Today. Thank you to Historic Alexandria for hosting and for the happy hour after this. We are going to try to keep it as close to 4 00 as possible. We can all get our beer we are looking forward to afterwards. This is the first inaugural, emerging revolutionary war symposium. We thank cspan for coming to film this. Hopefully, we will be an annual event. Keep your eyes out for next years symposium. To keep up with emerging revolutionary war and everything we are doing, check out our block, emergingrevolutionar emergingrevolutionarywar. Org. Find out everything we are up to. Check out our books. Rob and phil wrote a book about battles at lym s at lexington a concord. We have a couple books coming up early next year about valley forge. Keep up with us. This really im glad that we chose alexandria to have our inaugural symposium. Not only is it my hometown, but it was also George Washingtons hometown. Alexandria you can go to cities, new york, philadelphia, charlton, everywhere you go ther
Thank you. Welcome. Good afternoon britt and catherine, president of the Massachusetts Historical Society and i am so happy you could be here with us today as we welcome to celebrated historians as they present their coauthored book, and one. The problem of democracy doubtless, many of you here in this room know mhs is home to the adams family papers and an extensive collection largely comprised of correspondences, letters, books, diaries, literary manuscripts, speeches, legal and business papers of both the senior and junior president s adams as well as all the members of this preeminent political dynasty. These documents remain so vital in our efforts to understand the evolution of american democracy, diplomacy and identity. Mhs strives to make the adams papers and our entire 40 million item collection available to anyone with an interest in american life, culture and history and we do it for free. If you have value resource and enjoyed programming like todays talk and you are not an
Doubtless, many of you here in this room know mhs is home to the adams family papers and an extensive collection largely comprised of correspondences, letters, books, diaries, literary manuscripts, speeches, legal and business papers of both the senior and junior president s adams as well as all the members of this preeminent political dynasty. These documents remain so vital in our efforts to understand the evolution of american democracy, diplomacy and identity. Mhs strives to make the adams papers and our entire 40 million item collection available to anyone with an interest in american life, culture and history and we do it for free. If you have value resource and enjoyed programming like todays talk and you are not an mhs supporter i encourage you to do so. Tonight represents one of many programs seminars, exhibitions and workshops that we host. If you dont already have a copy of our new Spring Summer calendar grab one on the way out and its on her website. I want to mention we wi
Fascinating stuff happening in the world of surveillance that can be covered in fully panels and we are always glad to have a lineup and smart focus to address that range of topics in our shorter flash talks and to begin the senior counsel and director of Freedom Technology and freedom, this is a time where we hear a lot about the goal of putting the first but surveillance based in this often creates friction with our allies when our surveillance goals conflict and im happy to welcome that from an international perspective. [applause] thank you and hello. I am with the center for democracy and technology, ww the cdt. Org. I want to talk about the applications of America First surveillance policy. When i say America First i mean americans first, the surveillance policy on the intelligence side of the equation discriminates in favor of americans and against foreigners in a dramatic way when it comes to surveillance that occurs outside the United States. Inside the United States it is rel
All right cool, thank you for coming out today, thank you to alexandria for hosting and helping set up, for the happy hour after this boy, so we will get we were looking for two afterwards, this is the first inaugural war symposium, so we think cspan hopefully will be an annual event so keep your eyes out for next year symposium, keep up with emerging revolutions, summit and you can also follow us on facebook, twitter to find everything we are up to you and you could also check out our books, robin phil wrote a book and i am myself wrote a book. I have a couple of books coming out data. So keep up with us, you know im really glad that boy we had the inaugural symposium. But it is also George Washingtons hometown and you can go to cities, in new york, philadelphia, charleston everywhere you go there are plaques and monuments, George Washington sub tier, he spent a couple couple hours here, he spent more honest and getting his suits here walking the streets, russia being here so its real