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Mccauleys macaulay honors college, the City University of new york dr. Widmer worked in the Clinton White house as a speechwriter, writer and senior advisor, and since then hes led organizations, including the c. V. Starr center, for the study of the american experience, the John Carter Brown library at Brown University, as well as a Research Center at the of congress. He helped the New York Times disunion series, which i know many of you enjoyed throughout the sesquicentennial. And his latest b...

Lecture. Its honor to introduce to you all, dr. Ted widmer, whos distinguish lecturer at the mccauleys macaulay honors college, the City University of new york dr. Widmer worked in the Clinton White house as a speechwriter, writer and senior advisor, and since then hes led organizations, including the c. V. Starr center, for the study of the american experience, the John Carter Brown library at Brown University, as well as a Research Center at the of congress. He helped the New York Times disuni...

New england. It was written in 1921. James Truslow Adams had a passage in there saying the bible and the beaver were the two mainstays of the Plymouth Colony in its early years. I had no idea why he had thrown the beaver into the mix. That got me curious. I quickly discovered for the better part of a decade, the main source of income for the pilgrims was trading beaver pelt with local indians and selling them in london. That got me wondering what else i didnt know about the american fur trade. I...

Here to analyze the weeks news. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are not afraid to question the path theyre on. Because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here . I started schwa...

Here to analyze the weeks news. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are not afraid to question the path theyre on. Because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here . I started schwa...

Here to analyze the weeks news. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are not afraid to question the path theyre on. Because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here . I started schwa...

So this is a panel where we going to spend some time each of our is going to spend about five or 10 minutes introducing a particular president ial transition and highlight a few of the big takeaway interesting points, Lessons Learned. And so well go im going to im going to we wont go in program order. Were actually going to go and in Chronological Order of the elections that theyre going to be highlighting and then do that. About 50 minutes or so. And then open it up for discussion and conversat...

Welcome, everyone. My name is, philip mead. Im the chief historian and curator of this museum of the american revolution. So pleased to see you all tonight for fredricka bears. Presentation on the hessians. Scott stephenson. Sends his regrets he had intended be here tonight hosting but was unavailable. He though he may be watching from zoom so if youre out there, scott. Hello i wanted to call your attention tonight to important object that we actually have in this room. This is a fragment of a h...

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