The hemmings of monticello and american family. Professor of law at the new York Law School and professor of history at Rutgers University and it remains the mostof theje. Influential study of the subject they were the forthcoming which shuld be published by princeton universitye. Although had time and this is admirable to complete a short biography that will be published in the fall of 2009. Please join me in welcoming Annette Gordon reed. [applause] thank you for that introduction. [laughter] its great to be here among so many people i know. Ive come back many times and i when is rainin must say ive never been here while it was raining. Happy e hee a am very happy to be here with you. This is what this book means to me and people are familiar with my work understand that my first inte interest inre monticello wasnt really the hemmings, it waseffen jefferson. Fter having read a childsintro biography. Thats when i first began to to love history. Using my feeling of connection tell you
Hello, and good afternoon my name is andrew i am a director of the International Center for jefferson studies. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker who is here on the launch of perm much anticipated steady the hemming of monticello and americans family. She is professor of law of the new York Law School and professor of history at rutgers university. She is the author of Thomas Jefferson sally henning, which remains most influential study of the subject. She has written numerous articles on jefferson and edited forthcoming reader on jefferson and rates which will be published by Princeton University press. She also had had time to complete a short biography of Andrew Johnson which will be published in the fall of 2009. Please join me in welcoming a net cord in reeves. [applause] thank you, very much for that introduction i love how he says that. [laughter] say it again. Say it again. It is great to be here among some many people that i know. Such a familiar place to me i came bac
And constructive disagreements. But are hoping to help universities achieve education and research. Also to have that informal and serendipitous connection but in 2014 inviting me to lunch to present with a crazy idea that was one of the most colistin important ideas of the last five years that strange stuff is happening on campus and students requesting protections from speech they had the idea they are girding to think in the same distorted ways he learned he has not to do while in therapy. We submitted to the lancet published 2015. It provoked discussion so we can go back to our day jobs. But a couple weeks later all hell broke loose. [laughter] and then jailed and everywhere else. So that was one strand of that what brought us here. But by complete coincidence that we had founded Heterodox Academy also in september 2015 all at the same time and had nothing to do with anything else. That was just an early member. We what thinking hour and undergrads situation so we launched Heterodo
The book will be signed into your open for a little bit longer. Weve got the book fare. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. Welcome. Tonight we are going to discuss a joint event from the foundation of individual rights and education and we are excited to have you all here and for those watching the live stream podcast, welcome. Im the director of the academy and professor at New York University school of business where we are now. They have a very strong relationship in two ways. One is the mission from fire is to defend universities and the leading defender of free speech. To improve the quality of research by increasing viewpoint and constructive disagreements. Both organizations are devoted to achieve their essential missions of education. Our organizations also have a more informal serendipitous crazy idea that turned out to be one of the most important ideas the last five years to see strange stuff happening on campuses and students request
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