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Discover the Untold Story of the Metalworkers Who Shaped America's Capitol Dome
Join us for a fascinating webinar on the little-known history of the metalworkers who crafted the iconic drum of the United States Capitol Dome-and the Baltimore company that played a pivotal role in shaping the early American cast iron industry. In this program, we will discuss historian Steven Swett's new book The Metalworkers: Robert Poole, His Ironworks, and Technology in 19th-Century America (Baltimore Museum of Industry), with illustrations by Stephen Marchesi, which explores the contributions of Robert Poole, an Irish immigrant who founded one of the most influential ironworks in the United States.
Steve Livengood, Chief Guide and Public Historian at the U.S. Capitol Historical Society, will lead the discussion, offering his expert insights into this important historical period and the legacy of Poole’s work.
Through detailed illustrations, Swett’s book provides an in-depth look at Poole’s sixty-year legacy. He introduces us to the skilled metalworkers-machinists, molders, boilermakers, and patternmakers-who transformed raw iron into critical parts of the burgeoning industrial infrastructure of the 19th century.
This webinar will explore the lives of these craftsmen, their personal stories, and the challenging work environments they endured. We’ll discuss the intricacies of their craft, from the tools they used to the complex relationships between labor and management, and the impact they had on the development of industrial America.
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The Life of USCHS Co-Founder Congresswoman Marguerite Stitt Church
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Watch a compelling story from Christine Wolf, the co-author of a new biography, Politics, Partnerships, and Power: The Lives of Raph E. & Marguerite Stitt Church. This book tells the political life of the Honorable Marguerite Stitt Church, one of the founders of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society and one of the first 50 women elected to Congress. This is the very first biography of a twentieth...
Native American Sculptures in the Capitol with historian Fred Poyner IV
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Watch our latest webinar with historian and author Fred Poyner IV as he discussed his book, Native American and First Nation Figures in Sculpture. Poyner explored the significance of Native American sculptures in the U.S. Capitol, including statues of Chief Standing Bear, Sarah Winnemucca, and Sacajawea, and shared the stories behind their selection and the artists who created them. Fred Poyner...
Rebels at the Gates: The Confederacy's Final Gamble and the Battle to Save Washington
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Watch our latest book talk with historian Dr. Robert Watson! Dr. Watson's new book, Rebels at the Gates, brings to life the daring Confederate attempt to invade D.C. in the final year of the Civil War. With the South facing imminent defeat, General Robert E. Lee devised a bold plan to shift the war’s outcome: a surprise attack on Washington, D.C., hoping to force a truce on Confederate terms. D...
Lincoln and Immigration with Harold Holzer
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Join us for an insightful webinar with acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer as he explores Lincoln’s complex relationship with immigration during the Civil War era. In the decades leading up to the war, ten million immigrants reshaped America’s demographics, economy, and politics-sparking both progress and intense nativist backlash. Lincoln's political journey, marked by his initia...
Presidential Grave Hunter: One Kid's Quest to Visit the Tombs of Every President and Vice President
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Ever wondered what drives someone to visit the final resting place of every US president? Watch the video recording of our latest event for an entertaining book talk with Kurt Deion, Educational Specialist at the Historic Congressional Cemetery and a young history enthusiast turned "Presidential Grave Hunter!" Fascinated by the U.S. presidents since a young age, Kurt embarked on a mission to vi...
Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
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To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade. In Founding Partisans, master historian Dr...
JFK, Oswald, and Ruby: The 60th Anniversary of the Warren Commission | Judge Burt W. Griffin
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Watch our webinar featuring Judge Burt W. Griffin as he shared his unique insights from his role with the Warren Commission on the investigation into President John F. Kennedy's assassination and the events involving Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald. During the webinar, Judge Griffin discussed his latest book, JFK, Oswald, and Ruby: Politics, Prejudice, and Truth, which explores the conflicting ...
The War Within - What Jamie Stiehm Witnessed Inside the Capitol on January 6th
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Watch our conversation with journalist Jamie Stiehm, as she shares her experience inside the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, as chronicled in her book, The War Within: What I Witnessed From Inside the Capitol on Jan. 6. On that day, public officials and members of the press, including Stiehm, were caught in the midst of unprecedented turmoil within the U.S. Capitol. Through her deeply reflective ...
The Evolution of Voting Rights: 23rd, 24th & 26th Amendments | Harvard Historian Dr. Alex Keyssar
