Smithsonian American history you’ve never seen (in under 5 minutes)

The Smithsonian American History Museum has a lifetime’s worth of artifacts to explore…so here is just a sample of what you can find there.

Intro: 0:00
George Washington easy chair: 0:49
George McClellan items: 1:05
Sash of truce: 1:11
Sherman’s horse Winchester: 1:20
Sherman’s hat: 1:31
Grant’s chair: 1:37
Appomattox furniture: 1:48
Lincoln playbill: 2:03
Mary Todd Lincoln dress: 2:24
Lincoln’s top hat: 2:37
Alexander Graham Bell “bullet detector”: 2:57
Edith Roosevelt dress: 3:15
First Lady china sets: 3:22
First Lady inauguration dresses: 3:39

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