A good evening and welcome to the strand bookstore. I am and nancy the owner. Force in history the strand was founded in 1927 by my grandfather and it was founded in an area known as book row that ran along Fourth Avenue from after place to union the square and at its height in houston 488 bookstores and ran from about the 1880s until about 1960 and in the 90 years since then all of the stores have shuttered leaving strand to be passed down by my father fred and now to me and will hopefully be kept in the family, so thank you all for being supporters and readers. Tonight, very excited to welcome the power couple composed of scientific research, doctor Kelly Weinersmith who gushes work with parasite has been published in numerous scientific journals and awardwinning cartoonist Zach Weinersmith known for his daily web comic, saturday morning breakfast club. It has won the web cartoonist choice award for outstanding single panel comic, multiple times in this dynamic duo has been working t
Branches of the human race, a believe in a supreme being and the family. A person isd depends on the surrounding in which he grows up. The way we behave comes from something called cultural experience, or environment. You can watch this and other American History programs on our cspan. Org history. On American History tv, political economy professor and author Robert Wright discusses Alexander Hamiltons views on the National Debt, and imagines how he would have addressed the current debt. According to the treasury department, the debt is now over 19 trillion. The Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society and the museum of American Finance cohosted this event. It is a little over an hour. Welcome, everyone. I am president of the museum of American Finance. Our partner is the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society and you turn to them for all things hamiltonian. We turn it to friends of the museum. We have wrought some amazing documents you should check out afterwards. We thank the cspan audien
Ive got a question. This . Me we live like and it wasnt always that way. For instance, at a stage of history with the socalled. Pure whites of Northern Europe were little better than savages, Eastern Africa had flourishing cultures, and the great civilization of northern china had begun to develop. All people contributed to civilization, reaching high levels at different times, each learning from the experience of the other. But there were certain basic ideas that were common to all branches of the human race, a belief in a supreme being, the home and the family. , how civilized a person is depends on the surroundings in which he grows up. The differences in the ways people behave are not inherited from their ancestors. They come from something called cultural experience or environment. You can watch this and other American History programs on our website where all of our video is archived. That is cspan. Org history. Next on American History tv, political economy professor and author
We have brought some amazing documents you should check out afterwards. We thank the cspan audience. 20 years ago, our board chair wrote me a note that started with the words a stroke of luck. Had been introduced to a buffalo phd candidate. He was interested in early American Financial history. This was before the show. Very few people were interested in hamilton. There were very few of us that were doing a deeper dive into the financial aspects of his vision. His phd thesis, 1300 pages. That is staggering. Perspective, mine was a paltry 300 and his was 1000 more. It led to the first quit about bob. He cant hold his ink. Skip forward 20 years, he has 20 more books he has authored or coauthored. That led to another quip, he writes books faster than we can read them. To add to that five at volumes, the five scholarly articles, many have received awards. I am only at page 10 of his 47 page cv. Its an incredible document you should check out at his webpage. I see pictures of him with fishi
Cspan 2. And a full meeting in the rules committee and another tomorrow beginning at 10 30, that will be on cspan3. Waiting for the house to gavel back in. Several votes here on cspan. We are expecting the house to gavel back in shortly. Votes next. Resumehe and takthe ha. E chair the commite of the whe houson the state of the union for furtr consideration of h. R. 3326 h the clerk will report by title. Trk a ill to to increae countabilityombat Management Effectivenessthe orld bank. Thair when the commite ofhe wholeose earlier today,mendment number 3 printed in part a of house repo11518 byhe geneman from ntuckymr. Barr, had een disposed thchair pursut to clause 6, rule 18,he unfind is request formendment numb 2 and by the gentlemanrom virgin, mr. Clly on whic further prdings were poponed a the yeas pvail voic vote. The clerk amendment number 2 printed in hoe 115518 fered by mr. Connolly of virginia. The air those in support of the requet for a recordevote willise. A sufficient nuer hav