Events, so check out that website. Our event tonight is absolutely the highlight of our commemorative year. We are really privileged to welcome edith to speak with us. She is a historian, an awardwinning historian, a trailblazer in american womens history. She is a foremost leading expert on Abigail Adams. She has written several i other fees of abigail. Most recently, she edited the library of america volume of abigails letters speed letters. 100 letters were published for the first time. Today she is going to speak to us about the fascinating relationship of another remarkable revolutionary era , and, Mercy Otis Warren the relationship she had with Abigail Adams. I know you are going to enjoy this. Please help me welcome edith. [applause] edith i was saying earlier that i saw a couple of years ago a news broadcast with the queen of england and she was behind one of these podiums and all you could see was [laughter] edith i asked for a step. Thank you for that stunning introduction an
Michelle this is a really special year for the Abigail Adams birthplace. It is the year of remembering abigail. Observing two big anniversaries, october 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of her death. We had a big kick off at the statehouse and we have another big commemoration in november of this year, which marks the 275th anniversary of her birth. Weve been joining with other organizations to honor her legacy and celebrate her life and legacy. So we have formed an organization, rememberabigail. Org, and a number of us are offering programs and events, so check so i would encourage you to check out that website. Our event tonight is absolutely the highlight of our commemorative year. We are really privileged to welcome edith to speak with us. She is a historian, an awardwinning historian, a trailblazer in american womens history. And she is a foremost leading expert on Abigail Adams. She has written several biographies of abigail. Most recently, she edited the library of america volum
A number of us are offering programs and events, so i would encourage you to check out that website. Our event tonight is absolutely the highlight of our commemorative year. We are really privileged to welcome edith to speak with us. She is a historian, an awardwinning historian, a trailblazer in american womens history. She is a foremost leading expert on Abigail Adams. She has written several i other fees of abigail. Most recently, she edited the library of america volume of abigails letters speed letters. 100 letters were published for the first time. Today she is going to speak to us about the fascinating relationship of another remarkable revolutionary era woman, Mercy Otis Warren, and the relationship she had with Abigail Adams. I know you are going to enjoy this. Please help me welcome edith. [applause] edith i was saying earlier that i saw a couple of years ago a news broadcast with the queen of england and she was behind one of these podiums and all you could see was [laughter
And one of the things i try to get across whenever i am talking about washington, is that washington is a bit of an enigma to a modern audience. Why . Because we dont really know who he was, how he was, how he looked. I mean, when i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every 10 years or so, about 700 political scientists and historians across the country, they rank our president s. Now who knows how our current president is going to rank, but nonetheless, whenever those rankings come out, generally these three guys here rank at the top. Sometimes it will be lincoln. Sometimes it will be washington. Sometimes it will be fdr, but the interesting thing about this is we do not know what george really looked like. We have images of lincoln. Photographed images. And you can follow those photographs over time and see how he changed, how he aged. Of course we have images of fdr. We even have images of him in his wheelchair. Generally the press di
National center for white house history of the White House Historical association . History of the White Houseen Historical Association doctor shogun is a great political phd inst with a american politics from Yale University as well as a bachelors degree in Political Science from Boston College she is almost 15 years of service and the federal government including prominent roles with the u. S. Senate as well as the library of congress she teaches government students at Georgetown University and served as vice chair of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission another feather in her cap and an illustrious resident is that she currently serves as a cochair of the board of directors at the womens suffrage National Monument foundation, designated by the congress to build the first memorial in d. C. Dedicated to the history of the movement for womensge equality. Its a huge deal. [applause] to begin with our panelists we have elaine rice bachmann who is the state archivist of maryland and