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Homework. Cox connect to compete. Caucus, along with these television companies, support cspan 2 as a public service. Welcome everyone. My name is philip meade and i am the chief historian and creator of this museum of the American Revolution. So pleased to see you all tonight for frederick oh bears presentation on Scott Stevenson sends his regrets, he had intended to be here tonight holding but was unavailable that he may be watching from zoom so if you are out there hello. I wanted to call your attention tonight to unimportant object that we actually have in this room and this is a fragment of a hessian miter cap from the fuselage ears of two has a castle, it was discovered among other fragments of these caps in the Delaware River in the early 20th century year and some Historical Research by craig manaus and others has pretty well established that it was lost when a troop transport went under in may of excuse me, march of the Delaware River and may the soldiers on board survived, bu
Latest iop Speakers Series event trump biden and the battle for americas future. My name is katelyn van balen. Im a fourth year student from new jersey studying Public Policy and the managing editor of the gate the iops undergraduate political magazine. Were thrilled to be joined today by two National Political correspondents for the New York Times Jonathan Martin and alex burns whose new book. This will not pass trump biden and the battle for americas future covers how the stability of american politics has been racked by two years of perpetual crisis before joining the times mr. Martin was a senior Political Writer for politico and a writer for the hotline in the national review. He also coauthored a bestselling book on the 2012 election and frequently appears as a political analyst on television and radio. Mr. Burns before beginning his work at the times covering the 2016 election was a reporter and editor at politico where he covered the 2012 election and previously was the editor
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