This program originally livestreamed on facebook and youtube and is part of a series of Online Events intended to keep visitors connected with mount vernon during its closure to the public because of the coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Bradburn here we are again. Welcome back. My name is doug bradburn. It is my delight to have these opportunities to talk about George Washington. Last wednesday, we were in our museum. This is our Education Center here at mount vernon. It focuses on the life of George Washington. It gives a grand sense of why he matters. Last time, we were looking at his youth, a youth that is oftentimes enwrapped in romance and myth. Of course, he is most known to americans and perhaps the folks around the world as the great military commander, the general who led the americans through the american war for independence, through eight long years of war. His identity as a warrior is a crucial one. We think about who was George Washington, how did he think of himself and his tim
Prior to accepting his position at the war college, knott cochaired the Oral History Program at the Miller Center at the university of virginia. His books include the reagan years and Alexander Hamilton and the persistence of myth. With that, i would like to welcome stephen to the lectern. [applause] stephen thank you, jackie. Thank you everyone for being here, it really is a privilege to be speaking at such an historic site. This is my first time here. So i am thrilled. , and thanks to all of you for coming out tonight. I know there was a little rain earlier. Let me begin by noting that Lin Manuel Valls and the mirandas blockbuster hamilton kept hamilton on the 10 bill. It has transformed this unlikely founding father into somewhat of a celebrity. While hamilton is seen as a heroic figure it is important to , note to that, throughout much of our nations history, hamilton was seen as both unamerican, a classic monarchist to hated the great east, which he probably never said, but was at
Cspan pauline maier, author of american scripture, where did you get that title . Guest it began, actually, as sacred scripture. I was interested in how what was a workaday condocument of the Second Continental Congress became a sacred document for americans. And i was told sacred scripture wasnt going to work because it would get classified as a religious book. So in the course of negotiations, we retitled the book. Cspan and whats this book about . Guest its about the declaration of independence, about how it was originally drafted, about the event, independence, that it announced to the world and particularly to the people of the United States and then how really the American People and ultimately, with the very eloquent help of Abraham Lincoln, redefined it into a document that served a very different purpose. Cspan early on in the book you tell a story about two summers ago1995. Guest yes. Cspan you were at a Woodrow Wilson scholars seminar and you walked across the street to the
Because people need to hear what you have to say. I take a lot of encouragement. I for years have been influenced, decades by an essay written by Bayard Rosman called from protest to politics and i hear in what you are saying that beginning of what might be a politics in egypt which means organization which means discussion, which means building from the ground up and finding ways of learning how to resolve differences. Thats how power gets shifted so thank you very much. Thank you cspan for being here. Books will be signed. Just line up over here and watch cspan on windows will appear and you can hear it again and i invite others to watch with you. Thank you all for coming. Thank you so much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] next encore booknotes. From 1997 thomas west discusses his book on the teaching of history particularly with regard for how the Founding Fathers are portrayed today. This is about an hour. Cspan professor thomas g. West, in your book in the afterword, you writ
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