Although Thomas Jefferson was in France serving as United States minister when the Federal Constitution was written in 1787, he was able to influence the development of the federal government through his correspondence. Later his actions as the first secretary of state, vice president, leader of the first political opposition party, and third president of the United States were crucial in shaping the look of the nation s capital and defining the powers of the Constitution and the nature of the emerging republic.
Jefferson played a major role in the planning, design, and construction of a national capitol and the federal district. In the various
Ephrata Cloister became a state-owned historic site in 1941. By then, it had been a spot for tourists for hundreds of years.
Michael Showalter, museum educator at the Ephrata site spoke about tourists at the site in the first session of the cloisterâs winter history class. Here are a few reviews from the earliest visitors.
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Augustus Gottlieb Spangenberg and David Nitschmann, leaders in Pennsylvaniaâs Moravian Church, were the first known visitors to the cloister. Conrad Beissel had settled down on the banks of the Cocalico Creek in 1732. When the two Moravians visited, there were 15-20 people at the cloister and construction of the first dormitory was underway.
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Philadelphia’s school buildings are a tribute to its past.
That’s true of the structures themselves, some of which date back over a century.
But it’s also a nod to the people commemorated in the names of those school buildings. Those names in ways big and small help tell the city’s history.
The vast majority of public schools in the city are named after white men. (The school-namers of yore were partial to Union Civil War soldiers and former school board officials.)
Still, in a city that didn’t have a statue of a Black person on public land until 2017, school buildings are among the rare public spaces with any echo of Philadelphia’s Black history.
coach jerry sandusky. manuel gallegus has the latest from pennsylvania. reporter: jerry sandusky and his lawyer arrived at the courthouse for day one of jury selection. lawyers started the process of picking a jury from a pool of more than 200 potential jurors from center county, the home of penn state. inside a packed courtroom, judge cleland stressed the seriousness of the case. he said i need you to all have an open mind. this defendant is charged with the sexual abuse of children, and at that point jerry sandusky looked down. reporter: the former penn state assistant coach is charged with 52 criminal counts and is accused of sexually abusing ten boys during a 15- year period. the abuse allegedly happened on campus and at the 68-year-old s home. this case is getting a lot of media attention. reporters and crews are lined up outside the courthouse. and the judge acknowledges that many jurors are probably pretty familiar with the case. we all have found him guilty al