monticello had been using many of those rooms for storage over the years.hould wrap up by this march. >>> all of these guys? i know your name. they feel invincible with you up there. >> they're not. >> they are. they are if they think "american sniper" ruling the box office. broke the record for biggest opening day for a drama and for best january weekend. it stars bradley cooper add. >>> winter restaurant week in washington. a three-coarse lunch menu $25, three-coarse dinner $35. participating, find it ramw.org. one of those restaurants is del frisco's double eagle steakhouse and the chef scott crane here is to talk with us. >> we opened september 19th of last year. >> where were you locatesed? >> city center northwest between north and 10th on i street. >> are folks finding you there? >> definitely. >> but participating in restaurant week does give you a lot more exposure. doesn't it? >> absolutely. a great opportunity for new guest whose haven't tried the restaurant to come in and have a chance. >> how many restaurants do you know in the area participati

o'shaughnessy is a vice president of monticello, the saunders director of the robert h. smith international center for jefferson studies, and thomas jefferson foundation, which supports ongoing international study of thomas jefferson and his world. the professor of history at the university of virginia. he is a dual citizen of britain and the united states and after completing his undergraduate and doctorate degrees at oxford university, he taught at eton college before becoming a visiting professor at southern mestas university -- methodist university. he is the author of an empire divided, the american revolution and the british caribbean, which is what our topic is tonight and his most recent book is the man who lost america. the british leadership and the american revolution and the fate of the empire. it has received five national book awards, including the new york historical society's american history book prize, and the george washington book rise. -- prize. he is an editor of the jeffersonian-american series of the university of virginia press and a fellow of th

. >>> the negs teem you visit thomas jefferson's monticello home you will soon be able to tour parts of the mansion that have been hidden for decades. it's part of a multimillion-dollar restoration of the historic site. 11 spaces on the second floor are being re-created including the family's bedrooms and a nursery. outside spaces are also being refurbished. the entire idea is to give you a more intimate look at both the architecture and jefferson's personal life. the restoration should be wrapped up by march. >>> tonight at 6:00 natalie cole will perform at a flee freeh concert for martin luther king day. the "let freedom ring" concert is at the kennedy center. tickets will be given out on a first come first served basis starting at 5:00. during the concert, georgetown university will present its annual legacy of a dream award to the ceo of bread for the city. >>> the coast guard and marines rescue two people and a dog from a grounded sailboat off the coast of north carolina. a marine helicopter was first on the scene yesterday afternoon and hoisted a man who was suffering from a he

the sage of monticello mock christian doingmas and was unremitting in the cal vannism priest craft leading many to characterize jefferson as somehow more secular or modern than his peers. he was no orthodox christian, he was nonetheless common sense scottish philosophy and took the posture of 19 century evangelicals, modern in the 18th century instead of 30 or 40 years earlier. jefferson did trace a similar route to a modern evangelical secularism before the proceed protagonist did so without the stimuli of new machines. on matters of morality he accepted the idea of a moral sense as much a part of the man as his leg or arm through which any individual could discern fundamental, self-evident moral truths, given from morality by truth claims about natural philosophy, he depicted reason as a divinely appointed tool with which any come use reason to unseat all false gods and this is key, i think, to en shrine true religion had xlim indications for the religious and secular in the united states as evangelcals would do later in the 19th century, he advocated what we conceive of as secularism. i