archives. and i would hope that 400 years in the future, you know, there is a jamestown collection that s capable of being studied and examined by scholars of the future. i look back 400 years and think, well, how many collections have survived you know? and i do worry about that, but you know, there are things like the ash molian collections that have so we just have to be hopefully will be really good stewards now and train up the next generation of stewards to take care of this stuff. they were made so they could fit several down into a case together. so side by side, these case, these bottles would go into a case. that s where the name comes from. and they are the type of drinking bottles used in early 17th century up until about 1650. but then when you get into the 19th century, you re going to find a machine-produced are quite different from the handma handmade upholstery tab. if you have a bigger piece, you can tell what the shape of the wine bottle was and you can
have it in their library and some of maria stewart s diary and you get fell list wheatley poe ems in there. you get to hear their voices. fantastic. great. thank you. well, thank you very much for your time. and may you all have fun researching. as commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the civil war continuous, join us for programs featuring the civil war. for more information about american history tv on c-span 3, including the complete schedule, go to c-span.org/history. and to keep up with us during the week, or to send questions or comments, follow us on twitter. twist.com/cspanhistory. the organization of american historians and the national council on public history recently held their annual meeting in milwaukee, wisconsin. american history tv spoke with several of this year s attendees. next, yale history professor joanne freeman and university of chicago political science professor william howell describe acts of violence in the u.s. congress leading up
thank you. well, thank you very much for your time. and may you all have fun researching. [ applause ] as commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the civil war continues, join us every saturday at 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. and sundays at 11:00 a.m. for programs featuring the civil war. for more information about american history tv on c-span 3 including our complete schedule, go to c-span.org/history. and to keep up with us during the week or to send us your questions or comments, follow us on twitter. we re on twitter.com/cspanhistory. the organization of american historians and the national council on public history recently held their annual meeting in milwaukee, wisconsin. american history tv spoke with several of this year s attendees. next, yale history professor joanne freeman and university of chicago political science professor william howell describe acts of violence in the u.s. congress leading up to the civil war. and congressional checks on war powers in the mo
great, thank you. well, thank you very much for your time. and may you all have fun researching. as commemoration of the 1350 150th war continues join us for programs featuring the civil war. for more information about american history tv on c-span 3 including the complete schedule, go to c-span.org/history. to keep up with us during the week or to send questions or comments, follow us on twitter. the organization of american historians and the national council on public history recently held their annual meeting in milwaukee, wisconsin. american history tv spoke with several of this year s attendees. next, yale history professor joanne freeman and university of chicago political science professor william howell describe acts of violence in the u.s. congress leading up to the civil war. and congressional checks on war powers in the modern era. professor freeman is working on a book titled field of blood, congressional violence in antebellum america. american histo
representatives, and part of that is that the size of the two bodies require different things. the constitution is a very thin document. my students used to complain, because the first week i was teaching, i would always make my class read the entire text of the constitution. and they would complain bitterly. and i would say, you re lucky we re not studying any one of the states, because all of the state constitutions are huge documents. they tell you how tall a curb has to be. they re very much detail-oriented. the u.s. constitution is some 6,000 words. by contrast, the european union constitution is 60,000 words. so this little document, you have to read very carefully every phrase. and there are little throw-away lines that have enormous impact. one of those lines is each house of congress shall write its own rules. seems very easy. but that has meant the house and the senate have evolved into remarkably different institutions. they operate out of the same building. the ca