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Everybody, welcome, to the celebrate hamilton 2016 events. On the 202th anniversary of Alexander Hamiltons passing that happened in 1804, at the young age of 47. President ofolet, the Awareness Society. Society. Hort, the aha we have had many discoveries, and we just revealed three new ones this past thursday at liberty hall. So check online for that. The Society Needs to give a special thanks to a number of organizations that made this program possible today. Especially, Trinity Church who hosted us with great support. Alexander hamilton was a congregant. The u. S. Coast guard and auxiliary a...

Sps sds came here to write what would be called the port huron statement. The students for a Democratic Society were a group formed in ann arbor michigan. They wanted to bring about a more Democratic Society. They figured that they needed a manifesto to bring that about. Here to write their manifesto. Sds was a student group. They wanted to sort of building more Democratic Society. They looked at the laws of the United States and they said, these come about because of a lack of democracy. Here,ey came together working on an original draft by tom hayden. , andbroken up into pieces worked on eac...

Holocaust museums firstperson series. It is just over an hour. Good morning and welcome come to the United States Holocaust Memorial museum. My name is bill benson, the host of firstperson. Thank you for joining us today. We are in our 17th year of the first person program. Our first person today is mr. Julius menn whom we shall meet shortly. This season of firstperson is made possible by the generation of the loos frequent Smith Foundation with additional funding from the arlene and Daniel Fisher foundation. Firstperson is a series of conversations with survivors of the holocaust who share wi...

Im i did a book on a liberal president and a conservative court. Have you ever heard of any of those . Well, of course you have. But its not the present liberal president and a conservative court. It is the president Franklin Roosevelt and the hughes court of the 1930s. Indeed, it was 75 years ago this month that Franklin Roosevelt announced his Court Packing plan which is the subject of much of my book. Ill talk to in a moment. The clash between roosevelt and hughes at a critical time in American History is a great story and an important one. Also it raises questions that were important 75 ye...

Steps to the top of the Fort Gratiot Lighthouse. Wet were looking at here, have got the view of the bluewater bridges to the south and lake huron to the northeast. So, were right at the historic the source of the st. Clair river at the mouth of the lake. You can see the nice blue water and what tourists come to this area for. When they hear this is the bluewater area, this is what they get to see. They realize you are not line. Just north of the city of port huron, within the city limits, it gets its namesake from the military for that was established in 1814. Gratiot was an engineer in the u....