I know who you are expecting. I am expecting him as well but in the interim please allow me and introduction. The name is lafayette though i believe that most of you americans will know me far better by my name of the ocean regime. And that of course is the marquis de lafayette. What a pleasure and honor to see all of you here on this simply magnificent day. This 14th of july, this fete national, the day in which we french celebrate the beginning of our revolution. While im here meeting with my dear friend, your Thomas Jefferson, in hope that he shall arrive sometime soon, so let us hope we can all have a conversation together. Where is m. Jefferson . Mon cher, lafayette. Mon cher, jefferson. Quel plaisir to see you again over so many years. Absolutely. And may i say with great reverence to bastille day. Just as we celebrate the revolution in america on the 4th of july in france of course it is the 14th of july. We shall celebrate together, my friend. We have not forgotten bastille day
News accounts and reading what i could find to read and trying to make some sense of what had happened. And during that, i came across an editorial online. And that short editorial helped me understand the importance of gay bars and clubs in a way that i have never understood before. Of how important they are. As gathering places and as places of activism. Places of great significance in American History. I decided that day that we had to bring that author to birmingham so she could share her insights and research with us. And we are very pleased that we have been able to do that. She is a professor of history at santa clara university. She began teaching her course in title lesbian and gays in history in 2004. The sample class can be viewed on the cspan online library. Her work on lgbtq history is featured in her 2012 book, beyond natures housekeepers. She is also the winner of studies in progressivism and her articles have appeared in newspapers and websites. Including the miami hera
The Smithsonian Associates and the International Spy museum cohosted this 80 minute event. Good to see all of you here. I am a historian and curator. Some of you i know, some of you i am meeting for the first time. I would like to welcome all of you to the spy museum and spy seminar, where we focus on the spies of the American Revolution. The first two weeks centered on wellknown personalities. You have the , which has an entire tv show dedicated to it now, and ben franklin is of course ben franklin. Next week, we will look at the most infamous spy in u. S. History, Benedict Arnold. The relative obscurity of James Lafayette is what will make this morning so interesting. He is someone we should know more about. His impact on World History is well known. Historians are just now beginning to piece it together to find out new information and understand his impact on the revolution and figure out how he sits among the great heroes and villains of american intelligence history. Katherine egn
And often rough. If you lived way out in the country, 15 or 20 miles from the railroad station, you had to get up before dawn to catch the 9 30 train. For the next two hours, the carriage went creaking down the old, familiar road while the countryside moved slowly past. If you were leaving the farm for good, to go to the city, you had mixed feelings on that long ride to the station. It is not easy to pull up roots and start a new life. Use saw the faces of old friends as you passed their houses, waving goodbye, and you felt sad leaving them. But you felt to, how old and tired they looked, locked on the land. A woman looked 50 before she was 35. In a way, you were glad you were leaving. You past the old schoolhouse and you remembered the long miles you walk morning after morning to get there. That final run to get inside before the bell stopped clinging. Clanging. Or perhaps you past the doctors buggy and you remembered the terrible night your mother laid upstairs sick and the weight fo
His impact on World History is well known. Historians are just now beginning to piece it together to find out new information and understand his impact on the revolution and figure out how he sits among the great heroes and villains of american intelligence history. Katherine egner gruber will help us to understand who this enigmatic man really is. She is a curator at jamestownyorktown foundation and a member of the team responsible for research and development of exhibits in the forthcoming American Revolution museum at yorktown, which i will tell you more about today. Between 20092014, she worked at the Colonial Williamsburg foundation where she developed the research and production of the field trip series. She served as a library fellow, and most recently was content specialist in the digital history center. Although she is a museum professional interested in early american consumerism economy, material culture, and how these aspects of Colonial Life translated during the American