And the character that he developed over a lifetime, and if you think about what weve done for the duration of this course, weve brought him into the story intermittently throughout. Whether its talking about individual battles or whether its talking about how he organized men or how he kept men he recruited men to get them to maintain or stay in the service. And one of the things i try to get across whenever im talking about washington is that washington is a bit of an inenia to a modern audience. Why . Because we really dont know who he was, what he was, how he looked. I mean, when i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every ten years or so about 700 political scientists and historians across the country, they rank our president s. Now, who knows how our current president is going to rank. But nonetheless, whenever those rankings come out, generally these three guys here rank at the top. Sometimes it will be lincoln. Sometimes it will
And one of the things i try to get across whenever i am talking about washington, is that washington is a bit of an enigma to a modern audience. Why . Because we dont really know who he was, how he was, how he looked. I mean, when i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every 10 years or so, about 700 political scientists and historians across the country, they rank our president s. Now who knows how our current president is going to rank, but nonetheless, whenever those rankings come out, generally these three guys here rank at the top. Sometimes it will be lincoln. Sometimes it will be washington. Sometimes it will be fdr, but the interesting thing about this is we do not know what george really looked like. We have images of lincoln. Photographed images. And you can follow those photographs over time and see how he changed, how he aged. Of course we have images of fdr. We even have images of him in his wheelchair. Generally the press di
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Little easier to cope with the tragedy. I hope those people pay for it, you know. Reporter that was lizettes uncle and her father you just heard. Now theyre having to plan a funeral and also attend an arraignment tomorrow. Now were learning more about those two suspects who are now behind bars and new information about what happened. Authorities say 19yearold Lizette Cuesta of tracy was the young woman stabbed and left on the side of rural tesla road. She survived for quite a bit of time against tremendous odds and was left there for dead. Reporter but before she died her last words to investigators, the names of the two people who she said killed her. Now behind bars, 19yearold daniel gross and 25yearold melissa leonardo. The pair are reportedly in a relationship. They were arrested in modesto. Investigators say the suspects and victim knew one another. On the night of this incident lizette got into the car with the suspects consensually, as they knew each other. Were also now trying
Expansion. Among the the luminous records of the federal courts europe the National Archives, are hundreds of freedom suits. Cases brought by slaves seeking to obtain their freedom. One such case initiated by dred scott in 1846 made it all the way to the Supreme Court where the final decision became one of the most infamous decisions of thethe history of the court. Our guest today looks at three notable precivil war Supreme Court justices and how the uphill the institution of after rolling. Ng the first, chief justice of the states, John Marshall. Joseph story and chief Justice Roger came. Paul finkelman is the president of grants college in greater philadelphia. Before taking this position he held the fulbright chair in human rights and social justice at the university of ottawas school of law. He has held a number of endowed chairs and was a tenured professor including the chair in american legal history at the duke law school. He authored more than 200 scholarly authors including th