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Transcripts For CSPAN3 American History TV 20140907

The significance of the virginia statute for establishing religious freedom teaches far beyond the borders of the old dominion. Its influence ultimately extended to the Supreme Courts interpretation of the separation of church and state. In his latest book, todays speaker tells the story of that statute, beginning with its background and the struggle of colonial dissenters with an oppressive church of england. Displacing an established church by instituting religious freedom, the virginia statute divided the most substantial guarantees of religious freedom in any state of the new nation. The effort to implement jeffersons statute has even broader significance in anticipation of the conflict that would occupy the whole court after the Supreme Court nationalized the religion clause in the First Amendment in the 1940s. Thomas e. Buckley sj is currently in the university of los angeles. He taught in the History Department there for 22 years after receiving his doctorate from university of

Transcripts For CSPAN3 Wyoming State Capitol 20140907

Casper did not become an actual city until 1869. At that point they had started building the capital. The citizens of wyoming to vote on where they wanted the capital to be. What they wanted was 60 plus one. It was never totally settled until 1982 and it passed the law. There are 782 pieces of granite and some of it has come from all over the world. You will also see two statues. That was in 1869. Be able to hold public office, to hold property, and have them recognize legal documents. He was chief of the tribe for 60 years. He died at 1900 at the age of 102. The outside of the capital is corinthian style with the column. Badly ist tarnishes so when they started doing the gold leafing. Gold. Y takes one ounce of they had to redo it five times since 1900 and the last time was in 2010. It is doublesided stainedglass that was popular at the time and the design was a different design. When people first come into the capital they are struck by how beautiful the stainedglass is. You can hear

Transcripts For CSPAN3 American Artifacts 20140906

This is one of the carbines used in the raid on Harpers Ferry by john brown. Exhibit illustrates the manufacturing might of the north. They could turn out hundreds of thousands of well fitted, will many factored firearms. Well l many of manufactured firearms. The manufacturing capability was one of the norths strengths in the civil war. Hand did on the other not have the industrial might that the north had. The new england and the Connecticut River valley was the home of dozens of gun manufacturers. So many wereld, needed by the union army that 33 different manufacturers were turning up the identical rifle purchase by the union army. The confederates were left up to their own. They had a few places, Harpers Ferry, when they ask we had possession of it. Richmond had a factory along the james river. And if you in north carolina, georgia, and texas. They could hardly supply the needs of the confederacy. They got most of the guns either captured in battle or imported from overseas. In fine

Transcripts For CSPAN3 Lectures In History 20140622

An electorate where the people are committed to the wellbeing, the common good of the country and should be willing to set aside their self interest to advance the common good. That is virtue. Yet, this is a time when people are drinking as never before, and you can see the statistics here that historians have come up with. In 1790, the per capita Alcohol Consumption in the United States, in the equivalent of gallons of 90 proof alcohol what does 90 proof mean . Everybody knows the answer to that. [laughter] i ask you about Alexander Hamiltons fiscal policy, and there are crickets in here. I ask you what 90 proof means, and everyone knows. 45 alcohol. Per capita, that is also a term. What does per capita mean . Yeah . [indiscernible] ok, in the u. S. Population, we say per capita, that includes women and children in newborn and thats and we are taking the quantity of alcohol consumed in 1790 and dividing by the total population and we are getting 3. 5 gallons per person. I think we con

Transcripts For CSPAN3 Frontier Days And The Old West Museum 20140907

Cheyenne has the moniker of daddy of them all because it was the first big rodeo of them anywhere. Cheyenne started in 1897 as a means to bring some Economic Vitality into an otherwise depressed economy. And this was certainly not what was expected to happen but it soon became one of the premier rodeo events easily became known as the World Championship rodeo, the place to go for any cowboy or for anybody who wanted to experience western life as it was experienced by the cowboys themselves they would be able to come here. The days has all of the traditional rodeo sports that you would come to expect including wild horse racing, steer roping, steer wrestling, calf roping, and then of course saddle bronching, bareback, bull riding, and so many other things. Cheyenne frontier days started in 1897 so we are in our 118 year of the event and it got started as an effort to try and bring people up from denver, colorado. There was a gentleman by the name of frederick who was a Railroad Agent an

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