Alexander hamilton aside from the fact that it was the most extraordinary personal story among the Founding Fathers was that he seemed to be fading into obscurity. People were coming to regard him as a sort of second tier founding father. Most americans knew he was on the 10 bill, maybe that he had died in a duel with aaron burr, but that was about it. It seems comical that i was, felt as if i was lifting him out of obscurity. Now his name is on the marquee of a broadway show. Brian where were you at the time . What were you doing . Ron i just finished writing my biography of john d. Rockefeller, titan, and what happened i had done a series of books about moguls of the gilded age, and i found that when i would go out to give lectures, people in the audience would start shouting out, do vanderbilt next. Do carnegie next, and i really felt that i was becoming terribly stereotyped as this biographer of gilded age tycoons, and i decided that i wanted to switch periods. And so, Alexander Ha
Now, a conversation on the history of gun regulation and how the Second Amendment has been interpreted over the centuries. We will hear from a historian, and a law professor in this discussion from the National History center. Good morning and welcome. It is a pleasure to welcome you to this briefing hosted by the National History center. Im karen wolf, the executive director of the institute of Early American History and culture at william and mary, and also a professor of history at william and mary. I will be introducing todays speakers and moderating the cuban afterwards. Please note that we have distributed cards. They are on your chairs. The purpose is to facilitate the q a. Jeff is standing by. There is. Jeff he will collect those cards for any questions that you have and then i will managed to collate the cards and facilitate the discussion with the speakers. We are looking forward to be very valuable hour of presentation and discussion. This briefing is part of an ongoing seri
Dow futures are down by 40 s p futures down by 5. 5. If you want to take a look at the treasury market, the tenyear right now at this point, of course wti, i should point out, is down by 2 still trading above 24. The tenyear yielding 0. 7 0. 697 andrew well get an update on the pandemic the number of cases worldwide, crossing 4 million with 1. 3 million, thats in the United States the biggest hot spots in america are new york, new jersey, massachusetts and illinois all with more than 75,000 cases. Now, new yorks Governor Cuomo saying yesterday the number of new cases was back to the level from two months ago. Lots of good news there, when he first issued the shutdown order. Overnight, india, reported 4,200 new cases in the last 24 hours the largest single day increase in the country they are entering the final week of a nationwide lockdown a few cluster formed around nightclubs in south korea. They eased restrictions last week but on saturday, shut down all clubs, bars and discos in se
It is my pleasure to introduce our keynote session entitled ask the historian, Alexander Hamilton. Our speaker, historian joanne freeman. Dr. Freeman is a professor of history at yale university. She specializes in the American Revolutionary period and Early National american politics and culture. She is the author of several influential Award Winning books. I will mention just two of them. Affairs of honor, National Politics in the republic, 2001. Most recently, field of blood, congressional violence in antebellum america which i found particularly helpful for my own work. If you look at these two books combined, it seems like a reverse echo of the current and contemporary political scene in the United States. From honor to violence. I will leave it at that. Dr. Freeman is also known for her leading scholarship on Alexander Hamilton which she rediscovered, i would say, before broadway did just a couple of years ago. I asked dr. Freeman about her relation with history, and she was kind
Jimmy all right, ready . Ready. All right, am i going to come in like its like im the guest. Jimmy unless you want to put in a dun da da dun da da or, whatever yeah, yeah. Whatever you want. I got my piano here what would the roots plays on my entrance . In Washington Heights jimmy oh welcome, welcome, linmanuel you are our very first guest for the tonight show home edition. Thank you so much for doing this and how are you dealing with everything hows everything at home everything is cool. We are doing the cool thing to do which is selfquarantining, which means we are home withe k 2yearold and so we are learning how to homeschool jimmy oh my god. I agree with shonda rimes tweet every teacher should make a billion dollars a year. Jimmy i mean, like, oh my gosh right . How hard is this . Its insane. Yeah. You know what . I mean, listen, we have incredible privilege that we have the privilege of staying home, when a lot of peoples jobs require them to go out. And so were tackling keeping