jared kearney became a security of the james monroe museum and library in november of 2011. previous tips curator of the woodrow wilson presidential library and museum in stanton, virginia. and prior to that curator of the historical society and york. director of the museum farm and folklife center on long island and worked at the greensboro historical museum in north carolina. jared receive his ma in studies and ba in history from the university of north carolina at greensboro. he s also a blacksmith, woodworker, rates bonsai tree is a photographer and active in numerous films but it s wonderful to have him with us today. and again, probably time for q&a at the end of our presentation. please feel free to leave this at the bottom of your screen. without further ado i m going to turn the zoom over too jarod. right. well hello. thank you so much for that great intro. and thank you to a highlands and the james monroe museum for having me pam excited to be here and show some r
Biography of Martin Luther king jr. , a dream of help. The naval historian paul service down is here. Silverstone is here tonight. Bookhomas fleming, his new is called the intimate lives of the founding fathers. I wonder what that is about. [laughter] honored byi am having you all here because i know that some of you sacrificed the 15,000 a plate fundraiser for president obama tonight. I can only offer you food for thought, but the price is right. I am sure you have all seen the famous painting of George Washington crossing the delaware. You probably remember there is a soldier standing behind him with the American Flag in his arms. That soldier, the officer, is james monroe. And they were too symbolic reasons that the artist John Trumbull placed monroe with washington as one of the only two important figures in the painting. One of the only two figures standing in the boat. Monroe did not actually cross the delaware in the same boat as washington, but trumbull put him there to show hi
What do you mean by 3. 0 . Peter i talked to scientists and got a sense of where we are in the evolution scientifically. Where it started from was the earliest humans were the ones that were largely subjugated by nature. They are at natures mercy. Technology played a major role. In the last 200 last 2000 years or so we have been humans 2. 0, humans living in relatively in relative harmony with each other. Humans 3. 0 is i think where anthropologists call it. A that is where human start to affect the nature. Our environment and own biology through technology. There is a debate when that started. Some say the Industrial Revolution, others say it is more recent, the digital revolution. What ever the case we are certainly in the midst of it now where we are developing things like we are getting really into buyer engineering and narrow science. And neuroscience. Into bioengineering and neuroscience. I developed more complex ideas of what humans 3. 0 is. Once it went through all these variou
Say that she represents an important chapter in the countrys history. I think we have seen in her and in the times she has inhabited obviously great progress towards a world that is a. Built more fair, but lets keep in mind, took it was only a year ago that Michelle Obama giving a speech to commemorate the 60th neaves of brown versus board of education pointed out theres a long way to go. She said this is a country where too often the police will stop someone on the street because of the color of her skin. Michelle obama has no illusions that we have sort of crossed the great divide, but her story i think, is part of that history and part of that progress. Host this is a wonderful book you have written. I know you want everyone in the world to read it. But who in particular would you like to see read this book that might give them better understanding, not just of Michelle Obama but of the american story. Guest i hope that the book will be read at a number of different levels. Some peo
They were a love story if one ever was and absolutely devoted to each other. Elizabeth monroe had a very welldeveloped sense of style and image, and her jewelry is a reflection of that. This is a woman who knew how to carry herself with great elegance. She always warranted your respect. It was one of the most splendid white houses that ever existed. It was called the era of good feeling. This is a woman who spoke french, and my goodness, what she could talk about. Elizabeth was a very great beauty, described in one letter as a rose petal beauty, but mrs. Monroe received very seldom anything at the white house. She was a recluse, absolutely hated it. Hospitality, decorum, dignity, civility those are the civility, those are the words that come to mind. Elizabeth monroe served as first lady for her husband james monroe from 1817 to 1825, during a time known as the era of good feelings. Coming up, well explore her life and what were not always happy times inside the white house for this co