A number of us are offering programs and events, so i would encourage you to check out that website. Our event tonight is absolutely the highlight of our commemorative year. We are really privileged to welcome edith to speak with us. She is a historian, an awardwinning historian, a trailblazer in american womens history. She is a foremost leading expert on Abigail Adams. She has written several i other fees of abigail. Most recently, she edited the library of america volume of abigails letters speed letters. 100 letters were published for the first time. Today she is going to speak to us about the fascinating relationship of another remarkable revolutionary era woman, Mercy Otis Warren, and the relationship she had with Abigail Adams. I know you are going to enjoy this. Please help me welcome edith. [applause] edith i was saying earlier that i saw a couple of years ago a news broadcast with the queen of england and she was behind one of these podiums and all you could see was [laughter
And the character that he developed over a lifetime, and if you think about what weve done for the duration of this course, weve brought him into the story intermittently throughout. Whether its talking about individual battles or whether its talking about how he organized men or how he kept men he recruited men to get them to maintain or stay in the service. And one of the things i try to get across whenever im talking about washington is that washington is a bit of an inenia to a modern audience. Why . Because we really dont know who he was, what he was, how he looked. I mean, when i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every ten years or so about 700 political scientists and historians across the country, they rank our president s. Now, who knows how our current president is going to rank. But nonetheless, whenever those rankings come out, generally these three guys here rank at the top. Sometimes it will be lincoln. Sometimes it will
And one of the things i try to get across whenever i am talking about washington, is that washington is a bit of an enigma to a modern audience. Why . Because we dont really know who he was, how he was, how he looked. I mean, when i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every 10 years or so, about 700 political scientists and historians across the country, they rank our president s. Now who knows how our current president is going to rank, but nonetheless, whenever those rankings come out, generally these three guys here rank at the top. Sometimes it will be lincoln. Sometimes it will be washington. Sometimes it will be fdr, but the interesting thing about this is we do not know what george really looked like. We have images of lincoln. Photographed images. And you can follow those photographs over time and see how he changed, how he aged. Of course we have images of fdr. We even have images of him in his wheelchair. Generally the press di
Watch our ten part series books that shaped america starting monday september 18th at 9 p. M. Eastern on cspan, cspan l, free mobile video out or online at cspan. Org. Since 1911 we vacate and interpret the John Marshall his life and legacy. We are grateful to the many descendents who have had over the years paintings, books, tableware and personal items. These objects bring along the life and demonstrate much to the magic activities of the inside tousled in the guest who visited. There are no artifacts that better define marshalls career than the robe that he wore for his 30 34 your tenure as chif justice of the United States Supreme Court. The room is cured for a generation of descendents before finding its way to our collection. The rope is a witness object and if roads could talk, what a story this one could share. John marshall wore this rope as he i presided over 34 years of Supreme Court cases during which time the Supreme Court was elevated to an equal branch of the federal gov
history. now, this important work is also being done by everyone you are going to hear from today on this extraordinary panel for this session, towards inclusive history, slavery and race. this panel will explore efforts made by historic sites museums, organizations, and individuals to tell an inclusive and comprehensive story at presidential sites. it is tremendously important that this truth telling happens at presidential sites. this panel features presenters with extensive background in curatorial work, public programs, and interpretation, who are using historic places to advance a broader understanding of race and how this central, how central this social construct was and remains to understanding our shared national past. all of their work shows us that preservation is not about holding places in stasis. what we preserve and how we preserve, what we interpret, and how we interpret is a powerful tool for advancing justice inequity. i have the great pleasure of introducin