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All events are at 12:30 p.m.
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Mystery Solved at the State Archives! Paying for the Constitutional Convention of 1787
Tuesday, November 9
12:30 p.m.
Online via Zoom
Alexander Hamilton was one of three delegates sent by New York to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Over two hundred and thirty years later, we are still learning new information about the process states used to send delegates to the convention which led to the creation of the Constitution. Hear more about how records preserved in the New York State Archives shed light on our country’s formative period.
John P. Kaminski received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1972. Since 1970 he has had a research appointment at the University. In 1981 he founded and still directs the Center for the Study of the American Constitution in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has co-edited thirty-five volumes of The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and has written, edited, or co-edited thirty other books on the Revolutionary era. He is deeply committed to teacher and judicial education and has regularly participated in seminars for these two groups of professionals throughout the country.
Sergio Villavicencio is Vice-President for the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society and Project Coordinator for the New York Council for History Education's New York City Region. Sergio is also Chair of the New York City Semiquincentennial Committee and a content, engagement, and diversity & inclusion consultant to history-related entities, as well as an Advisory Council member of the National Parks Conservation Association - Northeast Region.
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