Postdoctoral fellowship are from Southern Methodist university. Previously, dr. Levinsky worked as a historian at the white house, historical associate asian. Her writing has appeared in the wall street journal, ms. Magazine in the daily beast, bulwark time magazine, usa today, cnn, and the washington post, just to name a few. Dr. Travis, she is the author of the Award Winning book the cabinet, George Washington and the creation of an American Institution and is currently working on her second book, tentatively titled an honest man the inimitable presidency of john adams. Speaking of mr. Adams, help me welcome lindsey to share her presentation. Peace and inviolable faith with all nations. John adams independence and the quest for neutrality. Hello, everyone. It is a joy to be here with you today to talk about john adams independence neutrality and everything in between. One of the mistakes i think we make as a historian, as history lovers, as readers, is we tend to separate our history
Good afternoon, everyone. My name is dan welch and i am the series editor for the emerging war book series. And today its my honor to introduce dr. Lindsey trevino ski. Lindsey is a senior fellow at the center for president ial history at southern United Methodist university. The conjuring open ranke fellow at the International Center for jefferson studies and professional lecturer at the school of media and Public Affairs at, George Washington university. She received her b. A. With honors in history and Political Science from George Washington university, her masters and ph. D. From the university of california, davis, and her postdoctoral fellowship are from Southern Methodist university. Previously, dr. Levinsky worked as a historian at the white house, historical associate asian. Her writing has appeared in the wall street journal, ms. Magazine in the daily beast, bulwark time magazine, usa today, cnn, and the washington post, just to name a few. Dr. Travis, she is the author of t
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
English language and its democratic tradition and the ability to populate half of the very rich continent and it grew like something planted in your garden and there is that aspect but that also could be said about other countries that were less successful such as brazil or argentina. The difference is the statesman who designed the institutions of government to direct to the country in the most critical phases of development. Host with the Founding Fathers who is one of your heroes . Guest i dont think i and innovative but the principal figures were franklin and washington and they are legendary they dont need me to baum but this team that they are universal but washington was a brilliant leader and he kept that are vetoing virtually unpaid with continuous calls for new recruits over seven years. He had to move inland to make it more difficult for the british to get at him or the british to see him not only occasionally in the early phases of the war with the attack to princeton and b
The relationship between the United States and iran is now on the verge of significant change. The United States implemented sanctions back in 1979 in the wake of the iranian hostage crisis. The u. S. Secretary of state john kerry just said this today. But the fact is that today marks the first day of a safer world. One where we believe it is possible to remain safer for years to come, and particularly with the compliance of this agreement. I think we have proven once again why diplomacy has to always be our first choice and war our last resort. That is a very important lesson to reinforce. We have approached this challenge with the firm belief that exhausting diplomacy before choosing war is an imperative. And we believe today marks the benefits of that choice. In lock step with the sanctions being lifted, five american prison tphers iran have been set free. Washington post rorpber jay john rezaian, Saeed Abedini and Matthew Trevithnick is also part of the deal. He is student detained