The 18th century converging with the 20th century, we can be hightech about this. I feel much the same as does my wife because i have been a long time reenactor, you can see me dressed as an officer in the army. I battled three times in sweltering heat like today, and there i am speaking twice for the Alexander Hamilton awareness society. You can also say he was helping to found american industry. Were just west of paterson falls where he worked with that, of course. Washington crosses the delaware, a famous scene on christmas night into the morning of the 26th. A large life side paintize pain. Here is one that came out and debuted at the New York Historical society. You can see it was at nighttime, a different kind of craft, a cannon, maybe hamiltons. Not good weather. Similarly, another painter who is now retired, this is another painting, victory or death. ; and there they are, in the Early Morning light, trudging through the ice and the snow. You can imagine how cold they must ha
Good afternoon, welcome to white house history. My name is stuart im the president of the White House Historical association. Today we will have an exciting conversation with the head of the Rubinstein Center for white house history in one of our historians on a brandnew book, the cabinet, George Washington and the creation of the american institution. Ordinarily we would do this event at the Carriage House which is our base of operations on Lafayette Park but as we are all working from home and joining you in your home we are trying out this new mode of communications. It is perfectly fitting with our historic mission. As you all know we were founded in 1961 by first lady, jacqueline kennedy, who had the vision at such a young age in a short period of time as first lady to create an organization like the White House Historical association to give nonprofit, nonpartisan support to the work of maintaining the museum of standard of the white house but also an education mission, to teach
From our archives, with Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Mccullough. He has appeared on booktv more than 50 times. All of the programs youre about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website, booktv. Org, using the search function at the top of the page. First, in 1992 on the book notes Program David mccullough discussed his biography of president harry truman. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Here is a portion of that interview. The attempted assassination, a number of president s of been assassinated, why wouldnt the government have protections . Guest just wasnt. Why would there be a pension . Pension for everybody else but opens and for president , he had very little money. He had to borrow some money quite secretly, which dean addison cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown it doesnt mean he didnt have any money, he did have money but needed some ca
Historic mission. As all of you know we were founded by 1961 by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy who had a vision in such a young age as first lady to create an organization to give nonprofit, nonpartisan support to the work of maintaining the Museum Standard of the white house but also an Education Mission to teach and to tell stories of the white house and history going back to 1792 when George Washington who were talking about today actually selected that piece of land and hired the young irish architect james hogan to build the white house. Well, creating educational materials and content is a core part of our mission and thats what we do every day through the wonderful books that we publish, our programs that we host at the Decatur House and around the country and online social media content and website content and this is an example of that. We are doing more and more of this during this time when we are all at home looking for interesting things to do. I would encourage you to chec
Introduction and introduce our wonderful guests tonight. Lindsay chervinsky is a white house historian at the White House Historical association. She is the author of the new book the cabinet George Washington and the creation of an american institution. She is widely published. I had the great pleasure of interviewing her recently on a podcast, and i cannot wait to share her work and her insights with you. Lindsay, welcome to americas town hall. Lindsay thank you so much for having me. Jeffrey and edward larson, the hugh and hazel darling chair of law in University History professor at pepperdine university. He is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in history. He is the coauthor of 14 books, several of them on George Washington and the founders, and his newest book is franklin and washington the founding partnership. It is wonderful to welcome you back to the National Constitution center. Edward thank you so much for having me back, even if only virtually. Jeffrey it is just great. I a