Casts. Next on American History tv Richard Belle talks about the declaration of independence. The Smithsonian Associates hosted this event. Dr. Bell presented many outstanding programs for us on topics relating to early American History and the American Revolutionary period in the course of the past several years. He got his degree from the university of cambridge. He is an associate professor of history in college park where he specializes in early American History. The American Society of 18th century studies be stowed thash course design award on the under graduate course. And his book, stolen, it is a true story about five boys kidnapped in the north and smuggled into slavery in the deep south and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice being published in october. So thank you again for joining us, and help many welcome dr. Rick bell. Thanks to heather and cspan for covering this. Many of you will not be surprised to hear my strange accent which is not a m
Prizewinning biographer jon meacham look at American History through song. [inaudible conversations] please welcome tim mcgraw and jon meacham. [applause] hey, guys, how are ya . [applause] hi, how are you . Good morning. Im the old guy up here [laughter] so history, as you all know, is about words. Thats why youre here. The stately rhythms of the declaration of independence, the cadences of the constitution, but its also about sounds. Its about the muffled drum at lexington and concord and the sound of the surf at omaha beach, the sound of a minister at the march on washington calling on us to live up to the full mean being of our creed. And its also about music. And music is one of the most universe aral expressions. You can listen to a song with which you might disagree more congenially than you could ever listen to a speech about something with which you disagree. Absolutely. You know, as sure as the patriots were carrying their swords and their guns, they were carrying their pens,
The social science division. He received his masters and phd in history from the university of south carolina. Around, he is an avid fan. He has been a member of the faculty since 2005. He previously taught history at Jefferson Davis Community College. Some do not associate the Community College with scholarly production of writing and research. He proves the addition to the academic discussion of history and events is alive and well in Community College. This is his third book to be published. He has appeared on syndicated programs in support of those works. He has published Opinion Pieces on current events. While doing all that, he and his wife have found time to raise a family. They have a son and three daughters. I know they are very busy. We need to get on with the reason we are here tonight. I am pleased to introduce the author of the Founding Fathers guide to the contribution constitution, brion mcclanahan. [applause] brion how are you doing . Great. Thank you for coming, i appr
Second sentence of the declaration of independence. We hold these truths to be selfevident that all men are crated equal, they are endowed by their crater with certain unalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty and the bridges of happiness. The pursuit of happiness. Uit of happiness. Governments are instituted among men. Whenever any form of government becomes detruktive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and Institute New government, laying its f i expect that all of you are not surprised by how long the sentence is. But as i have gone around the country talking about the declaration over and over again people have expressed surprise at just how long the sentence is. It is important to recognize that there are two moment happiness appears in the sentence. We are talking about individual rights and down at the end of the sentence when we come to the peoples responsibility for organizing government in such form, as to them shall seem most likely t
Mutual admiration. Lets go over to karen rogers and david murphy. David you were not joking about the strong storms. Reporter there are storms out to the west, not only west of philadelphia, but weve got watch boxes that have been pushing through the region in the overnight hours and had some issues with that, actually as we went through the afternoon and evening and Tornado Warning in the western suburbs. As we look at situation with Storm Tracker 6 live double scan you can see there are showers and thunderstorms just to the west of philadelphia in the western suburbs and some of these are producing 30mile an hour wind gusts and drenching downpours, some of this appears to be heading for wilmington and philadelphia could catch this, as well. Western Chester County could get it first, western pennsylvania thunderstorm activity out there. Temperatures are warm, not as warm as yesterday. 76 in philadelphia. 72 in allentown him 72 in trenton. 77 in wilmington, and 77 in cape may. As we ro