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How the Transcontinental Railroad change the community. This was part of a symposium marking the railroads 150th anniversary. Your sponsor today of the Stanford Historical society provides members and supporters access and trying to be objective about telling the whole story to lectures and special events, membership is open to anyone, whether you are affiliated with Stanford University as an alum list, a faculty member, staff member or just live in the area or live outside of the area and are i...

How the Transcontinental Railroad change the community. This was part of a symposium marking the railroads 150th anniversary. Your sponsor today of the Stanford Historical society provides members and supporters access and trying to be objective about telling the whole story to lectures and special events, membership is open to anyone, whether you are affiliated with Stanford University as an alum list, a faculty member, staff member or just live in the area or live outside of the area and are i...

Or you can continue with us talking about americas middle class, hearing different stories from people around the country. Ellicott city, maryland. Good morning. Caller good morning. Issue with the definition of middleclass. Different in is different states of the country. Host do you consider yourself middleclass, ahmed . Caller with the current definitions, yes i am. But another essays have, in the past few years and longer than that that of show that when we have economic downturn, many up ou...

[inaudible] you change most of the book so it would be his store and not an american retelling it. But you would have a history and so much involvement with stories similar to what you write about. I was wondering how much of this book like you would connect to your own experience of how much is just from knowing people in these situations and just going off of that and come up with their own back stories of . You know, like when im writing sometimes i feel like its as though im standing in a fi...

Documents back and forth to each other. Flagler was standard oils railroad man. He was the person who worked out the deals with the railroads in new york and pennsylvania and ohio to all standard oils products. And flagler was noted for driving hard bargains, that he would get rebates from the railroads which would be reduced rates for flaglers, for standards products. Mek standard a big advantage over his competitors and that it could ship more cheaply over the railroads than they could. The ot...

[laughter] [inaudible conversations] i talk about it a lot in the book. But i think that there were failures in his eggs of leadership before, during and after. Because of this they were asking for more security and its a volatile area libya is a disaster. During you didnt have anyone going in there there were forces that could have initiated doing something there was a fifth force and ive served on those before and i got my urban deer, all this stuff you have to be back within an hour, you grab...

And Michael Kozak who helped negotiate the treaties. It features a 1978 address from are carter on the panama canal. First David Mccullough, he discusses the history of the construction and answers viewers questions. The path between the seas it traces the early days of the panama canal. Good evening, mr. Mccullough. Let me ask you first, why do you have a picture of jules burn in your book it was the idea that almost anything in the world miraculous and progressive could be accomplished through...