States. Scholars look at its impact on Education And Housing and how we still live with the legacy of the decision. We will look at the Life And Legacy of the first africanamerican supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and his impact on u. S. History. Watch tonight beginning at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Each week american history tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places an up next we travel to philadelphias independence national historical park to learn about Congress Hall, the Meeting Place of the u. S. House and senate between 1790 and 1800, our guide a 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 County 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 u. S. Capitol, this room serves for the house of representatives, the second
today we are going to discuss the nation s fourth secretary of the treasury, albert gallatin. while he does not have a broadway musical about him, he was incredibly influential in his day. by way of example, when lewis and clark were on their expedition and they get to a fork of the mississippi river, of the missouri river, they named one after gallatin. but his name does not get a lot of headlines in our history. gregory may has set out to change that. he has written a terrific and very well researched book. 672 footnotes, many of the m richly detailed. there is high praise inside the book from our chair, who says the book is a tour de force. i think gregory has been channeling albert gallatin the last two years. very exciting to have his workout. his work out. gregory did his undergraduate work at william and mary. then he went to harvard law school. he clerked on the supreme court and practiced for 30 years. he calls himself an independent scholar, which i really enj
politics volunteering with mother theresa. he was mayor of oak t terms. and eight years ago when he 39 governor, he faced the state with a $27 billion deficit. he leaves it was a surplus. his legacies of high-speed rail and the delta water projects are unfinished. between the camp and woolsey fires, california had its most destructive fire season which the governor says is the new normal. he sounded the alarm over global warming. gov. brown: climate change is real. it is a threat to human existence. adrienne: although he is 80 years old, no one is expecting jerry brown willf into the sunset for long. announcer: abc 7 presents eyewitness newsmakers with adrienne alpert. adrienne: hello. i am adrienne alpert. governor, thank you for joining me. here we are in sacramento in the governor s mansion built in 1877. in this historic place, what does this mansion mean to california and you? gov. brown: it means a great deal. the famous muckraking journalist was the second owner. alb
minutes. what was the national road? also known as the cumberland road am a was our first federally funded highway in the united states. construction on the road began in 1811, although it had been authorized in 1806 by thomas jefferson. it originally ran from cumberland, maryland through virginia, now west virginia, ohio, indiana and illinois. its western terminus was in illinois. the state capital at the time. why was this type of project necessary? it was necessary because in the years following the american revolution, there was a major disconnect between the people living along the western frontier and those in the more established cities on the east coast. a lot of politicians and other important people noticed that there was a disconnect, and it worried them greatly. george washington was one of the people really concerned about western settlers who were across the mountains, it was hard to indicate with the people in the east but it was hard to trade with them.
senator hatch: committee will come to order. welcome to everyone to this morning s hearing. we will discuss the nomination of mr. steve mnuchin to serve as secretary of treasury for the incoming trump administration. i want to officially welcome mr. munchin to the finance committee. i appreciate your willingness to appear before us here today and serve in this important position. the position of treasury secretary is among the most important in the executive ranch. the next treasury secretary will be asked will be asked a lot of questions that are going to be very, very important here today. they will be we are going to be talking about advancing policies to improve our nation s economic and fiscal outlook. this position oversees both the collection of taxes and the management of our debt and in addition, as congress works to reform our nation s tax code and fix our broken health care system, it is absolutely essential that we have a cooperative partner overseeing reasury