Are portrayed in the musical were living people. They all had good sides and bad sides and pros and cons to their personality. The musical make it so that you understand who these people were. And i know theres a lot of conversation about, well, theres a latino man playing hamilton and an africanamerican playing George Washington. Okay. Thats just part of the conversation. And again, if that brings new audiences into the museums, like you all today, thats great. And i think thats what we should all think about when we think about the musical. Heres your sneak peek, too. So talking a little about the room where it happened. So this is George Washingtons office at the morrisjumel mansion. If youve been there before it was the dark green color. This is what it looks like now. This is our phase one of our reinterpretation plan. It is this gray wallpaper with little tiny flowers on it from 1770 and this very bright persimmon trim which is historically accurate. Were going through a big rebr
Are portrayed in the musical were living people. They all had good sides and bad sides and pros and cons to their personality. The musical make it so that you understand who these people were. And i know theres a lot of conversation about, well, theres a latino man playing hamilton and an africanamerican playing George Washington. Okay. Thats just part of the conversation. And again, if that brings new audiences into the museums, like you all today, thats great. And i think thats what we should all think about when we think about the musical. Heres your sneak peek, too. So talking a little about the room where it happened. So this is George Washingtons office at the morrisjumel mansion. If youve been there before it was the dark green color. This is what it looks like now. This is our phase one of our reinterpretation plan. It is this gray wallpaper with little tiny flowers on it from 1770 and this very bright persimmon trim which is historically accurate. Were going through a big rebr
We ought to do what we can to make that happen. Welcome to the panel, the second panel on hamilton. Im r. Bernstein, i teach at the Colin Powell School for civic and global leadership. Id like to introduce my colleagues. And ill introduce them in the order in which theyll be speaking. Well go down the row alphab alphabetical alphabetically. Benjamin carp professor at Brooklyn College. Is he author of defiance of the patriots the Boston Tea Party and the making of america. The Boston Tea Party and the making of america and rebels rising, cities in the making of the American Revolution. Nancy isenberg is the author most recently of white trash, the 400year untold history of class in america, which has just been reviewed by the New York Times book review and the new yorker among other places. Shes also the author of fallen founder, the life of aaron burr, a finalist for the l. A. Times book price and the coauthor from madison and jefferson. His first book was awarded the best book prize f
As it was, into a National Political campaign and a nickname for himself. He was called old tip. You probably would not have been able to spin the victory here into as big of a thing as it was had he not been subsequently a successful general in the war of 1812. He ran for president in 1836, was unsuccessful. He ran again in 1840 with john tyler as his running mate. There was a Large Campaign rally here that attracted some 30,000 people. A rally in 1840 was probably the first modern style Campaign Rally of the type we see today. Probably the number one question i get here at the museum is, what does tippecanoe and tyler to meano . Harrison ran for president with tyler as his running mate. The meaning was, if you vote for tippecanoe, you get tyler too. They won the campaign that year, and harrison died three days after the inauguration, and tyler became president. The battlefield today is surrounded by a wrought iron fence. The fence pretty much and closes the perimeter of the army camp
On the presidency, will here of five years in which Thomas Jefferson served in paris as the minister of the united dates. Author James Thompson describes it as a transformative experience with his friendships with french revolutionaries and progressives turns him from a political loner to an activist. Mr. Thompson is the author. He spoke at the Virginia Historical society. This is about an hour. The summer of 1784, Thomas Jefferson traveled to paris as minister of the united dates to friends and lived there for 5 states to france for five years. He made a series of excursions , an influential member of French Society. He appointed johnson not only to the city and its people but when the enlightened ideas of french thought. Today speaker will talk to us about this transform is period and Thomas Jeffersons life. James thompson studies philosophy as an undergraduate and graduate student at the university of virginia and as an grad student, he lived on a farm of Thomas Jeffersons eldest ma