The play. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. Good evening. Thank you. My name is jim basker. [ applause ] it is my pleasure and privilege to welcome you all to the 1211th presentation of the George Washington prize on behalf of the three cohosts of tonights decent. The first, regent Barbara Lucas the vice regents of George Washington mt. Vernon, also president sheila bair, Adam Goodhart and the board of Washington College. [ applause ] and the cofounders and cochairs and all the trustees of the institute. [ applause ] founded in 2005, the 50,000 George Washington prize is sponsored by our three organizations and is awarded each year to the best work about the founding era. This is the first time the washington prize has ever been warded to a play. [ applause ] and i would add no one anywhere will be surprised that tonight it will be presented to Linmanuel Miranda for his astonishing hamilton. [ applause ] we will hear from lin miranda a bit later, but first i want to recognize some
All right. Good to see everybody today. Lets get this thing going. For those of you who dont know, i am douglas bradburn. Welcome to mount vernon. Welcome to the fred w. Smith National Library for the study of George Washington, which is where we are. Im the founding director. This is our evening bookstores. The Ford Motor Company has been a great supporter of mount vernon since henry ford donated the first fire engine to the estate. We want to make sure that the mansion doesnt burn down. Thats been a longtime concern of ours. And an ongoing issue. But were really thankful to ford the ford family and the Ford Motor Company, for their continuing support for all of our projects. Mount vernon, of course, doesnt take any government money. Its all supported by private funds. So we depend upon people patriotic citizens around the world to support the mission of educating people about George Washingtons life and legacy. Its great to see everybody out here tonight. Its great to welcome cspan a
History. Next on American History tv historian and author Jeffrey Hadley talks about issues and the media wars they waged in newspaper ms. The election of 1796 was the first time the voters had to choose between candidates between competing Political Parties. Discussing the tactics used and the Democratic Republican Party to sully the reputations of john adams and Thomas Jefferson. The talk is about an hour and 20 minutes. Im doug brad burn. Welcome to mt. Vernon, fred w. Smith National Library for the study of George Washington. Im the founding director. This is our ford evening book talks. The Ford Motor Company has been a great supporter of mt. Vernon since henry ford donated the first fire engine to the estate. We want to make sure that the mansion does not burn down. Thats been a longtime concern of ours and an ongoing issue. Were really thankful to ford, ford family, ford Motor Vehicle for their continuing support for all of our projects. Mt. Vernon doesnt take government money.
I will give an abbreviated version of the bios we have in the programs. Tracy is a native of appomattox. He has worked for the National Park service. He has been at Petersburg National battlefield since 1997. He is the author of one of the volumes and the howard, virginia regimental history series. He is also passed president of the lynchburg civil war roundtable. And the appomattox county historical society. His talk today will be on the fall of petersburg. Please welcome Tracy Chernault. [applause] Tracy Chernault good evening. Im a big baseball guy. When he asked me to speak as the leadoff man, that was a first for me. Most of you can tell by my size, i never hit leadoff because i require somebody speeding. Being the leadoff man is something new for me. I was surprised when pat pointed out that the magazine contains his article, because you get to this article, you have to read through my article. Which i think should have been the end of the magazine. [laughter] please pick up one
Screeria nigeria. Thank you. We recently visited virginia for a closing of the Longwood University and courthouse National Historical park. Next tracy chornault talks about the long standoff between lee and grant and the entrenchments outside petersburg and the final battles in 186 a. 5. He discusses the importance of supply lines to both armies and the disparity between the access in food and ammunition. This talk is about an hour. We have programs out there f you didnt get one in the mail pick up a program. Im going give an abbreviated interduction of the bios we have in the program. Trait tracy has a ba in history from avert college in danville and he has worked for the National Park service, first part time and then full Time Starting in 1991 at apamatics courthouse and since 1997 at Petersburg National battlefield. And as patrick mentioned tracy is the author of one of the volumes in the howard, virginia regimental history series. This deals with the 18th and 20th battalions of he