For other great events like this. Now on cspan2 booktv, more television for serious readers. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. My name is ian rowe, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise institute and the Thomas P Ford institute. Most importantly, for todays discussion i am the ceo of public prep, a network of public charter elementary and middle school located in the heart of the south bronx and Lower East Side of manhattan. Its my honor to welcome you to what i believe will be a very provocative discussion on compelling new book how to educate an american the conservative vision for tomorrows schools, published by templeton press. Moore joined today by a fantastic group of panelists beginning with Michael Petrilli and chester finn respectively the president and president emeritus of fordham institute. How to educate an american was the brainchild of mike and chester finn and they will share the original inspiration behind the book and why it seems even more important now to re
Home on the livestream, we welcome you. My name is martin. And executive director of the institute of war and democracy. We are the humble group of scholars that bring you programs such as this, and its our absolute pleasure to have paul with us tonight. The institute, what do we do . Apologize to the veterans. They hear this every few weeks. The institute serves as a Research Corps and the Higher Education center of the museum. We like to call or sells a community of scholars. Our job is to build bridges to academics and other experts around the world to make them part of the family and plug them into programs such as this. To produce scholarship of our own, as our multiple senior awardwinning historian has done with all 10 of his books. We also offer a wonderful new service, the world war ii veteran Research Project and service, which you can find on the website. You can trace the individual history of world war ii participants throughout the war, put that package together through ar
Of the Revolution Society this is a wonderful fellowship of people who are great supporters of the museum. We are very pleased to partner with Haverford Trust youll see them up on the screen here. I know tim glaspie but i can see is darkness out there, lets thank them for making read the revolutionary possible. [applause] now it is a real pleasure to be welcoming doctor vincent of brown evening. As is sometimes the case are also welcoming a good friend to the museum here this evening. Vince was one of the group of scholars who consulted with us during the development of the exhibition interactions for the museum here so long before the shovel was in the ground in the steel began rising here at third and chestnut in philadelphia, we were tapping vincents brain for exciting stories of the American Revolution, some which really turn it a great personal stories in our core exhibition here. This is a charles worn professor of American History and africanAmerican History at Harvard Universit
Books he says a person should read in their lifetime. Watch book tv this week and every weekend on cspan2. On the president and ceo of the museum of American Revolution. Its wonderful to have so many familiar faces in the audience, we also Live Streaming this evening and we will be on tv so we will live on forever and ever at 3 00 a. M. When you cant sleep. [laughter] ive got text from my father the following morning thank you are on television again. Im curious, or of hands, how many of you are visiting for the first time this evening . Welcome all of you. You are surrounded by many of our members, members of our founding members of the museums, revolution society, this is a fellowship of people who are great supporters of the museum. We are very pleased to partner with trust, you will see that up on the screen here and i know tim but all i can see is darkness. Tim and joe mclaughlin, thank them for making this possible. [applause] its a real pleasure to welcome doctor Vincent Brown t
Our members, our revolution society, this is a wonderful people who are great supporters of our music. We are pleased to partner with harvard for trust, you will see him up on the screen here. I know tim but all i can see is darkness out there. So lets thank them for making these possible. [applause] its a real pleasure to be welcoming doctor Vincent Brown this evening as is sometimes the case but not all that often, we are welcoming a good friend to the museum here this evening. Prince was one of the group of scholars who consulted with us during the development of the exhibitions and interactants of the present here. Long before jacques was in the ground and the steel began rising here in philadelphia, we were tapping his brain for stories of the American Revolution. It turned into great personal stories and our core exhibition here. Prince is a Charles Moore professor of africanAmerican History. And Harvard University. If you have an opportunity to go online, dont do it right now on