1800. Our guide as park ranger matthew. We are standing in the old house of representatives a building we Call Congress hall, although originally was billed 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. Capital. This room serves for the house of representatives, the second floor of the building we will see in a moment was United States senate, the house of representatives each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population in our first census of about three and three quarters of 1 million. We had 106 members of the house, that would sit in this room. And eventually from 16 states, and the story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital is a story that were taking a new constitution and actually operating it, doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also, the bill of rights would
Weapon in history over hiroshima, japan, followed by a second detonation over the city of nagasaki. Six days later, japan surrendered, bringing an end to the second world war. I have received this afternoon a message from the japanese government. This is a full acceptance as of the potsdam declaration. The Unconditional Surrender of japan. Through the work of cspans cities tour, we will share stories of people who contributed to this world altering event. We begin in new orleans. The National World war ii museum. We are here on the road to tokyo exhibit. That will take us through the war in the pacific from 1941 to 1945. One of the interesting aspects is how quickly the turning point came in. The bombing of pearl harbor was 1941 and about six months later, after the japanese ran wild through the pacific, the battle of midway was fought. At the battle of midway, dive bombers destroyed no fewer than four japanese aircraft carriers in a brief battle. That was a major portion of japans nav
The institute was born in the controversy around the exhibit that would be held at the air and space museum at this facility and instituted but was canceled. This was an attempt by the smithsonian and to do an honest and balanced exhibit about the decision to drop the bomb and the consequences of the bombing. This was the 50th anniversary. I was with one of my students whose mother and grandmother survived the atomic bombing, and whose grandfather died in the atomic bombing. We decided to do Something Special to commemorate the 50th anniversary. We would teach two classes on campus and bring students to kyoto and hiroshima. The museums in hiroshima and nagasaki asked if we would bring some of the artifacts to American University and do an exhibit on the 50th anniversary. That was the first time the oshimadown the psyche abomb museumsaki did any exhibit outside of japan. It was the 20th anniversary of anniversary of the original bombing, so we decided to do it again. We combined artifac
Close in 2020. Big day yesterday. Autonomous chaos meanwhile. Seattle looking to dismantle the capitol hill occupied protests as new one pops up in washington, d. C. Plus, back to the ball game, Major League Baseball looks to assure season this year but the players still need to get on board. More on sports talk, stay with us next hour tennis pro joining me live to talk about future of u. S. Open and new bourbon venture. We will talk with one ceo who kept employees on the payroll and bringing new ones on, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria european markets are seeing uptick this morning. The ftse 100 up 65, cac quarante in paris up 72 and dax index in germany high by 76. In asia green across the board. The japanese nikkei average overnight up half of 1 . Now the top stories that we are watching this morning. Major unrest on nations capitol as protestors attempt to create what they are calling a black house autonomous zone right outside of the white house with large garbage ca
Threatened by a Kangaroo Court. Used his time in isolation to achieve what he was his greatest artistic success. Welcome to the program a sudden rapid rise in corona virus infections in parts of africa is worrying the World Health Organization it says the pandemic is accelerating across the continent at an alarming rate it took 98. 00 days to reach 100000 cases its not passed 200000 in just 18 days a reason for this is not surge in the Community Transmission in more than half of the 54 countries in africa well the worst affected country is south africa where there have been more than 55000 cases and as infections spread beyond big cities and into rural areas the real fear is that Health Systems are not equipped to handle the crisis well ive been addressed says that Health Systems across the continent will struggle to cope with severe outbreaks. Report is poking about how 10 countries in particular with 3 being the hotspots south africa and cameroon and its the cases were going to see i