Anything yet. We do a lot here at the Historical Society. We provide great programs. Educational workshops. We run National History day in massachusetts. We convene academic seminars and mount exhibitions been but more than anything, what we do is hold an amazing collection of almost 14 million items. We provided to historians and researchers for free. In our holdings, we have the equivalent of 2 and a half president ial libraries. We have the papers of john adams, John Quincy Adams and the personal papers of Thomas Jefferson. Thats important to mention because we have a very special program that has a very special connection. Tonight, we will hear about the publication, the president s and which noted historians rank them on a variety of categories. And if theres anything we like talking about more than president s, its historians talking about president s. So this is on brand for us. As we do with most of our public programs, we have pulled together a small display in the room with t
Historic places and up next, we travel to philadelphias Independence National historical park, learn about Congress Hall. The Meeting Place of the u. S. House and senate between 1790 and 1800. Our guide is park Ranger Matthew ifill. We are standing in the old house of representatives in a building that we Call Congress hall, although originally it was built as a courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it was. But in the years that the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary us. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that well see in a moment was the United States senate, the house of representatives. Each representative at that in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population at our first census of about three and three quarters million. We had 106 members of the house we would sit in this room and eventually from 16 states and the story as the us capitol the
Of representatives in a building that we Call Congress hall, although originally it was built as a courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it was. But in the years that the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary us. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that well see in a moment was the United States senate, the house of representatives. Each representative at that in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population at our first census of about three and three quarters million. We had 106 members of the house we would sit in this room and eventually from 16 states and the story as the us capitol the story where were taking a new and actually offer it doing things like adding new states to the original 13 also. So the bill of would become a part our constitution while philadelphia was the capitol in fact the secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally an
Independence National Historical park, learn about Congress Hall. The Meeting Place of the u. S. House and senate between 1790 and 1800. Our guide is park Ranger Matthew ifill. We are standing in the old house of representatives in a building that we Call Congress hall, although originally it was built as a courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it was. But in the years that the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary us. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that well see in a moment was the United States senate, the house of representatives. Each representative at that in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population at our first census of about three and three quarters million. We had 106 members of the house we would sit in this room and eventually from 16 states and the story as the us capitol the story where were taking a new and actually offer it doi
American history tvs american artifacts visits, museums and Historic Places and up next, we travel to philadelphias Independence National historical park, learn about Congress Hall. The Meeting Place of the u. S. House and senate between 1790 and 1800. Our guide is park Ranger Matthew ifill. We are standing in the old house of representatives in a building that we Call Congress hall, although originally it was built as a courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it was. But in the years that the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary us. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that well see in a moment was the United States senate, the house of representatives. Each representative at that in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population at our first census of about three and three quarters million. We had 106 members of the house we would sit in this room and e