Our distinguished speakers series. And we welcome our find speakers to the stage. [applause] i like to recognize and thank the trustees who have joined us this morning. Duty berkowitz, suzanne x, joel pickett and size sternberg. I want to thank each and every one of you and Michael Weisberg. How did you not appear on my list . In any event i would like to thank each and every one of you and thank you for all you do on behalf of New York Historical. I should say leading up to the weekend with history in a couple weeks i want to give special recognition to the chair of our chairmans counsel, and Michael Weisberg who is the beauty cochair along with suzanne pack, thank you. And thanks to the chairmans councilmembers who are with us tonight. This program lasts about an hour. The q a will be conducted on notecards, you should have gotten a written note card and pencil, my colleagues are going up and down the hour with notecards and pencils. Your questions on notecards will be collected late
Immigrant experience affected his political views. They also explain how hamilton have helped shift washingtons opinion of slavery. The New York Historical society hosted this hourlong event. [applause] tonights program is a lecture in american history. We think carl for his wonderful support, and it was like to recognize a few other people in the auditorium cured the heart of our public programs, as i think you all know, is the bernard and Irene Schwartz distinguished speaker series. Mr. Swartz also helped start the classic film series, now in its fifth year. It is growing and growing. Esther schwartz mr. Swartz, thank you so much. Lets give him a hand. [applause] i also want to recognize joel pickett, david, and the trustees and chairmans counsel for all the great work. Lets give them a hand, as well. [applause] the program will last one hour. We will have a question and answer session. We are doing the questions on cards, it works better and everyone gets a chance to ask questions a
Immigrant experience affected his political views. They also explain how hamilton have helped shift washingtons opinion of slavery. The New York Historical society hosted this hourlong event. [applause] tonights program is a lecture in american history. We think carl for his wonderful support, and it was like to recognize a few other people in the auditorium cured the heart of our public programs, as i think you all know, is the bernard and Irene Schwartz distinguished speaker series. Mr. Swartz also helped start the classic film series, now in its fifth year. It is growing and growing. Esther schwartz mr. Swartz, thank you so much. Lets give him a hand. [applause] i also want to recognize joel pickett, david, and the trustees and chairmans counsel for all the great work. Lets give them a hand, as well. [applause] the program will last one hour. We will have a question and answer session. We are doing the questions on cards, it works better and everyone gets a chance to ask questions a
Start he began it with us the bernard and irene shorts classic film series, now in its fifth year. And it is just growing and growing. So mr. Swartz, thank you so much. Lets give him a great hand. [applause] i also want to recognize joel pickett, davids elastic, trustees with us, and all the chairmans counsel for all the great work and support. Lets give them all a great hand, as well. [applause] so the program tonight will last an we will have a question hour. And answer session. We are doing the questions on cards. It works better, everyone gets a chance to ask questions, and we get a lot more questions covered. So you should have received a pencil and a card. If you have not, staff will go up and down the aisles with them , and then we will collect them and hand them to our moderator. There will be a formal book signing after the program, so please stay for the book signing. The books are for sale. In the museum store on the 77th street side. So we are so happy to welcome john steel
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