Live. And for those of us joining us in person, welcome to the historic Decatur House and the White House Historical association. And my name is dr. Colleen hogan, a Senior Vice President at the White House Historical association, and the director of the David Rubenstein center for white house history tonight, a special episode of white house history live as we launch the book mourning the president s loss and legacy in american culture. This book was published by the University Virginia press in partnership with the center for president ial history, Southern Methodist university, and the Miller Center at uva. Mourning the president s brings together and emerging scholars to examine how different generations and communities of americans have eulogized and remembered. U. S. President s. This evening, were joined by several scholars that contributed the book on stage. And we have others in the audience, including chester and brandon robinson. Thank you for joining us this evening. Dr. Ma
Travel to park, learn about Congress Hall. The Meeting Place of the u. S. House and senate between 1790 an18 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. That well see in a moment was the United States senate, the house of representatives. Each representative at that in 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 a capitol the story where were taking a new and actually offer it doing things like adding new states to so the bill of would become a part our constitu
American history tvs american artifacts visits, museums and 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■tvfa 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 wa years that ty 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. Chresentative 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
Of both the miller and the university of Virginia Press welcome to todays im steve cohen. I am a nonresident senior fellow with the miller center, the scholar in residence at the History Channel and a of history at the university of oklahoma. Many of us, whendency, we think people like lincoln and tr and fdr and we think about the 20t g century and defining and determining the president ial power. But Stephen Rockwell in this provocative new book turns out all that on its head. His book is called the presidency and the american state leadership and decision in e s grant and Taft Administrations. The book is published by the Center Studies on the presidency with the university of Virginia Press. So here to these topics are, first of all, the author of the book, steven rockwell. Steven is a of Political Science at Saint University in new york. He earlier worked as a Senior Research analyst at the ooki as an assistant professor in the Political Science and Public Administration programs a
Of both the miller and the university of Virginia Press welcome to todays im steve cohen. I am a nonresident senior fellow with the Miller Center, the scholar in residence at the History Channel and a of history at the university of oklahoma. Many of us, when we about the american presidency, we think people like lincolnnd fdr and we think about the 20th century as being the defining century and defining and determining the president ialpow. But Stephen Rockwell in this provocative new book turns out all that on its head. His book is called the esidency and the american state leadership and decision in the adams grant and Taft Administrations. The book is published by the Center Studies on the presidency with the university of Virginia Press. So here to these topics are, first of all, the author of the book, steven rockwell. Steven is a of Political Science he earlier worked as a Senior Research analyst at the Brookings Institution and as an assistant professor in the Administration Pr