Digiacomantonio. Chuck is really one of the nations finest scholars on the first congress, and that early period in the development of our country. We have been fortunate to have chuck as part of the uscis society team, for five years prior to that he was 27 years working on the first congress program. He has put together an imaginative presentation, using primary sources, letters of the times, where people wrote to one another about the science, the food, the culture and the Back And Forth that made early days in washington. That being said, we invite you to stay with us for your questions and answers. Chuck will do his presentation and i will work through the questions and we have a couple questions we may be able to do a couple of questions during the presentation, but a majority of our questions will be at the conclusion of the presentation. Please put your questions in and i will try to work them through both at the end and as we move forward. Thank you very much, chuck, for the W
Mr. Pohl is the author up wicked Capitol Hill, and unruly history at behaving badly. The historical society hosted this talk last year and provided the video. We are honored to have each of you signed on with us today, for our lunch bites with Stephen Jane with a special guest, robert pohl. He has worked for many, years he started out as a Computer Programmer but he recovered from that to become a fulltime stay at home dad. Now his son is in school, so he expanded his horizons to become a historian. Hes written books about his. House as well as emancipation in the district of columbia. He has a collection of stories, he always wish he had time to tell when he does tours of the capital. One of the things that you might not know is that he can do tours of the capital, not only in english but also in german. Today we will hear in English Stories about the Capital Honeymoon Fad of the 19th century, the at times fraught development of the infrastructure itself, and it often overlooked in vi
He discusses how the differences of the democratic republicans had differences between politics and the historical society. Today is the inaugural series, and we thought that we would start with Chuck Tony di giacomo. And so he has put together letters where people wrote about science, the food, the culture and the Back And Forth that made the early days of washington. With that being said, we invite you to stay with us for your questions and answers. Chuck will do the presentation, and i will work through the questions, and we will have a couple of questions that we may do a couple of questions in the presentation, and the majority of the questions will be at the conclusion of the presentation. So, please, put your questions in, and ill try to work them through both at the end and as we move forward. Thank you very much, chuck, for the work that you have put together to put this together, and welcome to the platform. Thank you. And as jane said, i am going to bring you an imaginative
He always wished he had time to tell when he does tours of the capital. One of the things you might not know is that he can do tours of the capital, not only in english, but also in german. Today we are going to hear, in the english, stories about the Capitol Honeymoon Fad of the late 19th century. At time front development of the Capital Infrastructure itself. And often overlooked violent episode on the Senate Subway. So join us for an unusual tour, robert take us on your tour. I am indeed a Tour Guide. I have an odd relationship to the capital. I theres a lot of people that work there. Creating laws, obtaining laws, lobbying to change laws, or just hundreds of people that are responsible for keeping the whole place going. And of course then the Tour Guides themselves. But my job is to take people for whom this may be their only opportunity to see the capital and get them on a tour. That gives me a chance to speak a little bit about the capitol as i get there. But of course the major
State, latin american studies. Educated at oxford, ucla, published numerous books and articles on the african diaspora and spanish america, and the Spanish Conquest period. Some of you might recognize his name and some of the themes who will be touching on from our last dome where he has an article on how montezuma keeps on surrendering in the art of the capital. It is its historical implications. From his various titles, the subjects of his books, you might infer correctly he is not an art historian, per se. But this after all is a chance for us to highlight how interdisciplinary approaches the capital is. Allowing us here to have the stories of matthew, political historians, it takes a village. They tell the story of the capital. He has publishing a book when montezuma cortez, the true story of the meeting that change history. It will be out next month. There will be a nice Christmas Gift for people. Hes currently the library of congress, a Capitol Fellow of ours. We are honored to h