allman describes the saving of the portrait and william seale describes the events leading up to the burning itself. this is a 30-minute event. >> william allman has served our country and joined the white house curator's office 38 years ago. for the past 12 years, mr. allman has led that very important office is white house curator. this is one of the best jobs there is. to care for one of the most historic and storied collections in the world. the curator is charged with the preservation and study of the collection of art, furniture, and decorative objects used to furnish both the public and private rooms of the white house. as an official residence and accredited historic house museum, i house that has been home and office to 43 presidents of the united states. mr. allman is a vital friend to the white house historical association and we welcome him tonight to share the history of a very significant happening with the white house collection. following mr. allman, we will hear from mr. william seale. he is a great treasure to the white house historical association. we call him the m

our next speaker will be william seale. >>> throughout the years we have encounter a handful of friends that struggle with mental i illness illnesses. throughout the years we have seen how a lack of treatment can result in stress. >> my name is felix and i was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. i ended up in the hospital after an episode. they diagnosed me there after five minutes of talking to me and treated me for two weeks. i got out of the hospital and went from doctor to doctor looking for someone who would listen. it took me over a year to find a doctor who did listen. >> we strongly encourage congress to continue to provide funding for those who struggle with a illness and continue to allocate resources and develop new programs for those in need. >> join us next wednesday during washington journal for the theme of the 2015 c-span student cam competition. >>> here on c-span3 we complement coverage by showing you the most relevant public hearings and on weekends c-span3 is the home to american history tv with programs th

our next speaker will be william seale. and to us at the association, he doesn't really need much introduction. he's been a part of our organization as an adviser to our board for at least as the time he published his president's house" in 1986. he's been a mentor to us on the staff with research eeducation, publication. over all those many years and now is the editor of our white house history publication that you all received a complementary copy in your packets. i hope you'll enjoy that and hopefully become a subscriber to our journal and keeping up with the latest research. of course, william seale is an architectural historian and specialist on the restoration and preservation of historic buildings. his handiwork is all over the country in executive mansions and capitols. he's also, of course, published " the president's house, i just mentioned, which is like the, to us, the bible of white house history. the white house garden, the white house -- the white house, the history of an american idea, which is really the arc

please welcome william allman, followed by william seale. [applause] >> roger mudd just said, don't blow it. [laughter] now i am nervous. i was not before. except one attending such a in 1814 inposium washington, we would concur with author beth taylor's 2012 observation that americans today , instead of ducking the anniversary of the burning of the white house, celebrate the rescue of the portrait of george washington. all of the longest-held objects in the white house collection date from the post-fire renovation. all but 1 -- the portrait of george washington. the one that first lady dolley madison famously saved from the white house. [applause] the full-length image, eight feet by five feet in size, is one of four of the lands down tight, name for the painting at the national portrait jelly that was commissioned by a philadelphia merchant and 7096. 1796. it had been marked by the development of the first terms of peace with the new united states. stewart, the master portraitist of the federal. , selected a formal, oratorio pose to pickin

"we'll also hear from william seal, the author of "the president's house" and the authors of a book "madison and jefferson." all that this afternoon as our live coverage continues here on c-span3's american history tv. >>> thank you. 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 william seale.>> throughout the years we have encounter a handful of friends that struggle with mental i illness illnesses. throughout the years we have seen how a lack of treatment can result in stress. >> my name is felix and i was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. i ended up in the hospital after an episode. they diagnosed me there after five minutes of talking to me and treated me for two weeks. i got out of the hospital and went from doctor to doctor looking for someone who would listen. it took me over a year to find a doctor who did listen. >> we strongly encourage congress to continue to provide funding for those who struggle with a illness and continue to allocate resources and develop new programs for those in need. >> join us next wednesday during washington journal for the theme of the 2015 c-span student cam competition. >>> here on c-span3 we complement coverage by showing you the most relevant public hearings and on weekends c-span3 is the home to american history tv with programs that

our next speaker will be william seale. and to us at the association, he doesn't really need much introduction. he's been a part of our organization as an adviser to our board for at least as the time he published his president's house" in 1986. he's been a mentor to us on the staff with research eeducation, publication. over all those many years and now is the editor of our white

also william seal, author of the president's house, a history.ndrew 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 session begin shortly. we're going to circle back to the city of was

