For being with us today. I look forward to a fascinating conversation. My pleasure. Thank you for being with us. I could not be the more delighted to welcome my old friend general washington to be in company once again. It has been a time, general. It has been, search. Its actually my pleasure and my honor to be with you, although i confess i do not understand how this is happening. Well i believe, general, it is because of one of the duties written explicitly in our constitution. One of the duties of the legislative body. The pursuit of science. Which i am a strong supporter of. Our first question then. It is for the two of you. What do you remember as your first meeting . First meeting. You know. If you will allow me, mr. Jefferson, i reckon that those who are viewing may or may not be aware that i am older than yourself by 11 or 12 years. 11 years, your excellency. We were both born under the old style calendar. Thats correct. Very confusing at different times. I actually believe i
History tv. 48 hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan 3. Follow us on twitter at cspan history for information on our schedule, upcoming programs and to keep up with the latest history news. Dealer rare map admitted in federal court to steeling almost one00 rare maps worth almost a Million Dollars. In this event, author Michael Blanding recounts smileys career as a dealer and thief and describes the historical significance of the maps he stole from several libraries and universities. This is about an hour. Thank you all so much for coming here this afternoon. Im particularly pleased to be giving this talk here at the national archives, such a wonderful repozztoir of old books and manuscripts, and in the reporting of this book i became a great lover of archives going to the institutions that smiley ended up taking rare maps out of. I got to see a lot of these old documents like myself and theres nothing like seeing an original document to be able to touch it wit
Where is the mental thing on some of this . You dont want to irritate the some of these major powers. Where does the mental ideas come . The thinking . Far be it for me to get in the mind of what makes spy master things to convince mexico to go to war against the United States and it works, but it becomes, as always has taught us, a great deal of arrogance of people in power and they think arrogant people think they can do whatever they want. They can change the course of history. And sometimes they do. Th thank you very much. Thank you. [ applause ] youve been watching American History tv on cspan3. We want to hear from you. Follow us on Twitter Twitter cspanhistory. Connect with us on facebook at facebook. Com cspanhistory where you can leave comments and check out upcoming programs on our website at cspan. Org history. Every sunday night at 8 p. M. And midnight eastern a special look at the u. S. Presidency learning from leading historians about president s and first ladies. Their p
This is a map of new england by john smith in 1616. This is yales copy that was done in 1631. I want to pause for a moment and tell you about this map and explain what makes it so important and what makes it so valuable. We all know of john smith from the Virginia Colony down the street from here and his role in founding that and study in 1607. He had sort of a Second Chapter in his life after he was sort of drummed out of virginia for reasons that i wont go into. He started exploring this area that was then just known as north virginia with the idea of founding a new colony there. And he thought that it needed a snappier name so he came up with the name new england and john smith was actually the person who coined that term as a way to claim this territory for his home country and sort of tell the other countries, you know, this is english territory. And he also wanted to claim this territory for himself and make sure that he got credit for discovering it and that he was going to be i
Michael blanding recounted mr. Smileys career as a dealer and thief. This is about an hour. Thank you all so much for coming here this afternoon. Im not particularly pleased to be giving this talk at the National Archives wonderful repository of old books and manuscripts and the reporting of this book i became a great lover of archives, going to the institutions that smiley ended up taking rare maps out of. I got to see a lot of these old documents myself. Theres nothing like seeing an original document and being able to touch it with your fingers and see it with your own eyes. Its really a Wonderful Service that buildings like this provide and providing access to these materials. So im going to dive right in here with a reading from the e i start with the first sentence from the first chapper so theres nothing you need to know going in. Then im going to talk a little about the strange character Forbes Smiley who i got to know very well over the past three years and then show you some