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The bulk of the lecture is going to be presenting new evidence drawn from my research and others on the antebellum political culture. I have three major areas as evidence to talk about today. Tobacco culture, political friendships, and affairs of honor. Like we often do in the class, we are going to start with the image on the screen. Im going to ask you to tell me what you see. This is Lady Washingtons reception from 1861. Take it in. Who can point out something you see right away that strikes you . Lady washington is on a platform. Prof. Balcerski how high do you think she is . Off the ground . Like a foot. Prof. Balcerski thats a good piece there. What else . Everyone is dressed up fancy. Prof. Balcerski like you are today. Exactly. Very fancy. The ladies are wearing gowns. How about a third thing . Go ahead, jimmy. It looks like they are fairly close together. They may be dancing. They are all close together. Prof. Balcerski ....
The museum of american finance. Our partner is the Alexander Hamilton awareness society, an organization you turn to for all things hamilton. We welcome the leadership. As well as friends of the museum doug hamilton, dan simon, suzy pock in the house. Mike newton, our founder and former board chair john herzog and seth cowler brought amazing hamilton documents you should check out afterwards. And, of course, the cspan audience. Now some 20 years ago our board chair wrote me a note that started with the words a stroke of luck. He was introduced to a buffalo phd candidate interested in Alexander Hamilton. This is well before the show and there were people interested in hamilton, very fuf us that were doing a deeper dive on the financial aspects of his vision. And our first look at bob was this phd thesis. 1300 pages. That is staggering. His is 1,000 more. It led to the ....