was founded in 1894 and has been continuous ever since. today we ll be going into the immersive west virginia state museum. we ll be talking about the early frontier and settlement period, the development of the state, becoming a state, the industrialization of the state, and we ll go into the later century, the 21st century, and see where west virginia is today. we re in the west virginia state museum settlement and frontier period. these are some of the earliest settlers of the land. we re standing beside george washington s case where it has specific artifacts such as his sword, his powder horn that he carved during the american revolutionary war, and the telescope that he used to survey land here, as well as in the eastern panhandle. george washington would have been here in the mid 1700 s. during this time period frontier and early settlement, this was western virginia. it was part of the state of virginia at the time and it was an area that wasn t greatly developed. a l
court, and public policy events from washington, d.c. and around the country so you can make up your own mind. created by cable in 1979. c-span is brought to you by your local or cable satellite provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. the c-span cities tour is exploring the american story, as we take book tv and american history tv on the road. with the support of our link by all teas cable partners, this weekend we travel to charleston, west virginia. coming up in the next hour and a half, we will visit notable locations and speak with experts about the city s history, including a home dating back to the early settlement of charleston. then in about an hour, we will tour west virginia s capital building. later, we hear the true life story of the movie hidden figures. in an african-american woman played in putting a man on the moon. we begin our special feature with a visit to the state history museum. welcome to the west virginia state museum at the state c
melissa: markets come back from session lows following disappointing jobs report. employers adding 209,000 jobs last month, missing expectations and inching the unemrate up to 6.2%. let s bring in the panel. liz macdonald mcdonald. and james frischling and veronica daguerre. what do you think of this report? there is lot of work we still need to do. there are still a lot of people having part-time jobs. melissa: right. so many people are underemployed and those numbers really aren t improving that much and i think that s a real issue. that is what the fed is looking at. if you talk to some americans they re under employed and not in positions they want to be in. this is not the immaculate recovery that vice president biden talked about 2010 in the summer. we re still not seeing gdp growth annualized above 2.2%. we haven t seen that in years, right, melissa? melissa: right. i don t think you should be happy about 209-k. melissa: can you reconcile the 4% gdp growth with
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