Studies institute. I began our institute back in 1995. The institute was born in the midst of the controversy around the enola gay exhibit which was going to be held at the Smithsonian Institution but got canceled. This was an attempt by the smithsonian to do an honest and balanced exhibit about the decision to drop the bomb and the consequence of the atomic bombing. This was in 1995, the 50th anniversary. The smithsonian a civic got canceled. The museum in hiroshima and nagasaki asked to bring some of those artifacts to American University and do an exhibit here on the 50th anniversary. While we were planning this, the museum, and your shame and nagasaki, asked that we would bring some of the artifacts to the American University. That was the first time that the abombma and nagasaki museums didnt exhibit as an japan. They have been doing it ever since. This is the 20th anniversary of our exhibit and the 70th anniversary of the actual bombing. We decided to do it again at American Univ
Trenton was selected because of its location, even though we are not in the Geographical Center of the state. We are situated on the Delaware River. Equidistant between north jersey and south jersey. It made sense for trenton because trenton was a household name. It was made famous by George Washington and the battle of trenton, crossing the Delaware River. It was also a center of commerce. William trent had established trenton as a port town. A river port town. Hisould fail sail merchant ships as far as this point, up to the fall lines of the delaware. It made sense to bring government here. The building involved over the course of 200 years from 1792 to 1991. 10 different architects, 16 Major Construction projects. Where we are standing in the rotunda was completed in 1889. The first steakhouse was constructed between 1790 in 1792 by jonathan doan, he was the builder, an architect from philadelphia. He constructed a very simple, georgianstyle building. It cost 215 pounds, which is 40
Trenton was selected because of its location, even though we are not in the Geographical Center of the state. We are situated on the Delaware River. Equidistant between north jersey and south jersey. It made sense for trenton because trenton was a household name. It was made famous by George Washington and the battle of trenton, crossing the Delaware River. It was also a center of commerce. William trent had established trenton as a port town. A river port town. Hisould fail sail merchant ships as far as this point, up to the fall lines of the delaware. It made sense to bring government here. The building involved over the course of 200 years from 1792 to 1991. 10 different architects, 16 Major Construction projects. Where we are standing in the rotunda was completed in 1889. The first steakhouse was constructed between 1790 in 1792 by jonathan doan, he was the builder, an architect from philadelphia. He constructed a very simple, georgianstyle building. It cost 215 pounds, which is 40
Century culture and we talk about how the french and indian war are confused in the minds of most americans. It is a very complicated time to see that is why five years we would culturally british to not wanting to be british anymore and to breakaway and be one of the most liberal and a free governments in the world. The verruckt slides initially used by british troops who would have been cornered here in the french and indian war. Well the fighting was in new york and pennsylvania they needed a place to come and the wintertime. The british troops brought their troops into the eastern side of the countys and the french brother troops into quebec. They were quartered and taverns, both filled up pretty quickly and then the crown said i know we are not forcing the quarterly and peoples homes, it is wartime, we have to make concessions. You will be paid. Troops started showing up in peoples homes, they would stay there for the winter. A lot of people were not happy about it. With colonists
They were born. They were girls. They were old people. My definition of the newsboy is really broad. As one striker in 1899 says, these are negroes, old ladies, cripples and these are , my people. These are the ones selling newspapers in American Cities from the 1830s into the 1940s. What was life like for them . In a word, life was precarious for newsboys. Their earnings fluctuated with the headlines, the weather. They were vulnerable to violence and competition. At the same time, they had spending money. They had more leisure time because they worked during times when the paper would come out. So, you could gamble, go to the theater at night. They have the high and low of the business. Working hard, being vulnerable, but also enjoying themselves. What were their living arrangements like . Most lived at home with their parents. They had poor, workingclass, tenant apartments. They would sneak out near newspaper offices. Newspapers like to have them close at hand for extras, for work. A