Jim thompson discussing his new who is billy lee, George Washingtons mulatto man. Toward acquired, in his words, 1767. Atto man, in he was wellknown known to washingtons staff, including lafayette. Thompson presents an analysis of washingtons complex relationship with billy lee and discusses a deeper relationship between the two. Mr. Thompson is the author of a number of books on the arts and history, among them being the birth of virginias aristocracy and Thomas Jeffersons enlightenment. After his presentation, there will be a q a and mr. Thompson will be happy to sign copies of his book. Please take the opportunity to explore our library and museum with its new exhibition, remembering the american resolution. We also have 31 period rims detecting life in early america. Resources are free and open to the public. O, pleaseurther ad welcome jim thompson. [applause] mark, for the, fine introduction, and thank you all for coming today. I appreciate you joining me and learning with me abou
Youre watching American History tv. All weekend, every weekend, on cspan 3. Follow us on twitter for information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history dues. History news. William lee, known as billy lee, was short washingtons personal slave. Washington granted billy lee land and freedom in his will. Next, author James Thompson discusses his theory explaining why washington may have taken this action. The daughters of the American Revolution hosted this onehour event. Today, we are pleased to have jim thompson discussing his new book, who is billy lee, George Washingtons mulatto man. Toward acquired, in his words, my mulatto man, in 1767. He was wellknown known to washingtons staff, including lafayette. Thompson presents an analysis of washingtons complex relationship with billy lee and discusses a deeper relationship between the two. Mr. Thompson is the author of a number of books on the arts and history, among them being the birth of virginias aristocracy and Thomas J
Number of books on the arts and history, among them being the birth of virginias aristocracy and Thomas Jeffersons enlightenment. After his presentation, there will be a q a and mr. Thompson will be happy to sign copies of his book. Please take the opportunity to explore our library and museum with its new exhibition, remembering the american to 1890. N, 1776 period rooms31 detecting life in early america. All these resources are free and open to the public. Without further ado, please welcome jim thompson. [applause] jim thank you, mark, for the fine introduction, and thank you all for coming today. I appreciate you joining me and learning with me about billy lee. Im going to begin with a couple brief comments about my background and my approach, my view of the past, and how i research. Then im going to talk about the book. Im only going to focus on a couple aspects. Im going to focus on the first point is, how was George Washington related to billy lee . I believe they had a family b
Stores, tell us how Business Owners are now working on the clean up today and how they are preparing for possibly more of this. Good morning thank you for joining us monday december 8th. Im pam cook. Lets talk about weather and traffic steve paulson. It is getting thicker too. East bay and south bay so far. If youre headed out the door. Ill tell you, wednesday, thursday, friday, my feet will not be up on the desk, i guarantee it. It is going to be, could be a wild little system here coming in right now still a couple days away. Light rain unless youre far enough north, south of that, not a lot left in the system. With so much moisture in place, temperatures, they come together. And poof, we get fog. Thick fog. As marie said, i cant see my neighbors house. Thats foggy. And there is a few reports of that all the way down to gilroy as well. Mostly cloudy could be very light rain again to the north, Higher Elevations santa cruz mountains, berkeley hills, otherwise, i dont think well see mu
Good morning. Thank you for joining us. Tuesday morning, july 23rd. I am pam cook. And i am dave clark. Did you see the rain . Yes, we may get a couple of breaks in the clouds, but still, mostly cloudy skies and those reports of light rain. Not a lot but 60s through 80s today. More on the weather coming up. Here is sal. On the san mateyo the traffic is moving well heading out to the highrise with no major problems. The morning commute looks good on the Golden Gate Bridge although it is a little foggy here. 6 01. Back to the desk. All runways at la guardia in new york city are back open following a serious accident involving a southwest jet flying in from nashville. Reporter poppy harlow joins us now from new york to show us what happened after the jets landing gear collapsed. Good morning reporter good morning to you, pam. It was a scary and very sudden landing for southwest flight 345 coming here to new york la guardia from nashville last night and this comes just weeks after asiana f