Whatever gadgets you may have. So they dont interfere with our system here. Thank you, now, as you know warehouse tonight is Justice Sonia sotomayor, we are very pleased to have the justice with those tonight. I want to thank her on behalf of the society for giving her time, when we call upon her to participate in events like this. Because its quite important to us, and quite important to you. And we marry much appreciate it. Ill tell you briefly a little bit about the justice. She is a native new yorker, born in the bronx, very unhappy about last nights baseball game i guess, the boston red sox. She did her undergraduate work at princeton, and then to yell last school. Then joined the District Attorney in new york county, as an assistant District Attorney. After several years there in private practice in new york she was a litigator in the International Commercial law. That attracted attention and before long she had become a Federal District judge on the Southern District of new york
You. Before i go further, i am instructed to tell you to please turn off any cell phones, apple watches, what other gadgets you may have, so they do not interfere with our system. Thank you. As you know our host tonight is Justice Sonia sotomayor. We are pleased to have her with us tonight and want to thank or on behalf of the society for giving her time when we call upon her to participate in events like this. It is quite important to us and quite important to you. We very much appreciate it. I will tell you briefly a bit about the justice. She is a native new yorker, born in the bronx, very unhappy about last night baseball game, i gather. Undergraduate work at princeton and went to yale law school, then joined the District Attorney office in New York County as an assistant District Attorney. She was a litigator in the international and commercial law area. That attracted attention and before long, she had become a Federal District judge on the Southern District of new york. Six year
Constitutional issues the Supreme Court faced during world war i. The first from Supreme Court justice and then a virginia Commonwealth History professor. Im Vice President of the historical society. I want to welcome everybody here to our first lecture of the leon silverman lecture series dealing with the Supreme Court and world war i. This being the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i. We have a very interesting series tonight. Before i go further, however, i am instructed to tell you to please turn off any cell phones, apple watches, whatever other gadgets you may have so they dont interfere with our system here. As you know, our host tonight is justice sonya sowed mior. I want to thank her on behalf of the society for giving her time when we call opinion her to participate in events like this. Because its quite important to us and quite important to you. And we very much appreciate it. Tell you briefly a little bit about the justice. Shes a native new yorker, born in the br
Call this shiperk Great Program and the center for political thought and leadership or ptl, another stellar program, if this lecture intrigues you, you should check out our center. Were doing some big things. And finally, if you are interested in learning more about yours truly, oh, there we are, www. Professorbarth. Com. Read about me on that website. Well, a generation of politicians has passed. Alexander hamilton dies in a duel in 1804. James madison pictured there on the right retires from politics and dies in 1836. John adams, and thomas jefferson, die on the same day july 4th, 1826. 50 years to the day of the signing of the declaration of independence pretty incredible you cant make Something Like that up. But america is changing. A market revolution is sweeping the young republic. Mass commercialization. Profit making. New opportunities for investment. Inventions, entrepreneurship, a burst in the population. Look at that population explosion from 1 million in 1750 to 13 million
The reason is war is changing and airtran to figure it out. And they absolutely do. They do it overhaul of the british army. They reassess everything. And make dramatic changes. Thank you so much. I appreciate your time. Coming up on American History tv, from the 33rd International Churchill conference, author lord watson of richmond talks about his book churchills legacy speeches to save the world. About. 45 minutes. Much. Nk you very our speaker is a commander in the British Empire so he outranks me. It is a great pleasure and enormous pleasure to introduce my good friend, lord watson of richmond. Is to this afternoon furnish his churchill credentials for you. Its an easy task in this case. , he made hisl first names may that name in the meat name in the media. As a tv presenter and radio reporter. Rising to become chairman of the Royal Television society. He is always been passionate about politics. While churchill rewrote it and changed, allen has always remained loyal to the liber