It has been used for trade and travel in the river continues to serve as an important trading route. Begins50 miles long that in the enron duck mountains and ends in york harbor. At its widest point it is almost three miles wide and at its deepest merely to enter feet deep. But the river is one of Americas National treasures and it played an important part in the history of development of new york state. It is the principal river of new york and was an important highway of commerce. It is hard to remember in these days the superhighways in these days of superhighways, but in the early 1800s transportation was a difficult task. Roads were primitive, railroads had not been invented, and travelers and trade goods were often delayed by currents on the river. And it all changed with the invention of the steamboat. On august 14, 19 1807, robert. s steamboat made its First Successful voyage from new york to albany and back again. In 62 hours. A journey that would have taken a week with sailbo
Broad question of john and then for katie and steve. John, you found a great deal of postmillennial religious reference in the writings of unionists and premillennial religious references in the writing of confederates, and i was wondering about the relative prevalence and frequency of religious references on the two sides, if theres any difference, or if these images are equally evident for unionists and confederates, and i also wondered about women and men, if there is any sort of difference in their propensity to make such references. The question that dovetails out of that has to do with religion in the lives of your two subjects, who we heard a little bit about early in his martyrdom, but religion and his piety. U of lets start with john. John thank you for that. By the 1850s and 1860s, middleclass women are assumed to be more moral and religious on either side of the masondixon line, so one would anticipate and certainly find in these diaries that women refer to god and prayer ra
Did you run a very bad campaign on purpose . He did, he ran for president at the bronx, i ran against blanche. After my brother, they have the elections the same day, my brother probably came home and he said, his campaign was im for me first and he lost by one vote, his own, i however i however prepared a speech that blanche could be proud of and not ashamed of when she was running against me. There were 3000 faces in the audience, i was not a happy camper, plans, i was so glad she won, you cannot know how loved she was and how active she was, now my question is for blanche and that i have a comment about my brothers relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt. My brother and i went to her mother, we were students at hunter, he in the bronson i hear. It was said mom, were signing up to go on the freedom rides. And she said you have to . Its very dangerous. We very dangerous. We said mom, thus we raced us. Instead youre right, you have to go. Never been so proud my mother my life. Blanche, how
The first was the progressive era 100 years ago talking about giving america and use Style Administration but then the biggest came with uh new deal and periodically a reaction of the increase of governmental power normally there is a conservative reaction the nexus the Great Society in the 60s with johnson and the Obamacare Administration prodded the Affordable Care act the dodd frank monuments that are qualitatively and and twostep in the developmentsteph of that state. Host so professor how has this affected us on a individual basis quick. Normally you dont need to the of federal bureaucrats face to face buta bu everything you do is affected by rules that these people make anything that involves health care is dictated by a d. H. Us. Apply for job, there are requirements and regulations especially employers have to comply with the compliance cost to satisfy those regulators have grownn exponentially education and schools are managed that used to be the quintessential local instituti
The g. I. Bill of rights. Its the years after the Neoliberal Movement but i think the new movement is a warning. Its not an event. [applause] we will have a reception upstairs and a book signin signd the freedoms room so thank you all for coming. [applause] now on booktv we want to introduce you to paul marino of constitutional history at Hillsdale College and the authoh of this book but bureaucratic kings the origins and underpinnings of americas bureaucratic state. Professor, on page one of your book you write to the united thd states is ruled by an establishment in the constitution. What does that mean . Anyway it is a combination of the other three branches, and that is the heart of the constitutional problem. It was the most important structural feature of the constitution and in the 20th century we developed an administrative apparatus of the agencies and the Environmental Protection agency, communications commission. Most of this started with a new deal and they combined legisla