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Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the New York Historical society. Im louis mirrer, the im thrilled to see you this evening in our beautiful robert h. Smith odd terrorism tonight. s prom give me liberty a history of americas exceptional used i part of the distinguished Speaker Series and as always id like to thank mr. Swartz for his great generosity which has enabled to us bring so many fine speakers to the stage. I also want to thank all of your Chairmans Council members in attendance this evening and to thank you for your great support i tonights program will last an hour and it will in...

Highlight, promote, discuss this great new book, which just came out on tuesday i believe the third would be official launch date. This is about a topic which is incredibly relevant important but as the authors discuss, understudied and on underemphasized. I dont want to waste too much time at the big long intro. I will only have an intro so i can highlight the work of ab next to me whos been doing really fantastic reporting for the wall street journal on the same topic and im going to quote from one of her stories from this year because it sets us up nicely where in a piece coauthored with he...

Partnership between the General Services administration and the National Museum of civil war medicine. Thisays like to ask question how many of you have been here before . All right, everybody. Great. Welcome back to the museum. Always like to make a shout out when we see mr. Richard lyons in the audience. The reason we are here in this space is because mr. Lyons made an incredible discovery in the 1990s that saved this building from being torn down. Always like a round of applause for mr. Lyons his discovery. [applause] Evenings Program is a pay what you please event, meaning at the conclusio...

Here and i would really, really hope that, you know, any of us who are qualified to be able to serve on the seat and i will be so happy. Jennifer is great. Ive been watching her and shes my neighbor. A lot of people, william, who couldnt be here. And anybody who could serve, i would love it, with all of the qualified people. But if i could have that chance, i would be more than happy to give of myself to do this work. Anybody have any questions . Im so nervous. [ laughter ] youre all do such a great job. No reason to be nervous. Are there any questions . No, it was perfect, thank you so much. ...

Indianapolis became the capital in 1825. We had a couple of other cities in indiana that served as capitals. Vincennes, indiana on the wabash river, it was the capital of the indiana territory, and then we moved the territorial capital to a city called cordon, and it on the ohio river and it became the capital when indiana gained statehood in 1860. After a few years, it became obvious we needed a new capital city in the middle, so we built one. We built the city of indianapolis here on the white river, and we have had two statehouses here. They had a contest, actually, when they were building ...