Thank you for joining us for tonights lecture, a tempest, a teapot. Political combat antebellum rhode island with scholar eric chaput and Elizabeth Sulock director Public Programs for the Newport Historical society. This year, the 180th anniversary of the door rebellion, which is considered the most significant constitutional political event to occur in rhode Island History. During tonights lecture, dr. Chaput will explore the life of Thomas Wilson dorr and his attempt to overturn Rhode Islands existing government in the spring of 1842. He will focus heavily on the numerous newport connections to the story of dawes attempt at legal reform, including a lengthy trial, led to his imprisonment in 1844. A native Rhode Islanders erik chaput teaches at Providence College and at Western Reserve Academy. He holds a doctorate in American History from Maxwell School of citizenship and public at syracuse university. And he is the author of the people smarter. And is 1842 rhode island rebellion, wh
Thank you for joining us for tonights lecture, a tempest, a teapot. Political combat antebellum rhode island with scholar eric chaput and Elizabeth Sulock director Public Programs for the Newport Historical society. This year, the 180th anniversary of the door rebellion, which is considered the most significant constitutional political event to occur in rhode Island History. During tonights lecture, dr. Chaput will explore the life of Thomas Wilson dorr and his attempt to overturn Rhode Islands existing government in the spring of 1842. He will focus heavily on the numerous newport connections to the story of dawes attempt at legal reform, including a lengthy trial, led to his imprisonment in 1844. A native Rhode Islanders erik chaput teaches at Providence College and at Western Reserve Academy. He holds a doctorate in American History from Maxwell School of citizenship and public at syracuse university. And he is the author of the people smarter. And is 1842 rhode island rebellion, wh
This program is 50 minutes. Todays lecture will be on the magna carta. A document of great historical significance to the rule of law. The 800th anniversary of which will be two weeks from today. And we are honored and privileged to have as our lecturer, the Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the right honorable baroness hale of richmond. Let me describe a bit the historical feats that lady hale has herself accomplished. She was the only member of she was the woman. She was only member of the u. K. Supreme court to be a woman. She was the first and only woman in 1999 was the when she was appointed to the court of appeals. In 1994, she was the First High Court judge to come from a background as an academic and a Public Servant rather than as a practicing banister, although she had been called to the bar in 1969 and 1989. When she practiced law briefly in manchester, she decided that the ratio, one of six women in her class, she was the only member of that class
Significance to the rule of law. The 800th anniversary of which will be two weeks from today. And we are honored and privileged to have as our lecturer the Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the honorable, barren else of richland. The historical feats that the lady has herself accomplished. She is the first and as far as the only member of the Supreme Court to be a woman. She was the first and only longhorn that was a woman in 1999 when she was appoint to the court of appeals and only the second woman appointed to the court of appeal and privy council. She was the First High Court judge to come from an academic and serve ant. She had been called to the bar in 1969 and in 1989. When she practiced law briefly in manchester, she decided the ratio, as much as she had seen in cambridge, she was one of six women in her class. She was the only one to get a star first for exceptional distinction. She became an academic at Manchester City specializing in family law, wr
Costume and architecture and in music. I grew up with the belief that the sun never sets on the british empire. I collected stamps from all over the british empire. All americans knew george washington, john jay, sam adams, all the Founding Fathers were english men. Alexander hamilton was a scott born in the caribbean. As they came, so did settlers from germany, austria, hungary, polands, swiss, russians, chinese and all the countries came to the melting pot of america over the past 400 years since the founding of jamestown in 1607. My parents took me to the new york worlds fair in 1940 just seven years old to see many of the countrys exhibitions and among them, for the first time i saw magna carta at the british exhibition. The 1215 lincoln cathedral magna carta. On my first visit to britain as a serving officer in dwrupt states army, in 1957 i was returning to america to be discharged after serving in korea, my tour of duty completed, my first day in london, i went to the British Mus