Ms. Voss we have a tradition at James Madisons monthly a of hosting speakers for a special president s day program. This year, we thought it would be a nice change and important and fun to feature our own amazing staff. To feature the research and just the way we are thinking about things currently at montpelier. So it is my pleasure to introduce our first speaker, emily voss. Emily is the director of education at the robert h. Smith center for the constitution, where we are gathered today, in the home of the robert h. Smith center for the constitution. Emily has been at montpelier for six years. She is responsible for all of the programming of the center, which involves programs for teachers, programs for police officers, programs for International Groups visiting the area. She has an undergraduate degree from gettysburg college, and a masters degree in Museum Studies from the very Prestigious Program in cooperstown, new york. And shes going to talk to us today about madison and the l
Good afternoon and welcome to the theater here at the national archive. Im the archivist of the United States and it is a pleasure to have you with us this afternoon whether youre here in the theater for joining us on facebook and Youtube Channels and a special welcome to the cspan audience. Before we hear from william junior i would like to tell you about two other programs coming up next month. On tuesday september 10 at noon, Sidney Blumenthal will tell us about the recently released volume three of the biography of Abraham Lincoln all the powers of earth, the political life 1856 to 1863. And on monday, september 16 at 7, the associate justice will tell us about his new book a republic if you can keep it in which he explores the aspects of the constitution and the importance of civic education, civil discourse and mutual respect. Check the website or sign up at the table outside to get email updates and find information about other programs and activities. Another way to get involve
As we are all working from home and joining you in your home we are trying out the new mode of communication, it is perfectly fitting with our historic mission, as all of you know we were founded in 1961 by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy who had the vision at such a young age and a short period of time as first lady to create an organization like the White House Historical association to get nonprofit, nonpartisan support to the work of maintaining the Museum Standard of the white house and also in Education Mission to teach him to tell stories of the white house in history going back to 1792 when George Washington who were talking about today actually selected that piece of land in the young architect to build the white house, creating education materials as a core part of our mission and thats what we do every day through the wonderful books that we publish, are programs that we host and around the country and our online social media content and website content, this is an example of
On tuesday, september noon Sidney Blumenthal will tell us about his recently released volume three of the biography of abraham lincoln, all the powers of birth, the political life of abraham lincoln, 18561853. On monday, september 16 at 7 associate Justice Neil Gorsuch will tell us about his new book of republic if you can keep it and which explores essential aspects of the constitution and the importance of civic education, civil discourse and mutual respect. Check our website archives. Gov or sign up at the table outside the few to get email updates. You will point you will find information about other archives programs and activities. Another way to get more involved in the National Archives is to become a member of the National Archives foundation, the foundation support all of our education and outreach activities and you can check out their website archivesfoundation. Org to learn more about their organization and join online. Upstairs in the rotunda for the charters of freedom t
Feature our own amazing staff. To feature the research and just the way the things were thinking about things currently at montpelier. So its my pleasure to introduce our first speaker, emily voss. Emily is the director of education at the robert h. Smith center for the constitution, which is where we are gathered today, in the home of the robert h. Smith center for the constitution. Emily has been at montpelier for six years. And she is responsible for all of the programming of the center, which involves programs for teachers, programs for police officers, programs for International Groups visiting the area. She has an undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College and a masters degree in Museum Studies from the very Prestigious Program in cooperstown, new york. And shes going to talk to us today about madison and the lead up to the constitution. Emily thank you. All right. I need two seconds to get my powerpoint up. Because you cant have anything without a powerpoint, right . Alright.