I think after history at columbia university, and im coming to you from the study and my apartment officer at the university in new york city. It is where i write this is where i work. I do want to point out that the case behind me when i retire from columbia couple of year ago i had about 3,000 books in my office there. I gave the floor away to get back into my apartment here. Except for the books on that bookcase which are most of which are books written by my former about 200 of them. By graduate students undergraduates those are most valuable books to me things of my students have written in front of american history. So anyway, im here to talk about the second founding. My book about the 13, 14th, 15th amendments of the u. S. Constitution which were ratified during the period of reconstruction and immediately after the american civil war. The title of the book actually spleens the argument. The second founding. My argument is that these three amendments created a new constitution
Lots to talk about this morning, once again we follow the bouncing ball of the china story and overnight we are learning that both sides said they would be willing to roll back tariffs, interesting. Devil is in the details, this can be very good, imagine how much markets might soar if you, in fact, do get this first round deal with china, very good news for investors. Maria we have a rally underway right now, futures indicating doubledigit gain, on top of all 3 major averages closing in record territory yesterday over optimism in deal with china, u. S. And china, s p was up 11 and nasdaq up 46, washington and beijing considering rolling back tariffs of completing phase 1 of much larger agreement, President Trump spoke about that in rally last night, listen to this. China is doing poorly as you know, but they are paying billions and billions of dollars and theyve never given us 10 cents before, billions of dollars, they gave a lot of the money to our farmers who got targeted but no long
Historic places and up next, we travel to philadelphias Independence National historical park, learn about Congress Hall. The Meeting Place of the u. S. House and senate between 1790 and 1800. Our guide is park Ranger Matthew ifill. We are standing in the old house of representatives in a building that we Call Congress hall, although originally it was built as a courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it was. But in the years that the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary us. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that well see in a moment was the United States senate, the house of representatives. Each representative at that in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population at our first census of about three and three quarters million. We had 106 members of the house we would sit in this room and eventually from 16 states and the story as the us capitol the
Of representatives in a building that we Call Congress hall, although originally it was built as a courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it was. But in the years that the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary us. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that well see in a moment was the United States senate, the house of representatives. Each representative at that in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population at our first census of about three and three quarters million. We had 106 members of the house we would sit in this room and eventually from 16 states and the story as the us capitol the story where were taking a new and actually offer it doing things like adding new states to the original 13 also. So the bill of would become a part our constitution while philadelphia was the capitol in fact the secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally an
Independence National Historical park, learn about Congress Hall. The Meeting Place of the u. S. House and senate between 1790 and 1800. Our guide is park Ranger Matthew ifill. We are standing in the old house of representatives in a building that we Call Congress hall, although originally it was built as a courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it was. But in the years that the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary us. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that well see in a moment was the United States senate, the house of representatives. Each representative at that in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population at our first census of about three and three quarters million. We had 106 members of the house we would sit in this room and eventually from 16 states and the story as the us capitol the story where were taking a new and actually offer it doi