Up next, a walking tour through the Historic Navy yard organized by the national ms. Him of the united the navy. This program is about 75 minutes. Welcome to the Washington Navy yard. Im the director of education here at the National Museum of and this tour will take us throughout the history of the Washington Navy yard, which is a very extensive one. The yard itself is seen a lot of different historical events. Some happy, some, some every day events. The yard itself has changed dramatic he over the many years. Andas first founded in 1798 it was around that time that the united ace realized we needed a Standing Military force. He was after the American Revolution that all the military was basically disbanded because of the sentiments from before the American Revolution, who had a Standing Army at that time that was stationed in the United States. The british, with that idea still fresh in their mind, they realize they didnt want a Standing Military. We started having problems overseas
This is a very extensive yard. The yard itself has seen a lot of different historical event. Events. The yard itself has changed dramatically over the many years. It was first founded in 1798 and it was around that time that the United States realized that we needed a Standing Military force. It was after the American Revolution that all the military was disbanded because of the sentiments from before the American Revolution. Who had a Standing Army stationed in the United States . The british. American merchant ships were being attacked in the mediterranean. We needed a Standing Military. More importantly we knew they navy to protect American Interest all over the globe. Thatongress basically said we yes, we need a navy. They passed a resolution founding the United States navy and commissions different naval yards to build a numerous amount igates for ther navu the navy. We realize is that not only did we need ships of being built but we needed navy yards to build those ships so Congr
Im the director of education here at the National Museum of the u. S. Navy, and this tour will take us throughout the history of the Washington Navy yard, which is a very extensive one. The art itself has seen a lot of yard itself has seen a lot of different historical events. Some happy, some sad some every , day events. The yard itself has changed dramatically over the many years. It was first founded in 1798 and it was around that time that the United States realized we needed a Standing Military force. It was after the American Revolution that all the military was basically disbanded because of the sentiments from before the American Revolution, who had a Standing Army at that time that was stationed in the United States. The british, with that idea still fresh in their mind, they realize they didnt want a Standing Military. We started having problems overseas. American merchant ships were being attacked in the mediterranean. We realized we needed that Standing Military. And more i
Coast and bay. Wood enjoying breakfast this morning in inverness. 58 and overcast. It is overcast on blossom hill and warmer at 62. Yesterday was 78 degrees. I dont expect it to be much different today. Maybe 79. Low clouds in place and filling in nicely. In fact, temperatures starting off in the 40s, 50s, 60s. Average 67 in San Francisco. So above on both but not too much. 50s and 60s have been the norm all morning long due to the cloud cover. Woodside at 49 degrees. 55 seems popular. Hillsborough in there. Atherton. Menlo park. Stanford, los altos hills. Pacifica, 54. West, west, west. You get the idea. The west wind is in place. The low clouds will burn back and we will have 60s, 70s and 80s. These are below average, the inland temps. 7 01. Sal, how is the traffic. Lets talk about the east shore freeway and talk about the traffic time. 31 minute drive between the carquinez bridge and the macarthur maze. Not a bad one. Slowing in richmond and el cerrito. Gets better by the time that
I am peter carmichael. I am a professor of history here. I am also the director of the Civil War Institute. Its my pleasure this evening to welcome harold holzer. He is the director of Hunter Colleges roosevelt house Public Policy institute. You dont have an acronym for that, do you . Before coming to the roosevelt house he previously served an Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at the metropolitan museum of art. For the previous ten years he coedited or, excuse me, cochaired the u. S. Abraham lincoln bicentennial and appointed by president clinton and i should add president bush awarded harold the National Humanities medal in 2008. Harold has authored or coauthored or edited 52 books. Thats what youre up to now. I know you think ive read 52 books in my life. His latest major book is lincoln and the power of the press were the war for Public Opinion. It has won the lincoln prize as we know sponsored by Gettysburg College. Just this week i saw it was announced that harold has been