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From the university describes the conflicts and relationships between the new federal government, settlers and native americans. Good morning, everybody. Weve been talking for the last couple of weeks in this class about the effects of the American Revolution and kind of framing that discussion around the question of how revolutionary was the American Revolution . What kinds of changes did it initiate in american society, american law, American Government . Wide should we think of the revolution...

Suggesting one productive way of redrawing that history is to think in terms of a complicated and ever shifting set of contests among three sets of actors. Three sets of actors we call native people, settler colonists, and european empires. Obvious to folks what we mean when we think about native peoples, although it should not be that obvious, except to stress it is a plural term. We it is a complicated set of things. We have also been talking about the technical use of the term settler and set...

This is generously supported by the Library Company of philadelphia and the pew center for arts and heritage. We spent the week tossing around ideas about how we might redraw Early American History. We tried to do that by suggesting one productive way of redrawing that history is to think in terms of a complicated and ever shifting set of contests among three sets of actors. Three sets of actors we call native people, settler colonists, and european empires. It is probably obvious to folks what ...

Good morning, everybody. Weve been talking for the last couple of weeks in this class about the effects of the American Revolution and framing that discussion about how revolutionary was the American Revolution . What kind of changes did it initiate in american society, american law, American Government . Why should we think of the American Revolution as a revolution rather than simply a war for independence . So we talked about, weve talked about this in various frame works. Weve talked about w...

My name is christine black and i am the exhibits curator here at the Capitol Visitor Center inside the us capitol. We are here in the congressional investigations exhibit in exhibition hall and this is an exhibit that speaks to how and why congress does one of its most important jobs. The constitution, and gives congress the power to legislate. But in order to do that, Congress Needs information on what topics it can legislate on what needs to be legislated about. And Congress Gets that informat...

My name is christine black and i am the exhibits curator here at the Capitol Visitor Center inside the us capitol. We are here in the congressional investigations exhibit in exhibition hall and this is an exhibit that speaks to how and why congress does one of its most important jobs. The constitution, and gives congress the power to legislate. But in order to do that, Congress Needs information on what topics it can legislate on what needs to be legislated about. And Congress Gets that informat...

My name is christine black and i am the exhibits curator here at the Capitol Visitor Center inside the us capitol. We are here in the congressional investigations exhibit in exhibition hall and this is an exhibit that speaks to how and why congress does one of its most important jobs. The constitution, and gives congress the power to legislate. But in order to do that, Congress Needs information on what topics it can legislate on what needs to be legislated about. And Congress Gets that informat...

My name is christine black and i am the exhibits curator here at the Capitol Visitor Center inside the us capitol. We are here in the congressional investigations exhibit in exhibition hall and this is an exhibit that speaks to how and why congress does one of its most important jobs. The constitution, and gives congress the power to legislate. But in order to do that, Congress Needs information on what topics it can legislate on what needs to be legislated about. And Congress Gets that informat...

Something about tonight program. We have our partner the Westport Historical society. It is my pleasure to introduce tonight author Tom Schachtman. We couldnt be more thrilled to host tom as he discusses his new book how the french saved america. I now to support and the marquis to lafayette were only part of frances occupation to american success against england. In how the french saved america, Tom Schachtman makes a convincing case that without france, the United States may never have gained ...

An honor and pleasure to have you here for us to begin a series of conversations that we hope will be a blessing to many. For thisthi evening is to create a cap conversation about the lee jackson windows and the larger issues of race and the legacy of slavery and our nation. Know the recent history of events regarding these windows, i invite you to read about that history in the information we provided for you within your program on tonights conversation. This is the first in an ongoing series o...