Independence National Historical park, learn about Congress Hall. The Meeting Place of the u. S. House and senate between 1790 and 1800. Our guide is park Ranger Matthew ifill. We are standing in the old house of representatives in a building that we Call Congress hall, although originally it was built as a courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it was. But in the years that the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary us. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that well see in a moment was the United States senate, the house of representatives. Each representative at that in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population at our first census of about three and three quarters million. We had 106 members of the house we would sit in this room and eventually from 16 states and the story as the us capitol the story where were taking a new and actually offer it doi
As we talked about before, historians their minds, they find new evidence they find new arguments and new takes on the decades they study and the 1970s is really no different. I think originally the culture we tend to think of them as of the rebellion light decade in which would focus disco and focus the conservative backlash. But in fact theyre one of the most important decades for the american working class and in labor history. So today, title the times they are changing apologies to bob dylan is really about how this decade was a of fundamental in the workplace in the workforce and in work organizations. It also was a change in the context in which all of those three things operated. So focusing on worker militancy, the diversity of the working class and the emerging service economy. Were going to talk about this decade is usually called the long 1970s, starting about 1967 or 1968. And through the early eighties. Were going to talk about that decade, the changes that the working cl
American history tvs american artifacts visits, museums and Historic Places and up next, we travel to philadelphias Independence National historical park, learn about Congress Hall. The Meeting Place of the u. S. House and senate between 1790 and 1800. Our guide is park Ranger Matthew ifill. We are standing in the old house of representatives in a building that we Call Congress hall, although originally it was built as a courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it was. But in the years that the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary us. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that well see in a moment was the United States senate, the house of representatives. Each representative at that in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population at our first census of about three and three quarters million. We had 106 members of the house we would sit in this room and e
Travel to park, learn about Congress Hall. The Meeting Place of the u. S. House and senate between 1790 an18 is park Ranger Matthew ifill. We are standing in the old house of representatives in a building that we Call Congress hall, although originally it was built as a courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it was. But in the years that the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary us. This room serves for the house of representatives. That well see in a moment was the United States senate, the house of representatives. Each representative at that in history represented 30,000 people. We had a population at our first census of about three and three quarters million. We had 106 members of the house we would sit in this room and eventually from 16 states and the story a capitol the story where were taking a new and actually offer it doing things like adding new states to so the bill of would become a part our constitu
American history tvs american artifacts visits, museums and Historic Places and up next, we travel to philadelphias Independence National historical park, learn about Congress Hall. The Meeting Place of the u. S. House and senate between 1790 and 1800. Our guide is park Ranger Matthew ifill. We are standing in the old house of■tvfa building that we Call Congress hall, although originally it was built as a courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it wa years that ty of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary us. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that well see in a moment was the United States senate, the house of representatives. Chresentative at that in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population at our first census of about three and three quarters million. We had 106 members of the house we would sit in this room and eventually from 16 states and the story