Institute for sponsoring our panel discussion. Our speakers today are david frisk, resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton institute, adam carrington, assistant professor of politics at hillsdale college, and michael uhlmann, a senior fellow at the claremont institute. We will have 20 minutes for each speaker to deliver his remarks. Then we will open up to questions and general discussion. And one note, if you do have a question, please bring it to the microphone in the center so you can be on camera. I think we are being recorded by cspan this morning. And without any further ado, david first. David thanks to all of you for coming out this early morning. I will be defending the Electoral College. And equally important, when we are talking about a major change, discussing the dangers of any really a common to almost any plans for alternatives. There always has to be an alternative. It seems to me that there are certain advantages to the Electoral College, which have been stated by it
Jacksons clashes with whig h Party Members such as henry clay and Daniel Webster. Good morning everybody and welcome to American History. My name is jonathan barth. You all know me as professor barth and i am a history professor at Arizona State university in conjunction with two very stellar world class programs. There they are on the screen. The school of historical philosophical and religious studies, quite a mouth full. So we call this shippers, great program. And then the center for political thought and leadership. If this lecture intrigues you, you should check out our center. Were doing some big things. Finally if you are interested in learning more about yours tru trutruly professorbarth. Com. You can read about me on that website. Well, a generation of politicians has passed. Alexander hamilton dies in a duel in 1804. James madison retires from politics and dies in 1836. John adams and Thomas Jefferson die on the same day, july 4th, 1826, 50 years to the day of the signing of
Already were a private nonprofit educational organization. The mission of the place and it has been for a long time is to enhance the understanding and appreciative of the executive mansion. A long, long time means 56 years at this point. Its 1961. This is during the kennedy administration, and first Lady Jacqueline kennedy founded the association and its purpose was to help the white house to collect and exhibit the very best of American History and culture, but underscoring all of that, to inform and excite the public about the history of the executive mansion. So today, fast forwarding all these years, were still doing this. Acquisiti acquisition, preservation, research, education efforts that continue through the sale of our books, our products. Ill tell you more about that in a sec. The official white house ornament and then also in recent years from private and corporate donations. To strengthen our goal, the overarching goal to widely share white house history with the public, l
Academy professor. It is titled the army before and afterandr aft after Andrew Jackson. This is about an hour and 50 minutes. Tonights speaker is sam watson, professor of United States and military history at the United States military academy at west point. He has taught for 18 years. He is author of jacksons sword and peace keepers and conquerers on the nations borders and frontiers between the war of 1812 and the war with mexico. It is published by united press of kansas which together won the distinguished book award for the society of military history. Incidentally it is which we are part. He is coed to of the west point history of warfare which won the society for military history he is coed to of the history of the civil war which won the Army Historical foin dags writing award. She also coauthor of the west point history of the american revolution. He teaches on 19th sefcentury warfare and about the american frontier. Ladies and gentlemen, tonight, sam watson. [ applause ] than
Welcome to everybody. Were delighted to have you here. Im dr. Curtis sandberg, the director of the National Center for white house history and i have this long title. Im concurrently the associations Senior Vice President for educational resources. I would like sort of con textually put this all into a nice picture. Shear background about the association and then that places tonights talk into a proper context. We are, and some of you may know already were a private nonprofit educational organization. The mission of the place and it has been for a long time is to enhance the understanding and appreciative of the executive mansion. A long, long time means 56 years at this point. Its 1961. This is during the kennedy administration, and first Lady Jacqueline kennedy founded the association and its purpose was to help the white house to collect and exhibit the very best of American History and culture, but underscoring all of that, to inform and excite the public about the history of the e