Washington is that washington is an enigma to the modern audience. Why . Because we dont really know who he was, how he looked. When i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every 10 years or so, about 700 political scientist and historians around the country rank our president. Who knows how current president is going to rank. Whenever those rankings come out, these three guys here rank at the top. Sometimes it will be lincoln, sometimes it will be washington , sometimes it will be fdr, but the interesting thing about this is we do not know what george really looks like. We had images of lincoln, photographed images and you can follow those photographs over time and see how he changed, how he aged and of course we have images of fdr. We even have some images of him in his wheelchair. Generally, the press did not take images of him in his wheelchair, but with George Washington, he was there before photography, so we dont have photographs of
Maria big show this morning, joining the conversation Dagen Mcdowell, chief Market Strategist art hogan and president ial candidate arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. Good morning. A lot to talk about this morning especially on day 2 of Federal Reserve meeting, Delta Airlines coming. Ed is here, chairman and ceo of the black stone group, Steve Schwartzman talking about his book. Oklahoma senator James Lankford also joining us this morning, dont miss a moment of it, we have a big 3 hours, top story this hour is oil, once again dropping this morning on news that saudi arabia will restore normal output and production levels by the end of the month as secretary mike pompeo meets with saudi arabia king prince salman to twin attacks on saudi oil facilities, iran is denying any involvement in saturdays strike with president Hassan Rouhani blaming u. S. For disruption in the region. Its not exactly going well for them. I think this was their attempt to break out and sort of find way to put press
And the character that he developed over a lifetime, and if you think about what weve done for the duration of this course, weve brought him into the story intermittently throughout. Whether its talking about individual battles or whether its talking about how he organized men or how he kept men he recruited men to get them to maintain or stay in the service. And one of the things i try to get across whenever im talking about washington is that washington is a bit of an inenia to a modern audience. Why . Because we really dont know who he was, what he was, how he looked. I mean, when i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every ten years or so about 700 political scientists and historians across the country, they rank our president s. Now, who knows how our current president is going to rank. But nonetheless, whenever those rankings come out, generally these three guys here rank at the top. Sometimes it will be lincoln. Sometimes it will
Creek formation. It preserves the last of the dinosaurs and it out crops here in montana. We have a lot of formation in the state. Finds where we go to triceratops and trex. These dinosaurs are known from the formation. This goes back to the native american days. This was during some of the classic bone wars. This is for the smithsonian or jail. 70ssnt until the late when we found a site thanks to landowners that were rockhounds in northern montana. When a family found the fragments of baby dinosaur bones. Discoveries. Prior to that, science on the dinosaurs rely crocodiles and alligators that they would lay there a and peace out lay their eggs and peace out. But these nestings along with , we put the museum of the rockies on the map. It is focused on the fossils from the hell creek formation. The last nonavian dinosaurs that went extinct, they are 66 million years ago. Is because of two types of dinosaurs in particular that i bet youve heard of. That is treasurer tops which is the hor
At cspan. Org citiestour. Cspans cities tour is exploring the american story as we take book tv and American History tv on the road. Every first and third weekend of the month, we bring you the history and literary life of a different that he as we visit Historic Sites and talk to local authors. With support from our spectrum cable partners, this weekend we traveled to bozeman, montana. Situated in the southern part of the state, bozeman sits 90 miles from Yellowstone National park, drawing many tourists to the city. Over the next hour, we will learn about the history of the bozeman and the surrounding region. When i first moved to bozeman, there were so many story, story streets, story distributing, story hills, but there was not a lot written on him. There was a historian who once said to me you know, bozeman is misnamed. He said it ought to be story. Orstory bill storyville, story town. Personally, i think bozeman has a better ring to it than any of those other options. They remaine