Special many series of six lectures lectures entitled great president ial lives. This series is particularly attractive for two main reasons. The first being its timeliness. As we face a president ial Election Year and prepare for it, it will be an insight that all of us can benefit from. The second is the speaker himself. Our esteemed un w. Professor of americas of history, william crawley, who has just completed 50 years on the faculty of the university of mary washington. During that half century, doctor crawley has contributed in innumerable and significant ways. Certainly not least of all, the creation of our renowned Historic Preservation program and the creation of this amazing great lives series. But it is for his excellence in teaching that he is perhaps best known, and certainly to literally thousands of our students who have come through our halls. He has received our institutions highest honors in teaching, both from his colleagues and from his students. Many of whom, throu
Americas third president Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his words and actions on slavery and race. This video is courtesy of the university. Its from their great live s lecture series. I am pleased to announce a special miniseries of six lectures entitled great president ial lives. This series is particularly attractive for two main reasons. The first being its timeliness. A president ial election year, it will be an insight all of us can be in. The second is the speaker himself. Our esteemed umw professor, william b. Crawley, who has just completed 50 years on the faculty of the university of mary washington. During a half century, he has contributed in innumerable ways and significant ways. Certainly not least of all the creation of our renowned Historic Preservation program and the creation of this amazing great lives series. But it is for his excellence and teachings that he is perhaps best known, and to literally thousands of our students who have come through our halls, he has rec
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Captioning performed by vitac captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 each one is different. Each one has its own sets of governments and own sets of law, and ill use pennsylvania. This room was pennsylvanias legislature. Pennsylvania decides to write a constitution that is so radical for its day that they basically get rid of the position of governor. They are not going to have really a chief executive for pennsylvania anymore. They are going to have a fairly democratically run onehouse legislature as opposed to the standard two houses that most of the states are going to use, that the United States has known throughout its history so pennsylvania has a very different setup. It proves a little too radical to work and our 177 of pennsylvania constitution will last only 14 years. They will have to redo it, go to the traditional two houses of government and legislature setup. This is 1776 that each of these states is going to start itself over. Now, the problem is being al
Eventually secured more than enough Electoral College votes to clear his past to the white house or biden supporters are gathering at rallies across the u. S. Celebrating the democrats victory one of the biggest celebrations is this one just in front of the white house thousands of people have poured onto black lives matter plaza in the capital chanting cheering and the singing lets speak to our White House Correspondent kimberly how could she joins us in washington d. C. Its quite a change isnt it looking at those pictures of black lives matter matter plaza for months you and i have been discussing the protests that took place there and now were seeing thousands of people rejoicing at the election of joe biden but that doesnt reflect the full picture in the United States doesnt. Know it doesnt and we have to remind our viewers that the United States is is divided and its divided along world urban lines so naturally in washington d. C. In cities all across the United States you are see