Actually a participating from 1903 that is depicting one such treaty conference that wept on on a frontier of the valley. You did a reading today that featured a fellow named William Johnson not a lot of contemporary students of history know much about. He was an irish immigrant who came to america, settled on the moha mohawk frontier in up state new york and became very friendly with mohawk indians who were his neighbors and ultimately gained a great deal of influence among them and ultimately was appointed by the British Crown to serve as its agent to the iroquois nations. Think about the reading you did for today, and this has kind of provided me with a mental image of that. It was at johnson hall which was this georgian mansion he built on the mohawk frontier that still stands today. If youre in up state new york traveling between albany and syracuse, new york, you can visit this site which tells a really interesting story about how europeans and nativeamericans came together on th
Of the customs and protocols that governed that style of diplomacy and the objectives of in a five americans and colonial peoples for those meetings. I have an image that is a painting from 1903 that is depicted a treaty. And it is not something that they know much about, but he was an irish immigrant that came to america and settled on the fron teen in the 1740s and became very friendly with the indians who were his neighbors. Ultimately he gain add great deal of influence among them and ultimately was appointed by the British Crown to serve as an agent to the iroquois neighbors. Think about the reading you did for today. This is providing you with a mental image of that. It was a mansion that still stands today. You can get off of the new york state freeway and you can visit this sight and another kwun of his homes, that are preserved as state Historic Sites and tell a really interesting story about how they came together on the frontier not to fight, but to talk about the difference
Images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every ten years or so, about 700 political scientists and historians across the country rank our president s. Now, who knows how our current president is going to rank . Nonetheless, whenever those rankings come out, generally these three guys here rank at the top. Sometimes itll be lincoln, sometimes washington, sometimes f. D. R. But the interesting thing about this is that we do not know what george really looked like. We have images of lincoln. We have photograph images. And you can follow those photographs over time and see how he changed, how he aged. And of course we have images of f. D. R. We even have some images of him in his wheelchair. And generally the press did not take images of him in his wheelchair. But with George Washington, he was there before photography so we dont have photographs of him. What we have instead are artists representations and those are not always very accurate. I mean, you look at
That seems to be not estimated announcer learn more about the political cartoons sunday at 8 00 p. M. And midnight eastern. Youre watching American History tv. Announcer next, Timothy Shannon teaches a class on colonial era diplomatic ties between the iroquois confederacy and european settlers. He describes what treaty meetings would have looked like, the role of interpreters, and the importance of exchanging gifts. Welcome, everyone. Today we are going to talk about diplomacy on the early american frontier between native american peoples and european peoples. We will talk about some of the customs and protocols that governed that style of diplomacy and the objectives of both native american peoples and colonial peoples brought to those meetings. I have a painting from 1903 that is the big thing one such treaty conference that went on on the frontier of new york in the Mohawk Valley. You did a reading today that johnson, not am lot of contemporary American Students of history know much
Peoples. We will talk about some of the customs and protocols that governed that style of diplomacy and the objectives of both native American Peoples and colonial peoples brought to those meetings. I have a painting from 1903 that is depicting one such treaty conference that went on on the frontier of new york in the Mohawk Valley. You did a reading today that featured a fellow named William Johnson, not a lot of contemporary American Students of history know much about him, but he was a very interesting figure in the 18th century. An irish immigrant, settled on the mohawk frontier of upstate new york in 1740, and became very friendly with mohawk indians, who were his neighbors. Ultimately, grained a great deal of influence among them and was appointed by the British Crown to serve as the agent to the iroquois nation. This painter in the early 20th century wanted to depict one of these treaties that johnson convened with native americans. Think about the reading you did for today. It