In southeast asia. Sunday at 6 00 and 10 00 p. M. Eastern. While congress is in recess, American History tv will be in prime time monday through friday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, featuring events from watergate. All weekend on American History tv, we are featuring Historic Sites and local historians from cities across america. These are highlights from cspans 2014 city to her. Stop atdeo from all our cspan. Org localcontent. Photographer Lauren Irving retraced john freeman trip to photograph oregon campus. What makes this different from doing Historical Research is that sometimes the writing in the journal is so precise and welldescribed that i can find characteristics of location studies right in the journal. So i end up trying to capture that on film. I am trying to incorporate things in the images that are described in the journal. In late may of 1843, the expedition left westport, which is near kansas city now. And went along what is now the oregon trail. His job was to map the oregon
Find out where cspan local content vehicles are going next, online at cspan. Org. You are watching American History tv. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] next, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell speaks about the life of fellow kentuckian senator Albin Barkley who was majority leader of the u. S. Senate between 1937 and 1947 and was minority leader from 1947 to 1949. Democrat, Alben Barkley it was 35th Vice President of the United States elected with hair harry truman in 1949. This 45 Minute Program is part of a series of talks by Mitch Mcconnle about former u. S. Senators from kentucky. Thank you very much, linda. Its great to see all of you. I enjoyed my tour of the museum and i recommend you do it. Ive been doing a series of speeches over the last couple of years on some of the more significant members of the United States senate from kentucky. Weve had a bunch of them because we came into the union in
He was explaining to the students why he had refused a seat in the front row of the senate chamber, despite his earlier decades of service in the legislative body. Im glad to sit in the back row, the 78yearold barkley said. For i would rather be a servant in a house of the lord, then to sit in the seats of the mighty. Those were senator barkleys last words before he collapsed. As he suffered a fatal heart attack, the roar of the crowd was the last thing he would hear. Barkleys rich legacy lives on today, not only in kentucky, but in the United States senate. Im proud to say that barkleys portrait hangs over the desk in my office, in the capital. Undoubtedly, barkleys effectiveness was in part a result of his winning personality, which did not let temporary disagreements hamper longterm relationships. A hardworking, patient leader, barkley used his wit, charm, and legislative acumen to help push through much of roosevelts new deal legislation. And later, as leader, critical wartime legi
In the era after the civil war, america changed radically from a nation of Small Farmers and small producers and small lateacturers, and by the 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, we had concentrations of wealth. We have growing inequality. We have concern about the influence of money and government. He spent the later part of 1890s giving speeches all over wisconsin. If you wanted a speaker for your club or your group, he would give a speech. He went to county fairs. He went to every kind of event that you could imagine. He built a reputation for himself. By 1900, he was ready to run for governor, advocating on behalf of the people. He had two issues. One, the direct primary. No more selecting candidates in convention. Two, stop the interests are , specifically the railroads. For all our events on cspan2 on book tv. The 2015 student cam video competition is underway. It is open to all middle and high school to create a 57 minute documentary on the theme the three branches in you, showing how our pol
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