Power and what kind of spaces and values would define the country. Remained very much in question. And so last class we talked about americas transition to capitalism. And we talked about how this Economic Transformation was linked to changes in the labor market in Banking Systems in the rise of corporations, and we looked at how these transformations were particularly affecting for young women like mary paul the worker in the lowell mills in the 1840s. So today were going to continue our conversation about how economic changes affected americas urban centers its cities and well examine how questions about the National Built Environment and access to Material Resources like goods land and money came to a head in americas growing urban landscapes both along the east coast in places that are familiar to us, but also in growing midwestern cities between the 1790s and into the 1830s so with these themes in mind i thought we could start off today with a little bit of a comparative story tha
Power and what kind of spaces and values would define the country. Remained very much in question. And so last class we talked about americas transition to capitalism. And we talked about how this Economic Transformation was linked to changes in the labor market in Banking Systems in the rise of corporations, and we looked at how these transformations were particularly affecting for young women like mary paul the worker in the lowell mills in the 1840s. So today were going to continue our conversation about how economic changes affected americas urban centers its cities and well examine how questions about the National Built Environment and access to Material Resources like goods land and money came to a head in americas growing urban landscapes both along the east coast in places that are familiar to us, but also in growing midwestern cities between the 1790s and into the 1830s so with these themes in mind i thought we could start off today with a little bit of a comparative story tha
Cecily tynan live at the big board with the all important turkey day forecast. We are clearing out things nicely on this busy travel day right before thanksgiving, satellite and radar showing the system that moved through this morning that brought light rain to philadelphia. A half inch in Atlantic City blossoms along the coast than rain is pushing up around Northern New England behind it we have cool gusty winds blowing in. Philadelphia reporting a peak wind gust 33 Miles Per Hour the same in reading and nearly as strong in reading and Atlantic City 38 and wilmington 36 Miles Per Hour. And we dried out but the gusty winds along with high volume are causing some ground delays in newark. We have delays 51 minutes, that is the only airport reporting delays and boston lingering rain no delays. And buffalo cold but no delays, and washington and pittsburgh looking good and down to the south, atlanta and out to dallas and Denver Colorado this is looking nice. This is what we want for a big t
Third Vice President of the United States ehrenberg, his deadly duel with alexander hamilton, and the alleged conspiracies surrounding his westward venture. Contemporaryhis to fears about disunion and the fragility of the United States. Our guest tonight is dr. Jr. , andlewis associate professor of history at kalamazoo college. He received his bachelor of arts government and foreign and in Foreign Affairs at the college of william and mary. He also received his masters in American History and his phd in virginia. Sity of he lives in kalamazoo, where he is an associate professor. Books on theour dogmatic history of the early american republic, and the most recent being the subject of tonights program the burr conspiracy, which will be for sale at the conclusion of the program. Without farther ado, join me in welcoming him. [laughter] [applause] thank you. Thank you all for being here this evening. I hope you all dodged the rain. The podcast that was sort of a promo for this, you may hav
It coincides with the American Civil War sesquicentennial. Anduns for five years changes each year to address that your of the war. Interesting aspect of our exhibit is the fact that we are one location that many of the events took place in these exact area. We have the very equipment used by the railroad in the civil war. We present a bottom up history of the b o railroad. We present the technologies and the people involved guarding, destroying, building, and operating the railroad during the civil war years. This would be an entire area of activity. There were paint shops, carpentry shops, car shops. They were casting the rail. There were machine shops. They were building bridge parts. Continuously loading things on trains. As the confederates would damage a section of track, or blow up a bridge, the repair crews would go out, pull out the damage, load it on a car and recycle it. I firmly believe that at the outbreak of the war, the first 90 days, the baltimore and Ohio Railroad was