The president. Lectures in history every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures is history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. The largest stone fort in the United States sits at the mouth of the chesapeake bay. Fort monroe Casemate Museum director gives us a tour showcasing its history and its role in the civil war. Were inside the casemate music because were inside a casemate. Its a vault inside of a wall. Kind of unique for museums in this day and time. Were going to walk you through the museum and talk about the interesting history that occurs here. Some of our stories will deal with the indians, the africans that first arrived here. Thousands and thousands of years ago, the natives of this land started to migrate. They migrated as far as as far west as mexico and the Mississippi River valley. They migrated as far south as south america and central america. They migrated all the way here to Point Comfort where fort monroe is located today. They w
Sarah polk was very up on diplomacy. Her strong suit happened to be intelligent political discussion. She made no bones about the fact that she took no interest in politics and she was her husbands partner. She grew up in a political household in tennessee. Her father was a local politician so she grew up loving politics. She married james after he won a seat in the legislature. She would not have married him had he been content to be a clerk. Unfortunately for james k. Polk, he died just three months after leaving the white house and sarah began a 42year widowhood. It became a shrine to her husband. She would invite anybody who wanted to to come for a visit to see the objects they had accrued over there long and illustrious career. She lived there for many years on her own and during the civil war, generals on both sides would visit her to pay their respects. It was very interesting commentary on what a beloved status she still held. She was earnest about her husbands work. She went t
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Why wouldnt the government have protections . It just wasnt done why wouldnt the government have a pension for officers and everybody else and not the president in fact he had very little money he had to borrow money quite secretly to pay for the move back home. This is not well known a doesnt mean he didnt have money but he needed cash to cover all of the expenses to move out of the white house. When he got home, in order to provide income he undertook the writing of his by autobiography in memoirs which no other president had ever done except for Herbert Hoover but his time was much briefer than trumans and his covered far more tumultuous history. So to undertake the twovolume that more was a major and ambitious task. And then he built his library. Now it was a previous president ial library but it was established after he died in officer truman was the first one to officiate over the president ial library and again he was beginning something one of the things i try to emphasize in t