Ladies and gentlemen please Welcome Supreme Court associate justice to one Justice Gorsuch. [applause] good evening everyone i have the honor of being executive director of the resident Ronald Reagan institute. Thank you for coming this evening in honor of the men and women in uniform please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. Into the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. And before we get started i like to take a moment to recognize to begin with the board of trustees pete wilson and his terrific wife gail. [applause] from North Carolina former congressman retired but just as busy as ever. [applause] so now to tonights program ladies and gentlemen it is my honor to invite fred ryan chairman of the board of trustees of the Reagan Foundation to our stage. [applause] good evening welcome to the Reagan Library. Thank you for joining us for what we know wil
Began, he was raised in that commonwealth and graduated summa cum laude from tufts university. He then earned an ma and phd from harvard university, where he studied under bernard bailyn. He taught at harvard and the university of michigan before joining the faculty at brown in 1969. A prolific author, professor wood has won numerous awards. In 1970, his book creation of the american republic, 17761787 won the bancroft prize. In 1993, his radicalism of the American Revolution won the Pulitzer Prize for history. The americanization of Benjamin Franklin was awarded the Julia Ward Howe prize by the Boston Authors Club in 2005. His volume in the oxford history of the United States entitled empire of liberty a history of the early republic, 17891815 was given the association of american publishers award for history and biography in 2009, the American History book prize by the New York Historical society, and the society of the cincinnati history prize in 2010. Incidentally, professor wood,
The faculty at brown in 1969. A prolific author, professor wood has won numeral russ awaou. In 1970 his book won the ban cost prize. In 1993, his radicalism of the American Revolution won the pulitzer price for history. The americanzation of Benjamin Franklin was awarded a prize by the Boston Authors Club in 2005. His volume in the oxford history of the United States entitled empire of liberty a history of the early republic was given the association of american publishers award for history and biography in 2009. The American History book prize by the New York Historical society and the society of the cincinnati history prize in 2010. Incidentally, proefessor wood, e heard from someone else from the society last week. He was awarded a medal by president obama. He is a fellow of the American Academy of arts and sciences and the american philosophical society, the countrys oldest learned society. He and his wife louise have three children, two of whom are professors and all of whom are i
You can also follow along behind the scenes on social media. Welcome once again to our next program. I went to give special think use it to all of our sponsors. Wind trust as window trust is our programming sponsor. Three elle real l real estate in cspan book tv. If there is time at the end for a q a session with the authors we ask that you use the microphone in the center of the room. Please silence all of your cell phones and if you do choose to take photographs of our presenters please turn off the flash 1720 to 1830m scott human. With that said our moderator. La we are really glad to be here today. We will try not to put you folks to sleep. We work with professor Henry Louis Gates junior. Until recently i was a Research Associate at the Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture pioneers to the into bellum midwest. When i first started doing that research on the assumption was that there were four maybe fiveemp settlements that were homes to africanamerican
Stage right here with all of us. Thank you. Thank you. With the applause most celebrated living historian in the United States of america of the American Experience which is even greater. Hes been called dean of americana and reason why hes taken pus down the georgetown shroud and building of the canal the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, Harriet Truman john adams, the americans in paris. The wright brother and sister. And this fabulous new book to talk about a little bit later, the pioneer. So won the Pulitzer Prize twice, the National Award twice and been given the medal or freedom of honor even better than honor and youve been writing, david, about america the trajectory has been 150 years since lets say the revolution to charlesmanburg and beyond. Is there a scene here . Yes. I now see it as i have not some things you gain from time going by. I would see now that almost all of my books are about americans who set out to accomplish Something Worthy that would they knew would be diff