Good evening, everyone. And welcome to the New York Historical society. Im louise mirrer, president and ceo, and i am thrilled to see all of you in our beautiful robert h. Smith auditorium this evening. Tonights program, women in the white house is part of our bernard and Irene Schwartz speaker series. As always i like to thank mr. Schwartz for his great and generous support, which is enabled us to bring so many fine historians and writers to this stage. [ applause ] id also like to thank and recognize members of the Chairmans Council in the audience this evening and to thank them for their great generosity and all that they do on our institutions behalf and of course my great and talented colleague, our Vice President for Public Programs, dale gregory. [ applause ] tonights program is presented in collaboration with our Brand New Center for womens history. And were grateful to our partners at hogan levels who are the corporate sponsor for womens history programming at New York Histori
The outstanding faculty award for the washington law reviews so he must be doing something right in the classroom and he also writes a weekly First Amendment news column for the concurring opinions blogger. Please welcome Ronald Collins [applause] jamie raskin, that is not a typo, that is how you spell his name. Egos by ginnie. I want to make sure theres no confusion about that. Graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and harvard law school. They couldnt get into the university of virginia law school. He was also editor of the harvard law review. Jamie is professor of constitutional law at Washington College of law and state senator in maryland where he is majority whip of the center. He lead successful efforts to pass the Marriage Equality repeal. Just Marriage Equality. Lets be careful about that. Let me try is that again. Led the successful effort to pass the marriage ecology built repeal the desk at wiki comment aunt and ban assault weapons in the state of maryland. [applaus
Of a young republic and third president of the United States a man of many talents jefferson was also an architect philosopher man of letters astronomer Physicist Inventor and farmer just to mention some of his interests whether i retired to bed early or late i rise with the sun. A carefully planned daily routine helps jefferson to organize the varied life he led atlanta cello. It was here that he finally withdrew into private life weary of the trivialities of politics. Here at the place that brought him his deepest satisfactions he was at last able to lead the intellectual life in tune with nature that politics at always denied him. And he and the former president took advantage of a fundamental human rights he had accorded to all of humanity in his declaration of
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before his death was commissioned to found a university it was the culmination of his life s work once more he employed his architectural skills in the service of the enlightenment and after months of cello designed another autobiographical building again he went back to classical models on a broad lawn he set a kind of small scale pantheon it s the center of what he called an academic a village something without parallel in the new world in which even today students and professors live together at that time it was a completely new concept of education as a constant exchange of ideas within a creative environment. as jefferson put it a house is built with wisdom furnished with understanding and its rooms filled with not. with the construction of the university and charlottesville