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and the philadelphians are writing to boston and the connecticut ers are writing to boston. they're not writing to each other yet. they're that comes with the formation of congress and the creation of these new bonds. so there's this moment between the tea party and the seating of the first continental congress where boston is uniquely this communications node. and if they were then embarrassed by being as they been four years earlier, a complete failure on the t non consumption on importation front. this would corrode the legitimacy any claim that boston shouldn't pay the t to get the port act open. it should be simplest solution of the whole problem and that in fact paying for the t was one of the things that congress took up as a potential response to all of this. and could well have been a step forward. you've us so much to think about here and there. i know plenty more that we could that we could talk about in the book. but i want to be respectful of our audience here and make sure that we reserve a little bit of time for any questions you all may have. so, emily, who o
and the philadelphians are writing to boston and the connecticut ers are writing to boston. they're not writing to each other yet. they're that comes with the formation of congress and the creation of these new bonds. so there's this moment between the tea party and the seating of the first continental congress where boston is uniquely this communications node. and if they were then embarrassed by being as they been four years earlier, a complete failure on the t non consumption on importation...
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outside of boston. the immediacy of the at boston. the continental congress efforts on first establishing the army. but it would soon need to address the need for a navy and four marines not possess an either. at the time congress leveraged a temporary stopgap in the use of privateers or sanctioned pirates in which private merchant men were converted into warships and manned by civilian crews. capture british shipping on the high seas. privateers had some positive impact in capturing british supplies, but many were in business for gain. their actions rarely coordinated with ground forces, and washington had no over them. in fact, they became a draw on the manpower and resources that would later be needed by the continental army. navy, marines. washington quickly realized that the privateers alone were insofar urgent to blockade the british in boston being resupplied and reinforced from overseas, so added necessity. he created his own navy using soldiers to fill role of sailors and marines. colonel john glover, marblehead, massachusett
outside of boston. the immediacy of the at boston. the continental congress efforts on first establishing the army. but it would soon need to address the need for a navy and four marines not possess an either. at the time congress leveraged a temporary stopgap in the use of privateers or sanctioned pirates in which private merchant men were converted into warships and manned by civilian crews. capture british shipping on the high seas. privateers had some positive impact in capturing british...
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maybe they know that the british are occupying boston. there's 4000 redcoats in boston and only in a population of only 15,000 in the city. there's clues within the document behi on the wall behind the british it says customs house. that's a reminder of the anger over the taxes that are disproportionately hurting a city like boston. that is so dependent on trade and commerce because it's a port city. if students can start to remember those elements and bring those in in an analysis, whether they're answering this is a multiple choice question or responding to this and short answer. d.b. q they'll they'll be well on their way to being successful in using this document on the exam. professor stacy, on a secondary note, would it get a student extra credit to know that a future president, john adams, represented one of the british soldiers at trial? that's a good question, peter. i wouldn't say it would get them extra credit, but one of the benefits of these documents appearing on the exam is that they help students trigger and remember other
maybe they know that the british are occupying boston. there's 4000 redcoats in boston and only in a population of only 15,000 in the city. there's clues within the document behi on the wall behind the british it says customs house. that's a reminder of the anger over the taxes that are disproportionately hurting a city like boston. that is so dependent on trade and commerce because it's a port city. if students can start to remember those elements and bring those in in an analysis, whether...
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the city of boston urging, quote, the yeomen of new england as the chief conservative element of the republic to come to burns aid in defiance of federal authority, sons of liberty groups were formed to preserve the freedom of fugitive slaves, to resist the encroachment of the federal government on liberty. gentlemen, richard, earlier on, how southerners reconciled their states rights with their increasing demands for national debt. the stronger federal government power and its is a great question. i mean, what what i was trying to emphasize when i'm talking about this is that the real advocates of states rights in the late forties and certainly in the 1850s were not southerners. they were northerners, the northerners who were passing personal liberty laws, effectively, as it were, trying to nullify federal law. it was northerners who were mobilizing themselves, using the language of the american revolution, talking about the the yeoman of new england coming to the aid of in defense of freedom, in opposition to a federal government that as, in the case of anthony burns was acting in,
the city of boston urging, quote, the yeomen of new england as the chief conservative element of the republic to come to burns aid in defiance of federal authority, sons of liberty groups were formed to preserve the freedom of fugitive slaves, to resist the encroachment of the federal government on liberty. gentlemen, richard, earlier on, how southerners reconciled their states rights with their increasing demands for national debt. the stronger federal government power and its is a great...
