100 years ago, president Woodrow Wilson signed the bill creating the National Park service and thursday we look back on the past century of these caretakers of americas natural and historic treasures. Beginning at 10 00 eastern and throughout the day we take you to National Park Service Sites across the country as recorded by cspan. At 7 00 p. M. Eastern, were live from the National Park services most visited historic home, arlington house, the robert e. Lee memorial at Arlington National cemetery. Join us with your phone calls as we talk with robert stanton, former National Park service director, and brandon buys, the former arlington house site manager who will oversee the upcoming yearlong restoration of the matching, slave quarters and grounds. Thursday, the 100th anniversary of the National Park service live from arlington house at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan 3. Up next on the presidency, historians jon meacham, Annette Gordon reid and ron chernow talk about
Amendment rights to businesses for the first time. We could draw some connections here but your not here to listen to me talk about the court you are here for linda greenhouse. Please join me in welcoming her to politics and pro. Its really a treat to be back here. Ive been here for a couple of the other books that you heard about. This is my first actual book talk with this book which came out and was published last tuesday. There is no better place to launch a book like that its a book about washington its a book about the relationship between the Supreme Court and our politics so its much more timely actually then the coauthor and i imagined when we launched this project about five years ago into be here on what i think is the most dangerous place inside the beltway. No one can walk in without spending more money than the anticipated. Im gonna start by just reading a couple paragraphs that will give you a bit of the flavor what he said. Hes had a long scheduled scandinavian cruise.
Microphone you to speak into, so it will get reported for , and all of your residence in oklahoma will be able to jump out of their chair when you speak. We will go in the order that people are listed in the program, so i will jump right in. Douglas bradburn holds a ba in history from the university of geneva and if each the in history from the in mercy of chicago. From 2005 to 2013, he taught in the History Department at beaman Temple University bennington use o university. He was named founding director of the Fred W Smith Library at mount vernon where he oversees Mount Vernons efforts to safeguard original washington many scripts and encourage scholarship about George Washington and the founding era, and develops outreach activities. He received the chancellors award for excellence in teaching in 2010 for his books include the citizenship resident revolution, politics of the creation and the american union, and early modern virginia, reconsidering the old dominion, published in 2011
Adapted for young people by warren st. John. Its been written down when you doubt that its for young people. He took 100 pages out of it. So this is the shorter version. But the title rather nicely captures the spirit of this whole enterprise. The outcast united students are taught to think of themselves as outcasts. Theyre united in coming together in this oppositional enterprise in which theyre going to generate a newer who wholesome, culture, and thats a main reason why classic books written before they were born are so few. 91 of the books signed in common reading programs around the country this year were written after these children were born. 91 . So, its as though the written word hardly existed before they did. There are few sort of hints there might have been something written down in english earlier, but you have to go to some pretty faraway colleges in southern utah and places like that, i would say there is a major exception right here in new York City Columbia University
Ben franklin, of course, had been had switched. He had owned slaves when he was younger, he became a leading abolitionist, ben franklin. People can change. Washington couldnt change that much. But on his deathbed hed written two wills. With we dont know what was in one. On his death bed he asked that both be brought to him. He tore up one and asked that it be burned. And the one that remains is the one that freed the slaves. Washington was a man of action, not of words. And he must have believed, because this was that this act would send a message to the future. I dont think he wanted to be on the wrong side of history. He wanted to send a message, and thats how he sent it, through his action. Do we have time for one more . Nope. Unfortunately, i dont have any time. Ill walk down and talk to you, but thank you so much for coming. Its been a delight to be here. [applause] on capitol hill tomorrow morning, the acting chief of the u. S. Border patrol briefs members of the House Oversight