I think that we are going to cast off here shortly, but were going to go ahead and start. A brief history on the canal. It definitely doesnt go all the way up to the ohio river. We wanted to connect the Eastern Shore which with what was considered the west, ohio, pennsylvania, that area. We wanted to connected to the bay, so we did was we stern building the canal. We started earlier with a George Washington dream to use the river, back then it was seen as a reasonable thing to do so we went ahead and had a canal system built on that side by using left to get around the great falls and river. Although it wasnt very reliable usage. It didnt have long time use. It was kind of broken. That were very well. We went to head and took his, dream built a canal right next to the river so we could use that water source but have something that is more controlled and reliable, compared to the potomac river, because you took a boat over the falls, he probably wouldnt last very long. So we took this c
Good evening and welcome ia and chelsea with a good time to be born how Public Health gave children a future talking with Andrew Solomon. Before we start want to say a huge thanks to the team for making this happen and all of you for showing up we cannot host events without the community of authors and readers we are grateful for your support and to make this conversation so now just some housekeeping and the webinar tonight the speakers cannot see or hear you but you can see account of fellow attendees. A couple functions that you can find at the bottom of the window one is labor chat you can post comments and thoughts in the chat thats a great way to show your appreciation for the author have a specific question please post the and the q a module we will pull questions only from the q a to be answered in the later part of the program. And tonight. [chanting] book a good time to be born and to find actual shopping between noon and 7 00 p. M. Not everyday of the week and you can purcha
Next, legal and tax historian discusses is both making the modern american fiscal state. Law, politics and the rise of progressive taxation. 1877 to 1929. He explains how and why the United States shifted from generating most of its revenue from aggressive consumption taxes to a more direct and progressive tax on income with the passage of the 16th amendment. The National Archives center for legislative archives posted this event in december 2014. Thank you for attending todays researcher talk. Im richard mcculley, todays top is the last of 2014. A year when weve really been treated to some splendid presentations by some of the centers most significant researchers. That said, we end the year with a bang and todays guest will discuss his significant and timely book, making the modern american fiscal state. Law, politics and the rise of progressive taxation, 1877 to 1929. Published by Cambridge University press. We will resume this talk on january 15th when we host rebecca edwards. Profe
We should not lose sight of what that means for people who are still struggling and the fact we still have a very deep hole to climb out of. The socalled [inaudible] workers at the low end distribution hedonic options to work from home and federal health is already fading away. Nasa been said about what this means for cities and as we see hollowed out downtowns with your workers coming in, buying lattes and what 115th congress has called any service that depends on a smile what does that mean for city revenues . One estimate suggests especially in high rent districts, employment is still at 45 of precovid levels. We arere about to explore the sinks a bigger graph of blog, my colleagues have a blog looking at what this means for cities and look at how really depends on state revenue structure, well exposure to covid as as the highly uncertain federal policy response. If i could get the next slide, please. There we go. The point of a blog is really going into this were a lot of things we
The man who didnt get it, charles hughes, Supreme Court justice, all but won the election in 1915. In fact, when president Woodrow Wilson went to bed the night Election Night, he thought he was beaten. If he would have been elected how American History goes in several different directions, on suffrage for women, civil rights. What does he do on Foreign Policy . Germany baited us into war. Hes the one you could write novels about. Charles evans hughes who is on the Supreme Court and then left the Supreme Court when he ran for president and then went back on the Supreme Court. One of the finest minds on the court. Fellow justice called Charles Evans hughes, the greatest in our great line of chief justices. Why hughes . Robert jackson provided part of the answer when he was attorney general. Jackson said that hughes, quote, looks like god and talks like god, end quote. 1916 footage of charles hughes, that years president ial nominee campaigned soon after the Republican National convention