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President ial library, down in the stacks. We are in the most secure area in our facility. This is the vaults. More thanere we keep 1600 documents written by Abraham Lincoln as well as many of the pieces he owned, objects he owned that he and directed with during his lifetime. I want to show you some books that we have in our collection that were very special to Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln whenraham he was elected president in 1860, its not as if he was entirely unknown. He was a four term member o...

The executive director of James Monroes home, highland, and she has been the executive director there since 2012. I see that the college of william and mary has moved into their backyard because highland is a department of the college of william and mary. Prior to assuming the leadership at highland, she worked as Archaeological Research manager at monticello down the road from 19992012, so she has been on that road for a long time. When i was in law school, i lived on brown mountain, so i know ...

Saddled with peter radcliffe. Peter is a great friend to this foundation and a personal friend as well and one of the great scholars of Thomas Jefferson. Kevin is also a jd from the university of texas school of law. Hes written five books ive got another book, virginias American Revolution to the republic, 1776, 21840, that is published in 2007 in James Madison and the making of america published. It is a topic ive played that is not than britain. The president s Thomas Jefferson, James Madison...

Previews. He currently hosts the Michael Medved show that airs in over 300 stations across the country and reaches 5 million listeners and its a written 13 books including the best seller of hollywood versus america and the ten big lies about america. The latest in the rise of the republic please join me in welcoming michael. [applause] thank you everybody for coming out and a sampling the joys of the christmas season. The kinsey christma kings a chrd Holiday Season if you prefer but we have bee...

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 fran...

Score of subtle harmonies before a note is stirred. And the nature now is pondering the title symphony of spring as yet unheard. This is a poem by John Bannister , american poet buried in Hollywood Cemetery. Here at Hollywood Cemetery we are anticipating the coming of spring. Now many of the trees are dormant, but soon they will break forth with tremendous color and life. Hollywood cemetery was beyondshed in 1847, just the city limits of richmond, virginia. The founders of hollywood hired , a ph...

Obama. Want to get your reaction. Who is your favorite president . Tell us why. 202 7488001, if republicans. 202 7488000, democrats. 202 7488001 independent colors. You could also share your comments on facebook. Good monday morning to you. Thank you for being here with us on this president s day holiday. We talked about this yesterday with three leading historians survey. Ed conduct this this is the third time that cspan has conducted the survey. The first in 2000 and the second in 2009 and now...

Meet the shortfall. And Sofa Psychology what do these pictures of president ial adviser Kellyanne Conway show us about power in the west wing . Hello and welcome to one hundred days, im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. A Primetime Speech to a Joint Session Of Congress is a perfect opportunity a0 days into this presidency for donald trump to explain what he wants to do with the office. His speech in a few hours time will focus on three initiatives the rebuilding of the us m...

It is tremendously significant to show the contributions not just for africanamericans but all americans to show this is indeed our country and we contributed to it just as as much as anybody else if not more. How do you see the museum fitting into the larger story line with the passage of the civil right and the first africanamerican president is opening the museum. Does the museum itself have a larger role in history . I cannot continue to think of the 44th president of the United States and f...

Parks is the name of the book. Our topic for today is henry clay and americas greatest statesman. Mr. Unger is a veteran journalist broadcaster, educator and historian, former distinguished visiting fellow at the George Washington. He is the author of 25 books including three histories of early america and ten biographies of americas Founding Fathers. Among them George Washington, lafayette, Patrick Henry and james monro. Hes appeared on the History Channel and a cspan book tv spoke at mount ver...