The hemmings of monticello and american family. Professor of law at the new York Law School and professor of history at Rutgers University and it remains the mostof theje. Influential study of the subject they were the forthcoming which shuld be published by princeton universitye. Although had time and this is admirable to complete a short biography that will be published in the fall of 2009. Please join me in welcoming Annette Gordon reed. [applause] thank you for that introduction. [laughter] its great to be here among so many people i know. Ive come back many times and i when is rainin must say ive never been here while it was raining. Happy e hee a am very happy to be here with you. This is what this book means to me and people are familiar with my work understand that my first inte interest inre monticello wasnt really the hemmings, it waseffen jefferson. Fter having read a childsintro biography. Thats when i first began to to love history. Using my feeling of connection tell you
Whats we have been doing the last couple of days, we have been setting you up. For this discussion varied we did a lot of historical background of the history of pennsylvania politics leading up to the constitution of 1776. We want to think a little bit about the constitution, and in some ways, the lecture is going to set us up for the rest of the week. Thats as we close out the revolutionary era. We are trying to think about pennsylvania history in its earlier history in the blocks. We talked about ideals of william penn, his values, what kind of colony he wanted to create, the peaceable kingdom, or whatever we call it. What was the next block that we discussed . This should all be review. Ryan. The colonial area between the revolution and penns ideals. What are the dates we put on that . 1701 up to 1763. Why is 1701 important . Yes, the charter privileges, and then we ended in 1763 because that was the end of the french and indian war. What did we say about that period of pennsylvani
Neri journey the extraordinary journey. Would you first meet madame president . Aboutknown her of her all my life. She was minister of finance in the 70s when the coup happened. Parents. My she was somebody that as a child growing up i had heard of. Power. Speaking truth to in 1985 when she was arrested and thrown into jail, i heard all about that and she became at this time sort of a political icon. Afterwords on cspan2 book tv. Sunday on the presidency, historian Annette Gordon reed talks about Thomas Jefferson and his relationship with the enslaved hemmings family who lived and worked in his monticello plantation. Heres a preview. One of the reasons it was easy to dismiss the story of the hemmings family was cut people did know anything about the hemmings family other than that there was a scandal and they knew the name Sally Hemmings and manage new the name james hemmings. Also did notpeople know much about the family. That if i could tell the story in a way that made people feel a
Whats we have been doing the last couple of days, we have been setting you up. For this discussion varied we did a lot of historical background of the history of pennsylvania politics leading up to the constitution of 1776. We want to think a little bit about the constitution, and in some ways, the lecture is going to set us up for the rest of the week. Thats as we close out the revolutionary era. We are trying to think about pennsylvania history in its earlier history in the blocks. We talked about ideals of william penn, his values, what kind of colony he wanted to create, the peaceable kingdom, or whatever we call it. What was the next block that we discussed . This should all be review. Ryan. The colonial area between the revolution and penns ideals. What are the dates we put on that . 1701 up to 1763. Why is 1701 important . Yes, the charter privileges, and then we ended in 1763 because that was the end of the french and indian war. What did we say about that period of pennsylvani
Neri journey the extraordinary journey. Would you first meet madame president . Aboutknown her of her all my life. She was minister of finance in the 70s when the coup happened. Parents. My she was somebody that as a child growing up i had heard of. Power. Speaking truth to in 1985 when she was arrested and thrown into jail, i heard all about that and she became at this time sort of a political icon. Afterwords on cspan2 book tv. Sunday on the presidency, historian Annette Gordon reed talks about Thomas Jefferson and his relationship with the enslaved hemmings family who lived and worked in his monticello plantation. Heres a preview. One of the reasons it was easy to dismiss the story of the hemmings family was cut people did know anything about the hemmings family other than that there was a scandal and they knew the name Sally Hemmings and manage new the name james hemmings. Also did notpeople know much about the family. That if i could tell the story in a way that made people feel a