He is talking about lets make peace with everybody else and go after these guys. Lets attack the apaches and end these raids on new mexico and other spanish settlements. What makes it so difficult to defend new mexico and other spanish settlements . What is the strategic difficulty . Sam . It is a big place. It is a large colony. It is thinly settled, so it is not densely populated. You have a large area with a lot of outlying ranches and small villages. What is the great danger for a Spanish Ranch in the 1750s . Yeah. Go ahead. The apaches could burn your house, do a little dance, and leave before anyone realized what was happening. Exactly. The spanish cannot keep a military force at every ranch in new mexico. They have all these dispersed settlements. All of these are highly vulnerable. The apaches are mobile. They can attack in outlying settlement and the spanish cannot do much about it. On page 308, he talks about the people of new mexico. Because of extreme poverty, they are wort
Fords as he sat in the president ial box with his wife mary, watching the popular comedy, our american cousin or go he died the next morning. We sat down to talk about the widow lincoln. Thats monday night at 9 30 p. M. Eastern on American History tv. All this month, the presidency, we will be focusing on the life and legacy of George Washington to mark the anniversary of his birth on february 22. Next, author hugh howard talks about portraits of George Washington. It explores the works of Gilbert Stuart and John Trumbull focusing on how the artist captured the spirit of the first president and how modern audiences can learn from washington. Mr. Howard is the author of the painters chair. George Washingtons Mount Vernon hosted this hourlong event. Good afternoon. My talk will be a little shorter than his introduction, i think but thank you. [laughter] my thanks to susan, the invitation for the miscellaneous arrangements. Michael and stephen. And coming to mount vernon is always a joy.
This by the way is not the Original Church. This church was torn down and replaced with this church in the exact spot similar to the Original Church in 1950. The pew was preserved where he and his family would sit. He would be listening to passage or any of girly you with the profitable it. This was the Original Church used up until the time of futile peter marshall. We preserved his memory through the lincoln window. These stain think less windows were dedicated 1968. Maybe in the end you can book to the one second in the last of lincoln standing in prayer which was his custom fitting in this pew during the services here. You probably past the hitching post out front. That would have been used by the president that would not have been moved. You may have heard the bells of this church, the lincoln chimes for a gift of the Robert Lincoln family, his son after robert died his wife and daughter presented the church in 1927 with the terms that were brought forward to the new church. It is
My talk will be a little shorter than his introduction, i think but thank you. [laughter] my thanks to susan, the invitation for the miscellaneous arrangements. Michael and stephen. And coming to mount vernon is always a joy. I feel like i have lots of friends here starting with mary and through carol and on and others. This is a uniformly welcoming place for scholars. And i have spent time in using the archives here. And coming here has been able to enabled me to write all of the significant portions of several books i have done concerning the general. I have also wanted to join such travelers of the past, who will follow me today and ellen tomorrow. You have a list of them. Almost all of these folks, i know their work and admire their work. And when you write books like this one, you can only do them because other people have closed the first and i like to think i bring something new to it. You are in for a treat. Now, as a narrative historian rather than a art historian or art histo
Speak for our ancestors because they no longer have a voice we understand that as ones that may be nagpra, officers for our tribes, but we also understand the importance of our communities knowing about this. When we do these, bringing home our ancestors, we oftentimes first speak to our community so that they are aware, and much has been spoken about the dangers of maybe bringing something home we are not aware of. We rely on prayer. We rely on our spirituality to guide us. Those words i spoke in our language, i was asking for that asking for that guidance and direction in our lives so that we can do what it is we need to do for the answer servers ancestors that have been disturbed. I spoke with our community about these things and how they can be looked at, and i put together some pictures, but not first without understanding that others may not view these as appropriate. I think for us, when we talk about the importance of educating one another, of listening to another, then we some