Talking about today. The project is founded by the National Endowment for the humanities, the largest grant awarded in the last year for which we are eternally grateful. I thought i would tell you a few words about the institute and what we do and how we came to do this project. The Gilder Lehrman institute is rather young. It was founded in 1994. The mission is to promote the knowledge and understanding of American History through programs and resources. At the present time, we have 65,000 documents in the Gilder Lehrman collection which is the core of our programming. The collection is drawn upon to do programs, outreach, to contribute to a website visited by 7 million people, and also to support a network of 6500 affiliates to whom we send materials on a monthly basis, as well as teachers and seminars. It is the collection that really gives us the capacity and ability to bring people facetoface with primary documents and engage in understanding the people, events, and controversies
I am the president and ceo of the u. S. Capital Historical Society and a former member of congress from connecticut. This evening we pay tribute, as i mentioned, to linmanuel an extraordinarily talented composer, lyricist, playwright, and at her. Actor. As a Historical Society we usually honor historians. Last year we honor David Mccullough with our Freedom Award. This year we honor an artist to transform history into the hit musical, hamilton. Score, catchy lyrics and contemporary choreography, americans of all generations and back wells are learning about Alexander Hamilton and ehrenberg, and how their conflicting vision shaped our young country. Grapple wither we some of the same issues. Fork you Linmanuel Miranda making history, alive through the performing arts. This evening we are honored to have the democratic leader with speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. Madam speaker i and fault i invite you to the podium to say a few words. [applause] Speaker Pelosi good afternoon, everyone
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, members of the senate who are here, members of the house of representatives, and all who have come here tonight to join with us as we celebrate the awarding of the Freedom Award to Linmanuel Miranda. I am the president and ceo of the u. S. Capital Historical Society and a former member of congress from connecticut. This evening, we pay tribute, as i mentioned, to Linmanuel Miranda, an extraordinarily talented composer, lyricist, playwright, and actor. As a Historical Society, we usually honor historians. Last year, we honored David Mccullough with our Freedom Award. This year, we honor an artist to transformed history into the hit musical, hamilton. With a hiphop score, catchy lyrics and contemporary choreography, americans of all generations and backgrounds are learning about Alexander Ehrenberg and burr, and how their conflicting vision shaped our young country. 200 years later, we grapple with some of the same issues. Thank you, Linmanuel Miranda,
In their time. Because everybody knew there was a Northwest Passage to the pacific ocean. There was a water way to get across this country. And because they failed to find that, they were considered failure. Later on in 1742, two of his sons. Louis and francois traveled further south and further west than they had previously. And on the return trip, they stopped at the con fluns of in missouri river. In this vicinity. And on a bluff over looking what is the present city of fort peer buried a led plate claiming the region for france. That does more than anything set the french control of this particular area. The beauty as it was saved, it could have been melted away and never found it. Here people can actually look at the plate and understand this is the first time in 1743 that we know there were nonindians in the area. And it caused a great deal of kpa excitement in the city at the time. And History Community and people doing further research on what the veredrye brothers were up to.
Meet the woman charming prince charming. The Invictus Games hero prince harry couldnt wait to celebrate. Good luck. I mean its going to be amazing. I cant wait to give you your medal. Thank you. The swimmer taking home four golds. Why she decided to give one back to the prince. And good morning, america. Happy thursday. Lets take another look at this right now. Smiles going on, a couple kisses right there. The internet explodes. Maybe found a new girlfriend. These games as you know are so incredibly special. Four gold medals for that young woman and i had a conversation with prince harry about the Invictus Games and the first lady. She called him prince charming. Looks like he found a hero just as charming. Why she gave it back and who she wants to give it to. Having a lot of fun with that. We begin with that big meeting with donald trump coming facetoface with paul ryan this morning. The unity of the Republican Party possibly at stake. Abcs tom llamas is on capitol hill with the lates