What else. Well, okay. Well, thank you very much again. And thank again. Its an honor to be the kennedy lecture. And here. Well, good evening, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of all of us involved with Andrew Jackson hermitage, its my pleasure to welcome you, to our seventh president home. Im Howard Kittell president and ceo of the Andrew Jackson foundation. Today, there are few americans who are not in some way grappling with our nations history of slavery, how it shaped our countrys formation from the colonial era up to the present and how it impacts our lives today, however, its virtually impossible to come to grips with that topic of slavery in america without understanding the laws that both permitted and shaped the practice. Just as we see elements of ourselves in our ancestors. So our legal, economic and social system are rooted in the laws that surround it too, surrounded slavery. And fostered it. Professor sharfstein is the at worksafe. Mr. Page here. Apologies tonight. We are
Founding, this gathering is the beginning for us of a large, ambitious project today. I and i want to say just a few words about it before we get going with our conversation. 2026 is a lot of you know is going to mark the 250th anniversary of the american founding. A lot of organizations, a lot of individuals will recognize that milestone in a variety of ways. But thinking through how we might best that here, we thought that the kind of contribution we could make would be some of lasting intellectual product through a set of conferences that will then yield a set of books, other kinds of educational materials that explore how americans now should understand our heritage, our inheritance. The key and questions at issue in the american founding. Those materials can outlast the anniversary and conserve educators, students and citizens in general. For many years to come. And to do that, were going draw on a variety of scholars from a variety of fields with a diversity of viewpoints to offe
Founding, this gathering is the beginning for us of a large, ambitious project today. I and i want to say just a few words about it before we get going with our conversation. 2026 is a lot of you know is going to mark the 250th anniversary of the american founding. A lot of organizations, a lot of individuals will recognize that milestone in a variety of ways. But thinking through how we might best that here, we thought that the kind of contribution we could make would be some of lasting intellectual product through a set of conferences that will then yield a set of books, other kinds of educational materials that explore how americans now should understand our heritage, our inheritance. The key and questions at issue in the american founding. Those materials can outlast the anniversary and conserve educators, students and citizens in general. For many years to come. And to do that, were going draw on a variety of scholars from a variety of fields with a diversity of viewpoints to offe
Founding, this gathering is the beginning for us of a large, ambitious project today. I and i want to say just a few words about it before we get going with our conversation. 2026 is a lot of you know is going to mark the 250th anniversary of the american founding. A lot of organizations, a lot of individuals will recognize that milestone in a variety of ways. But thinking through how we might best that here, we thought that the kind of contribution we could make would be some of lasting intellectual product through a set of conferences that will then yield a set of books, other kinds of educational materials that explore how americans now should understand our heritage, our inheritance. The key and questions at issue in the american founding. Those materials can outlast the anniversary and conserve educators, students and citizens in general. For many years to come. And to do that, were going draw on a variety of scholars from a variety of fields with a diversity of viewpoints to offe
Founding, this gathering is the beginning for us of a large, ambitious project today. I and i want to say just a few words about it before we get going with our conversation. 2026 is a lot of you know is going to mark the 250th anniversary of the american founding. A lot of organizations, a lot of individuals will recognize that milestone in a variety of ways. But thinking through how we might best that here, we thought that the kind of contribution we could make would be some of lasting intellectual product through a set of conferences that will then yield a set of books, other kinds of educational materials that explore how americans now should understand our heritage, our inheritance. The key and questions at issue in the american founding. Those materials can outlast the anniversary and conserve educators, students and citizens in general. For many years to come. And to do that, were going draw on a variety of scholars from a variety of fields with a diversity of viewpoints to offe