Legislative studies. The title of the talk that i have is dissent in the constitution. My thesis is that the United States was the project of dissent. Dissent is essential to our history. It is in our dna. It existed in us before we even became the United States. I came up with this in about 2002 when i was creating this course at Temple University for honor students called dissent the history of an american idea they asked me to create an idea on a topic. What topic interests me . Im from the 60s. Dissent. It makes it to me right away. I started to teach the course. Teachings grew out of it. We would start meeting on fridays after class talking about the historical background of contemporary issues. At the time we started the teachings we were invading iraq. This created a lot of consternation on the part of the students wanting to talk about it and understanding why we were doing that. When i was putting together the first book, dissent in america, i wanted the students to read what
Up next in the second of a twopart program, we visit the museum to learn about early american portrait paintings. In this program we feature the work of Gilbert Stuart. His unfinished portrait of George Washington is the image on the one dollar bill. Dianne hello, i am Dianne Stephens from the National Gallery of art. John is an artist who is well known for his history paintings in america, not as much portraiture. He aspired to be a history painter, then he eventually went to england and spent a couple of years with Benjamin West. West was an amazing figure who welcomed almost every painter that we are going to talk about today. They learned the art of history painting, came back to the colonies this is his portrait of Alexander Hamilton who was washingtons it is interesting that here Alexander Hamilton is hanging next to Gilbert Stuarts portrait of john jay. Madison, john jay, and Alexander Hamilton wrote the federalist papers. Also, in 1794, john jay invited Alexander Hamilton to be