help me welcome matthew restall. [applause] thank you, check. and picking up on what chuck just said, as i'm looking around the room, i'm guessing everybody here knows academics, professional scholars, we are supposed to stay in our cages. by which i mean cages defined by our discipline and our field. mine is history, mexico and central america, colonial period. i'm not supposed to get out of my cage. and wonder around, disagreement other peoples cages. being here in d.c., being a capital fellow, a case like fellow, means i have a rare opportunity, a privilege to be able to do that. and in august i really enjoy the time that i spent in the archives and in the capital. which is where this paper comes from. it's a work in progress. i may be saying things that you already know. i'm hoping that most of what i'm saying are things that you already know but you have forgotten. it seems like it's new material. i also want to thank doctor michelle cohen, the curator at the capitol. i don't see her in here. but like chuck, her support and encouragement ma

our speaker today is a guy named matthew restall. i want to read his title. because it's kind of ponderous. i don't believe anything out. he is the head of an early sports professor of latin american history and director of american studies at penn

next, on american history tv, penn state university history professor matthew restall talks about all visitors to the capitol experience the art and architecture, including the statue of freedom atop of capitol dome. he