Society. Weve had many discoveries and we just revealed three new ones this past thursday at liberty hall. So check online for that. The aha Society Needs to give a special thanks to a number of organizations that made this program possible today. Especially Trinity Church, who hosts this, partners with great spirit and great support. The congregant Alexander Hamilton of this church. The u. S. Coast guard and auxiliary. As you heard mentioned, that Alexander Hamilton was the founder of the u. S. Coast guard. And the members of the aha society and the board of directors all worked hard to bring this together. We had 32 events in 20 locations over ten days. And it took everyones support and encouragement. The aha society joins with you to honor Alexander Hamiltons life and his legacy. In that light the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society will be presenting the first hamilton legacy award to Richard Brookhiser for his two decades of work to educate the public about Alexander Hamilton. Th
The session are end the trading week. We saw the stocks open higher but they are struggling at this hour. The averages are holding on to small gains for the week. The dow and the s p up three of the last four. Utilities are leading and financials and texts are lower. The old adage is sell in may and go. It doesnt appear to be working this time around. We are halfway through. Stocks hitting new highs. The dow and nasdaq up 2 and the s p up 1. 5 and closing at record highs. What could stop it . Dominic takes a closer look. All of the talk is about whats happening. We are a stones throw away from record highs. You look at the chart and see why the bulls and bears are having a healthy debate. The up trend we are seeing is running into a bit of resistance this year to date. We talked to the experts and the strategists on wall street and we wanted to see what they had to say about what could derail this rally. Weakness in profit could derail things. We managed to see a gain all be it small t
Mountain Thomas Jefferson and his slaves. It is a subject, which the Thomas Jefferson foundation has been a pioneer in researching and present a largely the collected essays published earlier this year by the university of virginia press. Theyre entitled by virtue my happiness, slavery of Thomas Jeffersons monticello is regarded as an authority on the subject. The book was released to coincide with an exhibit on slavery of monticello in the Smithsonian National museum of African American history which is cocurated by the staff of the Thomas Jefferson foundation. 70 of the descendents of those commemorated attended the opening night. After 50 years of archaeological and historical research, Thomas Jefferson foundation is now in the next phase of interpretation and restoration project funded by the National Endowment of humanities by private reports that the project is called the landscape of slavery, mulberry road in monticello, which includes creation of many exhibits, key sites, a web
Certainly is. I am talking about a master of a mountain which had just come out in paperback. And that dont think i can do any better than to quote my colleague, jonathan yardley, who placed the book on his best books of 2012 list, so here is his castle description of the book and the controversy that it set off. A fine book that fits no precise category, master of the mountain , Thomas Jefferson and his lifes. The devastating picture of the slavocracy maintained by the author of the declaration of independence of his plantations at monticello and elsewhere. The complexities of race in america have preoccupied when sec for years and have now produced three exceptional books. The others by the harrison, an American Family in black and white, and an imperfect god, George Washington, his slaves, and the creation of americans of which this may be the best. It is beyond the much told story to leave no doubt that given the choice between economic wellbeing of his holdings and the rights of t
The BBC will air a special tribute to Dr Michael Mosley after he died of heat exhaustion while walking across the Greek island of Symi in soaring 40C heat.