Colorado, we were talking once and he said, you know, historians only ask one question. And i said, yeah . Whats going on here . So i nodded and said, okay, thats the dumbest thing ive ever heard a smart man say. But hes actually right. Its really the only question you ask, you go back to this earlier time, the past is a foreign country, we go back to this time in the past and we look around and say, whats going on . Whats happening here . Whats going on with the California Gold rush . Lots of stuff. I hope youre getting that so far. But one thing thats happening is, the place itself the environment itself, the fundamentally transformed, we made. This is an episode in the american westward expansion, we start here on the Atlantic Coast and move across the country. A very Dramatic Development in 1845 to 1848 with the acquisition of texas and the oregon territory in the mexican secession. So by the 1848, with the purchase down here, we have to continuous 48 states. America expanded acros
On cspan three ondemand on cspan. Org or listen on the go on the cspan radio app. With the Senior Correspondent with the publication executive recently published a piece looking at federal employees were looking at how theyre being affected by covid19 good morning sir. Could you give us an update on where we are with positive cases . We have over 10000 thats growing pretty rapidly a lot around the front lines so their exposure is great and pretty elevated. Weve seen that climb it a pretty rapid rate. The Defense Department has a lot of positive cases, Veterans Affairs and healthcare employees have a lot of cases. The Postal Service is up there theyre up there every day interacting with customers and doing the rounds so that has left a fairly high exposure. We were talking about over 2 million federal employees here. I thats to be expected there would be someul cases. Youre talking say that top lines like thehe dod veterans Postal Service are their concerns there with the federal govern
Right . The tools, the techniques of slave owner power and well talk about the tools and techniques of power that were practiced by enslaved people. Watch history professors lead discussions on topics ranging from the American Revolution to september 11th. Lectures in history on cspan3, 8 00 p. M. Eastern and lectures in history is available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Cspan has around the clock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. Its available on demand. Watch white house briefings, updates from the governors and track the spread with interactive maps. Watch on demand, any time, unfiltered at cspan. Org coronavirus. Up next on cspan3, a conversation on the origins of u. S. Policies toward native americans. Focusing on the aftermath of the revolutionary war and the initiatives of George Washington. Well hear from the executive director for the study of George Washington library. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Good morning. If you
For a second to link this class to what we did last time. And last time we were talking about federalism and particularly the balance of power between states and localities. Now when people talk about federalism, they usually use the term to refer to the balance of power between the federal government and states. But last time we were talking about the debates between state and local level power. And those mirrored debates at the federal level and if anything they were much more contentious because so much governing authority was located in the states and localities. And what were talking about was a system of layered authority. Where states had control over the rights of citizens and the Public Interest. But they gave local areas Broad Discretionary Authority over a wide range of matters involving the Public Interest. So basically the states then handed over all of the discretion over this broad area of the Public Interest to local areas and so these jurisdictions that operated simult
Happy leap day. [laughter] what could be better than a bonus day and some real meaningful history content . Its like a double win for me. I love it. Im thrilled to have you all here to your museum of history and culture. My name is jamie bosket. I have the pleasure of being the president and ceo here. Im just going to kick it off. We have awesome speakers for this collaboration. But i will point out since i see some new faces that are not our usual here at this museum that you are gathered here today in the oldest Culture Institution in the commonwealth of virginia. We are older by about a decade than the smithsonian. We are older than half of the states of this country. In fact, and this is rather interesting to consider of the historical overlaps within the topic we approach today. Our first president of the Virginia Historical society was in fact chief justice John Marshall. He served from 1831 until his death just a few years later. But beyond that, and this happens to us so often