Podcasts. Now, on american artifacts, a visit to the nras National Firearms museum in fairfax, virginia to see the collection of guns and learn about the role firearms have played over the course of American History. Welcome to the nra National Firearms museum. Im gypsumica, Museum Director, weve going to go through the museum and look at the history and their firearms. Well start with the earliest precolonial play and look at the role firearms have played in terms of the settlement and expansion of america and the role firearms played in military and the sporting and personal shooting roles. Well see the guns of champions and president s and heroes and great pieces of heart firearms engraving on a steel canvas. It is at nra headquarters in fairfax, virginia. Now the museum has existed for nearly 80 years and weve been in this location for about 15. Were custodians about 7,000 firearms donated to us or lent to us over the past 75 years. We have about 3,000 on display here. And about a
Visit to the nras National Firearms museum in fairfax, virginia to see its collection of guns and learn about the role firearms have played over the course of American History. Welcome to the nra National Firearms museum, im jim supica Museum Director. We are going to go through the museum, take a look at the history of americans and the firearms. We will start with the earliest precolonial days go up to current times and will look at the role firearms have played in terms of the settlement and expansion of america, the rose firearms have played in military and the sporting and personal shooting rolls. Well see the guns of champions, the guns of president s and heroes and will see some great pieces of art, firearms engraving on a steel canvas. The National Firearms museum is at nra headquarter in fairfax, virginia. Now the museum has existed itself for nearly 80 years and we have been in this location for about 15. Were custodians of about 7,000 firearms that have been donated or lent
About last thursday, we talked about gabriel conspiracy, richmond 1800, and the way it reflects the complexity of slavery. Slavery was a relationship between individuals, and it was endlessly complex. With gabriel, we saw some of the ways an enslaved person could enjoy some freedom within their bondage. Different practices of power influenced the way different people experienced slavery. Today we will talk through some of those practices of power. Our Big Questions today are broadly about this. We will come back to these questions at the end of class, questions about the way labor influence lives of enslaved people in the south, and the particular tools available to both enslaved people and slave owners in power struggles. In the early 19th century, slaveowners moved massive number of people into cotton territories. They made massive amounts of money based on the violent extraction of labor. Enslaved people worked and lived together and cultivated their own kinds of power through relat
From the Hudson Institute, this is an hour and a half. Good day, welcome to the Hudson Institute, and thanks for showing up for this panel on Multilateral Institutions, indispensable or irrelevant to global peace and prosperity. I will be the moderator, im a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute who put together this panel, which i think is on a key issue in d. C. And globally indeed. Its talked about a lot, but there arent that many panels about the topic around town. So i look forward to this discussion. So as i mentioned for the past couple of years, theres been a lot of debate about Multilateral Institutions and on chinas influence and how that is quickly growing and leading to changes in the fundamental rules of these institutions and also giving rise to alternatives to the old ones. And one question that arises then, does that make the institutions that we already have counterproductive to preserving a liberal world order when authoritarian states rise within the institutions and
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