All right. Welcome to another evening lecture with francis Tavern Museum. Remember, if you are joining us virtually if you have any questions during the lecture, you can submit those to the chat or the q a. I know last month there were some issues with the chat, so the q a is always open and you can let me know about issues there. As a reminder, we will be recording this lecture so it will be sent to everyone who registered. If you want to share it with someone or watch it again. Now the views of the speaker are their own and do not represent the views of sons of the revolution in the state of new york, inc, or its Fraunces Tavern museum. And let me introduce tonights speaker to you, dr. Keith beuttler is a professor of history at Missouri Baptist university and his specialty, the United States, founding era. Hes a former High School Teacher whose professional awards include the 2003 deans award for teaching excellence from the graduate school of arts and sciences at Washington Univers
I know last month there were some issues with the chat, so the q a is always open and you can let me know about issues there. As a reminder, we will be recording this lecture so it will be sent to everyone who registered. If you want to share it with someone or watch it again. Now the views of the speaker are their own and do not represent the views of sons of the revolution in the state of new york, inc, or its Fraunces Tavern museum. And let me introduce tonights speaker to you, dr. Keith beuttler is a professor of history at Missouri Baptist university and his specialty, the United States, founding era. Hes a former High School Teacher whose professional awards include the 2003 deans award for teaching excellence from the graduate school of arts and sciences at Washington University and 2009 Missouri Baptist university. Distinguished professor. He has been awarded Resident Research fellowships from numerous historical organizations, including the Gilder Lehrman institute of American
To 100 libraries in 50 states in which we will present programs that invite the community to and about the founding era programs and issues people are talking about today. The project is founded by the National Endowment for the humanities, the largest grant awarded in the last year for which we are eternally grateful. Would tell you a few words about the institute and what we do and how we came to do this project. The Gilder Lehrman institute is rather young. It was founded in 1994. The mission is to promote the knowledge and understanding of American History through programs and resources. Havee present time, we 65,000 documents in the Gilder Lehrman collection which is the core of our programming. The collection is drawn upon to do programs come outreach, to contribute to a website visited by 7 million people, and also to support a network of 6500 affiliates to whom we send materials on a monthly basis, as well as teachers and seminars. It is the collection that really gives us the
The project is founded by the National Endowment for the humanities, the largest grant awarded in the last year for which we are eternally grateful. I thought i would tell you a few words about the institute and what we do and how we came to do this project. The Gilder Lehrman institute is rather young. It was founded in 1994. The mission is to promote the knowledge and understanding of American History through programs and resources. At the present time, we have 65,000 documents in the Gilder Lehrman collection which is the core of our programming. The collection is drawn upon to do programs, outreach, to contribute to a website visited by 7 million people, and also to support a network of 6500 affiliates to whom we send materials on a monthly basis, as well as teachers and seminars. It is the collection that really gives us the capacity and ability to bring people facetoface with primary documents and engage in understanding the people, events, and controversies that shaped our histo
Narrator over 12 million men, women, and children passed this way, passed through rooms and corridors haunted with a special stillness which remains only in places once noisy with human life. Here they bought tickets for a thousand places in america. Here they traded their drachmas, their liras, and their rubles, for dollars. Here they sang their First American songs, experienced their First American christmas, and hanukkah. Here they waited to be given permission to pass over to the new land. Tens of millions of us have relatives who came this way, sat in this room, part of the largest human migration in history. Of the many who came, some were turned away. But even they would leave part of themselves in america, to remind us why they had come so far, why they had made the journey. [bird caws] woman you never know how hard it was to leave her. That was the hardest thing i think i ever had to do. [bells toll] man she said if you leave, why, i dont ever want you to come back again. Woma