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The boom time. The sherman silver purchase act was passed, and that ensured that the federal government would purchase a large quantity of silver at the tabor familya multifacetted story. Horace Austin Warner tabor was born in vermont and married his first wife, named augusta, also from new england. They married and tried their hand for a brief period in the late 1850s in farming in kansas and came out to colorado during the gold rush in 1859. They eventually settled in the leadville area where ...

Bess trumans letters to harry truman. As of last month, clifton is the board secretary for the Harry S Truman scholarship foundation. This is a role that has been vacant since the 1990s since his mother retired from our board. Clifton thank you for joining , our board and thank you for being here today. [applause] mr. Truman thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I am honored to be here. I am honored to serve on the board. I have to tell you a little bit stunned. Was 19 years old i was with my mother ...

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to brookings. We are here today to discuss afghanistan, as you know. In one sense, it is still a time of year. Hopeful. L 15 years into the afghanistan 9 11,n and 15 years after we know there is an ongoing very struggle throughout the broader middle east and in. Fghanistan is itself we are glad you came to join in this discussion. There are couple of words i want to say before introducing the panelists. The approach here is to have a broad discussion framed by eac...

The hearing today, what does it deal with . Guest something called the commission on care. Something that was part of the choice act. When Congress Asked the robert to carve out six 2 60 of our budget million of our budget. Time, they came up with 18 recommendations. Of the 18, we said we agree with 15 of the 18. 12 of the 15 are already underway or already completed. For us, the commission and their findings reinforces but we are trying to do with our my v. A. Transformation in transforming the...

Captioning performed by vitac so one of the joys is to be able to collect africanamerican film. Its one of my areas of interest. We were able to get an amazing collection of movie posters such as the ones behind you. That is an early oscar movie poster from the 1920s. And then part of our job is to help people relearn history they think they know. That movie poster is from spencer williams, known by most people as playing in amos and andy, one of the most important black film directors in the la...

Showcasing the citys history. Learn more about denver all weekend here on American History tv. People in denver drive past the denver mint all of the time. Its right in dwrount downtown denver. Its on a major thoroughfare, but people dont know very much about its history. And it has a fascinating history and it was a story that needed to be told. Colorado experienced a gold rush in 1859 when gold was discovered in the mountains. 1859 is when denver was founded. It was just a wild west town. It b...

The step was taken solemnly and in union with many of their white countrymen. Deep in my heart, i still believe. We shall overcome someday. We shall overcome, we shall overcome, we shall overcome someday. Ooo, deep in my heart, i do believe, that we shall overcome someday. The footsteps of the march on washington was firm them with a quiet purpose and a mannerly rhythm, it aroused even dissenters, and awareness of the ooo, deep in my heart, i do believe, that we shall overcome someday. The foots...

Support and sponsorship of this program as well. Of course, the library system, and we really appreciate the everson madison region ally braer. We are, of course, in sh charlottesville, which is the southern terminus of our National Scenic byway as well as National Heritage area. We are pleased that the book tonight focuses on both our northern terminus as well as our southern terminus. You will hear a little bit about gettysburg, which is our northern terminus, our most northern part of our Nat...

We ought to do what we can to make that happen. Welcome to the panel, the second panel on hamilton. Im r. Bernstein, i teach at the Colin Powell School for civic and global leadership. Id like to introduce my colleagues. And ill introduce them in the order in which theyll be speaking. Well go down the row alphab alphabetical alphabetically. Benjamin carp professor at Brooklyn College. Is he author of defiance of the patriots the Boston Tea Party and the making of america. The Boston Tea Party an...

He was going to get he was actually going to do an interview and had a little time, so he came by for a cup of coffee. We were sitting in my office that morning when we had the television on and watched a plane fly into the first tower of the trade center and i remember very clearly johns reaction. I said, did you see that . A pilot just flew into the world trade center. He said pilots dont fly into buildings that wasnt a pilot. And thats how it started. We went then to a leadership meeting. Sho...