Building unique, we have this amazing collection of materials that document the construction of the building. When the destruction was made that nebraska needed a new state capitol. The legislature put together a commission to oversee the design and construction of the building. The commission put together a competition to select an architect. The unique part about this competition, it was a double blind competition, the competitors didnt know who the judges were. And the judges didnt know who the competitors were. The advantage to this process was that the architects could design to the specifications that were put in front of them instead of designing to the known tastes of the judges. They were able to come up with some solutions they would not have come up with otherwise. Bertram suggested a tower. It had the advantage of being able to be constructed in phases. This photo here shows that process. We have the north and south parts of the building going up around the previous capitol
Order your copy today. It is 13. 95 through the cspan online store at cspan. Org. Welcome to lincoln, nebraska on American History tv. This state capital of about 268,000 people is also home to the university of nebraska. With the help of our Time Warner Cable partners, and the next hour, we will explore the history of this city named for our nations 16th president. Coming up, a visit to the home of Thomas Kinard, one of the men responsible for moving the capital from omaha to lincoln following the civil war. The Capital Commissioners were having to make a statement because they had to rationalize moving the capital of nebraska from omaha, a city of several thousand people, to a village of 13 to 30, so they would put their money into something substantial to show their confidence in the city of lincoln existing. Later, explore the nebraska state capital archives and learn how the states third Capital Building broke the mold for legislative structures. His winning design was unique. It
Huge amounts of material. The newspapers, the source material is incredibly rich so that means if you want to get into it although its rich its not overwhelming. One problem with American History and why would never go into this are beyond 1775 when you get in the period of the revolution itself beyond that in the 19th century the source material becomes overwhelming especially through the war which is a lifetimes work in and of itself. In this particular come in britain you feel like a perimeter around it and you can get to grips with these people not the least because the decisionmaking is done by rather small group. Its not going to overwhelm you and the material is not going to becomes overwhelming but thats essentially my point is to reinvest myself in the primary material. [applause] a collection of her wide range of projects which includes the Vietnam Veterans memorial in washington d. C. This hourlong program is next on booktv. Cspan maya lin, what is boundaries about . Guest b
To see the American Economy under default and with all the consequent impacts on the Global Economy and on the american middle class. In order to do that and was enormously damaging to consumer confidence. We were downgraded famously and it is a testament to the American People and the American Economy and the American Business and some of the success we have had working with the congress that we have been able to rebound and the economy continues to grow and create jobs but that was a selfinflicted wound and we cant have that nonsense anymore. Ok for people to engage in that kind of nonsense i appreciate the question and i refer you to my comments back then. People voting the way obama did. What happened in 2011, republicans in Congress Demanded and said they would let america default if they did not get the items on their agenda. That was consequential and unprecedented and the result was bad for everyone. Two weeks ago, the committee for responsible federal budget, which includes de
Created with no agenda. The idea that there was a an agenda, that it was somehow a midwife to a Public Policy on the course of interrogation was absurd. It is absurd. Which is to say that which is not to say that if there was an issue, is our content was affecting the behavior of interrogators in the field, even if it was 0. 05 of interrogators taking their cues from jack bauer, it was a systemic problem and i suggest that we try to intervene on behalf of those people. But to suggest that this is a television show. I may be pollyannaish about this, but the fact that 24 became the political football that became for a while was a very valuable thing. Tonight at 8 00 p. M. On c span, how movies and television portrayed policy and policy making. Politics and policy making. And i 10 50 p. M. , singer songwriter james taylor. The taping was top secret. It seems the only people who knew for certain of its existence for my father, the secretary, and the secret Service Agent who installed it. T