Opened up the queens head tavern. And being down here in lower manhattan, you were at the center of commerce. So it was location, location, location. It was a very popular tavern. Soon, the politics of the times started really kicking up and Samuel Fraunces was a patriot, so having a tavern named after your king and queen was not a good idea, so people referred to it as sam Fraunces Tavern, which is what its known as today. The tavern was very popular. He had two kitchens, he had a savory kitchen and a sweet kitchen, which was very uncommon for the time. In the late 1760s, when the turmoil of the politics were happening, many different types of people would meet here at sam Fraunces Tavern, including the sons of liberty. So the upstairs second floor Fraunces Tavern was a private room referred to as the long room for private rentals, and women were not traditional a allowed in taverns, but if you rented a room you could have female guests. So there were certain types of things you would
Start this out to a biblical quote where two or three are gathered together and so on. Unfortunately, that is not the case. That historians learn that we need to remember is that you have to checking your assumptions. If your assumptions are incorrect, it can lead you to some very wrong conclusions. I would like to illustrate that by the following story, which i hope you will find somewhat well , rivaled as ribald as well. The smiths decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. On the data proxy father was to arrive, mr. Smith kissed her goodbye and half an hour later by chance a baby photographer happened by, hoping to make a sale. Good morning, maam, i have come to no need to explain, said mr. Smith, s mrs. Smith, i have been spiking your. Did you know that my specialty was a babies . That is what my husband and i hope. After a moment she asked where do we start . Me, id leave it to usually try to in the bathtub, three and the couch, and in the living room we hopefully ha
Heavy rain from northern virginia, i thought i might start this out where to go or three guys are together. [laughter] fortunately that is not the case. One thing historians learn and all of his need to remember is that you have to keep checking your assumptions. If your assumptions are incorrect, they lead you to some very wrong conclusions. To illustrate that by the following story, which i hope you will find somewhat somewhat although risible as well. Conceive unable to children and chose a surrogate father. On the day the father was to arrive, he said to his wife, i am off and the man will be here soon. Baby photographer ring the doorbell, hoping to make a sale. Hello, maam no need to explain, said mrs. Smith. Understand. Oh, really . He said, babies are my specialty. Blushing, she said, where do we start . He said, leave it to me. I usually try two in the bathroom, maybe one in the living room [laughter] we try several positions and i shoot from several angles, i am sure you will
And its runup were enormous. So its possible but i didnt detect any kind of shift in coverage that led to a distortion in how the news media was covering it because there were other big events. The Oklahoma City bombing. For once it not it was an event that not oj off of the front pages. Thank you. Thank you. Foster campbell thank you. You spent a lot of time researching 1995 but im wondering 20 years from now when we look back more recently and think i was a watershed year much like 1985 . I think its still fairly recent. I think we will have a second edition. More recently. Is a really good question and obviously as john mentioned at the outset 2001 is going to be remembered as a watershed year. What other possible years would there be . I dont know, 2012, 2008 with the election of barack obama. That might be seen as a watershed moment. You know it takes what to store code historians call critical distance to really begin to appraise and analyze and assess the significance of a parti
Washington need the rain and where did he get it . Guest thank you first off. He has a numbers problem and experience problem and i believe that cops he had 9,000 the british entered the 40,000. Over the whole course guest over the whole course and they get up to 80,000. Washington sees that happened in new york and he was almost annihilated and assault a revolution right before his eyes after all the success in massachusetts what year are we . Guest 1776 is when he really comes over after the success at bunker hill. The british say you want boston i will give you boston and they go to canada to regroup. Washington said i know when they are coming back to new york. So they come back to new york city and he says you cant face them. You can can to be cant beat td so he has to use espionage and the guerrilla warfare. He has to be smarter bandanna. So its only logical that we bring it to he needs a spy force, he needs his own cia and then you find out that he has a huge espionage backgroun