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Welcome you to historic fort stevens and the 55th anniversary of the battle of commemoration. Commemoration. My name is kim elder. I am the Program Manager for the civil war defenses of washington, and that is a long title or what encircles the National Park Service Number which manages 18 of the forts, as well as battleground national cemetery. At this time, we will present the colors. Today, representing the 54th regiment of massachusetts and the united colored troops from connecticut. We are going to open now with the presentation of colors. Forward march. [national anthem] u [applause] ple...

Colleges, black colleges and universities and minorityserving institutions in preparing students for success. Pursuant to committee rules, Opening Statements are limited to the chair and Ranking Member. This is to allow us to hear from witnesses sooner and allow adequate time for questions. I recognize myself now for an opening statement. Examine thel Critical Role of historicallyblack colleges and universities, Tribal Colleges and universities, and Community Colleges in providing lowincome students and students of color with a quality Higher Education. Our first three bipartisan hearings have...

A boarding house near the legislature building. And putnam came to him. Putnam was old enough to have been his father, came up to his room and said youve got to get up out of bed because were going to cast the vote today. And he said i cant. He said youve got to. So he did. Some people say he was carried in on a stretcher. I found no proof of that. In any event, he got to the legislature. He gave a powerful speech, and he voted. And the measure to introduce slavery into ohio and thus the whole Northwest Territory was defeated by one vote. [applause] and yet nobody has ever heard of his name. [...

With the germination and courage with perseverance, programming was designed by her panelist tonight so we could tell the whole story of our community. Blending social history with public history to tell the africanamerican story had never been done before. And quite literally they were making history. This is the first of three panelist discussions that we will have this year. I would welcome you to come back on july 5 that focuses on africanamerican stories and on october 18 you will focus on the future, and are panelist of that discussion will be helping us think about how do we continue to...

Democracy the United States and japan. The Wilson Center and National History center cohosted this discussion. Its about 90 minutes. All right. I think well get started. Its 4 00 on a monday afternoon, which means its time for the washington history seminar. Welcome, everyone, to the Wilson Center. Welcome to this installment of the washington history seminar. Im christian oserman. I have the privilege of cochairing the seminar with professor eric arnesen from George Washington university. Im dlielighted to see so many you here on this beautiful afternoon. We will have cspan taping the event t...