Panel will. Now get to really ask the questions i wanted to ask all day. And you guys are in a captive audience. So know if anybody does have questions for the panel. We like to keep this open for us. But they spent a lot of their time doing research. So now time to make them a little more personal. So i would like to the first question i have for you guys is, do you weve studied outwards of the American Revolution in the national sphere. What made you decide to study this aspect, this niche . What was that defining moment, if there was one, ill take it. Ill start it off. So the easy answer for me, if i mentioned were doing an exhibition, this topic is a significant sound that that opens up. We knew that we wanted to do an exhibition about the stuarts. We thought we were going to do one about james. The first two, of course, is the namesake for jamestown, where we have one of our one of our museums. And then we realized that the exhibition would really be incomplete if we just focused
Hello. Great to be back with you all. I hope you had a delicious and enjoyable lunch. So many wonderful places here in alexandria. I want to extend a special thanks and appreciation to Historic Alexandria and the american or the emerging revolutionary war for inviting me to be part of this symposium and spend some time with all of you today. I also want to extend a special welcome to all those participating remotely. Thank you for joining us. And of course, a special thanks for all of you for being here today. Im very, very happy and very honored to be here today. I learned a tremendous amount and thoroughly enjoyed all of the presentations from this morning and really just looking forward to spending a little bit of time this afternoon talking with you about george mason, his ideas, and most particularly the virginia declaration of rights and their Global Impact. So just to get us started in building off some of what we learned this morning. Our George George mason, the fourth was a f
Hello. Great to be back with you all. I hope you had a delicious and enjoyable lunch. So many wonderful places here in alexandria. I want to extend a special thanks and appreciation to Historic Alexandria and the american or the emerging revolutionary war for inviting me to be part of this symposium and spend some time with all of you today. I also want to extend a special welcome to all those participating remotely. Thank you for joining us. And of course, a special thanks for all of you for being here today. Im very, very happy and very honored to be here today. I learned a tremendous amount and thoroughly enjoyed all of the presentations from this morning and really just looking forward to spending a little bit of time this afternoon talking with you about george mason, his ideas, and most particularly the virginia declaration of rights and their Global Impact. So just to get us started in building off some of what we learned this morning. Our George George mason, the fourth was a f
Well, with that, id like to invite up our five speakers to the where well have our half an hour ish panel where everyone will get to talk about all the great things that weve learned today. Pull on some of those common threads, a fun side note this very room where were in and you can visit at the lyceum. In 1841, John Quincy Adams was speaking in room about society and, civilization. So now you have to come to the lyceum learn more about his speech here in 1841. So if we could have our speakers chris up and im excited to introduce Phil Greenwell again again who will be moderating our panel will. Now get to really ask the questions i wanted to ask all day. And you guys are in a captive audience. So know if anybody does have questions for the panel. We like to keep this open for us. But they spent a lot of their time doing research. So now time to make them a little more personal. So i would like to the first question i have for you guys is, do you weve studied outwards of the American R
This upcoming 250th anniversary. Examining our american experiment as key. This revolution of ours created waves across the world. With its lasting impacts, felt even today. This symposium the world turned upside down the American Revolution. Its impact on a global scale. Well study the effects of this revolution that trans formed governments and the governed across the globe. Appropriate as we consider the birth of our nation, is to acknowledge the Ancestral Lands of our Indigenous Peoples on which we gather. We recognize the many tribes who moved through this region trading and drawing resources from the land and waterways. We honor their descendants today. Our community is shaped by the diversity of its people. Past, present and future. And we affirm that this is central to the values of the place we now call alexandria. I have a few important housekeeping notes before we begin. We will have 15 minutes of question and answer after each presentation. So please line up behind the micr