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At the end of the day, 31 democrats joined all of the republicans in the vote to begin the impeachment inquiry into president clinton. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story, as we take book tv and American History tv on the road, with support from our spectrum cable partners. This weekend we traveled to laramie, wyoming. Coming up in the next hour and 10 minutes, well experience the history of this western city with a population of about 32,000. In about 10 minutes, well learn about senator Allen Simpson through his papers at the American Heritage center. After that, a tour of the wyoming territorial prison, where outlaws of the wild west were held, including Butch Cassidy. And later, we visit the deerwood ranch wild horse ecosanctuary to hear abo ....
Conversations that other people are not having, and i feel like this is one of those. I would like to give you an little overview. If you have cell phones, please take photos, but dont make the flash happen. We are filming tonight, as you can see, and that is distracting. We will have the book for sale. We have them for sale currently. If you want to, i emplore you to look through it and have alan sign it as well. We have a wonderful server who will be here all night, so please take care of her as she will take care of you. I will now turn it on over to alan for the talk of ghosts of Sheridan Circle for the talk. [applause] dr. Mcpherson thank you very much, olivia. Thank you to busboys and poets for hosting this. I want to thank my publisher for putting this together, the few institutions, also, who made this happen in washington. Im so happy to be presenting this in washington, which is , you know, literally the scene of this c ....
The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story as we take booktv and American History tv on the road. With support from our spectrum cable partners, this weekend we travel to laramie, wyoming. In about ten minutes, hear about the influence that the Energy Industry has in the state of wyoming, and then after that, a visit to ivanson mansion to learn about the early days of the city. Then, in about 45 minutes, hear how the sport of rodeo became a symbol of the american west. We begin our special feature with a conversation about retail pioneer jcpenney. Like most people in wyoming at the turn of the century, he was a transplant. He was born and raised in missouri, but i think j. C. Penney was a country boy at heart. I think we see that in terms of the life that he lived. Even though he was in wyoming for roughly ten years and spent the balance of his life in new york ....
Mansion thatn the Edward Ivinson built in laramie, wyoming in 1892. It is now the home of the Laramie Plains museum. It has been restored. For about 10 years, it was vacant. People broke in vandalized the , building. It has been a long and fruitful to make it into this Wonderful Museum we have here that highlights the ivinson family and historical issues from the past in laramie, wyoming. Edward ivinson was born on the island of st. Croix in the caribbean. He lived there for seven years. His father moved there from northwestern england to manage a sugarcane plantation. He wound up in new york city. While he was there, he met a young woman. He was 23, she was they ran away 16. To jersey city, new jersey to get married. Eventually like a lot of young folks, they moved west to make their fame and fortune. And eventually w ....
Military historian Gregory Erwin talks about challenges the british army faced in adapting to north american terrain and battle tactics during the revolutionary war. The museum of the American Revolution, Pritzker Museum and the richard vann has foundation cohosts this event as part of a threeday international conference. My name is philip mead, director of Curatorial Affairs on the American Revolution, and it is my pleasure to welcome today to welcome to welcome today ,resident Gregory Urwin professor of American History from the revolution through world war ii. A longtimerwin is frien ....