Columbus, native americans and females are depicted. Mr. Restall is a fellow with both the library of congress and u. S. Capitol historical society. This is about an hour. Welcome to u. S. Capitol lunch. Its great to see everyone here. Our Speaker Today is a guy named matthew restall. I want to read his title. Its kind of ponderous. Not like matthew. I dont want to leave anything out. He is the Edwin Earl sparks professor of latin american History And Director of latin american studies at penn state. Educated at oxford, ucla. Published numerous books and articles on the Spanish Conquest. Some of you might recognize his name and some of the themes he will touch on from our last dome where he has an article on how montezuma keeps surrendering and its historical implications. From his various titles and the subjects of his books, you might infer correctly that he is not an art historian, per se. This is a chance for us to highlight how interdisciplinary, approaching capitol it is and allo
The society. Its really great to see everyone here. Our speaker today is a guy named matthew restall. I want to read his title. Its kind of ponderous, not like matthew, i dont want to leave anything out. The edwin earl sparks professor of latin American History and director of latin american studies at penn state. He was educated at oxford, ucla, and hes 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 hes going to be touching on from our last dome where he has an article on how montezuma just keeps surrendering in different ways in the art of the capitol, and its historical implications. From his various titles and the subjects of his books, you might infer correctly that hes not an art historian per se. But this after all is a chance for us to highlight how interdisciplinary approaching the capitol is and allowing us to hear various stories, it takes a village
Text us your thoughts at 2027488003. Wj. On cspan at cspan the discussion about confederate leaders, there was a recent poll on this topic. It asked what should be done with the statues of confederate leaders. Roughly 2 roughly one third of the voters in the poll expenses should be taken down. 44 said the statues should remain standing, down eight point since the survey was taken down two years ago after the riots in charlottesville, virginia. The poll was done with Morning Consult and politico. A history of some of those bases across the u. S. That have come into the conversation and its history such as for georgia. Ing located in it was established as a training down in world war i and was named after a confederate general who was present at the battle of antietam and gettysburg. Mr. Bragg, named after ragg. Established as an artillery Training Ground in world war i, named after a u. S. Army officer who served in the second aminal war and mexicanamerican war before becoming a Confede
On the go with the free cspan radio app. Leaders, there was a recent poll on this topic. It asked what should be done with the statues of confederate leaders. Roughly 2 roughly one third of the voters in the poll expenses should be taken down. 44 said the statues should remain standing, down eight point since the survey was taken down two years ago after the riots in charlottesville, virginia. The poll was done with Morning Consult and politico. A history of some of those bases across the u. S. That have come into the conversation and its history such as for georgia. Ing located in it was established as a training down in world war i and was named after a confederate general who was present at the battle of antietam and gettysburg. Mr. Bragg, named after ragg. Established as an artillery Training Ground in world war i, named after a u. S. Army officer who served in the second aminal war and mexicanamerican war before becoming a Confederate Army general. Located indon, georgia as well,
Is what democracy looks like, cspan, powered by cable. Good evening, my name is Jane Campbell and president of the ceo of the Historical Society, i have the honor as serving of then asked her under master ceremony. I want to acknowledge several of my Board Members are here i have to be especially nice to them. Sean carey. Who else is hear from the board waive your hand and thank you for keeping the society going. The Capital Historical Society was founded in 1962 chartered by congress to encourage the most comprehensive and enlightened manner and understanding by the American People of the significance of the capital as the tangible symbol of the representative form of government and we celebrate the capital every day. Before we get started with todays program we want to take the moment to acknowledge the passing of former congressman ron sarasin who served as the third president of the society from 2000 through 2018. Rons tenure was characterized by strengthening the face of challenge