Series known as the peters rushton seminars, a series that i am john obrien from the department of english and im happy to kick things off. Todays lecture is part of an English Department lecture series known as the peters rushton seminars, series that goes back to 1950. It is a series that is including speakers, such as brooks, randall jerrell, wh and shamus heaney. Today, we are happy to help fred kaplan over the return to speak on his designer Thomas Jefferson. Fred kaplan is a distinguished professor of Queens College and the Graduate Center of the city of university of new york. A scholar in 19th century literature has become best nose is one of the most distinguished biographers of our era. He has published biographies of thomas carlyle, mark twain, henry james, charles dickens, john quincy adams, abraham lincoln, gore vidal and Thomas Jefferson. In his masterly pen, offers a biography of Thomas Jefferson by giving an english professors kind of attention to jeffersons written wor
To a creator, a supreme judge, or Divine Providence. He also highlights the importance of the great awaken awakening, a protestant religious revival in the 1740s, that influenced many founding fathers. This class took place at Georgetown University and is an hour and 45 minutes. It was organized by the j madison memorial fellowship foundation. Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smartlooking set this morning. The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. You recall from our last session together, i laid out what i think are some headwaters of early american constitutionalism. Thats what i was calling them. So we looked at classical republicanism, primarily roman, grecoroman, but primarily roman. We looked at enlightenment liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things. Then i mentioned protestant christianity as the third of those headwaters that i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism. And we deferred that to today
Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Its great to see the conversation, everyone having a good time. The food was wonderful. We welcome you again to this. Unch Panel Plenary session im going to introduce the moderator and the moderator will introduce the panelists. I am happy to introduce our panel moderator. Professor mcdowell is the professor of literary studies and the director of the College Institute for africanamerican studies at the university of virginia. She has been a member of the uva her booksnce 1987 and include studies of fiction by africanamerican women as well as numerous articles and in scholarly publications. Professor mcdowell has been extensively involved in editorial projects pertaining to africanamerican literature. Me in welcoming professor deborah mcdowell. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Thank you, marcus. Thank all of you for your presence. Thanks to the organizers for this wonderful event they have , with many more exciting panels to come i task, decidedly simple
This was part of the symposium held at the university of virginia in charlottesville. Good morning. In celebration of the bison telling bicentennial, we welcome you to the symposium. Universities, slavery, and the public built landscape, presented by the university of Virginia Commission on slavery and the university, in partnership with the slave dwelling projects Fourth Annual projects. On Vice President and chief officer for diversity and equity, the professor and i cochair the presents cochair the commission on slavery. The slave dwelling project led mr. Joe mug gill and board of directors the slave dwelling project brings attention to sites, people, history, and ways in which the slave contributed to building and sustaining this country. I say 70 to 80 because the temperature dropped about 39 last night. Im not totally sure. They said they had experienced. Humility and a better appreciation for those who live their daily lives is one intent of such an experience. There were very t
Republicanism. Roman, grecoroman, but primarily roman. Enlightened liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things and i mentioned protestant christianity of the third of the headwaters i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism, and we defer that to today. Thats where we are today. You recall this image of the Missouri River and its headwaters. Great rivers main streams have head waters that flow into them and are at some point indistinguishable from one another and the river. These are the headwaters of the Missouri River, the gallitan, the madison, and the jefferson rivers, discovered by lewis and clark. And in a graphic way i just tried simply to illustrate those three headwaters. Classical republicanism to the left there. Enlightenment liberalism. And protestant christianity. Thats where we are, looking at protestant christianity. This is a representation of one of those camp meetings during the first great awakening of the s