Eastern on cspans q and a. Arizona State University professor Jonathan Barth teaches a class about the rise of Andrew Jackson and his presidency. It focuses on jacksons clashes with wig Party Members henry clay and any webster and the bank wars of the 1830s. Class is about 55 minutes. Good morning everybody, and welcome to american history. Y name is Jonathan Barth you all know me as professor barth. I am a history professor at arizona State University, in conjunction with two stellar, worldclass programs, and there they are on the screen. The school of historical, philosophical, and religious studies, great program. And then also the center for political thought and leadership, another Stellar Program if this lecture intrigues you. You should check out our center. We are doing some big things. If you are interested in morning in learning more about yours , www. Professorbarth. Com, you can read about me on that website. Politicians have passed. Alexander hamilton died in a duel in 180
River. Of next week will take you to a wake church where the party held its First National convention in 1839 where the hig party held its First National convention in 1839. The election of 1840 was very election. Inal the springch of talking about how contested elections work and how critical it was to be there setting the rules. That happened here first. We are at the church, which is to say the 1830 nine convention here in harrisburg. The whig party was basically a loose conglomeration of divergent political views that agreed on one thing that under the administration of president Andrew Jackson, executive power had just not in way out of control gotten way out of control. In fact, that is where the name came from. The whigs named themselves after a group that was opposed to king during the revolution. They were opposed to king andrew of his minions. Otherwise, they did not agree on much. The whigs were made up of the conservative faction in the country. Of ais a little bit misnomer
Bank wars of the 1830s. Class is about 55 minutes. Good morning everybody, and welcome to American History. My name is jonathan barth. You all know me as professor barth. I am a history professor at Arizona State university, in conjunction with two stellar, worldclass programs, and there they are on the screen. The school of historical, philosophical, and religious studies, great program. And then also the center for political thought and leadership, another Stellar Program if this lecture intrigues you. You should check out our center. We are doing some big things. If you are interested in in learning more about yours truly, www. Professorbarth. Com, you can read about me on that website. A generation of politicians have passed. Alexander hamilton died in a duel in 1804. James madison, pictured on the right, retired from politics and dies in 1836. John adams and Thomas Jefferson die on the same day, july 4, 1826, 50 years to the day of the signing of the declaration of independence. P
We are in the name of design lutheran church, which is to say the 1839 convention here in harrisburg. Was basically a loose conglomeration of all sorts of divergent political views, but agreed on one thing. That under the administration of president andrew jackson, executive power had just gotten way out of control. That is rather name came from. The whigs named themselves after the daysge iii back in of the revolution. So they were against king andrew all of his dominions. Otherwise they didnt agree on much. The whigs were made up of the conservative faction in the country. Thats a little bit of a misnomer because, for example, back then the democrats were the hard money people. The whigs where the soft money people, which is totally reversed right now. Were made up of it was a whole conglomerate trade you had probank, antiunited hades bank, you antislavery. You had antimasons thrown into the mix. As ive said, the greatest unifying factor of the party was in opposition to the expansio
Include i had a piece of information that bob woodward wanted. I didnt articulate to myself. But when i looked back and i asked myself why i did this bad and stupid thing. I think thats what it comes down to. Sunday night, Georgetown University professor talks about working as a researcher and government writer for Hillary Clinton and bob woodward in her ook. I resisted. I spoke in general terms what it was like being in the white house and i told them the story about being in the room during this unusual exercise. I told them you cant use it. There were only these two women in the room who were doing this. These two guests and one or two staffers and mrs. Clinton. If you use it, everybody will know that i was the source. And i was very worried about that. But i trusted them. Sunday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. For the next hour, American History tv exclusive. Our cities tour visits harrisburg, pennsylvania to learn more about its unique history. For five years we traveled to