Since were doing toasts tonight, i did i already planned this and thought a toast might be in order but when i was going through my personal history mentioning important dates, i neglected to mention that this half of this week happens to be the 16th anniversary of my marriage to my lovely wife, tracy lee. Which occurred just across the street in Buffalo Bills poker church. Yeah. I take this western stuff seriously. [applause] talk about longsuffering women. If i might, ladies and gentlemen, as we bring this fabulous conference to a close, i would like to offer a toast to and i hate to drink it in water because like bill would just slap me. I would like to offer a toast to the founder of the feast, ladies and gentlemen, to william f. Cody, to buffalo bill. All right. Thank you. Are watching American History tv, 48 hours of programming on American History, every weekend on the spent three. Follow us on twitter at cspan history for tonight on q a come up with take a look at anthony clark
Characters, as well as many articles. Directord as interim at the portrait gallery from may 2012 to march 2013. She received a masters degree in early american culture, and she is a former board member of the print council of america. Reaves . [applause] ms. Reaves thank you so much, kendall, and good evening. Comealways a pleasure to to this lovely place and a particular honor to be asked to help celebrate george. Ashingtons birthday i am very happy to share with you perhaps a slightly different picture of George Washington then is typical than is typical. Thank you all for coming out on such a miserable evening. The exulted lyrics of a federal song in the exalted camp bothled Washington Snow longer with pride and dignity, your matchless strength at sea, since we, your braver sons, incensed, have soared on. Huzzah, huzzah, huzzah for war and washington the rebels, the next verse complains, laugh at all of your pomp. Cheeky lyrics are printed on a broadsided, adorned at the top with a
And 52yearold nicholas fallacino, another health inspector. Sources are telling nbc news that syed farook had been radicalized and he was in touch with people in the l. A. Area that expressed jihadist views. Farook was talking with people overseas who were persons of interest to u. S. Intelligence and theyre looking for possible accomplices. Two handguns and two assault rifles which were found in the suv farook and his wife were driving, but we are told his rifle was bought by farook. These suspects were heavily armed. Were talking more than 1500 rounds of ammunition in the car and more than 2,000 rounds at farooks home. There were also more than a dozen pipe bombs and the bomb at the scene of the attack was rigged with a remote detonator, but it was never triggered. Clearly, they were equipped and they could have continued to do another attack. We intercepted them before that happened, obviously. There appears to be a degree of planning that went into this. Nobody just gets upset at a
Bring something new to it. You are in for a treat. Now, as a narrative historian rather than a art historian or art history professor, what i do is write books. In order to do that, i look at the topography of the past and i try to identify fault lines that other people have not seen. This book is a case in point. Eight years ago, i had a conversation with my editor. I just finished a book about Thomas Jefferson and the early days of architecture. She said to me what to do you want to do next . I had a couple of have ideas which i described to her. She very nicely said, i do not think so. [laughter] do you have anything else . I was completely at this point. I said, well, in writing about their early architects i discovered that peele cap to these amazing journals. She kept all of his letters. A wonderful resource about everything to do with culture the late 18th century. He painted thousands of the founding fathers. So, i said in connection with that, John Trumbull wrote an autobiogra
My talk will be a little shorter than his introduction, i think but thank you. [laughter] my thanks to susan, the invitation for the miscellaneous arrangements. Michael and stephen. And coming to mount vernon is always a joy. I feel like i have lots of friends here starting with mary and through carol and on and others. This is a uniformly welcoming place for scholars. And i have spent time in using the archives here. And coming here has been able to enabled me to write all of the significant portions of several books i have done concerning the general. I have also wanted to join such travelers of the past, who will follow me today and ellen tomorrow. You have a list of them. Almost all of these folks, i know their work and admire their work. And when you write books like this one, you can only do them because other people have closed the first and i like to think i bring something new to it. You are in for a treat. Now, as a narrative historian rather than a art historian or art histo