Fords as he sat in the president ial box with his wife mary, watching the popular comedy, our american cousin or go he died the next morning. We sat down to talk about the widow lincoln. Thats monday night at 9 30 p. M. Eastern on American History tv. All this month, the presidency, we will be focusing on the life and legacy of George Washington to mark the anniversary of his birth on february 22. Next, author hugh howard talks about portraits of George Washington. It explores the works of Gilbert Stuart and John Trumbull focusing on how the artist captured the spirit of the first president and how modern audiences can learn from washington. Mr. Howard is the author of the painters chair. George Washingtons Mount Vernon hosted this hourlong event. Good afternoon. 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.
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
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