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The significance of the virginia statute for establishing religious freedom teaches far beyond the borders of the old dominion. Its influence ultimately extended to the Supreme Courts interpretation of the separation of church and state. In his latest book, todays speaker tells the story of that statute, beginning with its background and the struggle of colonial dissenters with an oppressive church of england. Displacing an established church by instituting religious freedom, the virginia statute divided the most substantial guarantees of religious freedom in any state of the new nation. The e...

Casper did not become an actual city until 1869. At that point they had started building the capital. The citizens of wyoming to vote on where they wanted the capital to be. What they wanted was 60 plus one. It was never totally settled until 1982 and it passed the law. There are 782 pieces of granite and some of it has come from all over the world. You will also see two statues. That was in 1869. Be able to hold public office, to hold property, and have them recognize legal documents. He was chief of the tribe for 60 years. He died at 1900 at the age of 102. The outside of the capital is cori...

This is one of the carbines used in the raid on Harpers Ferry by john brown. Exhibit illustrates the manufacturing might of the north. They could turn out hundreds of thousands of well fitted, will many factored firearms. Well l many of manufactured firearms. The manufacturing capability was one of the norths strengths in the civil war. Hand did on the other not have the industrial might that the north had. The new england and the Connecticut River valley was the home of dozens of gun manufacturers. So many wereld, needed by the union army that 33 different manufacturers were turning up the id...

An electorate where the people are committed to the wellbeing, the common good of the country and should be willing to set aside their self interest to advance the common good. That is virtue. Yet, this is a time when people are drinking as never before, and you can see the statistics here that historians have come up with. In 1790, the per capita Alcohol Consumption in the United States, in the equivalent of gallons of 90 proof alcohol what does 90 proof mean . Everybody knows the answer to that. [laughter] i ask you about Alexander Hamiltons fiscal policy, and there are crickets in here. I a...

Cheyenne has the moniker of daddy of them all because it was the first big rodeo of them anywhere. Cheyenne started in 1897 as a means to bring some Economic Vitality into an otherwise depressed economy. And this was certainly not what was expected to happen but it soon became one of the premier rodeo events easily became known as the World Championship rodeo, the place to go for any cowboy or for anybody who wanted to experience western life as it was experienced by the cowboys themselves they would be able to come here. The days has all of the traditional rodeo sports that you would come to ...