We are going to talk about Historic Preservation. I want to introduce you to jordan tannenbaum. He is the vice chair of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, what is that organization . The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation is an independent federal agency, part of the executive branch. It is created by the national Historic Preservation act of 1966, and recently a couple of years ago its elevated its 50th anniversary. It is a regulatory agency, and, as we will say, has responsibilities not only in that area but also to advise the president and congress on members concerning preservation policy. The regulatory section is called section 106, that is a requirement that all federal agencies have to take into account the impacts of their projects. Of their undertakings, and that is broadly a permit of funding. License, connection nexus in any way that they have to take into account if they are going to have an effect on a Historic Property, or a potential Historic Property
Thomass jeffersons travel advice across europe, so he is going to tell you a little bit more about the book and we are so thrilled to have him here derek baxter everybody. Great. Well, thank you. Thank you scuppernong and and cspan. Thank you everybody for watching. So. So yes, this book is about its about me following jeffersons travels across europe and its really it was a chance to learn about a different side of jefferson that we dont often hear about we all know about the younger jefferson who wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 33, and we probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president , but this gave me a chance to explore this different side of jefferson. It was in his when he was middle age in the 1780s. So jefferson was just going into his 40s, and he almost didnt travel to france at all. He had been asked twice to go over there to be ambassador from the United States and a declined it both times. But there were there were two eve
The arts is history students. You know me. Im professor april mastin we are very fortunate today to have a guest lecture president of Stony Brook University maury mcginnis. Id like to tell you a little bit about her the title of her dr. Mcginniss lecture as you can see is the shadow of slavery in public life. This topic is relevant not only to our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as a window onto the past. But also how they affect the present or in the words of James Baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. The research and for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasnt adequately representing how the labor of enslaved people helped to create that institution. Dr. Mcginnis is a renowned scholar and cultural cultural historian of the relationship between art and politics in the colonial and antebellum south particularly the politics
Are so thrilled to have derek baxter here with us today the author of in pursuit of jefferson traveling through europe with the most perplexing founding father. Joining us today from fairfax, virginia where he lives with his wife and children and in his words. They lived quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow thomass jeffersons travel advice across europe, so he is going to tell you a little bit more about the book and we are so thrilled to have him here derek baxter everybody. Great. Well, thank you. Thank you scuppernong and and cspan. Thank you everybody for watching. So. So yes, this book is about its about me following jeffersons travels across europe and its really it was a chance to learn about a different side of jefferson that we dont often hear about we all know about the younger jefferson who wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 33, and we probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president , but this gave me a chance t
Frequent viewers of our lunchtime lectures know that this is normally where id hand off to the president s ceo of the Us Capitol Historical Society jane campbell. She sends her best well wishes to mr. Bostock and the team shes out of the country this week. So you guys are stuck with me for the afternoon. And so with that im now going to read this fantastic biography. Im going to share with you why we are so thrilled to have bob bostock here with the Us Capitol Historical Society this afternoon. Bob is a curator for exhibits at the nixon foundation. And in fact bob worked for former president nixon towards the tail end of his time towards the tail end of his life in the office of former president nixon during his more than three decades of public service. He spent considerable time working on environmental policy really making him a perfect fit for this sort of program. He worked for governor Christine Todd whitman both when she was governor of new jersey and when she became epa adminis