Americas third president Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his words and actions on slavery and race. This video is courtesy of the university. Its from their great live s lecture series. I am pleased to announce a special miniseries of six lectures entitled great president ial lives. This series is particularly attractive for two main reasons. The first being its timeliness. A president ial election year, it will be an insight all of us can be in. The second is the speaker himself. Our esteemed umw professor, william b. Crawley, who has just completed 50 years on the faculty of the university of mary washington. During a half century, he has contributed in innumerable ways and significant ways. Certainly not least of all the creation of our renowned Historic Preservation program and the creation of this amazing great lives series. But it is for his excellence and teachings that he is perhaps best known, and to literally thousands of our students who have come through our halls, he has rec
Hello, everyone. So glad to have you back for democracy media in the public sphere. So first were going to do a shout out to begin our class as weve done before. Can i have natalie and ryan come up here, please . Okay. Natalie and ryan. Natalie and ryan are giving you a shout out, a special shout out to start class. Go ahead and have a seat. So Natalie Natalie has previously worked for npr, you are now working with a get out the Vote Organization which youve told us a little bit about and were just really proud that youre supporting that democracy and youre doing social media to democracy media in the public sphere. Ryan is in the process of building an app to tell us how long the polling lines are, which is just incredible. So bringing in, again, that democracy media and the public sphere. We need those apps, my husband is in line right now, 70minute wait where he is so people are really going to need this app that ryan is creating. So to you both, you get a hat. A round of applause.
Madison and james monroe were born. Grew to manhood and made their own. From this small expansive lands on the north American Continent came four of the nations first five president s and a dynasty whose members lead in securing independence, saving the constitution and building the republic. What a great way to start a book and i have said most of last night reading it and its a wonderful chronicle of four major leaders and the interconnected network that ties them together at the founding of this country and its a story that invokes the historian bill calls the story of hope and perseverance that runs straight through the American Experience and doctor cheney is a longtime member of ai faculty and let me acknowledge how much we all appreciate the scholarship and intellectual contributions to aei, not to mention the service he done for our country. This is the latest in a series of several works by doctor cheney and examine our countrys history with consideration and rigor. And James
Wrong. Its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight down for the count. Plus, stephen welcomes Shepard Smith. And musical guests leon bridges and lucky daye. Featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan Theater Office building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen welcome, ladies and gentlemen to a late show. It is 11 35 east coast time, and cbs is ready to project that i am your host, Stephen Colbert. Though theres a good chance donald trump is going to challenge that in court. And 24 hours later, we still dont know the winner of the president ial election. I win i win i win stephen get out of here go more on that later. As you can see, i am still on the election set, because the elections still going on. As we knew it would. We planned to keep this set up for days, because, covid. Its going to take a while to count all the votes and its all coming down to a few states where theyre still counting votes in north carolina, georgia, nevada, an
So today well talk about the Electoral College, what it is, how it works and why most scholars kind of hate the Electoral College and its among the Political Science set which homely youve had so far and you get a fullthroated argument against the Electoral College and it is a useful, instructive book because lays out all of the common arguments for it, as well which is helpful for allowing each person to sort of make up their mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. So this is really i do a whole week on this one because its how we like the president and few americans fully understand the process. At the very least if you take a course in the american presidency you should walk away understanding how this process we use to select our chief executive officer work, but also because it is really important in how it structures how elections turn out. Just how we started our discussion by president ial nominations by discussing the history of the nominations pr