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as a result, boston became a slave unsafe for the couple. and they left again. and another stage their escape to england where they lived until 1869. by the way when they returned and a plantation in georgia that shows you have some gumption. the crafts joined were joined in the lecture circuit by another former henry brown who escaped from richmond in a dramatic fashion in 1849. created in a box and sent to philadelphia box henry box brown took his box with him wherever he went. face first would possibly recapture he too left for england where together with the crafts they played a critical role in winning british support the abolition in the decade before the civil war and brown brown would have his himself boxed in manchester and sent across the pennines to leeds and pop out of his box. he was a man had a flair for the dramatic of short man as you could if you were going to put yourself in a box. but a rather rotund figure. so always dress and flambeau orient waistcoats. he was a very character. in march 1850, as the decade as the debate over the fugitive sla
as a result, boston became a slave unsafe for the couple. and they left again. and another stage their escape to england where they lived until 1869. by the way when they returned and a plantation in georgia that shows you have some gumption. the crafts joined were joined in the lecture circuit by another former henry brown who escaped from richmond in a dramatic fashion in 1849. created in a box and sent to philadelphia box henry box brown took his box with him wherever he went. face first...
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added, was the leader of the gang john wilkes booth who was killed by a trigger happy british immigrant boston corbett, under the command of an irish born captain. so this is just part of the story that you see continually appearing in the civil war era, because among his many other legacies, lincoln left us an amazingly diverse and inclusive america. in 1865, although it didn't become so without some violent pushback and resistance, admittedly. but in the end, nearly a quarter of and i can't believe i wrote the union army on ed bars day a quarter of the federal army spoke with a foreign accent official washington this town saw civil war diversity firsthand for first time in april 1861, when the 69th new york infantry under irish born colonel michael corcoran arrived here and set up camp on arlington heights. lincoln and william seward visited the right here in this town when the 37 new york, the so-called irish rifles encamped at the capitol building, lincoln paid another visit. and while when general louis blanquer paraded on the white house grounds with the 6/8 new york, the so-called germa
added, was the leader of the gang john wilkes booth who was killed by a trigger happy british immigrant boston corbett, under the command of an irish born captain. so this is just part of the story that you see continually appearing in the civil war era, because among his many other legacies, lincoln left us an amazingly diverse and inclusive america. in 1865, although it didn't become so without some violent pushback and resistance, admittedly. but in the end, nearly a quarter of and i can't...
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there are ten regional headquarters housing staff responsible for the major regulatory programs in boston. new york city, philadelphia. atlanta. chicago. argo. dallas. kansas city. denver. san francisco. and seattle. the scientific work of epa is also decentralized and takes place in laboratories located across the country. air pollution work takes place in raleigh, durham, north carolina. toxicology and industry engineering in cincinnati. groundwater research in ada, oklahoma. pesticide biology and gulf breeze, florida. and ecosystems research in corvallis, oregon. this scientific effort is essential to meeting the environmental challenges that still lie ahead. we need to know a lot more about how toxic substances behave in the environment and what affects various exposure levels have on human health and the environment. this knowledge would help us control the risks from these substances without sacrificing the benefits of the technologies that produce them. we need more information on long range transport of pollutants through the air. acid rain is an example of this kind of transport.
there are ten regional headquarters housing staff responsible for the major regulatory programs in boston. new york city, philadelphia. atlanta. chicago. argo. dallas. kansas city. denver. san francisco. and seattle. the scientific work of epa is also decentralized and takes place in laboratories located across the country. air pollution work takes place in raleigh, durham, north carolina. toxicology and industry engineering in cincinnati. groundwater research in ada, oklahoma. pesticide...
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essentially the entire group of people who were known as boston brahmins. well basically opium traders and they were very closely linked to other they made vast fortunes in china through in opium. the russells, the forbes family, which is almost iconic of american capitalism itself. so the interesting part of it is that these guys would go off to china when they were 16, 17, 18, sometimes, you know, one of the biggest, most opium traders was a man called john cushing, who went out a 16 year old boy. and he was basically adopted by a very famous chinese trader called reuben jang, who was known as kwa, who was then probably the man in the world. and he made he made cashing incredibly wealthy so crushing came back to america as one of the richest men in in the whole country. and great catch because he wasn't he wasn't very so these guys came back they were in their twenties usually they had all this money and often chinese traders give them money to invest in america so they being in canton for them was incredibly important because they learned about currencie
essentially the entire group of people who were known as boston brahmins. well basically opium traders and they were very closely linked to other they made vast fortunes in china through in opium. the russells, the forbes family, which is almost iconic of american capitalism itself. so the interesting part of it is that these guys would go off to china when they were 16, 17, 18, sometimes, you know, one of the biggest, most opium traders was a man called john cushing, who went out a 16 year old...
