Story about five boys kidnapped in the north and smuggled into slavery in the south. Toir daring attempt to try bring their captors to justice is being published by Simon Schuster in october. Thank you once again for joining us this evening and please welcome me in joining dr. Rick bell. [applause] bell thanks to heather, thanks to cspan for covering this. Those of you who might have been to the smithsonian before wont be surprised to hear my strange accent, which is not exactly a maryland natives accent. I was born and raised in england , yet find myself teaching about the American Revolution as part of my job, which is a blessing and a curse in an undergraduate classroom, to teach with an accent like this. I am very proud of where i grew up. I often carry in my back pocket a giant british flag [laughter] dr. Bell which i might drape around the scenery for cspan to drink in. But i was also naturalized as a u. S. Citizen a couple of years ago, something i am incredibly proud of, so it
Hi, everybody. Afternoon. Im john obrien from the department of english and im happy to kick things off. Todays lecture is part of English Department lecture series known as the peters rushton seminars, a series that goes back to 1950. Its a series that included speakers such as keith brookes, randall general auden and seamus heaney. Today, were happy to welcome fred kaplan to the west oval room of the rotunda to speak on his designer Thomas Jefferson. Fred kaplan is distinguished Professor Emeritus of english at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of new york. A scholar in century literature, kaplan has become best known as one of the most distinguished biographers of our era. He is published biographies of thomas carlyle, mark twain, henry james, charles dickens, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln gore vidal, and now Thomas Jefferson in his masterly pen. Kaplan offers us a biography of Thomas Jefferson by giving an english professors kind attention to jeffer
All right, everybody, welcome back. And thank you for joining us for our second panel, which is on the democratic declaration. Im adam white im a senior fellow here at aei and i want to echo my colleague. Youve also thoughts at the outset of this. Were so grateful for everybody who made of todays event and the series that will follow possible. Thank you for all of us all of you for joining us. Everybody joining us online and on tv. And thanks especially our authors in this volume of the series and especially the two authors joining me on this panel the least to offer some opening remarks, and ill introduce them one at a time. In the order that theyre speaking and were beginning with danielle allen, danielle is harvards james bryan conant, university professor, and she directs harvards allen lab for democracy renovation. We might get back to that later, by the way. She previously was a professor at the institute for advanced study at princeton. In 2020, she was awarded the library of co
All right, everybody, welcome back. And thank you for joining us for our second panel, which is on the democratic declaration. Im adam white im a senior fellow here at aei and i want to echo my colleague. Youve also thoughts at the outset of this. Were so grateful for everybody who made of todays event and the series that will follow possible. Thank you for all of us all of you for joining us. Everybody joining us online and on tv. And thanks especially our authors in this volume of the series and especially the two authors joining me on this panel the least to offer some opening remarks, and ill introduce them one at a time. In the order that theyre speaking and were beginning with danielle allen, danielle is harvards james bryan conant, university professor, and she directs harvards allen lab for democracy renovation. We might get back to that later, by the way. She previously was a professor at the institute for advanced study at princeton. In 2020, she was awarded the library of co
Series known as the peters rushton seminars, a series that goes back to 1950. Its a series that included speakers such as keith brookes, randall general auden and seamus heaney. Today, were happy to welcome fred kaplan to the west oval room of the rotunda to speak on his designer Thomas Jefferson. Fred kaplan is distinguished Professor Emeritus of english at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of new york. A scholar in century literature, kaplan has become best known as one of the most distinguished biographers of our era. He is published biographies of thomas carlyle, mark twain, henry james, charles dickens, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln gore vidal, and now Thomas Jefferson in his masterly pen. Kaplan offers us a biography of Thomas Jefferson by giving an english professors kind attention to jeffersons written words. Jefferson only published one book in his lifetime notes on the state of virginia. But, of course, jefferson wrote consul treatises like a