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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 of the legislature. He had served a term in congress. He was one of the most prominent politicians fr...

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 the area very well. She earned her ba magna cum laude from the university of arizona, then headed ea...

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 and james monroe. Kevin will speak today on his most recent book, Thomas Jefferson revolutionary at...

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 been saying Merry Christmas again so Merry Christmas to everybody, happy hanukkah. They fall about the ...

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 relati...