We are in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. This town was frontier town. With the fort that was settled by the french in the militia with saying this is land Great Britain wants and the french and indian war, the sevenyear war, who would control the confluence and that major nets with a history of taking down off a boat and in the process discovering america. The idea it would be a country from sea to sea. The idea of them looking over their shoulder and say we built this country . At first it was glass and then iron and then steel and in the rocess, we built this country. And if you were to ask what does make pittsburgh pittsburgh, i would answer is resilience. Back of the day like a lot of cities, we burnt to the ground during the 1920s and 1930s and we created disparity between people like my grandfather who worked in the mills and people who owned them. We were able to overcome all of that and build a city that became the Third LargestCorporate Center in the United States in the 1970s. New york, chicago, pittsburgh. And then in 1979, we died. We had to come back from an economic collapse. During the 1980s, steel died. Ll of my friends and family left. We lost more people than new orleans left after katrina and they never came back. Even our City Government operating with the debt that was greater than new york citys when it went bankrupt. Just like in all of those other times and challenges we had, we know how to do 2 things in pittsburgh. One is to work hard. The others to innovate. We ended up with some forward thinking people who said back in the 1970s, lets create a robotic center. The first phd in robotics am working to make an industry that can help on advancing manufacturing to be able to maintain some the manufacturing here. Those seeds planted as we are going through that depression has taken hold. And they have taken us into a brandnew economy, economy that is based on engineering and technology and we stand here today with a city again. This weekend, where featuring the history of pittsburgh, pennsylvania with our comcast partners. Learn more about pittsburgh another stop in our cities tour t www. Cspan. Org citiestour. Were asking students to parts tate by telling us what is the most urgent issue for our next President Donald Trump and the Incoming Congress to address in 2017 . Our competition is open to all middle school and high school students. Students can work alone or in a group of up to three to produce a fiveseven minute documentary. A grand prize of 5,000 will go to the student or team with the best overall entry. 100,000 in cash prizes will be awarded and shared between 150 students and 53 teachers. This years deadline is january 20, 2017. Thats inauguration day. For more information about the competition go to our website. Coming up next, journalist and author Cokie Roberts mod rates a discussion entitled doing history. Comparing approaches to the the narrative. A novel of the reagan years. Historical documentary producer grace gugenheimmer whose credits include the johnstown flood. Nd author and historicle researcher michael hill. The u. S. Capital Historical Society hosted this event as part of the electric temperature its about an hour and 20 minutes. Welcome for your 25th leak tur. If any of you