School history teacher and i will try and probably feebley fail to do him justice in describing this beautiful room youve chosen for your 25th lecture. You have chosen a remarkably historic room. But first, i have to thank the offices of the senate cure rater and historian who prepare histories of our art and rooms. Without them this introduction simply wouldnt be possible. So to begin. In the early 1900s the house and the senate decided they had outgrown their space. They commissioned two architects from new york. To build them a house and Senate Office buildings. Those have now become the Cannon House Office building and the russell Senate Office building. Interestingly, if you know theyre sort of mirror images from above. But those two individuals were educated in paris and a part of that education brought this beautiful art that you see around this room. They took great care to design this room. In fact, they spent over a year finding this black vained marble that came from new jer
This topic were what do people say to you, is it a little bit weird to be discussing and i said yes i guess it is but i find it fascinating and i think that its a significant assassination certainly affected not only American History that World History and i give a few examples in my introduction about the fact that after all its face it, world war i began because of an assassination and of course we had the fall of the Roman Republic because of an assassination and we have our country itself divided when Abraham Lincoln was of course murdered in 1865 and we are still reverberating from the events around john f. Kennedy in 1963 but its a lot more than looking at Abraham Lincoln and john f. Kennedy. Assassination has been a common theme in history but also in American History and i devoted a chapter to each president who faced a direct assassination attempt both those who were assassinated into those who were wounded and were also president ial candidates which i havent seen anybody els
Www. The progressive professor. Com. I will come ron nibikov ron fineman. [applause] think you and i pursue your deduction today want to begin by thanking certain people. I want to thank stephanie for inviting me to speak here on my book. I want to thank cspan for agreeing to indeed take this event and put it on booktv in a few weeks. I want to also thank my sons David Fineman and paul fineman for aris being there for me. We are definitely very close family pretty want to also thank one of my colleagues and former students david who took me for courses at Broward College in Florida Atlantic university. Azaleas say he majored in fineman and minored in history. He took me eight times. I guess he likes me and enough teachers that Broward Kelly Jenny up to me with a power point im to use because im not that technically savvy and also with the index and the chart in my book so i want to thank david glover for that. I also want to thank steven engel who is one of the people on the blurb for
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Became a multimillionaire. He eventually moved to london and lived there for the remainder of his life. Gave hisll of 1867, he millions away to establish educational organizations. This was a generation before andrew card engaged at the same thing with his money. To the community of georgetown 15,000 to establish a library. Honor of was named in him and serves as a repository for georgetown neighborhood history. For sound being the oldest neighborhood in washington, d. C. Years beforel 49 the Nations Capital was founded in 1800. M. Days speaker is jamie stieh we welcome her back. This is her second top this year. The second saturday of each month she is giving a talk about personagesamerican who really impacted American History. Columnist syndicated and contributor to u. S. News. Com. Today, she is going to give a talk about Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. Anddouglas worked by day how. Tubman worked by night under the stars. Her talk next month will be about rachel carson. Satur