The museum of american finance. Our partner is the Alexander Hamilton awareness society, an organization you turn to for all things hamilton. We welcome the leadership. As well as friends of the museum doug hamilton, dan simon, suzy pock in the house. Mike newton, our founder and former board chair john herzog and seth cowler brought amazing hamilton documents you should check out afterwards. And, of course, the cspan audience. Now some 20 years ago our board chair wrote me a note that started with the words a stroke of luck. He was introduced to a buffalo phd candidate interested in Alexander Hamilton. This is well before the show and there were people interested in hamilton, very fuf us that were doing a deeper dive on the financial aspects of his vision. And our first look at bob was this phd thesis. 1300 pages. That is staggering. His is 1,000 more. It led to the first quip about bob he is cant hold his ink. Well, fast forward some 20 years. He got 20 more books that hes either aut
National debt. The Alexander Hamilton society and museum of finance host this. Welcome, as the commemoration of Alexander Hamilton continues. I am the president of the American Museum on american finance. Our partner today is the Alexander Hamilton awareness society, an organization that you turn to for all things hamiltonian. We welcome their leadership, rand, mariana and tom, nicole, sergio, as well as friends of the museum, doug hamilton, dan simon, susie pock in the house. Mike newton, our founder and former board chair, john herzog. And seth caller has brought some amazing original hamilton documents you should check out afterwards. And of course the cspan audience. Now some 20 years ago our board chair professor Richard Sylla wrote me a noke that started with the words a stroke of luc. He had been introduced to a sunni buffalo ph. D. Candidate who was very interested in Alexander Hamilton and early American Financial history. You have to remember, this is well before the show, al
And black students going to different schools. The big question is can they get along together . Something one word about our kids, i am not. Seen kids like these in trouble, real trouble. It happened quite a few years ago over at fairgrounds park, just across the street. [tense music] [mournful music] narrator of what we didnt know, we do not understand. That which we did not understand, it was feared. Here, the beginning of hate. Yet there was no reason to hate. St. Louis was a quiet city. We all used the same library, the same parks and the same railroad station. Public transportation. And what did we really share in common . These children did not know each other. They could get up in the morning and ride the same bus to school, but they were strangers. At only one natural meeting place, the Public School, that was all they had. What goes through a childs mind when he learns that he is equal but separate. Separate from the norm . And for the teacher of segregated classes, there wer
Chair. Thell turn it over to manual introduce our chairman of the board. Hello everyone. It is not nice to see so many people here celebrating best 261st0 birthday. Augmenting interpretive programming there. Special thanks to david callan and nizam of American Finance staff for host into this program. This is the seventh year where we partnered with both exhibits. We think museum for that. Cspans American History tv continues is valuable role in sharing the key historical record nationwide. Three initiatives have happened in the last year in part of celebrating hiltons birthday to ensure a more accurate understanding of who he was. Hamiltons birthday. The city tavern in philadelphia, that had all of the Founding Fathers except for him, that has been remedied. Another moment in june of last year, hamilton was inducted into the new york state writers hall of fame. And major news for the first time to be announced publicly. New discoveries related to Alexander Hamiltons life are now being
The Republican Party has been beat in the 1892 election. Grover cleveland has come into office, mcclellan has been the governor of ohio. The republicans think that the election of 1896 is going to be dares and he wants to be the nominee, but is not the front runner. Hes not the favor of the party bosses. Next, artist Joel Iskowitz tells the stories behind designing a congressional gold medal. He spoke at the museum of American Finance in new york city, for just over an hour. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome, welcome to our friends from the cspan audience and what that means for our audience is during the q a period please wait for the microphone sorry one can hear. I am david cowan, president of museum of American Finance and im joined by the founder in the audience today. I will show you one of our most cherished items in this is a bond from about 220 years ago signed by the father of our country, George Washington. This is George Washingtons bond and then about 60 years ago this is