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Bank wars of the 1830s. Class is about 55 minutes. Good morning everybody, and welcome to American History. My name is jonathan barth. You all know me as professor barth. I am a history professor at Arizona State university, in conjunction with two stellar, worldclass programs, and there they are on the screen. The school of historical, philosophical, and religious studies, great program. And then also the center for political thought and leadership, another Stellar Program if this lecture intri...

Good afternoon. Welcome to United Methodist church. I am the pastor of this congregation. We welcome you to this exciting event, sponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society. An important event in their organization and for our aggregation here as well. John Street Church is the oldest methodist congregation in the United States. In very many ways, it is fair to say that this congregation grew up with this country. Themes that are present in American History have defined this conversati...

Halfway through the first volume of the landmark history of the Federal Reserve. Not only having worked at the Federal Reserve, but having had lunch many, many times talking about his history, i have followed closely over time the massive transformations that has occurred at the fed, just since the financial crisis but over my lifetime. And before, and to think that the first 10 years of my life we were on the Gold Standard, you know, it suggests that things have changed a lot. And so when a fri...

[please stand by] [please stand by] [please stand by] 3372 children. 57 children. Unlike most wars in this case, refugees are running towards the. Ine they were giving birth out of slavery because it was meaningful, even though it was even birth in a war zone. It was often ugly, against fence posts, women finding whatever they could to cut on the local court straight cut umbilical cords. They need to bury the placenta, so they looking for places to do that and they are determined to do that even...

Americans played in the expectation. In the expedition. The library of congress hosted this hourlong event. Thank you john. Herman and i are going to act as a tag team today. We have been doing this for many years. We did a trail together a number of times going over the bitterroot mountains, following in the footsteps of lewis and clark. We initiated that for the smithsonian, carried that on. I was lucky enough to be involved in a number of those. That is how we became interested in lewis and c...

You of political culture. I will compare that to something we have encountered before, Political Parties. The bulk of the lecture is going to be presenting new evidence on the antebellum political culture. I have three major areas as evidence to talk about today. One, Tobacco Culture. Two, political friendships. Three, affairs of honor. Class,e often do in the we are going to start with the image on the screen. Im going to ask you to tell me what you see. This is Lady Washingtons reception from ...

Its very fancy. The ladies are wearing gowns. Good. How about a third thing . What else do you see . Go ahead, jimmy . It looks like theyre all fairly close together. Like i cant tell, they might be dancing or i dont know. But they are all very close together. Exactly. Very good. Okay. Thats good. Yeah. I should say about Lady Washingtons reception that lady washington herself is standing literally center stage, an elegant gown. What you might not have noticed was that there is someone else who ...

The supports of various kinds been contracted, and with the creation of large state armies, positionindeed, a re reprivatization. People that study agree this is privatization, and i concur. The independence refers to the decision in the 1990s to pull back from its promise to take care of its own, and, instead, emphasize, in many of its support programs, selfsufficiency, and that came through retooling programs like Family Support into family readiness, for example. Readiness and pulling back th...

We have been doing this for many years. Together a number of times going over the bitterroot mountains, following in the footsteps of lewis and clark. We initiated that for the smithsonian, carried that on. I was lucky enough to be involved in a number of those. That is how we became interested in lewis and clark. Of course, he is a historian. Said he came at it from that point of view. Ima historian of cartography. I am a historian of cartography. Together we put this book together. As far as w...

Then they have the kids to a lot of times. Then they have to prepare food. Its a hard life. I always say just because i dont know anything because not much has been written about asmat women what appears to be a culture in which women have very little importance for power isnt necessarily true. Its just that we men are privy to mans world and we are the writers. I always say that if you know of any ph. D. Candidates who are women who are looking for a thesis, a woman could go live in asmat and c...