Doubtless, many of you here in this room know mhs is home to the adams family papers and an extensive collection largely comprised of correspondences, letters, books, diaries, literary manuscripts, speeches, legal and business papers of both the senior and junior president s adams as well as all the members of this preeminent political dynasty. These documents remain so vital in our efforts to understand the evolution of american democracy, diplomacy and identity. Mhs strives to make the adams papers and our entire 40 million item collection available to anyone with an interest in american life, culture and history and we do it for free. If you have value resource and enjoyed programming like todays talk and you are not an mhs supporter i encourage you to do so. Tonight represents one of many programs seminars, exhibitions and workshops that we host. If you dont already have a copy of our new Spring Summer calendar grab one on the way out and its on her website. I want to mention we wi
The lawyer came along lawyers are the most important people in the world, thus i must live, grabbed a parachute, jumped out. The priest looked at the little boy. There was only one parachute left here said, my son, ive lived a long and prosperous life. You have your whole life ahead of you. Take the last parachute and take off. The boy turned to the priest and said, no worries, father, the smartest man in the world just took off with my backpack. [laughing] lets talk about george mason. Not a lot of people know about george mason. They basically no that george mason university, maybe the final for the reached a few years ago, but they have no idea who george mason is. And hope my book changes that opinion. If Thomas Jefferson was a genius both professionally and personally, which he was, his mentor george mason was a genius. America was woven together on three revered pieces of paper, the declaration of independence, the constitution, and the bill of rights. George mason had a hand in
Good afternoon here at the National Archives the archivist of the United States its a pleasure to have you with us or joining us through facebook or Youtube Channels into the cspan audience. We like to tell you about a few other programs coming up next month on tuesday septembe september 10th Sidney Blumenthal will talk about the recently released volume about Abraham Lincoln 1856 and at seven the associate Justice Gorsuch will tell us about his new book a republic if you can keep it with the importance of Civic Education and discourse and mutual respect. Check out the website to get email updates you will find other information to other archives and activities another way is to become a member of the National Archives foundation and check out their website to learn more about the organization. Those murals commemorate two founding documents of the nation of the declaration of independence and the Central Group represents those who play key roles in the creation of that document along
Good afternoon here at the National Archives the archivist of the United States its a pleasure to have you with us or joining us through facebook or Youtube Channels into the cspan audience. We like to tell you about a few other programs coming up next month on tuesday septembe september 10th Sidney Blumenthal will talk about the recently released volume about Abraham Lincoln 1856 and at seven the associate Justice Gorsuch will tell us about his new book a republic if you can keep it with the importance of Civic Education and discourse and mutual respect. Check out the website to get email updates you will find other information to other archives and activities another way is to become a member of the National Archives foundation and check out their website to learn more about the organization. Those murals commemorate two founding documents of the nation of the declaration of independence and the Central Group represents those who play key roles in the creation of that document along
Multiple books on history and including autumn of the black snake, declaration, the whisky rebellion and hes also the author of a recent, not author a contributor of historians of hamilton and hes also roll many essays and articles that you can read like the atlanta, the new york times, boston, huffington post, but none more important than our own magazine financial history, you can find that magazine at www. Memo i thought or for museum of American Finance, so it should be no surprise of the topic of his next book is Alexander Hamilton, it is my pleasure to introduce him applause thanks a lot i know the acoustics and here can we were little bit, can anyone hear me . Okay thank you thats good to now, i think some of you now that maybe, im a little bit of a fish out of water here, i would like to point out that the museum has had me speak, this is the third time, in fact my very first ever top ana hamilton and other related issues was sponsored by the museum, and for my very first book