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 kind of a major port, but it was still important by virtue of all the roads that crossed there. and the riv

this afternoon's session features william seal and appearing together andrew burstein and nancy eisenbergt up at 1:15, kenneth bowling talks about his book, the idea and location of the american capitol. and a programming note, tonight at 8:00 eastern, we'll reair all of today's conference here on american history tv. while we wait for the event to resume, we'll show you a portion of day one from the conference from yesterday. catherine allgor talks about her book, "a perfect union, dolley madison." >>> welcome back, everybody. for american under fire mr. madison's war and the burning of washington city." for those of you who may be just joining us, if you have one of these little devices, if you can make sure it's turned off or in the silent mode, that would be fantastic. so i have the pleasure now of introducing dr. catherine allgor and she's going to tackle james madison's other half and some might say his better half, dolley madison. catherine has written "a perfect union: dolley madison" and she edited an important memoir written by dolley madison's niece. she's director of the art c

our next speaker will be william seale. and to us at the association, he doesn't really need much introduction. he's been a part of our organization as an adviser to our board f

allman describes the saving of the portrait and william seale describes the events leading up to the burning itself. this is a 30-minute event. >> william allman has served our

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." this is about 40 minutes. >> donald hickey is an award-winning author a

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 enemy: slavery in the war in virginia 1782 to 1832." and it really look

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 of the down sides, though we did pretty well -- that's truly or forgotten conflic

william seale talks about his book, and andrew berstein and coauthors of "madisons and jefferson" tonight beginning on c-span 3. >>> coverage of the speakers at the symposium on the british burning of washington, d.c. during the war of 1812 continues with alan taylor, the author of "the civil war of 1812," it's 55 the great pleasure of introducing dr. alan taylor. he joins us, thomas jefferson chair in american history tv at the university of virginia. this is a new role for dr. taylor. his previous two decades with the university of california at davis he is a very distinguished scholar of the war 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 enemy, slavery in the war in virginia, 1772 to 1832. and it really looks at the war of 1812 with such a different lens. alan's groundbreaking work, the scholarship which highlights this understudied story. particularly the run away slaves who sought their

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 written seven books on the conflict. most notably, the war of 1812, a fo

seal nolan. storms might you send you indoors this weekend. let's get over to chief meteorologist scott williams. what's on tap, scott. >> hi there iain and lucy. we're talking about humid air mass right now that will set the stage especially tomorrow afternoon and evening for a line of strong and severe storms. life look outside you can see this is at the philadelphia international airport. no weather related delays right now. 87 degrees but look at what it feels. it feels like the low 90's right now when you step outdoors. there are a couple of pop up showers and very heavy rainfall dissipating right now just to the west of the lancaster area. flash flood warning is in effect there for very heavy rainfall. otherwise, we're dry around the philadelphia area. and as we move no sections of mercer county, watching some heavy rainfall moving out of the west windsor area as well. but tomorrow afternoon and evening, a severe weather threat north and west for the lee his valley the pocono mountains. the storm prediction center has placed us in that slight risk for gusty winds, hail and damaging winds.

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seal nolan. storms might you send you indoors this weekend. let's get over to chief meteorologist scott williamstap, scott. >> hi there iain and lucy. we're talking about humid air mass right now that will set the stage especially tomorrow afternoon and evening for a line of strong and severe storms. life look outside you can see this is at the philadelphia international airport. no weather related delays right now. 87 degrees but look at what it feels. it feels like the low 90's right now when you step outdoors. there are a couple of pop up showers and very heavy rainfall dissipating right now just to the west of the lancaster area. flash flood warning is in effect there for very heavy rainfall. otherwise, we're dry around the philadelphia area. and as we move no sections of mercer county, watching some heavy rainfall moving out of the west windsor area as well. but tomorrow afternoon and evening, a severe weather threat north and west for the lee his valley the pocono mountains. the storm prediction center has