Musical guest patti smith. And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 735 steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, looking good. Looking great tonight. Welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. This is it, baby. [ cheers and applause ] we made it. Were here, thank you. Well, heres what people are talking about. I guess Hillary Clintons book what happened came out today. And i heard that its almost 500 pages long. [ light laughter ] unfortunately, the only person with enough time to read it is hillary clinton. Steve wow. [ laughter and applause ] jimmy they sold one copy. Steve one person. Jimmy yeah. Well, actually i heard that hilly will actually be signing books at a costco in connecticut. [ laughter ] its going to be awesome when someone gets to the front and goes, oh, i thought this was the line for cheese samples. Im sorry. [ laughter and applause ] can you sign a cheese sample . B
Ago and we were able to see him take some of the things and develop it and work it into his phd dissertation, which is the basis for his first book. He teaches at the university of miss and we are fortunate to have him come all the way up here from d. C. I want to thank the other people who made this a truly National Event with a scope that goes beyond this area code. We have a visitor from california and another wonderful. Riend from new york city for some reason, im forgetting your name john. Harvardesents the conservative conservancy. A real destination in Lower Manhattan for a study of the early congresses. Welcome to everybody, whether you came from near or far. [applause] paul thank you for that introduction. I would like to thank the u. S. Capital Historical Society were inviting me here today for top my talk today entitled congres first debate on slavery and race is going to attempt to demonstrate the central ways this First National congressional debate set the tone for these
With slavery and the definition of a citizen set the tone for race in america for the next seven decades. The u. S. Capitol society posted hosted this event. Its about one hour. Today, we are going to start with paul polgar, who is a longtime colleague of mine. He started interning with the First Federal congress project a long time ago. He is not sensitive about his age. He is too young to be that. What it seems like it was a long time ago and we were able to see him take some of the things and develop it and work it into his phd dissertation, which is the basis for his first book. A well grounded hope. He teaches at the university of mississippi. We are fortunate to have him coming all the way up here to th d. C. I want to thank the other people who made this a truly National Event with a scope that goes beyond this area code. We have a visitor from california, a good friend of ours, and another wonderful friend from new york city. For some reason, im forgetting your name. I am sorry
Of mine. He started interning with the First Federal congress project long time ago. He is not sensitive about his age. He is too young to be that it seems like it was a long time ago and we were able to see him take some of the things and develop it and work it into his phd dissertation, which is the basis for his first book. University of mississippi, now we are really, fortunate to have him come all the way up here from d. C. I want to thank the other people who made this a truly National Event with a scope that goes beyond this area code. We have a visitor from california and another wonderful friend from new york city. For some reason, im forgetting your name john. Who represents the harvard conservancy. A real destination in Lower Manhattan for a study of the early congresses. Welcome to everybody, whether you came from near or far. [applause] paul thank you for that introduction. I would like to thank the u. S. Capital Historical Society were for inviting me here today for my ta
To d. C. Before i bring him to the podium, i want to make this a National Event with a scope that goes beyond this area code. We have a visitor from california here, a good friend of ours, and another wonderful friend from new york city. For some reason, im forgetting your name. John. John mackateer, im sorry, john. He represents the harvard conservancy developing the federal hall site of where the First Federal congress met into a going thing, a real destination in Lower Manhattan for studies of the early congresses. So welcome to everybody, whether you came from near or far, and well welcome paul poglar. [ applause ] thank you, chuck, for that introduction. I would like to thank the Historical Society for inviting me here today. So my talk today entitled congresss first debate on slavery and race is going to attempt to demonstrate, really, the central ways that this First National congressional debate really set the tone for these larger issues of slavery and race as they would play