Virginia is 45 minutes. Our first speaker we are privileged to have here today is scott harris who is the director of the James Monroe Museum and library. He has been as such since july 2011. Previously scott was the dwrekt to of the New Market Battlefield state historical park owned by vmi and previous to that historic of the city. He received his ba with honors and holds a masters degree from the college of william and mary. Mr. Harris. [ applause ] im not going to drop the mic but i will lower it gently to the ground. There. Thank you very much and good morning. Oh, come on. Good morning. Good morning. If youll turn in your hymnals to number of of 61. Oh, thats tomorrow. [ laughter ] if i may take the chance in a house of worship to spread the gospel of james monroe as my colleagues will be doing today. Any time that we have the opportunity to help raise awareness of the man that i like to call the hardest working president in show business we like to do so. So its a real treat to b
Political career and what motivated voters to support him. He explains how the early Electoral College function and Political Parties were formed. The heritage area hosted this 50 minute event in leesburg virginia. It was part of a symposium. It was a bicentennial commemoration and reflection. Collects next we will hear from dan preston, he became the editor of the papers in 1989. The project is a two page long descriptive catalogue of these letters and documents. Volume six will be published in march of 2017 and volume seven after that. Thank you for being with us, lets give them a good welcome. [applause] dan the first time i ever gave a lecture many years ago, i was still a graduate student. They have positioned the podium so that the speaker was standing on top. Nobody got dumped that day and i havent been dumped sense but i still always check. I dont think there is a basement for us to fall into. Spent 35 or 40 minutes standing on top of a trap door while you are speaking. It nt f
We take you to the special Collections Library to learn more about the Thomas Jefferson papers. Jefferson is the founder of uva. He worked many years to develop the system of education in virginia. Uva was his last great project. He did it after he left the white house. He designed the buildings and the curriculum. He was the first chair of the board of visitors. He was intimately involved as you will see in a lot of details about building the buildings. His vision is called an academic village. If you look at his plans for the university, at the time a lot of universities consisted of one very big building for classes were held and there were dormitory rooms. Jeffersons idea was to make a village out of it, with students living here the professors and classes being given in the professors homes. There was constant interaction of students and faculty. Its in charlottesville, and in the 1820s there was a small town, a village really. If you think about these amazing buildings that went
We take you to the special Collections Library to learn more about the Thomas Jefferson papers. Jefferson is the founder of uva. He worked many years to develop the system of education in virginia. Uva was his last great project. He did it after he left the white house. He designed the buildings and the curriculum. He was the first chair of the board of visitors. He was intimately involved as you will see in a lot of details about building the buildings. His vision is called an academic village. If you look at his plans for the university, at the time a lot of universities consisted of one very big building for classes were held and there were dormitory rooms. Jeffersons idea was to make a village out of it, with students living here the professors and classes being given in the professors homes. There was constant interaction of students and faculty. Its in charlottesville, and in the 1820s there was a small town, a village really. If you think about these amazing buildings that went
Architects look at the little house and say that does not really look like a wing of a president house. There are formal similarities to other dependency buildings from other plantations. The questions were lingering. When i got here, there were answers to questions i did not quite fully understand. Maybe it is just a willingness to say that i dont understand that. Because maybe it is perfectly clear but i just dont understand. Lets look further. There standing now in center of the spot where James Monroes original main house stood. This is where we discovered the well preserved foundations just below ground surface. We have covered cap while we are not excavating. That is how we preserve an archaeological site. We laid these down on the Ground Service to get a sense of the footprint of the house. Specifically over the places that we have excavated and have identified the walls. It is also speculated a bit in between those spots. This is the outline of the 1799 monro house. We see some