We the people podcast and i cant wait to share her work and her insights with you. Lindsay, welcome to americas town hall. Thank you so much for having me. And Edward Larsen holds the hue and hazel darling chair in law and is University Professor of history at pepperdine university, he is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in history and coauthor of 14 books, several of them on George Washington and the founders and his newest book is franklin and washington, the founding partnership. It is great to welcome you to the National Constitution center. Thanks for having me back if only virtually. Well it is just great. And im so eager to learn from both of you and with both of you in the spirit of louie brandize, let us reason together, let the learning begin. Okay. Ed, lets begin with you because you have this powerful pairing of the two founders you consider the first among the founders, washington and franklin. You note that they are labelled first and second in the most famous portrait o
If you like American History tv, keep up with us during the week on twitter and youtube. Learn what happened this day in history and see preview clips of upcoming programs. Follow us at cspan history. Next on lectures in history, andrew slap of East Tennessee State University teaches a class on Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and the constitution. He compares how both president s have been upholding or disregarding the constitution, and whether their reputations match their actions in office. Good morning. Thank you all for coming. Today we are transitioning in the course from civil war to reconstruction. Because of that, it is a good point in this course to talk about a big issue that goes throughout the civil war era, that we need to look at in the antebellum and the civil war and reconstruction to understand. That is the United States institution. Whether things historians have been asking for generations about the constitution and the civil war era, basic questions as to what degre
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To get through pertaining to this event, so first we want to thank the city of charles bell as a sponsor for this conversation and for hosting us. This program is being broadcast on the citys government Access Channel on tv ten and streamed live on the Facebook Page so if anyone is listening or watching at home and wants to see it on facebook is Charlottesville City Hall is the handle. Because this is a recorded event, during the q a portion of the event, please raise your hand and a volunteer will come to you and give you a microphone before you ask your question. So, a couple more logistical issues. Please silence your cell phone at this point in time. However, we encourage you to tweet about the event using the hash tag vabook2018. So by all means, take the lessons youve received from the authors here and share them with people. You should have received program evaluations. Fill these out before you leave, please. They will be useful to help keep the festival free and open to the pu