Think tanks, dedicated to civil education political reform. He is a frequent media commentator on cnn, and foxs special report with brit hume, msnbc, usa today, the new york times, and the bbc. Dr. Watson has lectured at the four arts numerous time, and he will do so again in the future. We again welcome him as he works his formidable magic with our historians. There you go. Okay. Everybody hear me all right . Most importantly, i have a signed copy. Well, thank you again, molly, dr. Brennamen and the entire team at the society and congratulations on yet another important and successful and exciting program. Id also like to thank cspan as mentioned earlier for covering the program, and jay gaines and the others who underwrote the program. The opportunity to sit and talk history, if anybody knows me, i never miss the opportunity, and Nothing Better than a nice history talk. But to sit and talk history with one of my heroes and arguably one of the preeminent historians of our time or any
Lunchtime lecture series at u. S. Capital historical society. I want to end the series with something instructive, of course but also, not light and frothy by any means but something a , little less serious. By that i made, there is going to be a lot of visuals and i figure visual intelligence is something we can all lay a little bit of a claim to. For those of you who need the more traditional scaffolding, like an outline, we can start off with a few pages of that. For those of you to respond to competitiveness, have a couple door prizes i will give out at the end to people who can answer a couple questions that might occur during the talk. But mostly this is going to be visual. We are going to wait through to going to wade are through two centuries, works of art, mostly paintings, stump statuary of George Washington portrayed in art i should say a little bit about myself. They say i am chief historian, i am not an art historian, but anyone who appreciates the multiplicity of doing hi
Lunchtime lecture series at u. S. Capital historical society. I want to end the series with something instructive, of course but also, not light and frothy by any means but something a , little less serious. By that i made, there is going to be a lot of visuals and i figure visual intelligence is something we can all lay a little bit of a claim to. For those of you who need the more traditional scaffolding, like an outline, we can start off with a few pages of that. For those of you to respond to competitiveness, have a couple door prizes i will give out at the end to people who can answer a couple questions that might occur during the talk. But mostly this is going to be visual. We are going to wait through to going to wade are through two centuries, works of art, mostly paintings, stump statuary of George Washington portrayed in art i should say a little bit about myself. They say i am chief historian, i am not an art historian, but anyone who appreciates the multiplicity of doing hi
There is about 1200 letters between them. That is a lot. And if you think about it, will we ever know as much about modernday american political leaders as we know about those people in the late 18th century . It seems weird. I think we want no less. Unless all the emails between hillary and bill find our way not get a raise, if you will , if you will. Sed [laughter] and it is distinctive in its candor and intimacy. Dolly and James Madison had a great relationship, they are together all the time. And because of the paradox of proximity, because abigail and john are apart, we know the most about them when they are apart. And they leave a record that is really unprecedented. I have made the case and will repeated here that this is the most fully revealed marriage and partnership between prominent american figures in all of American History. And we can contest that and come up with other examples, but i still would defend that just for the purposes of argument and our discussion today. Ok
Twopart lecture. Ok, here is where we are going today. Were going to take a look at the courtship of abigail and our first chance to talk about the correspondence which is the basis of our course and historical understanding of the relationship. There is about 1200 letters between them. That is a lot. It, willu think about we ever know as much about modernday american political leaders as we know about those people in the late 18th century question mar it seem . It seems weird. I think we want no less. Unless all the emails between way and bill find our not get a raise, if you will [laughter] and it is distinctive in its candor and intimacy. Dolly and James Madison had a great relationship, they are together all the time. And because of the paradox of proximity, because abigail and john are apart, we know the most about them when they are apart. Record that isa really unprecedented. I have made the case and will repeated here that this is the most fully revealed marriage and partnershi