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One of the things that was a take away from me and my involvement with the project, is how many people were involved. Involved. You hear the discussion that this had to happen on the ground and there was this opportunity transfer and historians were aing this, it was remarkably collective effort that is different from what history professors often do, which is teacher class, write an article. That stood out. What is your background and history . Host what is your background i id history . Dr. Masur began in the american studies field. I had a historian buried inside of me. I want to know why w...

My involvement with the project is how many people were involved. You hear the discussion that this had to happen on the ground and there was this opportunity transfer and historians were doing this, it was remarkably a collective effort that is different from what history professors often do, which is teacher class, write an article. That stood out. What is your background and history . Host what is your background i and history . Dr. Masur i began in the american studies field. I had a historian buried inside of me. I want to know why we are the way we are now and we came to the understandin...

Thank you so much for that lovely introduction. It is wonderful to be here. I felt like i have come home. I lived in washington for a number of years and logged many hours in this building doing research for my first book. Today i am talking about two of our most popular first ladies, Martha Washington and Dolley Madison. At Martha Jefferson and her daughter cassidy but i am confining my remarks to the washingtons and madison. The important people in the book are the enslaved people martha and dolly claimed as property. Martha washington and Dolley Madison both supervised a large contingent of...

The National Archives hosted this hourlong event. George washington was a dedicated diary archivist beginning with a record of the days temperature and weather and the notable events that day. The entry for figure 18, 1786, just before his 54th birthday is longer than most for washington, and a list today of all of my negroes. The list totaled 216 persons in the first child named, the 12yearold was a seamstress betty and only became the personal attendant of Martha Washington in 1899. The story is part of the president ial household is revealed in todays book, ties that bound founding first la...

With on the president s commission on opioid addiction. Where is our host . Governor Gina Raimondo . Shes late to her own party. Shell be joining us up here later along with roy as well as our distinguished speakers to talk about this Opioid Epidemic which is a relevant issue for us all. Its now claiming the lives of an estimated 90 americans a day. I am not the first person to make that mistake. In massachusetts we had about 2,000 deaths in 2016, more than five deaths per day, more than all the deaths associated with automobile accidents and gunshots combined. There was a 22 increase in opioi...