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Is shrinking. That means were getting the word out there. Thats really exciting. Where to start. You all have heard for those regulars here, you know i usually will Say Something about how you cant tell the story of e plur bus umen without the plur bus. I think the talk fits in great with the museums mission to broaden peoples understanding of what we mean by the American Revolution to make sure that everyone sees the American Revolution reflected in themselves. Im flashing at you now a wonderful note card that has a whale on it with a note from almost exactly a year ago. This is april 24th, 2018, from gina whalen. Gina, raise your hand. Katherines aunt. The next question is how many people in this room are related to katharine . So jenna, if you have seen George Washingtons tent upstairs and have been moved to tears as i have been, jenna was the textile conservator who did all the work to prepare that tent for display. It was wonderful for two years just about every day sitting in a w
reports, president trump lashing out at jack smith today trying to portray the investigation as an attempt to rig the 2024 election calling on his supporters to fight against the justice department and fbi in a series of fiery social media posts. as the potential for indictments grows by the day. despite a direct appeal this week from trump s legal team. the special counsel in new video obtained exclusively by nbc news is not ready to show his cards. is an indictment coming soon, sir? is an investigation wrapping up, sir? also today, former new jersey governor chris christie is entering the republican contest kicking off a string of announcements this week from candidates trying to catch donald trump in the polls. and i ll be joined by maryland governor wes moore on the culture wars being waged by top republicans as a wedge issue against democrats. plus a disaster in ukraine, a major dam and electric power plant blown up, thousands are being evacuated from rising floodw
Hello and welcome to live the amsterdam a joint project between the New Amsterdam project at New York Historical and the new Netherland Institute in albany, new york. Im deborah hamer, im the director of the Netherland Institute and ill be your host today. The new netherland is organization devoted to preserving, translating digitizing and making available dutch documents from the 17th and 18th century in north america. And my guest today is dr. Chelsea teale. Shes a lecturer in geography at cal poly humboldt. Shes currently working on a book about in the netherlands. So welcome, chelsea. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for me. You can hear me all right . Yeah, perfectly crystal clear. Okay, so lets get into. Can you tell us little bit about the climate in the in the 17th century . So what were the settlers who were coming over from the netherlands used to then kind of how was it different when they when they arrived in new netherland, you know, the 1620s and beyond. Sure.
Very Important Campaign against vicksburg tim smith, thank you very much. Hello and welcome to live the amsterdam a joint project between the New Amsterdam project at New York Historical and the new Netherland Institute in albany, new york. Im deborah hamer, im the director of the Netherland Institute and ill be your host today. The new netherland is organization devoted to preserving, translating digitizing and making available dutch documents from the 17th and 18th century in north america. And my guest today is dr. Chelsea teale. Shes a lecturer in geography at cal poly humboldt. Shes currently working on a book about in the netherlands. So welcome, chelsea. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for me. You can hear me all right . Yeah, perfectly crystal clear. Okay, so lets get into. Can you tell us little bit about the climate in the in the 17th century . So what were the settlers who were coming over from the netherlands used to then kind of how was it different when they w