But also silver. When the first settlers came to jamestown they were hoping to find the same supplies of gold found by the spaniards and bitter disappointment not to find gold in the whats now virginia and brought with them jewelers and gold smiths. Americas first gold rush took place in georgia in 1829 in north georgia. If youve been about 100 miles north, you would see the old lump kin county courthouse has been converted into a gold mining museum. Its about 100 miles up the road. What happened was, first gold was discovered and people started pouring into the area in huge numbers because of the intoxicating possibility that gold would make them wealthy quickly. Until then this had been an area really beyond the line of settlement. But suddenly now the White Settlement catches up very quickly. Here is the governor, george gilmore, describing what it was like meeting the georgia miners in 1829. Many thousands of idle people flocked into georgia from every point of the compass whose pe
Muskets, carbines and revolvers and advances that allowed soldiers to fire faster and with more accuracy. All right guys, how are you all doing today . Welcome to class. Today, as i talked about a little bit earlier this week, we have a special lecture here. Doctor jeff kinard. You may have a class with him. He is the chair of our history and Political Science program here at Guilford Technical Community college. Which may not know about doctor kinard is that he is a military historian, an expert in military history. He has published at least four books on anything from weaponry, weaponry from the civil war, revolutionary war. He collects a host of artifacts which he has brought and will share with us today. He is a ph. D. And earned his doctorate from Texas Christian University in fort worth texas. What year was that . It was a while ago but he is an expert. So if you get an opportunity to take a class within, take the class. We will continue to discuss the civil war. Thankfully for d
Up next on American History tv a Community College class about civil war weaponry, such as muskets, carbines and revolvers and advances that allowed soldiers to fire faster and with more accuracy. All right. Guys. How are you all doing today . Welcomes to class. Today as i talked about earlier this week, we have a special lecturer here. Dr. Jeff kinard. You may have a class with him. He is the chair of our history and Political Science program here at guilford technical Community College. What you may not know about dr. Kinard is that he is a military historian. Hes an expert in military history. He has published at least four books on anything from weaponry, weaponry from the civil war, revolutionary war, he collects a host of artifacts which he has brought and will share with us today. He is a ph. D. He earned his doctorate from Texas Christian University in fort worth, texas. What year was that . It was a while ago. But hes an expert. So if you get an opportunity to take a class wit
Showing the role radio played shaping american view and Foreign Policy. All right. So last week we talked about coming to the war in europe and coming to the war in asia, so what id like to talk about today is the american reaction to all of that. Lets call that the american debate over american involvement in world war ii. This is the most important debate in all of american history, and Public Opinion probably more than any previous debate mattered here in part because for the first time it was a way of gauging Public Opinion. The gallop poll organization had begun regularly polling the American People. And so leaders had a much better sense, a much more direct sense what the people actually thought. So youre going to see a lot of polling data in this, in fleshing out exactly what americans thought. So well focus quite a bit on Public Opinion and talk about actual policy as a reflection of that Public Opinion. At the start of the war in europe my argument is that there were two basic
[background noises] [background noises] is nick any on education and workforce will come to order. I note the quorum is present. That objection the chairs authorized to call recess at any time. Good morning everyone and welcome to todays hearing. Acting secretary at soup, i like to start by saying you have been a hard witness to schedule. The committee began working with the department to secure your in person testimony beginning in march. You would not appear in may, we honored your request to appear in june. Using the day, june 7, that was offered by your staff into which you agreed. More than a commenting to establish a mutual date for this meeting, this hearing. Why is it that late friday evening following the committees public posting of the hearing a week ago, your staff told us you were quote no longer to make june 7 work . What was so important that you are willing to stop the work of a Congressional Committee come up in the schedule 45 members of congress and leave the America