans state college in nebraska. he was called the dean of 1812 scholarship by the "new yorker," he's w

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