Podcasts. Each week american artifacts takes to museums and Historic Places to learn about history. Next we visit the trail of tears gallery at the National Museum in washington, d. C. Which looks at the debate of the 1830 indian removal act and impact on southern tribes. The associate curator leads us through the gallery after an introduction in the american exhibit which examines how indian imagery is previous leal products. The exhibition is built on a paradox, a riddle. The paradox is this. In 2018 the United States is a country of 230 Million People and American Indians are perhaps 1 of that population. Most americans live in urban areas, suburban areas, parts of the country where they never actually see American Indians. Yet an American Daily life, indian images, place names, advertising, mascots, surround people every single day. So the show is about exploring this strange contradiction of how prevalent American Indians are in American Life, really from the earliest memories of
Tgsds and here, here is the thing that shaped the trade more than anything else altogether. This tick, a lovely little creature, and then it harbored a three micron large protozoan, a tiny Little Critter inside the belly of this tick. Now, this tick thrived in the southern regions of the United States, in the southern portions of texas but also in mississippi and louisiana, georgia, florida, and what this tick would do, it latches on to the cattle. It would latch onto deer and horses as well, and then it would release this protozoan into the bloodstream of the cattle. In the south, the long horns and the cherokee cattle both developed immunities to this tick. The mothers milk gave those calves enough immunity where they could survive. They would be they would be touched by this disease, but they would survive it and grow into adulthood. This protozoan, when it got into the bloodstream of an animal that wasnt protected by the antibodies that its mother had given it, it would directly at
Economics and engages in dialogue, learning and leadership in the intersection of markets, businesses, governments and society and accountable capitalism and trust. And how do we ensure we have the right laws and policies in place and hold government accountable. We have honored to have senator sherrod brown, somebody who cares passionately about the issues that we focus on and care pabl. And the directors and myself testamented about banking leg lags that senator brown shared from 2011 to 2015. And once again, faces a great many challenges, similar and some different from the financial crisis. I look forward to hearing senators perspective on how we got here and how we can go from here. Senator brown has dedicated his career to the words of dr. Martin luther king major calls it dignity of work. Let me give you a few examples how he puts the mantra in practice. The senator often wears a pin of a canary in a cage as a symbol of the days when miners brought canaries with them in a coal m
We the people podcast and i cant wait to share her work and her insights with you. Lindsay, welcome to americas town hall. Thank you so much for having me. And Edward Larsen holds the hue and hazel darling chair in law and is University Professor of history at pepperdine university, he is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in history and coauthor of 14 books, several of them on George Washington and the founders and his newest book is franklin and washington, the founding partnership. It is great to welcome you to the National Constitution center. Thanks for having me back if only virtually. Well it is just great. And im so eager to learn from both of you and with both of you in the spirit of louie brandize, let us reason together, let the learning begin. Okay. Ed, lets begin with you because you have this powerful pairing of the two founders you consider the first among the founders, washington and franklin. You note that they are labelled first and second in the most famous portrait o
Director of the civil war era studies program. He did his graduate work in history at the university of pennsylvania, where he focused on the history of religion. He also has holds a master of divinity degree. His roster of publications is so long that im not going to even try to read them all to you. You can go to allen guelzo. Com and get a full accounting of not only his publications, but other salient elements of his biography and doings. What im going to do here is mention five books that i think are especially pertinent to what well be doing this afternoon, and ill just read it. Abraham lincoln redeemer president , 1998 and won the first of allens lincoln prizes. Lincolns emancipation proclamation, end of slavery in america, published by simon and schuster in 2004 brought him his second lincoln prize. Lincoln and douglas that defined america, simon and schuster 2008 for some reason didnt win the lincoln prize. Fateful lightning, new history of the civil war and reconstruction cam