Tonight we are delighted to have derek beck presented the war before independence 1775. Derek has always had a passion for military history which inspired him to start his career in the u. S. Air force, he has served as an officer on active duty and science roles and in space operations. In 2005 he earned a master of science degree at m. I. T. Where he also fell in love with bostons revolutionary past. To more fully pursue writing, he later transitioned to the air force reserves, though he still remains quite active, presently holding the rank of major. Dereks first book igniting the American Revolution, 1773 to 1775 received an Honorable Mention here at the Fraunces Tavern museum book award in april. Dereks second book, the sequel, the war before independence and that was released in may. I would now like to welcome derek to the lectern. [ applause ] thank you all for coming. Its an honor to be here at the Fraunces Tavern. Its exciting to give a historic lecture at a historic site. I
Good evening im the exec difficult director of the society of the cincinnati. Its my inestimable is pleasure to introduce our speak this evening. This is his book, he is going to talk to us about it. The book is the road to concord. Or how four stolen cannon ignited the revolutionary war. He will defend that premise for us a bit later, but i want to tell you what my reaction to this book is. Ive had the opportunity to read it already. Its one of three books i read cover to cover. I dont read it quickly. The reason is, first, it is extremely well written. It is graceful prose of an oldfashioned sort, and it is wonderfully researched, what i was taught in graduate school to refer to as a revisionist work of history, that is all good works of history if theyre original are revisionist in some way, but hes telling us a new story about the coming of the revelation in massachusetts. This book is a reflection of two things. One really good oldfashioned history writing of a kind that we dont s
Fellowships and a twotime senior fellow at the met. He has spoken internationally on the intersection of american art and history. With that i would like to welcome paul to the lectern. [applause] paul thank you very much. It is a pleasure to be here. Good evening to you. I want to thank my hosts at the tavern and my publisher who is represented here by Sarah Tara Kennedy for publishing , this book. Of arms and artists, this is the book here. It is a hybrid book in the sense that it attempts to do a number of things at the same time. It is meant to be read by anybody. Anyone whos interested in 18th century america. The founding, the revolution. I think you will find many things in here that will be a revelation to you. This is an aspect of that era not previously treated. At the same time, i had been intending to appeal to professional historians. They might learn a few things. Certainly my colleagues might learn a lot from the book. This is my effort to execute a triple steal. The wor
If you are waiting for the next speaker to come, keep in mind that that people sitting next to you may have come to hear the personal at the podium right now. Faith and freedom and cwa always does masterful jobs of bringing people to those things and people honoring the spirit, i guess, of the program. I will also just say, obviously, you know weve had we had some security terrance. So we have taken some pretty pronounced efforts to keep that to a bear minimum. Thank you for dealing with ininconvenience as you have been coming in. As we begin the program, obviously, we are excited to have each of the participants in the program. But we believe that the most important component of this is really to honor and lift up those precepts that we believe made america great. So i would ask that you join dr. W. A. Merit of the southern Leadership Conference of North Carolina to lead us in prayer. Good morning. Its such a wonderful day that god has given us. And each of us have arrived here safely
No, i think the universities do make progress on this and i think you get to a point where you create a Virtuous Cycle and i think it does work and i think theres reason to believe that it does work. I think the key point, representative compelling interest, thats in the heartland of what the court has said. In which the universities expertise the process point before you said also said that a matter to which this court, some, but not what youre talking about is the need of the program. In addition to that, and this is what id like you to focus on because there could be a question of whether to send it back for more evidence or not. So, in looking through the records so far, on this specifically, i found an affidavit by a person named walker and that person named walker ascribed seven years of efforts measure this stuff. All kinds of discussions. Described conclusions of the faculty members and the admissions offices. That you did need. You did need. Affirmative action in the 25 of the