Project. Busy people get things done, and we knew we were in for it when dr. Whittenberg talked about that. Jonathan white has to be the busiest young scholar in the field today. Hes not only a prolific historian, with more projects on the back burners than ive ever seen on the stove before. He won the outstanding faculty award for academic education. Hes a parent of young children, i dont know where john finds the time. Hes been very generous with what remaining time he has from all of that for this museum and our Education Programs for which were all very grateful. As you can see from your printed programs, the topics of johns work are his published work are many and varied with something of a focus Abraham Lincoln with the legal and constitution, as well and hes coauthor of a book entitled Civic Education and the work of citizenship and because he has news they wrote our little monitor, the greatest invention of this civil war. I asked him to put it on a topic, and it draws from oth
All right. Welcome everyone, today were going to be talking about diplomacy on the early american frontier, politically between native American Peoples and european peoples. We will talk about some of the customs and protocols that governed that style of diplomacy and the objectives that both native American Peoples and colonial peoples brought to those meetings. I have an image here that is actually a painting from 1903 that is depicting one such treaty conference that went on on the frontier of new york in the Mohawk Valley. You did a reading today that featured a fellow named while William Johnson. Not a lot of contemporary mark and students of history know much about him, but he was an interesting figure in the 18 century. He was an irish immigrant, settled on the mohawk frontier of upstate new york in the 17 forties and became very friendly with mohawk indians who were his neighbors. Ultimately, he gained a great deal of influence among them and ultimately was appointed by the Bri
Actually a participating from 1903 that is depicting one such treaty conference that wept on on a frontier of the valley. You did a reading today that featured a fellow named William Johnson not a lot of contemporary students of history know much about. He was an irish immigrant who came to america, settled on the moha mohawk frontier in up state new york and became very friendly with mohawk indians who were his neighbors and ultimately gained a great deal of influence among them and ultimately was appointed by the British Crown to serve as its agent to the iroquois nations. Think about the reading you did for today, and this has kind of provided me with a mental image of that. It was at johnson hall which was this georgian mansion he built on the mohawk frontier that still stands today. If youre in up state new york traveling between albany and syracuse, new york, you can visit this site which tells a really interesting story about how europeans and nativeamericans came together on th
Of the customs and protocols that governed that style of diplomacy and the objectives of in a five americans and colonial peoples for those meetings. I have an image that is a painting from 1903 that is depicted a treaty. And it is not something that they know much about, but he was an irish immigrant that came to america and settled on the fron teen in the 1740s and became very friendly with the indians who were his neighbors. Ultimately he gain add great deal of influence among them and ultimately was appointed by the British Crown to serve as an agent to the iroquois neighbors. Think about the reading you did for today. This is providing you with a mental image of that. It was a mansion that still stands today. You can get off of the new york state freeway and you can visit this sight and another kwun of his homes, that are preserved as state Historic Sites and tell a really interesting story about how they came together on the frontier not to fight, but to talk about the difference
Imi think of what talking about jen wittenberg. He would find someone to volunteer for a project. Busy people get things done and it. New we were in forc mostwhite has to be the prolific young professor. Won the outstanding faculty award for virginia. He is an active public speaker and a parent of young children. I dont know where john finds the time. Generousn very with our Education Programs to which we are grateful. As you can see from your printed programs, the topics of his varied with a and focus on Abraham Lincoln and legal and constitutional history. He is the coauthor of a book thetled civil education in future of american citizenship. Because he had a few extra minutes, he and ann holloway wrote our monitor. I asked him to speak on a topic i did not put on the printer program. A topic that draws from two other book manuscripts he is currently finishing about Abraham Lincoln and africanamericans. Ladies and gentlemen, jonathan white. [applause] jonathan thank you, john, the in