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Harrisburg when the paper won the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. Ron is a native of michigan, a graduate of Central Michigan university, and has returned as a guest speaker as part of the schools hearst visiting professional series. Ron lives in york, pennsylvania and has been a Gettysburg Foundation guide since 2013. Without further introduction i would like to present to you ron kirkwood. [applause] mr. Kirkwood thank you. Ok, we are good. Tammy, thank you. Thank you all for coming. I argue in my book that the george and Elizabeth Spangler farm is the most important farm in the battle of gettysburg...

Trail of the centuryold journey that changed america. Hugh did it change america . Along the route, thousands came out to cheer the convoy on, to look at the vehicles, talk to the men who remember in the caron voy and it spurred a lot of interest in travel by motorized vehicles. Were going to catch watch the film. Did it get a lot of attention in the press . It did. They happened a major sendoff at the white house. President wilson was in europe but secretary of war newton baker waved them off. There were speeches, the press was all there and there was quite a scene at the white house. Theres ...

Continues. Next we visit the Sheridan County museum to learn about the impacts coal mining has had on the area. The history of coal mining has a place in the geological past of wyoming. At various times throughout this areas history, before it became a state, most people might not realize that looking at wyoming nowadays, but wyoming used to be subtropical to tropical regions and at one point, we were actually an ocean. All of that has factored into the deposits of fossil fuels within the state, whether they be natural gas, oil, coal, and so, that prehistory sets the stage for modernday sherid...

Fantastic day. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] tvthis is America History where every weekend we spent 48 hours exploring our nations past. Isthe cspan cities tour exploring the american story as we take book tv in American History tv on the road with the support of our Comcast Cable partners. Coming up in the next hour and 15 minutes, the story of how this Central Michigan town became a state capital. Minutes we will have a job or of...

Is learning about the citys history. It was here that olds started they oldsmobile corporation. Up next, we will take you inside the museum to learn more. Car manufacturing in a city is very important to us. That industry is one of the backbones of lansing with Michigan State university and the state capital and we have automobile manufacturing. Those components have kept lansing a very successful town. It started with r. E. And building this. He was one of the founders of the Automobile Industry in the united states. He moved here with his family when he was about 16 and his father had a Mach...