Special miniseries of six lectures entitled great president ial lives. This series is particularly attractive for two main reasons. The first being its timeliness. As we face a president ial Election Year and prepare for it, it will be an insight that all of us can benefit from. The second is the speaker himself, our esteemed umw professor of ameritas of history william b. Crawley who had completed 50 years on the faculty. Hes contributed in inpneumonnu ways. But its for his excellence in teaching that hes best known to thousands of our students who have come through our halls. Hes received our institutions highest honors in teaching both from his colleagues and from his students. Many of whom through the years have voted him as the faculty member who has made the greatest impact upon their lives. Dr. Crawley has become a true icon of this community. It is with great pleasure that i introduce Professor William b. Crawley who draws on his 50 years of teaching political history has truly
His unwavering dedication to those who serve our nation with their lives earns the trust and devotion of the armed services. His career began early at william mary. Not many known that he drove the Williamsburg James City School Bus when he was a student and he was assistant troop leader for our local boy scouts and that senator norman was one of his boy scouts as we discovered last night. After graduating from william mary in 1965, he joined the cia as an Intelligence Officer and was the first career officer to scale the agencys ranks to become its director. He served with president s of texas a m university from 20022006. When president bush called him back to washington to serve as secretary of defense. As secretary, he led our armed forces at a time when the country was in the midst of two wars and a global fight against terrorism. In 2009 he accepted president obamas request that he continue to lead in the cabinet, becoming the first secretary of defense to serve under president s
Panetta lecture series. Before we begin, i want to first ask that on this memorial day, we have a moment of silence in honor of all those men and women who have died while serving in the United States armed services. Thank you. This season we are discussing the health of american democracy, and it is very fitting that we recognize the individuals who have given their greatest sacrifice for our freedom and our way of life. We honor their commitment to country. Our guests in our discussion this evening are particularly fitting for this holiday because tonight we will conclude the 2019 lecture series by looking back to the founding of our nation and to the men who first took up arms to fight in the name of liberty and give birth to our republic. In the wake of victory, they understood that they had to create a system of government that would preserve and protect the values for which they had fought. What were their motives and intentions . Asking this question, it is important to recogniz
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
We wanted to restore the landscape of slavery. If you have come up to this mountaintop in jeffersons time, the first thing you would have seen most likely would have end in slave people. There would have been no place on this mountaintop that slavery was not visible, and we want to restore that, make that known to visitors who come here today. We are now in the middle of recreating or restoring dwellings along the main plantation street as well as rooms attached to the house just behind us. All this is part of an effort to sort of shift the focus away from jefferson and talk about the other people who essentially made his life possible. Just now, we are actually near jeffersons main house, the palladian mansion he built throughout his life, and we are standing next to military row, which is the main plantation street at monticello, through archaeology and documentary research, we know that over 20 workshops, storehouses, and dwellings lined this street. There were in slaved families he