Welcome to the dimension washington headquarters. Im so happy that all of you are here and joining us today for this program. If you have not been here before definitely after the lecture today please stay and take a tour with our staff. Just before i come to introduce our guest speaker today in just a few rules, and bits of information. We do have Light Refreshments for you in the kitchen. Coffee, tea, cheese, crackers, cookies. Please feel free to get up and take what you like. Restrooms are in this building. You do not need to go to the visitor center. We have staff here today. I am the director of the department of Historic Affairs for the county of passaic. By de facto, i am the director of the site. We are fortunate enough to have a guest speaker and historian to share his knowledge and expertise on Alexander Hamilton and his rise to military fame and glory. Mr. Cregeau graduated from Hillsdale College with a bachelors degree in history and from Colorado State university with a m
Restrooms are in this building. You do not need to go to the visitor center. We have staff here today. I am the director of the department of Historic Affairs for the county of passaic. By de facto, i am the director of the site. We are fortunate enough to have a guest speaker and historian to share his knowledge and expertise on Alexander Hamilton and his rise to military fame and glory. He graduated from hillsdale a bachelors degree in history and from Colorado State university with a masters degree in history. He has been an independent historian researching, writing, and giving presentations throughout the northeast since 2007. He is a scholar of the American Revolution with Research Interests that include espionage in the war. U. S. S published in the marine corps journal, financial history, and the journal of the American Revolution. He has given presentations on espionage in the revolution. 2017s been here before in with another wonderful presentation. He is a longtime resident
is anybody watching. we were there for opening night of the museum. but my opening question is how this project came about and why. well it came about out of a decision that we need to preserve and tell the story of america s founding. and not just as a series of events, but as people who actually achieved it, who fought off these soaring idealing idea ideals of equality and how that inspired a nation, people in our nation to achieve it. it is the most important event in our nation s history. it not only gave birth to our nation but it really gave us the values that make us a people. everything that we cherish and hold dear. so it s more than just artifacts? it s more more than artifacts. our museum is founded on artifacts. in fact when you come to the museum you will see one of the more comprehensive collection of artifacts of the revolution that has probably ever been assembled. but we really do dwell on the story of the individual people. how did these people who a
start this out to a biblical quote where two or three are gathered together and so on. unfortunately, that is not the case. that historians learn that we need to remember is that you have to checking your assumptions. if your assumptions are incorrect, it can lead you to some very wrong conclusions. i would like to illustrate that by the following story, which i hope you will find somewhat well , rivaled as ribald as well. the smiths decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. on the data proxy father was to arrive, mr. smith kissed her goodbye and half an hour later by chance a baby photographer happened by, hoping to make a sale. good morning, ma am, i have come to no need to explain, said mr. smith, s mrs. smith, i have been spiking your. did you know that my specialty was a babies? that is what my husband and i hope. after a moment she asked where do we start? me, id leave it to usually try to in the bathtub, three and the couch, and in the living room w
nothing this this room can change. to my left down the block is the colorado river. this is an important site in the city s history. this is where waterloo was. it was a cluster of cabin occupied by four or five familieses including j. carol. i m standing at the spot where the cabin was. this is where mirabella mar was when he and the rest got word of a big buffalo herd in the vicinity. they jumped on the horses congress avenue wasn t the avenue. it was a muddy ravine then that led north to the hill where the capitol sits. the men galloped on the horse s. they stuffed their belts full of pistols and rode into the midst of the buffalo firing and shouting. lamar at 8th and congress shot this enormous buffalo. from there he went to the top of the hill to where the capitol is. he told everybody this should be the seat of a future empire. watch our oh eventses from austin saturday at noon eastern on c are-span 2 s book tv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 on american history tv on