next on american history tv, penn state university history professor talks about how they experience the art and architecture, including the statue of freedom atop capitol dome. he also discusses how christopher columbus, native americans americans, and females areicted in the depicted. this is about an hour. welcome to the lecture series. i m the chief of stories here at the society. it is great to see everyone here. namedeaker today is a guy matthew restall. i want to read the title because it is ponderous. edwin earl sparks professor of latin american history and director of latin american studies at penn state. educated at oxford, easier like, .nd published numerous books some of you might recognize his name and some of the things he will be touching on from our last dome, where he has an article on help montezuma keeps surrendering in the art of the capital. and historical indications. various and historical variations. this is a chance for us to highlight interdis
depicted. he is a fellow with but the library of congress and the u.s. capital historical society. this is about an hour. william: welcome to the u.s. capital historical society lunchtime lecture series. my name is william digiacomantonio i m the chief of , stories here at the society. it is great to see everyone here. our speaker today is a guy named matthew restall. i want to read his title, because it is ponderous. not like matthew. i do know what to leave anything out. he is the edwin earl sparks professor of latin american history and director of latin american studies at penn state. oxford, ucla,d at and has published numerous books on the spanish conquest. some of you might recognize his name and some of the themes he will be touching on from our last dome, where he has an article on how montezuma keeps inrendered in different ways the art of the capital. from his various titles and the subjects of his books you might and for correctly that he is an art historian, bu
inside the school hours ago. we are outside frederick douglass high school in upper marlboro. there are number of prince george s county police officers on the scene. the spokesperson for the school system has just updated us. we have cell phone video we want you to see that we can show how chaotic it was. this was at 7:40 this morning. the police got a call of the fight and a stabbing at the school. two students involved, maybe more both ninth graders in their school uniforms. there is a fight in the hallway from a problem that started days ago. one freshman pulls out a pocket knife and stabs the other, puncturing his long. one was stabbed, the other one has minor injuries from being punched. parents say the school called them to pick up their children as soon as possible. there were blood drippings and pulls of blood. they didn t want anyone to know. everyone went crazy in the hallways in the morning. i teacher went out the doorway because everyone was going crazy. th
frederick douglass high school in upper marlboro. maryland bureau chief brad bell is live near the school with dations on the investigation and the with the details and the investigation and the cell phone video. brad? brad: a terribly upsetting morning for students parents alike. there are police cars out here. school dismissed. dismissed without any problem. let s get to the video taken by students and provided to us in hours of when it was taken. you can see the kids in the school uniform shirt. there is screaming, yelling, the back-and-forth going on. difficult to see. we have to blur it out. but two young men we are told they are freshmen are fighting. one of them pulls out a knife and stabs at the other. the person stabbed suffers a chest wound. the person with the knife is wrestled to the round and he suffers from punches. police are called to the scene. they are still trying to sort it all out. they tried to go through that. they will watch the video and have part
model. we are looking for anyone who may have seen the initial confrontation or the vehicles coming in from the q.b. parkway. no matter how it might seem to you please call and give us that. four people inside the sedan at the time of the shooting. they put up a reward and the information and arrest in a conviction in the case. coming up at 2:00 the message that chief cathy lanier has for members of the hispanic community who may have information about the case. live in alexandria, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. alison: thank you. amtrak s ceo got emotional on capitol hill in a hearing about the deadly derailment in philadelphia. lawmakers grilled the amtrak officials about why the technology to slow the train was not in place. since the accident, amtrak has installed the technology on tracks it owns. in the northeast corridor. the amtrak ceo vowed to make sure it was operational. the greatest contribution. they released the preliminary report. it provided no new informati