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so please join in welcoming talmage boston and evan thomas evan thomas. thank you. brad is a politics and prose the greatest bookstore there is? yes. a dream come true. it's been on my bucket list to come to this store. well, here we are. so you're a big lawyer. why? you become an historian. what happened? i grew up in a history family and from the time i was six and seven years old, which happened to coincide with the centennial of the civil war. there were a lot of documentaries on television, children's books about the civil war. abraham lincoln, who became a hero early on and is still my number one hero. and through the years, i kept reading, as brad mentioned. my first two books were about baseball history. and then after finish the second one, i realized i'd written about everything in baseball that truly interested me. i was ready to move on, so the next book was on legal talking about abraham lincoln, the lawyer atticus, who was really harper lee's father, james baker, leon jaworski. people like that. but increasingly it's been more and more the focus has be
so please join in welcoming talmage boston and evan thomas evan thomas. thank you. brad is a politics and prose the greatest bookstore there is? yes. a dream come true. it's been on my bucket list to come to this store. well, here we are. so you're a big lawyer. why? you become an historian. what happened? i grew up in a history family and from the time i was six and seven years old, which happened to coincide with the centennial of the civil war. there were a lot of documentaries on...
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talmage boston, who's here from the great state of, texas, to talk about his new book, how the best did it leadership lessons
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now up in boston there's statue to paul revere and they had such a, you know, a contest send design and the artists were not allowed to sign it they would put a number on the on the statue at well kelly's statuette of paul revere was selected and you know this is what we won in our in our village on the on the green. and when they found out his name was kelly, an irish, they pulled the commission and gave it to the number two. so there were there were a lot of things he battled and. it's just the way it was back then, you know. kelly when they were to put a statue to general sherman in washington, d.c., kelly submitted design statuette of sherman bareheaded wearing a cape and riding his horse well again. the sculpture society rejected kelly's design, but three years later, saint-gaudens did the monument in new york city in front of the plaza hotel sherman bareheaded, wearing a cape. exactly, you know, exactly design. but it was all too similar. yes. i mean and you know the questions of microphone and socket. yes. you mentioned that you've got a new edition of your coming out. when is th
now up in boston there's statue to paul revere and they had such a, you know, a contest send design and the artists were not allowed to sign it they would put a number on the on the statue at well kelly's statuette of paul revere was selected and you know this is what we won in our in our village on the on the green. and when they found out his name was kelly, an irish, they pulled the commission and gave it to the number two. so there were there were a lot of things he battled and. it's just...
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the boston been able to live their lives as u.s. citizens and, not so much anymore. across about ten years, beginning in middle of the 1980s and stretching to through the middle of the 1980s, congress made it easier to fall into the immigration, prison and deportation pipeline. and they made it a lot harder to get out of it. so instead of seeing migrants as the whole complicated people, they in the way that judges saw. lewis loftus earlier today immigration laws tie migrant to their worst moments. and thing is, we are far worse moments. and for some of us, those moments are done in public way where they lead to policing and prosecutions and convictions and i want to read to you about the worst moment that one woman had. a woman, wendy goodwin, and struggles with the fact immigration law tried to tie her to that worst moment despite the fact that it was now decades ago for willie goodwin. the worst moment came on may 29, 1993, passing a restaurant in orange county, california. she and a group of friends stopped. they saw some of their kids. they didn't. things quickly
the boston been able to live their lives as u.s. citizens and, not so much anymore. across about ten years, beginning in middle of the 1980s and stretching to through the middle of the 1980s, congress made it easier to fall into the immigration, prison and deportation pipeline. and they made it a lot harder to get out of it. so instead of seeing migrants as the whole complicated people, they in the way that judges saw. lewis loftus earlier today immigration laws tie migrant to their worst...
