Week with the esquire polled began with what they called the new American Center. The study indicates that there is a middle ground among the electorate. In order to facilitate the conversation we will be dividing the lines regionally. Where would you put yourself in your political ideology . Where would you do find it . For those of you in the eastern 212 tral time zones, 585 3880. Two 02tain and pacific, 585 3881. Send us a tweet, http twitter. Com cspanwj, or an email, journal cspan. Org. Any email this morning, the theington post and this headline this morning from the jpmorgan post, chase has reached a tentative agreement with the Justice Department to pay a record 13 billion. Morning,t story this there is a similar headline on the front of the Washington Times here go something they talked about online, where would you place your own political ideology echo here is the breakdown. Those that describe themselves as bleeding hearts, 10 , the gospel left, 11 , the minivan , the mba m
Made america rich. Museumhe cochair of the and serves on the smithsonian council. An advisory he has been the museums president and ceo since 2009. He has established several new initiatives including the center for Financial Education and Museum Finance academy. He has curated and worked on over half a dozen exhibits and displays including our current exhibit commemorating the Centennial Anniversary of the federal reserve. Today, david will explore how one of the treasurys greatest leaders help fight the war of 1812. I will now turn the program over to david cowen. [applause] thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to talk about the war of 1812. We are in the bicentennial of the events of the war of 1812. We will break it down into three different sections. We will have the background of what led us into the war. We will then do the war itself capable to the first two parts quickly. And we will get into the main event of what we will discuss today, the financing of the war of 1812. Us
The battle of Lake Champlain was important. In my opinion, arthur cohn is the best person to explain why that is so. You know him from his career at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. I am most pleased he accepted an invitation to speak to us on the exact 200th anniversary of the battle. And to include the battles shipwreck legacy as part of the program. I understand that art will take a few audience questions after his presentation. Lets welcome art. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Good evening. I am delighted and really honored to be here to talk about the battle for Lake Champlain in 1814. Been thinking about for several years as i have seen the bicentennial coming. I have not been a student of the war of 1812 my whole life. I connected with it through the shipwrecks through Lake Champlain. I knew it mostly through this place. Over the last several years, we have been traveling with our Outreach Program and interpreting the war of 1812, knowing that in 1814, we were going to have
I am pleased to introduce david cowan. He has written extensively on u. S. Financial history and is the coauthor of financial founding fathers, the man who made america rich. He is the cochair of the International Federation of finance museums and serves on the smithsonian affiliates Advisory Council as well as the Federal Reserve boards centennial Advisory Council. David has been the museums president and ceo since 2009. He has established several new initiatives, including the center for Financial Education and then using finance academy. He has curated or guest curated on over half a dozen exhibits and displays, incurring including our current exhibit. Will explore how one of the treasurys greatest leaders helped fight the war of 1812. I will now turn the program over to david cowan. Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to talk about the war of 1812. We are at the bicentennial of the events. We are going to break it down into three different sections. We are going to break a brea
Over the three years that america remained neutral in the conflict. Finally, in 1917, president wilson led the nation into what was hoped to be the war to end all wars. Welcome to the president Woodrow Wilson house here in washington, d. C. This home was finished in 1916 and was the home to which the president and mrs. Wilson moved the very day that they left the white house. March 4, 1921. Both of them lived here the rest of their lives. President wilson had three more years. He died early in 1924. Amazingly, his widow, edith, lived until 1961 in this home, and had a front seat in American History during that entire time. In our collection, we have a large number of gifts of state that were given to the president and mrs. Wilson. One reason is because of the pivotal role that the president had in ending world war i. It was 100 years ago that world war i broke out. President wilson faced two crises in his life. One was the outbreak of war. Whenbegan august 2, germany invaded belgium, v