Silver Sword News Today

How did the revolution survive , its darkest hour . While all of this lofty language about liberty and rights and creating constitutions and remember the ladies is going on, the Largest Overseas expedition in european history is headed towards new york. So the mural that you see beside me here is an eyewitness depiction, which weve blown up as a mural, showing british 5000 warships and about 6,000 british and hessian troops in landing boats about to land on Manhattan Island in kips base on septe...

Troops. There is only few fragments of that statue that have survived. Its a great story. American up next on artifacts in the second of a twopart visit to philadelphias museum of the American Revolution, Vice President of Stephenson Scott leads us on a tour of the exhibit galleries covering the 17761778. We asked visitors in the gallery four big questions. The first of those questions is ow did people become revolutionaries. When they come back to the iii, they king george should be able to tha...

And also the literary director of the library of congress. Much of my own writing has been about the history and the people of latin america, and the purpose of this conversation to share a little bit of that history and talk about how it compares with and connects to the pandemic that were living through right now, right here in april 2020. So many of us are at home, working at home, living at home and sheltering in place as science takes the on the covid19 virus. Im so fortunate to have a trul...

Im the president and ceo of the museum of the American Revolution. Its wonderful to have so many familiar faces in the audience. And im pleased we are also Live Streaming program this evening and we will be on book tv and live on forever and ever. The founding members of the museum and members of the Revolution Society and people that are great supporters. We are pleased to partner and see them up on the screen. I know Tim Gillespie but all i can see is darkness. Tim and Joe Maclachlan so lets t...

Good afternoon. My name is barbara and i am a bilingual educator, interpreter, organizer and work with the Madison Public Library Community Engagement with the design and implementation of spanish bilingual storytimes. Im very honored to introduce the conversation between david, great writer and historian of madison and many other parts of the world for works with the Washington Post and maria. Both david and read our colleagues at the Washington Post. Im very humbled to introduce author, editor...

Stage right here with all of us. Thank you. Thank you. With the applause most celebrated living historian in the United States of america of the American Experience which is even greater. Hes been called dean of americana and reason why hes taken pus down the georgetown shroud and building of the canal the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, Harriet Truman john adams, the americans in paris. The wright brother and sister. And this fabulous new book to talk about a little bit later, the pioneer. So ...

A boarding house near the legislature building. And putnam came to him. Putnam was old enough to have been his father, came up to his room and said youve got to get up out of bed because were going to cast the vote today. And he said i cant. He said youve got to. So he did. Some people say he was carried in on a stretcher. I found no proof of that. In any event, he got to the legislature. He gave a powerful speech, and he voted. And the measure to introduce slavery into ohio and thus the whole N...

A small private house on the island of kodiak alaska over the course of the stars and stripes inside no, no, and russian speech will sound. Steamboat yes, somewhere on the wall there is a photograph of the head of the family. Just a couple of days, how to get out of the hospital still on the old mans oxygen tank, in our passport its written aleksey chichinov and you dont seem to think anything unique, a russian surname in the country of emigrants, but Aleksey Alekseevich insists, that he is a na...

Ps, i appreciate it very much your coming to see me. It gave me a list. At his private writing, truman would write saw Herbert Hoover day before yesterday and had a pleasant instructive conversation on food and the general troubles of u. S. President s two in particular. We discussed our prima donnas and what makes them. Some of the boys are having problems with their dignity and prerogative. It is hell when a man gets in Close Association with the president. Truman likes to use hell a lot in hi...

Musical guest, empire of the sun, and featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove oy, oy, oy steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy hello thank you oh, how fun oh, come on [ cheers and applause ] i feel the love i feel the magic tonight. Its going to happen tonight. Hot show welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show, everybody. You all made it. Youre all here. [ cheers and applause ] oh, im excited. I want to start off by welcoming everybody whos tun...