But regardless, it was pretty cool. Everybody had their glasses. I kept hearing the media as like we were going to go blind if we looked up at the sky. I am the senior vp for research here at fordham. We are pleased to have a Live Audience here today and we are pleased to have cspan covering our event. We want to thank our partners at the American Confederation for children. Federation for children. Im not on twitter, i am the last person on twitter. I dont mind that i am not on twitter. If you are on twitter, you can join the conversation by using the engaging choices. For those who like to engage in conversation on twitter, please do. When we get to the q a at the end, we will look and see whether we have questions coming in. Let me suggest that we talk about School Choice. Particularly at the High School Level. Im going to keep this overview brief. Mike told me to and he is not here today. Also, i have sat on panels like this and the moderator is usually the least interesting person
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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 wellknown 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 history. Katherine egn
Joining us now hillsdale professor of history, portrayal of american conservatism. Professor hart, whats the definition of an evangelical . Thats a hard question but the simple one that i heard used is anybody who like billy graham. Our viewers may not know who billy graham. It means someone who has had a personal relationship with jesus, kind of bornagain experience. Theres a longer history and a longer answer when you get in that history. Host can you lump evangelicals in one position or another . Guest you can in some way if you look ethically of people of british decent or englishspeaking background. Those protestants were important of formation in 20th century and also important constituency of regan and bush coalitions. Theres affinity between that english background or scottish background protestants and with the Republican Party and people of dutch or german decent may have been at wasnt point in the Democratic Party because the democrats were a coalition of ethnic groups and s
Unite4 good connects people to charity. Together, they can make the world a better place. Today, Jenna Bush Hager, the daughter of the 43rd president , visits two new york City Charities that each have a unique approach to childrens education and surprises them with donations from the unite4 good foundation. No way [ laughs ] [ cheers and applause ] were making some good things happen on give. . . So, unite4 good has actually given us 25,000 to split between these two charities, a fair shake for youth and stem kids nyc. Growing up, i had parents and grandparents that always were involved in different organizations. When my parents were in the white house, my mom and i were in africa and we watched people line up and he was burning up with fever and i was a teacher at that time. And he wasnt much different than the students that i taught. I think when you see that theres such need in the world, theres no way that you cant give back. Americans rank education as a top priority. 17 to 22 o