Statehood in 1860. After a few years, it became obvious we needed a new capital city in the middle, so we built one, we built the city of indianapolis here on the white river, and we have had two statehouses here. Actually, contest, when they were building this particular building. They were replacing a building that had not been well built, and they had torn that building down. They had a number of architects submit the drawings. This particular blueprint by an wpnitect called edwin may the won the contest. This building is primarily made of Indiana Limestone, and Indiana Limestone is used around the country. The Empire State Building is Indiana Limestone. The pentagon, the biltmore mansion, Yankee Stadium are made of Indiana Limestone. We are proud of that, its a big industry in indiana. The building is built to last a long time, it has been here 130 one years and i suspect it will be here another 131 years and longer. The statehouse opened in 1888, built at a cost of less than 2 bil
The cspan cities tour is withg the american support from our spectrum cable partners. Coming up, we will visit noted locations and speak to experts about the citys history. Among the programs, Robert F Kennedys visit on the night of Martin Luther kings assassination. What we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness. We learn about the contributions of millionaire businesswoman madam cj walker. Visit to the indianapolis motor speedway, home of the indy 500. We begin our special feature at the home of our 23rd president , Benjamin Harrison. There was a little stupid at the front door which is still there and he stood at that area and crowds of people would come to hear him speak. He is one of the most unknown president s. 23rd president. He falls in the middle of Grover Cleveland. Oftentimes people find him confused with his grandfather, William Henry harrison. Benjamin harrison was only seven years old when his grandfather died. He served a full four years. As president
Indianapolis became the capital in 1825. We had a couple of other cities in indiana that served as capitals. Vincennes, indiana on the wabash river, it was the capital of the indiana territory, and then we moved the territorial capital to a city called cordon, and it on the ohio river and it became the capital when indiana gained statehood in 1860. After a few years, it became obvious we needed a new capital city in the middle, so we built one. We built the city of indianapolis here on the white river, and we have had two statehouses here. They had a contest, actually, when they were building this particular building. They were replacing a building that had not been well built, and they had torn that building down. They had a number of architects submit the drawings. This particular blueprint by an architect called edwin may won the contest. This building is primarily made was under construction for 10 years, 1878 through 1888. This building is primarily made of Indiana Limestone, and
Yet thats exactly what just happened with the dow slipping just 143 points. The nasdaq backsliding a meager 0. 28 . Even though the price of crude spiked more than 10 gigantic, gigantic gain. How the heck is that even possible how could we have so many stocks that rallied on the news simple were a changed country. We have so much oil in this country and we have a lot of stocks that now do better with Higher Oil Prices and as well we have a lot of stocks that thrive if higher oil causes the economy to slow. The United States of today looks a lot different from the United States of even ten years ago first lets understand it looks like iran launched drone strikes that wiped out a huge chunk of saudi arabias Oil Infrastructure and theyre the biggest exporter in the world. That sent the price soaring, the biggest gain in 11 years and that translates into higher gasoline which means consumers have less money to spend on going out to shop. So we have it making per secretary sense. Theyve had
1 00. Announcement before you head off to lunch. We are going to have two sets of concurrent sessions. One set is at 1 00 and another at 2 30 p. M. They will be held in the ballroom and others will be in two other academic holdings on campus. You will see them marked on your map. They are not very far away from here. Because of the construction, you are going to have to go down this way. This is American History tv on cspan3. For the next hour, we will take a tour of the monuments of gettysburg with two guides who coauthored a book. They have been giving tours of the gettysburg battles field for many years. They recently coauthored a field guide to gettysburg. We joined them to learn the story of the three day battle. We begin with the battle started on july 1, 1863. This is a lincoln highway in pennsylvania. Carol hello. I am carol reardon. Im a scholar and resident of the civil war era center. With me as colonel tom foss ller. Tom and i have led many programs around battlefields at g