Portion and it will get passed around if you raise your hand as you can see we are recording this evening. Copies of the book are available at the register if you would like to purchase one copy or many copies. We encourage many. There will be a signing after the qanda so if you would like to get your book signed, please sign up in an orderly fashion in this cabinet this is the word im looking for. It is now my pleasure to introduce author of you never forget your first a biography of George Washington. Following the award murder in memphis soon to be a major motion picture. With a look of George Washington that firmly separates man from ththe menfrom the legend, the ho mans land, cohost of our people, too and a consulting producer on the forthcoming History Channel series of George Washington purview as the founders lens drawing on previously unexamined archival material she recounts how he was raised by single mother and thed the stubbornness that caused him to never back down relate
Events this saturday free to the public. 90 of our revenue comes from our donors and members, and we thank you. Before we get started, i have some housekeeping notes. First, amarillo socks who is one of the authors who is scheduled to make a presentation at 315 and the Lutheran Church fellowship hall, she has had to cancel. Mr. Larson will be signing festival purchase copies of his book immediately following his presentation. If youre planning to stay for the next author, after this presentation, please move forward to fill the seats as the venue entities. This will help the ushers get people seated for the next session. Please turn off your cell phones so they do not disrupt the presentation. We also asked that you not use of flash photography. Later, as you exit the venue, you will see our volunteers with yellow buckets in the back. They will be happy to accept your generous donation to the savanna book festival. You can also make donations on the festivals app and website. Please he
His numerous books include the return of George Washington, a New York Times bestseller, to the edges of the earth, winner of the 2019 National Outdoor book award. And some are for the gods, the scopes trial and the american the continued debate oversight of religion for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for history. He was an inaugural library fallow at National Library for the study of George Washington located on the grounds ofra mout vernon. He lives in malibu, california. Please give a warm savannah welcome to edward larson. [applause] thank you very much. Youre welcome. Thank you very much, thank you for having me back to savannah. In the spring when the essay deals are out. Thats always my favorite time. And as note i i taught for 20 years at university of georgia. Thats what i started as a young professor, and eventually was chair of the History Department and those are some of my happiest days. And and i want to give a shout t today two of my oldest friends in the world, or
All day today on the constitution day. We started this morning at 9 30 p. M. With the most inspiring naturalization ceremony live stream for the first time and watching 29 new citizens from 39 new countries take the oath was extraordinarily moving grade we have an amazing panel with leaders of Civic Education in lewiston bay to the head of the Philadelphia School district trade professors robert george, martha jones and jeffries spread a lot of light in our classes and then we have three judges from the Third Circuit talk about the cases that they decided before the Supreme Court decided involving School Free Speech and religious liberty in the election cases. Now i have the extraordinary honor of bringing together gordon was in his colleagues to discuss his new book. I will introduce them and then i will ask gordon would to put on the table the central arguments which i read with lots of attention. You know ladies and gentlemen gordon was the dean of the historians, all of us have lea
Program guide or at cspan. Org history. As you know from being here before in the time before the as you know from having been here before in the midst of time, before the pandemic we have to begin our shows by reciting together the National Constitution inspiring congressional mission. I know some of you remember it by heart. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america charted by congress to increase awareness and understanding of the constitution among the American People, on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. There we go. Increasing awareness and understanding of the constitution on a nonpartisan basis is exactly what we have been doing all day today on Constitution Day. We started this morning at 9 30 in this room, with the most inspiring naturalization ceremony. I have screened for the first time, watching 29 new citizens from, 39 new countries, it was extraordinarily moving. We had an amazing panel with leaders of Civic Education from professors martha jones,