then wrote one of the first histories of the revolution published in 1805 she was a friend of abigail adams and john adams and john adams actually encouraged her authorship and venture to history so she is someone that again has been forgotten but at the time was unknown because she was instrumental in promoting the revolutionary cause. >> on the front of your book is the painting. >> it's from the early 19th century and it's really an idealized vision of a woman and she's holding -- this is the war in the gura holding an american flag on top of that is a liberty cap and that is a very famous symbol of liberty and in her hand as an olive branch and she is dressed not in classical guard but typical when the women were used as symbols or iconography but she was dressed in the costume of time and is a symbol of peace and liberty and women were very often used in that way in colombia the image that is on the capitol is an image of a woman and they were often invoked as the most visible symbols of the early american republic. >> we've been talking with professor rosemarie zagarri of george mason

she was a friend of abigail adams and of john adams, and john adams actually encouraged her authorship, encouraged her venture into history. and so she is someone that i think, again, has been forgotten, but at the time was well known to americans because she was so instrumental in promoting the revolutionary cause. and on the front of your book is this painting, drawing? >> guest: yeah. it's a painting from the early 19th century. it's a folk painting. and it's really an idealized vision of a woman. and she's holding -- this is from the war of 1812 era -- and she's holding an american flag. and on top of that is what you call a liberty cap, and that is a very famous symbol of liberty. and in her hand is an olive branch. and she's dressed not in classical garb which was often typical when women were used as symbols or as iconography. but she was dress inside the period costume of the time, and she's obviously a symbol of peace, a symbol of liberty. and women were very often used in just that way. women, columbia, the image that's on the capitol is an image of a woman. and so women were

john adams, one of the great founders of the constitution, was in philadelphia in this dialogue, and his wife, abigail, sent him a letter and congratulated him for selecting the open gate policy. and she said that the open gate policy is a wonderful idea, but there are inherent dangers to it. that danger is that the open the policy would allow people to -- cultures to come into the country, but they would set up new colonies here to restrict people from coming in to those in going into their community. the critical thing about john adams is that he fostered seeking an open or common cause in this nation, and the common cause concept caused great people to rise as a result of not restricting but finding each other's common cause for humanity. we are a collective world, not a linear world, and that common cause idea cause the people that came out of this great connecticut western reserve to set up a foundation. host: thank you for your comment hearken back to america's founding. how much engineering related to the internet itself, free government engineering did jobs use, from twitter. steve jobs spoke