We know he did and he was attempting to put a marker down. This wont be forgotten and will come back. In the center we have the two africanamerican to served in the senate. By the muchrounded larger numbers of African Americans who served in the house. There is joseph rainey, the first africanamerican in the house. And it takes it all the way around to all of them who were there. I find it so poignant in that, when this was printed no one knew how long would it be. Did they think 20 years would be a long time . Did they think it would be just a moment. What did happen in this print it looks terribly damaged, like it has had a hard life. As if at some point someone took this and pasted it on probably a wall. Underneath that is wallpaper. Underneath the print and on top of the board is wallpaper. It was perhaps painted on someones wall. In sort of recognition of the things that happened. We acquired it in d. C. It may have never left the nations capital, unlike black representation that
This has been so much fun and everybody give yourselves around applause. You are all bill of rights rock stars so well you good job. Thank you so much. Thank you for hosting trivia game, madison. I feel like i did pretty i love it. It a good game. All right. Well see you all time by good afternoon, ladies. Gentlemen, welcome to historic St Johns Church, a National Historic landmark and welcome to our liberty or death reenactment. We have been producing reenactments here since the 1970s, and we are delighted that you have chosen to spend part of your day with us today as reverend wilmer mentioned, my name is steven wilson. I serve as the executive director for the St Johns Church foundation. We are a50 1 to 3 Nonprofit Organization that has been around since 1938. Weve been a minute our mission is twofold. It is education. It is Historic Preservation. We tell the story of the Second Virginia Convention and the importance of Patrick Henry. We do this through our Educational Programs like
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