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In philadelphia in 1787. Charles was four times governor of south carolina. He was an ambassador to spain. In the legislation in south carolina. He was in congress up in washington. He spent his entire life in public service. But the key, the National Significance of charles were his contributions at the Constitutional Convention. He presented a complete plan of government. Its called the pinckney draft. Which you have to get through kind of a backwards way because they were no surviving copies....

Services most visited historic home, arlington house, the robert e. Lee memorial at arlingt Arlington Cemetery. Join us with our phone calls as we talk with the former arlington site house manager who will oversea the yearlong restoration of the mansion, slave quarters and grounds. Today the 100 anniversary of the National Park service live from arlington house at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan3. Coming up this weekend on American History tv on cspan3. The Abraham Lincoln pre...

Unsuccessful. Were spending a lot of money. 13,000 per person. A lot of that is on health care. 45 of it. That is where congress decided to spend the money. The nation has made a great commitment to helping the poor. It increases every year. Third issue, the causes. The first is work rates. The longterm decline of work among males. The work rate among young black males, before the rescission, we before the recession, we have a real problem with male employment. For reasons that are not clear. Fe...

And because of that, they had saw mills and they would cut their ties, brought them down from the mountains. Pas the Union Pacific coming from the east had to hand cut their ties wherever they could find wood. Not a lot available in many of the areas so they would split them. You can see how they would cut them and bring them out when they could. The Transcontinental Railroad was happening at the end of the victorian age, as you were going into the industrial age. And it was a perfect time for t...

Area of black assault boulders on which weve got 24,000 petroglyphs. The story of the National Monument isnt just about a single petroglyph or concentrations. It also includes the volcanic cones and the mesa top that spreads out towards albuquerque. The pueblo people would come up to the mesa top. We have evidence of them carrying water and farming. Sometimes they would send their children up here to keep the rabbits away from their crops. We see many ancient trails up here and this becomes part...

He was determined to make it a palace. Other people writing about it across the centuries, this modest adoe by buadp adobe buil. There was nothing about the palace of the governors that made it appear to be what we consider a Great National historic landmark. Calling it a palace was more pretense than reality for much of its history. The spanish occupied new mexico from 1598 until 1821 when mexico declared its independence from spain. In that period of 1598 to 1609, the new mexico seat of govern...

We are basically standing on the oregon trail, mormon pioneer trail, california trail, pony express trail, trans continental telegraph came through here. Then the u. S. Army in the 1860s. One of the important things to remember about this site is there was a lot of activity happened here before the army ever showed up. The first occupation of this site was 1847. They get to this location and need to get across the north platt river. The north river doesnt look overly intimidating. Back then ther...

Into the back seat of the car. Knows, when he gets in that car what will happen. Black man in alabama, you know. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q and a. 100 years ago president Woodrow Wilson signed the bill creating the National Park service. Today we look back on the past century of these caretakers of americas natural and historic treasures. Beginning at 10 00 eastern and throughout the day we take you to National Park Service Sites across the country as record by cspan. At 7 00 p. M....

From you all about which one of these is best. Think about it a second. Which one, weve got a paper clip, binder and a stapler. Which one is best . Which one is best . Its not that hard. Which one is best . We have an intellectual in the room. Im looking for someone with an answer. Which one is best, david. Stapler. Youre wrong. If the stapler is not best, jack, which one is best. Wrong again. The right answer is the binder clip. The binder clip is in my opinion the best. All right. I will admit...

They had gotten up, they had hunted. They had seen immense herds of buffalo. He decides to get off the river and walk for a while and see this. This large sandstone outcrop here. I think its just naturally part of Human Interest to want to come to something large, climb up on top of it, and look around. Thats exactly what he did. As part of an explorer, as somebody who was looking to traverse the west, to create maps, to learn about things that are the landscape, the natural history, et cetera, ...