In the center of your screen will be among those speaking. The 32,000 square foot house is revolutionary wars weapons, personal art and theaters and historical recreations. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, please recognize the color guards from each of the original 13 states as their introduced in the order in which each state ratified the u. S. Constitution and entered the union. Delaware, first delaware regiment. [applause] pennsylvania, first troop Philadelphia City calvary. [applause] new jersey, old barracks museum. Georgia, sons of the revolution in the state of georgia. Connecticut, the governors foot and horse guard. Massachusetts, 54th massachusetts volunteer regiment. Maryland, maryland society, sons of the American Revolution. [applause] south carolina. South Carolina National guard. [applause] New Hampshire, first New Hampshire regiments. [applause] virginia, the Virginia Military institute regimental color guard. [applause] new york
[inaudible] and the representative but normally each of the candidates of the award is fully capable and deserving of the honor. I say that with conviction. These are wonderful finalists. We are at 90 submissions this year. We have decided however to honor the last of the speakers this evening and the guggenheim award will be given to alexander watson. Will you please join us . [applause] would you like to say a word or two . I would like to thank the judges again for such an amazing honor and matter to her as well. [laughter] and secondly my publishers and. The last word the 14 monthold daughter is that not right . That is correct. Let me close on the proceedings with Ralph Waldo Emerson in a letter he wrote. At the beginning of a great career. [applause] standardized testing in todays Education System the discussion ranges from the introduction of the common course data standards to the cost to taxpayers up to 1. 4 billion per year. My name is monica and the book passage is very happ
We are advantage evangelists on behalf of the study of history. And one of our judges in a conversation today began talking about a High School Teacher he had had when he was 14 or 15 years old. And that teacher, and teachers of adolescents are the Unsung Heroes and heroines of our profession. Thats when you plant an abiding, lifelong affection and even addiction to history. One to have historical muses has been sadly, neglected in the American Academy the american university, for a generation. And one of the ideas of our founders, one of whom i will introduce to you in a moment was that something that the h. F. Guggenheim family could go to arrest could do to arrest this malady and reverse it, is support an annual prize for the best work of military history in english during the preceding year. Finish and that is why we are here this evening. History, as written by practitioners of it who have produced works that indicate enlightened research, who write gracefully, who have in the bac
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