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Americas third president Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his words and actions on slavery and raise. This video is courtesy of the university. Its from their great live lecture series great lives lecture series. A i am pleased to announce special miniseries of six lectures entitled great president ial lives. This series is particularly attractive for two main reasons. The first being its timeliness. A president ial election year, it will be an insight all of us can be in. The second is the speaker himself. ,ur esteemed umw Professor William b crawley, who has just completed 50 years on the faculty of the university of mary washington. Century, he has contributed in innumerable ways and significant ways. Certainly not least of all the creation of our renowned Historic Preservation program and the creation of this amazing great lives series. But it is for his excellence and teachings that he is perhaps best known, and to literally thousand of our students who through our halls, he has rece
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Patrick henry. If you didnt get a chance to buy the book they will be available afterwards. He will be signing them at the table out front. If you are members or donors, thank you for that support it is how we are able to bring you this program and so many others which i hope you have seen in the august issue of the associates. If you are here because you are interested in colonial history, let me point you to a program on october 30 about espionage and thats coming up monday octobe october 30. Before we begin, please silence your cell phone and you will be embarrassed if your phone rings on tv. Because as you see, the cspan cameras are here to record the presentation. If you are sitting somewhere where a tv light is bothering you, find another seat, because they are going to stay on. On. And then we get to qanda, someone is going to be running around to try to make sure that your questions are heard on camera so just be patient with thathe process. The speaker tonight is a historian w