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presidential library, down in the stacks. we are in the most secure area in our facility. this is the vaults. more thanere we keep 1600 documents written by abraham lincoln as well as many of the pieces he owned, objects he owned that he and directed with during his lifetime. i want to show you some books that we have in our collection that were very special to abraham lincoln. lincoln whenraham he was elected president in 1860, it s not as if he was entirely unknown. he was a four term member of the legislature. he had served a term in congress. he was one of the most prominent politicians from the state of illinois. in large part, that popularity was due to his very successful debates against stephen a douglas, sitting senator on the democratic side in 1858. abraham lincoln challenged him in illinois for that senate seat. they debated. onee hour-long public debate several different occasions during that campaign season. two years later, the same two individuals square ....
think. i do not know what i expected or what i wanted, but i began to study at and i thought, i think the designer may have done me a favor in that yes, jefferson is there. i think you can make out the profile. but it s not the first thing you look at. he is not coming at us full faced, straight on in living, visit color. the saturated color you see is in the clothing. i thought, you know, that does encapsulate what i am trying to do. yes, this is about jefferson. but it s not the usual biography. you know, we begin with the birth. we hit all the high points and end with his death. when i am looking at really is more about the person and i do use the clothing a lot in this study. i thought, ok, this is leading into it very well. so i thought this does work. this is what i need here. the book, then, is about the jefferson image and how he went about putting this particular image together. and as research often does, it began with questions. as a way of explaining, why wa ....
the executive director of james monroe s home, highland, and she has been the executive director there since 2012. i see that the college of william and mary has moved into their backyard because highland is a department of the college of william and mary. prior to assuming the leadership at highland, she worked as archaeological research manager at monticello down the road from 1999-2012, so she has been on that road for a long time. when i was in law school, i lived on brown mountain, so i know the area very well. she earned her ba magna cum laude from the university of arizona, then headed east and did her phd at the university of north carolina chapel hill, and she has also taught at chapel hill in the university of virginia, so we are delighted this afternoon to have sara bon-harper, executive director of highland. [applause] sara bon-harper: what a warm welcome. thank you. it is a pleasure to be here and a pleasure to be on this lineup and a group that knows so mu ....
previews. he currently hosts the michael medved show that airs in over 300 stations across the country and reaches 5 million listeners and it s a written 13 books including the best seller of hollywood versus america and the ten big lies about america. the latest in the rise of the republic please join me in welcoming michael. [applause] thank you everybody for coming out and a sampling the joys of the christmas season. the kinsey christma kings a chrd holiday season if you prefer but we have been saying merry christmas again so merry christmas to everybody, happy hanukkah. they fall about the same time this year so that is unusual. before i begin, i want to introduce a dedicated team of this book. my wonderful wife we are coming up believe it or not to the 32nd because she doesn t recognize she is 32. [laughter] [applause] diane s new book is coming out in march and it s called don t divorce. it s not addressed to anyone in particular, it is addressed to everyone in ....
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 well-known 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 his ....