Wisconsinmadison are the can coauthors. Are the coauthors. Thank you very much. Guest thank you. [inaudible conversations] and now booktvs live coverage of the wisconsin book festival continues. This is author andrea mays. Shes the author of the millionaire and the bard. Live coverage on booktv on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] here we go. Ill start over. Welcome. My name is susan, and i work for the uwmadison libraries as a special collections librarian, an english language humanities librarian. Welcome to the wisconsin book festival. I would like to introduce today our author, andrea mays, who will be talking about her book with this fantastic cover, the millionaire and the bard. Tell you a little bit about andrea mays. Like henry folger, possessed by a lifelong obsession with shakespeare and his times. Ann create ya spent much of her andrea spent much of her girlhood holed up in the library listening to vinyl recordings. A graduate of stuyvesant high sch
Here we go. Ill start over. Welcome. My name is susan, and i work for the uwmadison libraries as a special collections librarian, an english language humanities librarian. Welcome to the wisconsin book festival. I would like to introduce today our author, andrea mays, who will be talking about her book with this fantastic cover, the millionaire and the bard. Tell you a little bit about andrea mays. Like henry folger, possessed by a lifelong obsession with shakespeare and his times. Ann create ya spent much of her andrea spent much of her girlhood holed up in the library listening to vinyl recordings. A graduate of stuyvesant high school, she was not only a protege of frank mccourt, but also his mentor. Andrea has degrees in economics from the State University of new york at binghamton and from ucla and teaches economics at cal State University at long beach. She was a president ial appointee to the u. S. International trade admission where she served as economist to the chairman. She d
Presented to George Washington. This presentation from Smithsonian Associates and the Historical Society of washington dc is about one hour. I do not have any visuals and i can claim that is because i do not know how to do it, but the truth is that i never know how i will say it until i get here. I hope you will forgive me for the lack of visuals. My title is dreams, nightmares and neglect. I will start with earlier than 1783. I will start with the european explorations the early part of , the 17th century, so it is going to be almost a 200year dream, but it will go fast, as i concentrate on what happened once the dream was realized. In 1607, john smith entered the sevenmile wide mouth of the Potomac River and headed north. Whether he got this far north, we are actually not certain, but People Living here, algonquin peoples called the place it as the place where something is brought, a training place, a place to which tribute is brought. It was a beautiful area in which the tidewater f
Mountain Thomas Jefferson and his slaves. It is a subject, which the Thomas Jefferson foundation has been a pioneer in researching and present a largely the collected essays published earlier this year by the university of virginia press. Theyre entitled by virtue my happiness, slavery of Thomas Jeffersons monticello is regarded as an authority on the subject. The book was released to coincide with an exhibit on slavery of monticello in the Smithsonian National museum of African American history which is cocurated by the staff of the Thomas Jefferson foundation. 70 of the descendents of those commemorated attended the opening night. After 50 years of archaeological and historical research, Thomas Jefferson foundation is now in the next phase of interpretation and restoration project funded by the National Endowment of humanities by private reports that the project is called the landscape of slavery, mulberry road in monticello, which includes creation of many exhibits, key sites, a web
We were just waiting for opinions to greg. Benefits is really true, but it was in our interest for him to say that. Oddly enough, check presented up sort this radical feeling over there in france and before he left, he told thomas paine, williams short, another abolitionists over there going to get back to america, he was going to train slaves, settle them on land at sharecroppers and the certainty they would become good citizens and free people in the United States. But when he got back to the United States, things changed. He came back with his daughter, pat c. It turned out she needed a dowry because she met her husband, Thomas Mann Randolph and they decided to get married in a hurry from the only way jefferson could set them up in the household was to give them land and a lot of slaves. He gave his daughter 25, little and big. He began to think of rebuilding monticello and he needed money they needed to rely on to retrain displaced worse. He suddenly called upon them to acquire a f