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Professor brown was a champion of the africanAmerican History of washington, d. C. Its a real thrill for me to be able to honor her work and life in this forum. It was touching and moving to hear your recollections of your grandmother. I cant tell you how happy it that me to hear from you she would approve of and appreciate the work we are doing at georgetown. Thats free much the best introduction ive ever gotten. [laughter] in my life. I really appreciate that. I would also like to thank the National Archives for hosting us. And for all of you for being here in person or perhaps watching remotely, through the magic of youtube or maybe later on on cspan. I just really appreciate your interest in history. Teaching it seems like and learning about history is an uphill battle. We are so focused on the present , we look forward to the future and few of us stop to reflect on ....
Monoxy battlefield, monassas battlefield, another civil war engagement, harpers ferry. Famous locations around the region. Piscataway park down here in ft. Washington. Piscataway park is a beautiful park right on the potomac river. Early historic settlements as early as 1630, we have prehistoric indian sites all along this location. If you look at washington itself, youll see an incredible amount of d. C. Is green, that means its more e administered National Parks service. Rock creek park is one of the largest urban parks in the united states. Its the third Oldest National park service unit, i believe, so you have lots of wonderful little green spaces that are parks here in washington and the washington metropolitan area. What i think is most amusing is within our region you could put our region inside yellowstone National P ....
Changed dramatically over the years. We may nevertheless find instructive some of the experiences of the early staff. Beyond the first years of the staff, the Research Task was more difficult. For my paper today, i was helped with some Key Developments that took place during the summer of 1927 when congress was out of session, ways and means and the first jtc chairman green was in iowa, and the small staff was in d. C. As a result, important issues were discussed by correspondence that has been preserved in the archives. Once the staff is established, more communication seems to occur within the staff, rather than with outsiders. And preservation of that information is much more haphazard. Some internal memos have no names or dates on them, and their importance is very hard to determine. The paper trail gets harder as the size of the staff grows, and some information is not ....
This is real money. Tell me whats on your mind, tweet me or hit me up on facebook. The job market came swinging back in september. The economy added 248,000 new jobs last month. That is a big jump from august. Whats more, the Labor Departments figures from this summer got revised upwarded by a cool 69,000. That means on average, america has now added almost 227,000 new jobs to the economy every month this year. Todays report is a pretty good gauge for a recovering economy. President obama, whos come under criticism because of his handling of the economy can rightly claim that things are looking better ahead of the mid term elections in november. Now, i usually tell everyone to ignore the Unemployment Rate and focus instead on the number of jobs added in a given month. Ignore that advice just for a moment. The jobless rate in september fell into its lowest level in more t ....