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Join us for another exciting and informative installment in our Amendment Series with professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, Dr. Alex Keyssar, who will help us break down three integral constitutional amendments that have aided in shaping American democracy over the past 60 years. Elections are a vital part of American democracy and American society. For hundreds of y...
Changing the Presidency: Understanding the 20th, 22nd, & 25th Amendments
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Watch our latest installment in our Amendment Series with Dr. Brian Kelt, who will give us insight into three fundamental constitutional amendments that have defined the American Presidency as we know it today. Presidential inaugurations on January 20th, a limit of two four-year terms, and a clear line of succession are all things we have come to view as integral aspects of the American Preside...
Be a Champion for Civic Education
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Each school year, from October to March, we offer the "We the People" Constitution Tours™ to over 1,000 eighth-grade students from D.C. Title I schools, free of charge. This hands-on experience takes students to historical sites in D.C., including the George Mason Memorial, the National Archives, Lafayette Park, the U.S. Capitol, the White House Visitors' Center, and the Old Supreme Court Chamb...
From Havana to DC: The Rise of Cuban Americans in Florida Politics
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Watch our webinar on Carlos Orta's new book, From Havana to DC, in our latest book talk on congressional history. From Havana to DC: The Rise of Cuban Americans in Florida Politics is a “love letter” to the first group of Cuban Americans appointed or elected to political and public office from Miami. As a former legislative aide, he had the opportunity to work with most of them. The book also s...
"American Covenant" | Explore the Power of the Constitution with Dr. Yuval Levin
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Watch our recent webinar with renowned author and scholar Dr. Yuval Levin. We'll explore how the Constitution continues to shape our national identity and governance in today's world. Dr. Levin shares insights from his latest book, "American Covenant," offering a timely reflection on how our founding principles can guide us toward a more unified future.
When Women Won the Right to Vote: A New Look at the 19th Amendment | Historian Dr. Lisa Tetrault
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When Women Won the Right to Vote: A New Look at the 19th Amendment | Historian Dr. Lisa Tetrault
Congressional Women's Softball Game with Congresswomen Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Cheri Bustos
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Congressional Women's Softball Game with Congresswomen Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Cheri Bustos
John Quincy Adams: A Militant Spirit
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John Quincy Adams: A Militant Spirit
Filibustered!: Insights from ACLU’s Mike Zamore, Former Chief of Staff to Senator Jeff Merkley
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Filibustered!: Insights from ACLU’s Mike Zamore, Former Chief of Staff to Senator Jeff Merkley
Opening Remarks - Native American Suffrage Symposium
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Opening Remarks - Native American Suffrage Symposium
Stanford Law's Elizabeth Hidalgo Reese Yunpoví on the Struggle for Native American Voting Rights
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Stanford Law's Elizabeth Hidalgo Reese Yunpoví on the Struggle for Native American Voting Rights
Lunchtime Discussion: Native American Representation in National and Local Narratives - NA Symposium
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Lunchtime Discussion: Native American Representation in National and Local Narratives - NA Symposium
Sovereignty in the 21st Century - Native American Suffrage Symposium
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Sovereignty in the 21st Century - Native American Suffrage Symposium
Suffrage, Activism, & the Law Today - Native American Suffrage Symposium
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Suffrage, Activism, & the Law Today - Native American Suffrage Symposium
Native American Citizenship, Suffrage, & Sovereignty through History - NA Suffrage Symposium
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Native American Citizenship, Suffrage, & Sovereignty through History - NA Suffrage Symposium
Bootleggers and Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition | 18th & 21st Amendments
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Bootleggers and Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition | 18th & 21st Amendments
Exploring Dystopian Fiction: NPR's Ron Elving & Harvard Law's Alan Jenkins Discuss '1/6' Comic Book
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Exploring Dystopian Fiction: NPR's Ron Elving & Harvard Law's Alan Jenkins Discuss '1/6' Comic Book
Under the Dome with the 10th Architect of the Capitol, Alan Hantman
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Under the Dome with the 10th Architect of the Capitol, Alan Hantman
Exploring the 17th Amendment: The Journey to Direct Senate Elections
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Exploring the 17th Amendment: The Journey to Direct Senate Elections
Interpreting Controversial Historic Monuments with Celebrity Historian Raffi Andonian
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Interpreting Controversial Historic Monuments with Celebrity Historian Raffi Andonian
"The Last Honest Man: The CIA, FBI, Mafia & the Kennedys" - Senator Church's fight to save democracy
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"The Last Honest Man: The CIA, FBI, Mafia & the Kennedys" - Senator Church's fight to save democracy

