Now im delighted to introduce our next panel of impressive scholars who will discuss slavery at president ial sites and how these places are sharing and promoting more inclusive histories. Mary elliott, curator at the Smithsonian National museum of African American history and culture, will moderate. Mary cocurated the museums slavery and freedom exhibit and served as curator and content developer for their digital humanities project. The searchable museum. Please note that there is a change to the panel as listed in your program. Dr. Elizabeth chew was unable to attend today and dr. Sarah bon harper, who you heard from earlier, will be joining the panel. Dr. Ben harper initiated research at highland that led to the discovery of the archaeological remains of the monroes main house and opened a new chapter of site interpretation with inclusive narratives enriched by descendant collaboration. Our next panelist, andrew davenport, is the public historian at the Thomas Jefferson foundation
Our last speakers are andrew burstein, who is the charles professor of history at Louisiana State university, and hes the author of the books the inner jefferson, jeffersons secrets, lincoln dreamt he died, history of the american dream, and hes also coauthor with nancy isenberg, our second speaker, will be copresenting, of madison and jefferson. And andrew asked me it tell you about his new book that is coming out on jeffersons birthday next year, april 13th, 2015 called democracys muse, how Thomas Jefferson became an fdr liberal. Description of the white house historian. But anyway, and with him is nancy isenberg, who is also distinguished professor at Louisiana State university. Shes the author of two prize winning books. Sex and citizenship and ant b l antebellum america and the coauthor of madison and jefferson. Please welcome our speakers. [ applause ] there we go. I like to give a shoutout to a war vet, not the war of 1812, number 12235370, thank you for your service, dad. You [
If youre a former journalist or if youre interested in the profession, celia wexler is the author of out of the news former journalists discuss a profession in crisis. Thanks so much. Thank you. You are watching booktv. Now Alfred Zacher presents his thoughts on why some president s succeed while others fail during their second terms in office. This is about 45 minutes. Good afternoon. Appreciate your being here for this event that we can credit cspan2 for our being here this afternoon. We are familiar with the familiar phrase past is prologue, which is emblazoned on the wall of the national archives. You have heard the phrase history does not repeat itself, it rhymes. This afternoon, with your assistance, i will attempt to apply past prologue to the history of the second term. But i frankly do not understand history rhyming, so that one will be ignored. We are once again facing the challenge of reflecting our president when the wind is too close to call. We do not expect to witness an
Archives. You have heard the phrase, history doesnt repeat itself, it rhymes. This afternoon, with your assistants, i would tend to apply past is prologue to the history of the second turn. But i frankly do not understand history writing, so that one will be ignored. We are once again facing the challenge of selecting our president when the winner is too close to call. We do not expect to witness an election won by overinflate. Some will look longingly on the time when one candidate dominated the political scene. Lyndon johnson grittily be very goldwater and richard nixon, overwhelming george mcgovern. Each of those elections, one of the candidates failed to capture the spirit of the american voting public and the winner had the advantage of a weak opponent. Franklin roosevelt won his second term landslide because of huge popularity. And many of our president ial elections, the candidates are in a fitted title to present themselves as the one capable of serving the country with the win
Historian Harlow Giles Unger recounts the life of americas sixth president on quincy adams who died in 1848. Quincy adams was some of the second president john adams had a long political career which included, aside from his presidency, ten years of secretary of state, senator, congressmen and miniature. This is a little under an hour. I will start with a very simple question. Was there a moment you said to yourself i need to write a biography of John Quincy Adams . Yes, indeed, there was. A couple years ago when i ran out of any ideas on the Founding Fathers. Others had written on washington, jefferson, madison, and id written on Patrick Henry, james monroe, james hancock. So i pulled out john f. Kennedys cal woods prizewinning book profiles in courage and their in chapter 1 was John Quincy Adams. I thought his name begins with a xu chapter 1. Thats not the reason he was in chapter 1. John kennedy himself a war hero had listed these characters in order of the degree of courage, and he