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You here to join us in celebrating the 250th anniversary of the appointment of John Marshall to the Supreme Court of United States. Venturening is a joint between the Supreme Court Historical Society and the John Marshall foundation. This is not the first time that those two organizations have partnered. They joined forces to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the appointment of John Marshall to the Supreme Court. The capstone of that particular evening was a rousing lecture by Justice Scalia about the importance of John Marshall to the history of the court and the history of the country. Just...

I saw a lot of hands. Okay. I was curious about hotels in new york. I mean i know my parents stayed at one of the few hotels in new york that allowed black people to stay there. Well, you know, it was different. Like up where i interviewed paula, up at the polo grounds, she mentioned in her building at one time walter white from the naacp, Thurgood Marshal stayed there, judge bruce wright stayed there at one time in that building. But further up is a building count 555. Gnat king cole would come in town and he couldnt stay in town. He could playdown town but couldnt stay downtown. What years w...

Be sure to watch cspans washington journal beginning at 7 00 eastern on friday morning. Join the discussion. Next on American History tv, historians discuss general shermans march flew georgia. After that, historian dennis fry talks about the impact of john browns raid in the 1860 goals. The New York Historical society hosted this hour long event. Welcome, its great to be back in the same seats as we always occupy. For those of you who have come to a number of our sessions. We are promised and we are promising each other that well do more in the coming seasons. We have a topic today that we th...

Entries to actually tell us what all of this means in the grand scope of things. The other thing is that some confederates we can say well, we can go to the pension files, these documents when confederate soldiers will fill out documents to get money and prospects which we will talk about in a few minutes but those files in many ways are incomplete. They are also hidden from public view. In fact, some states actually still have medical seals on these documents because they contain private details. Medical details, about family members that you dont want necessarily to go public. So for the vet...

Democrats, democrat line. Republicans, republican line, and you can tell us what you think on cspan on twitter and on facebook. The phone lines are open. Discourse, thel kind that we see on tv, and the kind that we experience among each other, it did not used to be this bad. And it does not have be this way. Now, a little skepticism is healthy. But when people distrust distrust they come to institutions. They lose faith in government. They lose faith in our future. We can acknowledge this. But we dont have to accept this. And we cant enable it. That was the speaker of the house yesterday, a li...