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  • @kees1292
    @kees1292 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Excellent video, well researched content!

  • @Polit_Burro
    @Polit_Burro 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Apparently Poole may have been a scab-herding industrialist. They're legion.

  • @rogerscottcathey
    @rogerscottcathey 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Very interesting.

  • @pyro5263
    @pyro5263 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My social media is in my personal capacity, Senator

  • @sicilyny5375
    @sicilyny5375 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Mythology?? NO..BLATANT LIES..to cover the truths wanting to be hidden

  • @zipcdr
    @zipcdr 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Jamie Stiehm is a delusional lunatic.

  • @JohnMacFergus-oz5cp
    @JohnMacFergus-oz5cp 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Darn colonizers!

  • @cosmomusic
    @cosmomusic 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Blah blah, misguided self haters

  • @dmbdmb3828
    @dmbdmb3828 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    🦃

  • @Biblical_DNA
    @Biblical_DNA 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Calling Native Americans: Indians. Is equivalent to calling Jews: Edomites.

  • @Biblical_DNA
    @Biblical_DNA 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The *first official Thanksgiving* was in 1637, when Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop declared a day of thanksgiving to celebrate the massacre of Pequot people. An official proclamation of Thanksgiving was declared by the Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop in 1637 after the English settlers' and their Native American allies victory against the Pequot tribe at the Battle of Mistick Fort (located today in Mystic, Connecticut).

  • @raziberry8043
    @raziberry8043 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This guy is not American you should be ashamed.

  • @paineite
    @paineite 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    51:00 excellent analysis of the political evolution in Idahio. I witnessed it all. It was indeed the so-called "Reagan revolution" that shifted Idaho politics and shafted Sen. Frank Church. Idaho was actually a VERY progressive state for many many years; an early ratifier of women's rights (second or third state to do so, I think), pro-Union, pro-Labor, first practicing Jew elected to governorship -- Moses Alexander 1914 known for his progressivism -- and so on.

  • @randallanthony1794
    @randallanthony1794 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    All bogus

  • @Cat-ik1wo
    @Cat-ik1wo 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    1st thanksgiving was in St. Augustine, Fl. The north is a liar.

  • @sport307
    @sport307 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I recall the CIA stating that they do not support political assasinations. This must be a result of Congressman Church.

  • @thatsthewayitgoes9
    @thatsthewayitgoes9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing, towards end of presentation, you imply linkage between “J6”, “gun owning people” and the government accomplishing freedom for blacks & Republicans. When everything in your presentation proved the exact opposite! #1. The unarmed ( Democrats immediately passed racist laws keeping blacks from owning means to protect themselves: firearms) unarmed blacks were attacked by Democrats for voting Republican. Yet you disparage the right to own firearms. #2. You try to compare J6 with what? Democrats repressing Republican votes in post Civil War South? Well, I don’t know if you heard, but the protests J6 were almost entirely peaceful ( the only person killed was an innocent protester) and they were protesting the corruption the Democrats perpetrated in the 2020 election. So, J6 was the OPPOSITE of what you’re implying in your presentation. #3. Your say ‘the government’ accomplished freedom for black freedmen in the South against Democrat tyranny, when the government accomplished nothing! The racist Southern Democrat Party rained hate, submission, death and subversion of black Republican Freedman rights for the next 100 years. You are crazy to tell people the Southern Democrat KKK through the 1960’s and beyond was different than the Democrat KKK subversion of rights for blacks through the 1970’s. Emmett Till is an example of a 1000’s of what justice the Southern Democrats handed out through the ‘70’s to blacks. Every person on the jury, every person in that courtroom knew their Democrat KKK neighbor murdered Emmet Till. No, sir, the Democratic government in the South Shut down Republican voting BECAUSE all black freedmen WERE Republican voters and all blacks elected to office in South post Civil War WERE black Republicans ( there were quite a few). Until the Democrat KKK put an end to all black voting. Sound familiar? With the corrupt election schemes the Leftist Democrats have perpetuated in the last two elections? If every one of those black freedmen who were attacked by the Democrat KKK in intimidation to NOT vote, had had arms to shoot back at those despicable Democrat KKK terrorists, you don’t think they would’ve survived as well as cast their Republican vote for their black freedman candidate? So, you say, good citizens armed against a tyrannical government is BAD? Because THAT’s what the KKK was. The KKK was the government. You failed to tell people; the entire Southern states governments were Democrats.

  • @moodrahkamite818
    @moodrahkamite818 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How do we combat the newest Democrat proclivity with racism?

  • @Neil-m6o
    @Neil-m6o หลายเดือนก่อน

    What on earth is this chap going on about! I have never heard such a disjointed, unconvincing recount of the yarn from the Warren Conspiracy 😅

  • @AbrahamIsaacMucius-d7z
    @AbrahamIsaacMucius-d7z หลายเดือนก่อน

    William Costin was majority English European in ancestry due to his father John Parke Custis AKA "Jacky" and his maternal grandfather Col. John Dandridge. Mr. Costin must have at least have 25% African and Native American lineage due to his mother Ann Dandridge Costin.