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a few words from a boston lawyer who had just had enough turned the tide of history. madam president, may we never forget in this world of vast and often corrupt political forces, the power of one person to make a difference. and that was senator sheldon whitehouse, democrat of rhode island, jim townsend did the mccarthy hearings on communist? did they accomplish anything, in your view? they really accomplished very little at all when it comes to their stated goal, which was to find communists. no evidence of communist infiltration to root out communists, spying and infiltration. if anything, they got in the way because they diverted a lot of energy and a lot of attention away from investigations that might have found what were some of instances of infiltration. high levels of of the us government. so very little was accomplished by by the investigations themselves. probably the only good that really you can say came out of the whole episode was that the primary subcommittee committee on investigations adopted some reforms so that abuses of the kind that senator mccar
a few words from a boston lawyer who had just had enough turned the tide of history. madam president, may we never forget in this world of vast and often corrupt political forces, the power of one person to make a difference. and that was senator sheldon whitehouse, democrat of rhode island, jim townsend did the mccarthy hearings on communist? did they accomplish anything, in your view? they really accomplished very little at all when it comes to their stated goal, which was to find communists....
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of the leading impresarios of his generation creator of the famous latin quarter, which started in boston, then opened in miami, and then finally nightclub, nightclub, and finally in new york. it took the biggest acts there were in the country and was one of the top tourist destinations in new york when lulu walters was in charge of it in the walters was a guy who had a wonderful touch and wonderful understanding of what wanted that was an asset that she inherited from him. but he was also a gambler and he would make $1,000,000 and gamble it away playing gin rummy. oh, literally gambling it away. literally gamble it. he would make $1,000,000 with the latin quarter and then decide he wanted to open a new nightclub and it would flop, he would be bankrupt and it finally, i think the pivot i think a pivot point in barbara walters life came when she was 28 years old. she was pretty you know, she had gotten out of college, out of sarah, but she wasn't exactly on a career path. she had gotten married a guy, but then gotten she had just gotten divorced. she had gone to alabama for a quickie divor
of the leading impresarios of his generation creator of the famous latin quarter, which started in boston, then opened in miami, and then finally nightclub, nightclub, and finally in new york. it took the biggest acts there were in the country and was one of the top tourist destinations in new york when lulu walters was in charge of it in the walters was a guy who had a wonderful touch and wonderful understanding of what wanted that was an asset that she inherited from him. but he was also a...
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but before he can act and on the other side, one soldier, sergeant boston corbett, sees booth. we saw it in the barn and sees booth raise the carving horizontally on his hip and he fires. there's no war. there was really no order to shoot, not shoot. and his own he shoots booth hits him once the neck paralyzes him, booth falls to the ground. and then the soldiers and officers in. and one officer says he shot himself and says, no, someone shot of. then they say, well, let's let's figure out what happened and drag him out of the barn before he dies in the barn because they set the burn on fire to drive him out. and then booth was dragged to the front porch of the garrett farmhouse. and then he says, me, kill me. and the officer said, we want to kill you. we want you to get well. we want to take you back to washington. and then booth says, tell mother i die for my country. and then booth says, my hands, my. and then they help him look at his hands. and booth looks at them, says, useless, useless and then he dies. this is sunrise on the garrett farm. we don't know what booth meant
but before he can act and on the other side, one soldier, sergeant boston corbett, sees booth. we saw it in the barn and sees booth raise the carving horizontally on his hip and he fires. there's no war. there was really no order to shoot, not shoot. and his own he shoots booth hits him once the neck paralyzes him, booth falls to the ground. and then the soldiers and officers in. and one officer says he shot himself and says, no, someone shot of. then they say, well, let's let's figure out what...
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just just west of boston, mcnair spent three years early in his career at the arsenal there. what what did he do and how important was in terms of his overall career? sure. now, that's that's a great question. so that's where he had his four year branch detail in ordnance branch. he wasn't at watertown, the whole time. he spent a year or branch headquarters kind of doing administrative stuff. and then he spent a lot of time at the arsenal. a couple of interesting things from that one is he got the only negative air officer evaluation reports he ever received in his whole career. he was a young lieutenant and he worked for a captain that they clearly just didn't didn't get along. i mean the comments were very petty, you know, sort of cheap shot type comments. but that aside, think he had a really positive experience he was immersed in this sort of objective analytic development process that his natural abilities with math and drawing and everything were really it had really it's in him for that. and so it was at this arsenal where mcnair developed the skills that used througho
just just west of boston, mcnair spent three years early in his career at the arsenal there. what what did he do and how important was in terms of his overall career? sure. now, that's that's a great question. so that's where he had his four year branch detail in ordnance branch. he wasn't at watertown, the whole time. he spent a year or branch headquarters kind of doing administrative stuff. and then he spent a lot of time at the arsenal. a couple of interesting things from that one is he got...