Universe. Heses an ma and ph. D. Degree university of pennsylvania and peter, of course, is a great friend to this foundation. And the personal friend as well and within of the great scholars countrily of Thomas Jefferson. Hes a jd from the university of texas school of law. Hes written five books and up with another book these include virginia american revolution, from dmin i can to republic 1776 to 18which was published in 2007 and james and making of the cat which was published in weve. Now chatting with him before the start so not expected until about 2020 so its a topic oddly that is not been written in this book that is the virginia dynasty president s Thomas Jefferson, james madison, and james monroe. Kevin will speak today on his most recent book Thomas Jefferson revolutionary a radical struggle to remake america. Please join me in welcoming kevin goodman. [applause] of course Thomas Jefferson is one of the most famous Many American history but i think when people l think of fi
Americans played in the expectation. In the expedition. The library of congress hosted this hourlong event. Thank you john. Herman and i are going to act as a tag team today. We have been doing this for many years. We did a trail together a number of times going over the bitterroot mountains, following in the footsteps of lewis and clark. We initiated that for the smithsonian, carried that on. I was lucky enough to be involved in a number of those. That is how we became interested in lewis and clark. Of course, he is a historian. He came at it from that point of view. I am a historian of cartography. Together we put this book together. As far as we know, its the only book that talks primarily about the maps of lewis and clark. Of course, a huge number of books since the bicentennial of lewis and clark on them and on the various activities. Some touch on maps. There is a fine atlas that was put together of lewis and clark maps. We are trying to correct this imbalance by guiding and docu
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We have been doing this for many years. Together a number of times going over the bitterroot mountains, following in the footsteps of lewis and clark. We initiated that for the smithsonian, carried that on. I was lucky enough to be involved in a number of those. That is how we became interested in lewis and clark. Of course, he is a historian. Said he came at it from that point of view. Ima historian of cartography. I am a historian of cartography. Together we put this book together. As far as we know, its the only book that talks primarily about the maps of lewis and clark. Of course, a huge number of books since the bicentennial of lewis and clark on them and on the various activities. Some touch on maps. There is a fine atlas that was put together of lewis and clark maps. We are trying to correct this imbalance by guiding and documenting the root of these maps. Before i continue, i want to thank a number of people that were involved with this production. Beginning with love and your
Thank you for coming. I am pleased to be here at the national archives. I became a great lover of archives by going to institutions smiley ended up taking rare maps out of. I got to see a lot of the old documents myself. There is nothing like being able to see an original document and touch it and see it with your own eyes. It is a Wonderful Service buildings like this provide in providing access to these materials. Im going to dive in with a reading from the beginning of my book. With the first sentence in the first chapter so there is nothing you need to know going in. The im going to talk about same character i got to know well over the past three years and show you images of some of the maps he still, particularly focusing on the virginia and washington, d. C. Area. Let me dive right in. This is the beginning of my book, the map thief. No matter how much you try to suppress it, the tickle cap freaking out into a cough kept breaking out into a cough. The Manuscript Library at Yale U