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Expanders. Continue the tour and learn more about world war ii battalion eight stations. Unday at 6 00. N american artifacts tv and American History tv on the road, with the support of the buckeye broadband cable partners. Visit notable locations. In about 15 minutes, the battle of Fallen Timbers and its native american removal in the west. Later, we learn how toledo became known as the glass capital of the world. We begin with the toledo war. The toledo war goes back to 1787 and a northwest ord...

The strip of land that was formed was called the toledo strip. The toledo strip was actually formed by two different surveys. And the differences a wedge shaped strip that was five miles wide at the indiana border and eight miles wide by the time it reached lake erie. So its a pie shaped 450 square mile wedge which became the toledo strip that ohio and michigan really started to wrangle over. That ohio andt michigan were focused on would be what was referred to as the port of miami, miami being ...

[applause] so good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the kansas city public library. Robert merry is this is his second presentation in the somewhat hallowed halls of the kansas city public library, fivestar library this week from library journal. Thank you. [applause] hes a graduate of the university of washington. He has a masters degree from Columbia University school of journalism. Hes been a reporter for the observer, the wall street journal, managing editor, executive editor and ed...

Hallowed halls. [applause] a graduate at the university of washington with a masters degree in from Columbia School of journalism from the observer and wall street journal and editor in chief of Congressional Quarterly and more recently of the american conservative. It is collaborative but it sounds like a description of their philosophy with fiscal prudence and sound Monetary Policy protection of Civil Liberties and restraint of Foreign Policy and we adhere closely to the maxim and the ads of t...

Shooting were landing to explain the governor state. The first year you develop some kind of an illness, an element and never was quite explain what a biased, but he had to return to in that time he he recuperated he couldnt go back to college because economic difficulties had rendered in need all of the family members to go to work. He got two jobs as a schoolteacher and u. S. A. Postal clerk he enlisted immediately and whether his family was a strong abolitionist, his mother particularly subsc...

The so good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the kansas city public library. Roberts ran to come his fact that presentation at the kansas city public library, five sarah Library District from the library journal. [applause] is a graduate of the university of washington. He has a masters degree from Columbia University school of journalism. Hes been a reporter for the observer, the wall street journal, managing editor come executive editor and editorinchief of Congressional Quarterly and...

The bill of rights and the debates that are echoed today. She speaks with the director of the institute for constitutional history at the New York Historical society and George Washington University Law school host its nice to be having this conversation with you. I very much enjoyed reading your book the bill of rights the fight to secure americas liberties and my first question is an easy one why did you write the book . Guest probably for the same reason that i wrote a brilliant solution. I t...

It was designed to display the bill of rights, and it opened in 1936. Only the bill of rights occupied the case. We had to wait until 1952 to bring all three founding documents together. The story of how the declaration and constitution came to the archives is the one we never tire of hearing. Now i would like to introduce jessie krantz, historian of the National Archives. She became the first historian in 2013. She was previously with [indiscernible] with the center for legislative archives and...

Electronic devices you may have and also to not use any cameras during the course of this evening. Official photographers are entitled to take pictures. It is my pleasure to introduce justice breyer. He has had a distinguished career, starting as a law clerk to goldberg and going on to have many important positions in the department of justice and working for the Senate Judiciary committee. He was appointed to the First Circuit court of appeals and he and was thears chief judge of that court. Cl...

Only the official photographer is permitted to take photographs. It is my pleasure to introduce Justice Stephen breyer. He has had a distinguished career, starting as a law clerk to goldberg and going on to have many important positions in the department of justice and working for the Senate Judiciary committee. In 1980, president carter appointed him to the first appeals and hef served 14 years and was the chief judge of that court. Clinton tapped him to be a justice here and he turned out to b...