  • @jmsparger4339
    @jmsparger4339 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you would be so kind to pass along a message to the Capitol and its denizens... WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU. Hugs and kisses, We the People

  • @ernielofaro218
    @ernielofaro218 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You failed on the highest level possible that can be reached. Top of the corruption and corrupt organizations that you are so happy about that still today six decades can not get it right. What losers. Morons you can look at the hidden classified documents as part of a member in office for government. Only not memories but you and all your constant six plus decades of lies and podcast video trash not to solve the JFK assassination but the old American greed pod and another JFK book for money money money American greed money scums. Get a life. Stop insulting my and the worlds intelligence with more of the same hear say poppycock book and pod trash of rehashed billions of times over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over for six plus fuc..en. Decades. Shut it. Money hungry animals of the most corrupt government and people like you keep it corrupt with same old same trash. T.U.

  • @Autshot20
    @Autshot20 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If the Warren Commission did such a great job, why do so many unanswered questions remain 60 years later. So many conclusions that the WC reached have been put into question. The host talks about the motives of Oswald and Ruby. The WC never addressed any motive for Oswald. No one who ever knew Oswald or who were ever around him has ever stated that they heard Oswald speak negatively about JFK. If he did nit to try and make himself known, why did he run and why did he take every opportunity to deny it?

  • @Greater726
    @Greater726 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Definitely gonna pick up one of Dr. Brands books now. Obviously very intelligent and well spoken

  • @jefftezos
    @jefftezos 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great talk!

  • @richardkean5100
    @richardkean5100 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why do you leave out the influences of Roger Williams

  • @KevinShipp1
    @KevinShipp1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The intelligence committees are a sham. They will never sacrifice their political career like Frank Church did (his career was ruined). Also, the CIA makes them sign NDAs with the threat of civil or criminal penalties. The Agency controls what they see.

  • @chicago618
    @chicago618 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The professor is a very hard leftist and so it’s important to keep that in mind as he gives his account of constitutional history it will be tainted from that ideological point of view. 46:16 He left out that in 1986 the late Scalia an originalist was voted unanimously to the Supreme Court. 50:12 Both the questioner and this professor are absolutely clueless of what they’re criticizing if they think that’s a problem for originalism.

  • @devs9979
    @devs9979 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Who wants to bet that JFK assassination is original fake news run by the CIA deep State?!

  • @SmallPotatoes-j2c
    @SmallPotatoes-j2c 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Certain things should remain secret. Like the MK-ULTRA program?

  • @DenisMorissetteJFK
    @DenisMorissetteJFK 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How can I reach Mr. Griffin? I would like to offer him the audio memo he made in 1964 when he was a Warren Commission attorney. This is an excerpt: th-cam.com/video/ybV3FBYyP1g/w-d-xo.htmlsi=eDk19egSdrwnmwpC

  • @rogerscottcathey
    @rogerscottcathey 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If Church had just mentioned Nelson and David Rockefeller just once, I'd agree. But he never did. Smh

  • @USCapitolHistory
    @USCapitolHistory 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Watch our panel discussion from our 2024 Native American Suffrage Symposium about Native American Representation in National and Local Narratives.👀

  • @zachjames6181
    @zachjames6181 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for this i wish that we were taught more about this in school.

  • @cesarnavarrete6570
    @cesarnavarrete6570 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for this eye-opening and mind-boggling explication of the facts surrounding the Pilgrims and the Indians. It is more disturbing than even a PBS American Experience history of Thanksgiving Day and other articles I have read. We have a lot as a nation to reckon with about our past. If we gradually accept what we have done to Indigenous Peoples of what became the United States we may be able to become even stronger as we move through this difficult period of time.

  • @shanesweeney8516
    @shanesweeney8516 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The 16th Amendment was made up. It was a law that never was. It was created in 1913 with the Federal Reserve Act the United States Constitution does not have the 16th amendment in it. Sorry but look up the original constitution

  • @NOC1TIME
    @NOC1TIME 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Refreshing. To point to an honest man within the ' beltway today. There were a few. Frank Church is a very interesting fellow.

  • @michaelsergejhelgesson1637
    @michaelsergejhelgesson1637 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Religious leaders shouldn't get involved in politics! Jesus Christ was strictly neutral, refused to be made king at one occassion, and was loyal to God only. God's coming kingdom will solve all problems that men have created, not politicians!

    • @ГлебВерховский-п2р
      @ГлебВерховский-п2р 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Deep in their hearts evangelicals believe that religion should control our society. They want to impose their views on the rest of society. And that's unfortunate.

  • @brianambrosemcmahon8531
    @brianambrosemcmahon8531 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    LBJ hated the Kennedys

    • @Ro-nu7vv
      @Ro-nu7vv หลายเดือนก่อน

      LBJ hated Robert Kennedy specifically … idk about John

  • @Mark-ej4uf
    @Mark-ej4uf 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Kennedy who??