Trace the arc of our nations history. From 1783 to 1861, the political history of our nation. Wow, i will use the word hate. Back is a little daunting. Trace the art. Im to do the historian thing and speak generally. I guess it would save your looking an american in politics, from the beginning straight through, we could even go past the civil war, youre talking about paradoxes and conflict and prop. The period that i tend to focus on is the early part of the arc, and its the improvisational nature of the the really fascinates more than anything else. The nation was founded in a world of monarchy. The United States was a republic. What the means was was not clear at the moment and people knew the they were trying to do something the wasnt act. Were not going to be creating monetary and the president isnt going to be a king but beyond the there was open ground. Theres a lot of improv in those early decades about with the nation is and how it functions, the tone of the government, how th
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And mr. John j. Hennessy whos going to present stonebridge at manassas John Hennessy retire in 2021. As the chief historian, fredericksburg and spotsylvania, national military, where he worked for the final 26 years of his nps career. That deserves a round of applause applause. Prior to fredericksburg. He served an exhibit planner for nps across the country and as a front line ranger historian, Manassas National battlefield park, where he began his career hes author of four books, most notably return to bull run the campaign and battle of second manassas, still in print after 30 years and the first ballymena passes and end of innocence and into innocence substantially revised and published in 2016. Lets welcome mr. Thank you everybody its good to be here and good to see you all. I am not going to mention zombie gordon. I am from massachusetts which jettisoned maine in 2019 and an unfortunate and youre going to have to suffer this through will and and and the rest of us we dont have any
i am absolutely delighted to see all of you joining us for the inaugural event of our director series for those of you who do not know me. i am christy coleman. i m the executive director here at jysf. and again, i m delighted to have those of you that are safely masked and distance in our audience here at the robin s theater at jamestown settlement as well as all of our guests that are joining us on zoom and to those who will be seeing this later for all of our guests on c-span american history that is joining us this evening as well. so what are we doing? right. what is all of this the purpose of this series quite simply is an opportunity for us to expand our mission which has been around for about 25 years. most folks know our mission simply as the jamestown yorktown foundation through its museums explores the convergence of cultures between native americans europeans and central west africans. but there s another part to our mission that is often left out and that is to a