I am joined by alley and hope. Hope wright, my dear colleague, began her career at Colonial Williamsburg when she was in the third grade. She was a performer in a play on my own time, and the black music program. She has collaborated with many other departments at the foundation as well as with other museums over the course of her career. She has worked a variety of educational institutions as an actress, story teller, writer, refer, and mentor. Please welcome hope wright. Thank you. Our special guest, ally larson, is a professor of law and director of the bill of rights law. Cynic she joined the william and mary faculty in 2010, she has received many awards including the statewide outstanding faculty award in the rising star category. Professor larson is a scholar of constitutional law and legal institutions with a focus on how information dynamics affect both. Her work has been featured multiple times in various publications and these are just a few of her accomplishments. Please hel
U. S. Constitution were debated and signed. This Program Featuring National Park Service Ranger matthew ifel is about one hour. We are in a building that was built in the 1730s, so about 48 years before there was any such thing as the United States and at that time, of course, pennsylvania was a british colony. And this was its Capitol Building. They would make laws for pennsylvania and each of the 13 colonies has its own government. These are the issues in a lot of ways that are going to lead to the creation of the United States, most of which will happen in this room, because the colonies as time goes forward or at least many people of the Political Class in these colonies will start to grow dissatisfied with the way the British Government is treating them, is affecting their lives locally. One of the other side issues is americans living in the colonies do not get to vote in british elections. When the parliament in london makes laws for americans, the most famous being the various
The jealous and emancipated. John brown, Abraham Lincoln and struggle for american freedom. Purchased the book likely from a cappella books, there is a link in the chat at the right of your green go to the link provided on the website. Please submit your questions at the bottom of your screen. Use the q and a, it tends to be less credit that way. I will get to as many of them as i possibly can. Chair of history of the university of texas at boston, hes authored 30 books on u. S. History, the moment First Americans and biographies with both finalists. Thank you so much for joining us. My pleasure. Delighted to be back. Abraham lincoln and john brown, well covered by historians. What did you want to add to the understanding of these famous american martyrs writing about them together . I think teaching American History with 35, going on 40 years, some of the biggest questions of history are essentially questions to get down to almost moral questions. As a moral question at work here that
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
I would like to start from reading from doctor cheneys opening paragraph. Put the spike of a drawing compass into the map of virginia a dairy farm, George Washington home, extend the leg of the compass what reaches out 60 miles and draw a circle, within and it not only washington but thomas jefferson, james mattis and james rural were born leading to manhood and made their home. It is the story that evokes what the historian called the spirit of hope and perseverance that runs straight through the american experience. Doctor cheney is a longtime member of a site faculty and i want to take moment to acknowledge how much we all appreciate her scholarship and her intellectual contributions to ai, not to mention a service she is done for our country. This is the latest in a series of several works by doctor cheney that examine our countrys history, its consideration and rigor. Her last book, James Madison, became a New York Times best seller in 2014 and shed new light on the life of one of