Down from canada the wild mallards come in autumn, green heads pointing south. Thousand miles of Mississippi Valley below them. Quite a view from america. More limited, but still a pleasant view, america from a school room window in nebraska. The view of a country, any country is harsh through iron bars. Im joseph wells. I am a lawyer. A flight of birds, some americans in trouble, and a white temple on the hill. This is the story i want to tell you. It is the story of the Supreme Court of the United States. You feel very small when you stand in the entrance of the Supreme Court building in washington. The corinthian columns rise three stories high, made of marble from the quarry of the state of vermont. Inside, gleaming marble from alabama is underfoot and all around you. And polished walls and columns under a covered ceiling. In this room, historic meetings take place. With jurists of other days observing from the mall walls. A staircase of bronze and marble spirals upwards. In the ha
Weekends on cspan two are an intellectual feast. Every satellite, American History tv documents america story. And on sundays, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. Funding for cspan two comes from these Television Companies and more, including buckeye broadband. Buckeye broadband, along with these Television Companies, supports cspan 2 as a public service. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our honored guest, speaker nancy pelosi, accompanied by republican leader, kevin mccarthy, janes see clyburn, senator marco rubio, jared kathy castor, representative michael waltz, representative found in the east, representative fredricka wilson, president and see a ribbon, and dr. Entering the second. Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable nancy pelosi, speaker of the United States house of representatives. [applause] as speaker of the house, it is my privilege to welcome to our statuary hall as we celebrate a pie in the year, pioneering and patriotic american. The pride o
Baxter here with us today the author of in pursuit of jefferson traveling through europe with the most perplexing founding father. Joining us today from fairfax, virginia where he lives with his wife and children and in his words. They lived quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow thomass jeffersons travel advice across europe, so he is going to tell you a little bit more about the book and we are so thrilled to have him here derek baxter everybody. Great. Well, thank you. Thank you scuppernong and and cspan. Thank you everybody for watching. So. So yes, this book is about its about me following jeffersons travels across europe and its really it was a chance to learn about a different side of jefferson that we dont often hear about we all know about the younger jefferson who wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 33, and we probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president , but this gave me a chance to explore this different side
Now at 5 00, a murder mystery. A new york city woman killed while jogging in massachusetts. The Big Questions this is raising. A group of teens terrorize two men in broad finding. And park danger. Whats uncover good a dramatic spike in crime and where its believed to be happening the most. News 4 new york at 5 00 starts right now. The case of a jogger killed, this time in massachusetts. Good evening. The new york city woman was visiting her mother. She went for a run and never returned. For many, this sounds eerily familiar to the murder of a jogger in howard beach exactly we have more on the new information. Reporter grisly and disturbing new details. Police in massachusetts saying the victim was found naked and burned. It started as a missing person case, but that search and search dogs led investigators to a body in the woods. The victim is 2yearold Vanessa Marcotte. Shes a google account executive who lived in new york city but had been back home in princeton, massachusetts, visiti
music narrator thomas moran embarked on his first trip to the west in 1871. The United States at the time was still recoveng from the ravages of the civil war. Americans turned with hope to the western frontier. By painting the pristine grandeur of these remote places, moran enabled 19thcentury americans to visualize a magnificent landscape most would never see. His paintings transformed their perceptions of the west. From 1867 to 1879, the United States government sponsored four western expeditions, now known as the great surveys. Of all the ais who accompanied them ne is more associated with the surveys than thomas moran. The watercolors he brought back from wyoming, the first color images of yellowstone, played a key role in the creation of the National Parks system. Yellowstone had long been familiar to American Indians mountainmen, traders and travelers. Legendary,eemingly unbelievable stories made their way east. The canyon was said to be a fearful chasm the river a frightful tor