Association is a nonprofit, Nonpartisan Organization founded by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy, dedicated to the preservation of the white house. And also educating american citizens about the white house and its diverse history. This evening, our guest is jim conroy, the author of jeffersons white house monticello on the potomac. Jim was a lawyer in boston for 38 years before he began writing about american history. His previous book is lincolns white house the peopless house in wartime, which won the prestigious lincoln prize. If you would like to ask jim a question at the end of our broadcast, please type it in the comments section of the facebook feed and we will get to as many questions from our online audience as possible. Jim, welcome to white house history live. James thank you, it is a pleasure to be here. Colleen we are honored to have you. The first question is the setting for your book. There have been numerous books about Thomas Jefferson and about his presidency. You have
Kennedy, dedicated to the preservation of the white house. And also educating american citizens about the white house and its diverse history. This evening, our guest is jim conroy, the author of jeffersons white house monticello on the potomac. Jim was a lawyer in boston for 38 years before he began writing about american history. His previous book is lincolns white house the peopless house in wartime, which won the prestigious lincoln prize. If you would like to ask jim a question at the end of our broadcast, please type it in the comments section of the facebook feed and we will get to as many questions from our online audience as possible. Jim, welcome to white house history live. James thank you, it is a pleasure to be here. Colleen we are honored to have you. The first question is the setting for your book. There have been numerous books about Thomas Jefferson and about his presidency. You have a unique focus of this book on the white house as the setting for jeffersons two terms
Good evening everyone. We have an event were finally getting around to will have in walmart the washington lecture and Mary Ball Washington. And some time ago and the time and experience and with womens History Month and here we are tonight i went to mention one important thing everyone in the audience probably knows by now we have opened a few audiences to visitors. And in the Education Center and with those particular challenges but please come visit mount vernon so on july 8 right around the corner our book talk will feature the host and creator of the pbs miniseries on the constitution and interviewed from David Rubenstein and please join us for that conversation so we can learn more about our constitution. Terminates events but in fact i do want to interview our guest and moderator doctor karen wolf. And also from the institute of American History to institute of volume and mary and working on a project so welcome. Thank you so much. Im joining you from my dining room. Where is th
[ applause ] good evening. Welcome to tonights great lives presentation. I would like first to thank the Program Sponsor for their generous support not this year but for several years now. Its this kind of Corporate Support along with that from so many of you as individuals that enables the great lives series to thrive. I would like to ask our good friends to please stand so we can acknowledge them. Where are you . I know you are there. [ applause ] also, special group with us tonight that i would like to acknowledge. Thats the simpson circle. That is a group composed of former Mary Washington members. They are here tonight. We would like to have them stand so we can acknowledge them. I see you out there. [ applause ] in introducing tonights speaker, dr. Joanne freeman, would you like to mention at the outset that one of her most commendable qualifications is that she received her ph. D from the university. Thats right. Uva, right. In any case, not long after receiving that degree she
Extinction. While sometimes these wars have been, well, theyve been catastrophic. There was the catastrophe of 1918, when an influenza epidemic swept through our own nation as well as the entire world. Unlike the battles of nation against nation, or humanity against the forces of nature when man has often had the opportunity to prepare himself, the battles against disease throughout the centuries have found men in the unfortunate position of having to combat this enemy only after it had infiltrated his community and infected much of the population. Recently, you have become aware of a pandemic, or a worldwide epidemic which originated in the far east and is now known as asian influenza. Because of the alertness and efficiency of the United States Public Health service, and the world health organization, a detection system similar to that of the aircraft spotting have been established throughout the world and has enabled us to recognize and follow the progress of asian influenza as it c