When you are connected, you are not alone. These Television Companies support cspan two as a public service. Good evening. My name is jane campbell. As president and ceo of the United States Capitol Historical Society, i have the honor of serving as the master of ceremony for this event. I want to acknowledge that several of my Board Members are here. I have to be especially nice to them. They are my bosses. John carlson, my board chair, john perry who else is here from the board . Wave your hands. Thank you very much for all that you do to keep the society going. The Capitol Historical Society was founded in 1962, chartered by congress to encourage in the most comprehensive and enlightened manner and understanding by the American People of the significance of the capital as the tangible symbol of their representative form of government. We celebrate the capitol every day. Before we get started with todays program, we want to take a moment to acknowledge the passing of my immediate pre
Airship the life and tragic death of the Worlds Largest flying machine. You open your book in 1930, what was happening that day . On october the fourth, 1930, a 777 foot long airship, the largest thing that had ever flown, larger than the titanic by volume was about to take off on a trip from london to india. As part of a scheme hatched by the British Empire to connect the farflung pieces of the empire, it was a moonshot. A scheme you call it, one of your chapters is titled is dreams and imperial vision . S. C. Gwynne a nice combination of all of them, airships as it turns out were competing with airplanes in the early century, starting in the first decade. Nobody really knew what was going to be the future of aviation back then. Both of them crashed all of the time. The problem with airships as we will see as we talk today is that there was a fundamentally flawed idea that essentially 40 years to play out completely, the airplanes crashed all of the time in the early days and they wer
Lincoln, massachusetts. She has written about civil war us western history and American Culture for the New York Times the Washington Post Smithsonian Magazine preservation magazine and civil war monitor nelson earned her va in history and literature from the Harvard University from Harvard University and her phd in american studies from the university of iowa, and she has taught at Texas Tech University cal state fullerton harvard and brown nelson is the author of saving yellowstone three cornered war ruin nation and Trembling Earth and were so excited to have her with us today. So before i turn it over to her just a quick note we have sent out an email to everyone this morning that had just a great list of resources like a bibliography that megan had put together so you all should have received that by now. If not that link is posted in the chat. So that please join me in welcoming megan kate nelson. Hi everyone. Thank you so much. Thank you nicole for that lovely introduction and to
By congress to encourage in the most comprehensive and enlightened manner an understanding by the american of the significance of, the capitol, as the tangible symbol of their representative of government. And we celebrate the capitol every day before we get started with todays program,immediate r congressman ron harrison, who served the third president of the society000 through 2018. Rons tenure was characterized by strength in the face challenges, growth in that we serve the american people. So join me for a moment of silence. Thank you. Our full tribute to ron can be viewed on our weby a very a very special person. Among the greatest arcs of American History is the continual effort to expand who is included in the people. In the early of the republic, only land experiment. But they a document that stands to this day the ratification of the 15th amendment expanded, the franchise to africanamerican men. It still took a little work to make that real. The 19th amendment brought women in
Megan kate nelson is a writer and historian living in lincoln, massachusetts. She has written about civil war us western history and American Culture for the New York Times the Washington Post Smithsonian Magazine preservation magazine and civil war monitor nelson earned her va in history and literature from the Harvard University from Harvard University and her phd in american studies from the university of iowa, and she has taught at Texas Tech University cal state fullerton harvard and brown nelson is the author of saving yellowstone three cornered war ruin nation and Trembling Earth and were so excited to have her with us today. So before i turn it over to her just a quick note we have sent out an email to everyone this morning that had just a great list of resources like a bibliography that megan had put together so you all should have received that by now. If not that link is posted in the chat. So that please join me in welcoming megan kate nelson. Hi everyone. Thank you so much