i'm sorry, john trumbull, a thousand. john trumbull paintings. and so our school groups, they go through we have a program called their eyes where each kid is given a character card. at the beginning. and these are young people and they're you know, my person was enslaved. my person was a soldier, my person was a quaker all back. and they're sharing those stories each other as they're going through and starting to form this kind of empathetic connection to a person. you know, what would my have thought about the declaration, independence or the washing out and crossing the delaware and the surprise is at the end is they get to that wall and every one of those characters is a real person d love standing down there and seeing these fifth graders who are trying to find their person and suddenly have seen the world through the eyes of a person different than themselves and the very thing is, we wanted some w to kind of have a strong message at the very end. so we just put different sized mirrors on the wall with the words meet the future of the ameri

i'm sorry, john trumbull, a thousand. john trumbull paintings. and so our school groups, they go through we have a program called their eyes where each kid is given a character card. at the beginning. and these are young people and they're you know, my person was enslaved. my person was a soldier, my person was a quaker all back. and they're sharing those stories each other as they're going through and starting to form this kind of empathetic connection to a person. you know, what would my have thought about the declaration, independence or the washing out and crossing the delaware and the surprise is at the end is they get to that wall and every one of those characters is a real person and i vetanding down there and seeing these fifth graders who are trying to find their person and suddenly have seen the world through the eyes of a person different than themselves and the very thing is, we wanted some way to nd of hava strong message at the very end. so we just put different sized miors on the walwith the words meet the future of the american re

john trumbull, who from connecticut, who had briefly served as anidde camp to washington, painted isportrait othe right about the same time. 1780 is actually traveled to enand during the war and is studying with benjamin west. but one of the important things to note, if you see in the background of these two images and they're certainly in dialog with one another, is ty inclusion of a figure who represents william lee, who was wainon's enslaved valet? washington had purchased william and his younger brother frank in 1768, and they sved in the household at mount vernon. william lee served as waington's valet through the entire revolutionary war, actually lived in that tent with shgton. and so the other inhabitants of of washington's tent and was so worn outy s service, he had several bad falls from horses duringisuring his military service that he was basically crippled by the by the end of the revolutionary war. now, i want to talk a little bit about symbols of a republic in general. so on the left, you see rolled up the actual original ribbon. you see that over washington, shoulder

a particularly interesting men like john sherman great from ohio and brother of william tecumseh sherman lyman trumbull great senator from illinois. these men come to the conclusion that they want african-americans to vote in the south but they don't want them to vote in their own states. and they certainly more than that, they don't want irish italian immigrants voting because those are the populations that are most disruptive to their election. right. they've been elected in a stratified electorate. they want that stratified electorate to grow, but they want to keep others out. and that's a bipartisan issue. that's a bipartisan issue. that's not a single partizan issue. we have a remarkable history that begins the end of the civil war using poll taxes, literacy requirements, voter requirements. you in texas, if you want to vote in november, you now cannot register to vote. texas requires you to register to vote a month in advance just an undergrad come up to me yesterday happens every election cycle and say wanted to register to vote sorry if you didn't do it by october 11th. you can't vote now. she

we've got john trouble standing by the weather center with our cold thursday forecast. a job too cold and you might have a bit of a trumbullut there that just doesn't involve shivering either. we felt a little minor quake earlier this morning. >> really just a couple of minutes ago near alum just east of san jose. if you did feel it, only 19 people reporting to the usgs that they did that occurred right around 08:45am. but yes, back to the cold, which is something that we're certainly all talking about this morning. more than just 19 of us. we just saw those frost advisories expiring for much of the north bay still lingering for solano county in the central valley for a little bit longer this morning, even though frost v

we've got john trouble standing by the weather center with our cold thursday forecast. a job too cold and you might have a bit of a trumbull out there that just doesn't involve shivering either. we felt a little minor quake earlier this morning. >> really just a couple of minutes ago near alum just east of san jose. if you did feel it, only 19 people reporting to the usgs that they did that occurred right around 08:45am. but yes, back to the cold, which is something that we're certainly all talking about this morning. more than just 19 of us. we just saw those frost advisories expiring for much of the north bay still lingering for solano county in the central valley for a little bit longer this morning, even though frost advisories have technically expired. a lot of us are still in the 30's and nobody is back up to the 50's just yet. fremont and dublin in the upper 30's, fairfax at 34 degrees say alina down still below freezing. well, santa rosa at 37 temps and allay just now working your way out of the 30's. back at 40 degrees. even san francisco dipping down to 46. i'll be talking about with the afternoon holds and when