A number of us are offering programs and events, so i would encourage you to check out that website. Our event tonight is absolutely the highlight of our commemorative year. We are really privileged to welcome edith to speak with us. She is a historian, an awardwinning historian, a trailblazer in american womens history. She is a foremost leading expert on Abigail Adams. She has written several i other fees of abigail. Most recently, she edited the library of america volume of abigails letters speed letters. 100 letters were published for the first time. Today she is going to speak to us about the fascinating relationship of another remarkable revolutionary era woman, Mercy Otis Warren, and the relationship she had with Abigail Adams. I know you are going to enjoy this. Please help me welcome edith. [applause] edith i was saying earlier that i saw a couple of years ago a news broadcast with the queen of england and she was behind one of these podiums and all you could see was [laughter
We will carry on with our leadership seminar. The coach has been so generous to let us use his name. I know he wants to find ways to contribute to the learning and education as part of Kennesaw State university. And we are very grateful to have not only one of the mentors of kennesaws tom scotto over here, salo again to him, but david parker is a good representative from my department. Thank you, david, for coming. And thank you to all of you for being here, and thank you to our speaker for making it here. We had planned for him to come to a Different Event some time ago and the weather got in the way. So this time, the weather did not prevent him from arriving and we are so excited to have Steve Woodworth. Steve and i do go a long way back. He taught for eight years at toccoa, so he has some good georgia roots in that area, and then went on to texas christian university, where he is the powerhouse. Different people that say, i want to go study, who should i study with . He is one of t
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to atlanta History Center. Im claire haley, president of democracy initiatives and author talks here for the History Center. Im sitting here tonight with three great scholars and very excited to have here atlanta history. Tonight were joined by Fitzhugh Brundage jon sensback and scott nelson. They are just three of many contributors to this new volume, a new history of the south. It just came a couple of weeks ago. So were very excited to be here in discussion with them tonight. And each are professors of history. Each have different of expertise. We have a lot ground to cover tonight. And so im going to briefly introduce them and then we will jump right in. Fitzhugh brundage sitting here on the end, hes the editor of this wonderful volume. Hes the william b umstead, professor of history, the university of north at chapel hill. So welcome, folks, from North Carolina. We appreciate you being here. And seated next to him is jon sensbach. He teaches Early A
Welcome to atlanta History Center. Im claire haley, president of democracy initiatives and author talks here for the History Center. Im sitting here tonight with three great scholars and very excited to have here atlanta history. Tonight were joined by Fitzhugh Brundage jon sensback and scott nelson. They are just three of many contributors to this new volume, a new history of the south. It just came a couple of weeks ago. So were very excited to be here in discussion with them tonight. And each are professors of history. Each have different of expertise. We have a lot ground to cover tonight. And so im going to briefly introduce them and then we will jump right in. Fitzhugh brundage sitting here on the end, hes the editor of this wonderful volume. Hes the william b umstead, professor of history, the university of north at chapel hill. So welcome, folks, from North Carolina. We appreciate you being here. And seated next to him is jon sensbach. He teaches Early American History at the u
Welcome to atlanta History Center. Im claire haley, president of democracy initiatives and author talks here for the History Center. Im sitting here tonight with three great scholars and very excited to have here atlanta history. Tonight were joined by Fitzhugh Brundage jon sensback and scott nelson. They are just three of many contributors to this new volume, a new history of the south. It just came a couple of weeks ago. So were very excited to be here in discussion with them tonight. And each are professors of history. Each have different of expertise. We have a lot ground to cover tonight. And so im going to briefly introduce them and then we will jump right in. Fitzhugh brundage sitting here on the end, hes the editor of this wonderful volume. Hes the william b umstead, professor of history, the university of north at chapel hill. So welcome, folks, from North Carolina. We appreciate you being here. And seated next to him is jon sensbach. He teaches Early American History at the u