Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Constitution Center. I am the president of this institution and this is such a happy day to celebrate the collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. [applause] cspan has a mission to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens and that coincides with the Constitution Centers mission which i want you to reside along with me to inspire our guests and viewers. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That was so well done. [applause] i was so thrilled when my friend and colleague susan swain, the head of cspan, came just a few months ago, or rather weeks ago, and said, we have this great new book on the president s. Let us launch it at the National Constitution center. It is such an honor to welcome back to the Constitution Center the great founder of cspan, b
The global pulpit Paper Industry and he holds patents in selfadhesive postage stamps and barcode labels. Never knew that. He is an ohio native who graduated from miami university. Teams part of the research that developed the first commercially successful selfadhesive u. S. Postage stamp. Written 20 civil war and andrground railroad books his biography of general william awardson multiple including a literate literary prize for confederate history. He has written several articles forgetting magazine and several other publications. Scott and his wife debbie reside in northern pennsylvania. Scott thanks for coming today. I want to talk about the role of the railroads in pennsylvania. I have written three books on the railroads. Respectively from east to west, the philadelphiawilmington baltimore railroad. The Northern Central Railway which ran from harrisburg to baltimore. The third key railroad that ran between maryland and pennsylvania during the civil war. The Cumberland Valley railro
Representing the narrative arc of the popular story of the civil rights movie. We are going back to our topic of origin points, with the objective of putting those events and contacts, but also troubling the idea of them as origin points. Last week we discussed brown v. Board of education, the decision, response, the impact, and also the legacy. I want to talk more about the legacy as we go forward. We will not do that today. Spent time we talking about the emmett till case, the lynching of emmett till in august of 1955. We used a mix of secondary and primary sources to consider how ideologies of race, gender and justice impacted that case and the lived experience of the people in the case. I wanted to take a moment to pull out and say that this week, what happens this week that is of significance in relationship to the emmett till case. Anybody paying attention . Yeah . Ahead. Student [indiscernible] legislation. Prof. Greer they passed the emmett till antilynching act, it designates
Podcasts. Im dr. John wettenhall, director of the George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum here on the campus of George Washington university in the heart of washington, d. C. Norman rockwells four freedom exhibition is a major traveling International Show celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Norman Rockwell museum, the 75th anniversary of dday and putting on the road the great images that Norman Rockwell painted that really created a National Concept of the four freedoms that made visible, tangible and real the ideological concepts that president roosevelt expressed in the state of the Union Address in 1941. The first is freedom of speech and expression, everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship god in his own way, everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want, which translated in the world terms means economy understandings which will secure through every nation a healthy, peacetime life for its inhabit ants, everywhere i
Podcasts. Eleanor roosevelt began the long trip home. Slowly the long, black funeral train pulls up then down the pennsylvania avenue to the beat of muffled drums the president was born for the last time to the executive mansion that for 12 years had been his official home. The passing of f. D. R. From the american scene came as a personal shock to the nation. People wept openly, unashamed of their grief. Drawn by six white horses, the flag draped casson was brought to the white house and carried into the great east room where 80 years before almost to the day the body of Abraham Lincoln also laid in state. At hyde park his ancestral home in duchess county, new york the guns of west point cadets rang down the final curtain on the man of destiny known around the world as f. D. R. To measure something of his greatness we turn back the clock to Franklin Roosevelt as a young man making his First Political campaign. To the time when only 28 years of age he was elected new york state senator