so this photo i'm sure many of you have been to monticello. this is taken from jefferson's library looking through another room and then into his cabinet, into his study. jefferson became very enamored of the idea of apartments when he was in europe. so compare this three-room apartment devoted to the mind of the sage of monticello with this room that's not quite 15 feet square where his daughter managed the household, gave directions to slaves and taught her own 11 churn. but it's the -- children. but it's the letters of her daughters that gives the answer to that question about female education and refused to be bound by the gendered limitations. in their letters we can see both martha's lofty treatments to give her daughters -- dreams to give her daughters the finest education in america; that is, to teach them that women too were rational beings and who could strive for the life of the mind. but against those lofty dreams, of course, were the earthly realities of their lives as women. and this is really clear in their laments about the was

i work of monticello now. i wasn't so much longing to get into that site as i was longing to find my family's history. and i would like to say on behalf of myself and on behalf of monticello we are fully committed to telling the complete story of all of the people who live there as my four times great grandfather, not just of thomas jefferson that the men, women and children. we would love to find herriot so please don't give up your search. she wasn't the only one. and it's important that we all acknowledge and recognize. [applause] i think your presentation is outstanding. i preferred the use of the word enslaved as opposed to slaves because slaves are not born. the second comment i would like to make is the mixture of a race and passing the which means you did something because you wanted to show yourself as something else. the idea is survival as well as freedom. so people who want to be in enslaved person when we were treated so very poorly so i think the choice was the guilt. your book is bringing out a

i work at monticello now.wasn't so much longing to get into that gravesite as well as longing to find my family's history. i like to say on behalf of myself and on monticello, we are fully committed to telling the complete story about the people who live there. duchess martha's children whose my ancestor as well. not just of thomas jefferson, but of the 607 people we would have to find harriet so please don't give up your search. but she was not the only one. it's important we acknowledge and recognize that. every individual there matter. so please always remember that and thank you for mentioning me. [applause] >> is a genealogy research and myself think your presentation standing i have two comments. pardon my voice. would as i prefer personally the use of the word enslaved as opposed to slaved. because slaves are not poor. second, as the mixture of race and passing is also an insult because passing means you did something because you wanted to show yourself is something else. i think the idea, coming from a

i run the field work at monticello, the archeological field work. >> why are you here today? >> jobie invited our department to come to the spaces she's surveying and we really wanted to come to experience this space, feel what these cabinets would have been like, to walk through, live in, walk up and down the steps. we often at monticello investigate a lot of spaces once they're not on the landscape any more, to be at one still standing, at a slave camp still standing is a different experience. we wanted to be here today for that. >> when you reflect on what you've seen, what are your thoughts? >> it's a good question. it's really humbling to be in these spaces of these people that were slaves. they were here living and working, didn't get a break. they weren't paid for their services but they still eked out an existence. so to try to navigate through those spaces in the 21st century, it's humbling. i think i get a better sense of what the room would have felt like. obviously, there's nothing in it today. but to just feel this space and walk through it gives me a better idea

. >> i'm crystal and i run the monticello field work. >> why are you here today? >> well, i was invited from my colleague and i from the archaeology department to come to these spaces that she is surveying, and we really wanted to come to kind of experience the space to feel what these cabins would have been like to walk through and to live in, and to walk up and down the steps, and we often at monticello excavate a lot of the spaces once they are not on the landscape anymore. and so to be able to be at one, a slave cabin that is still standing is a different experience and we wanted the be here today for that. >> so when you are reflecting on what you have seen, what are your thoughts? >> it is a good question. it is really humbling to be in the spaces of these people that were slaves. they were here living and wor g working, and they did not get a break. they were not paid service, but they eked out of those space, and today in the 21st century, it is humbling. i think that i get a better sense of what the room is like and obviously today but just to feel the sp

it's those acts he wanted to have inscribed on his tombstone at the monticello. this document further reinforces the ideas and thinking behind his commitment to religious thought. i'm going to ask. rubinstein to elaborate on what would have been the history of jefferson's bible. give you an to introduction as to what is the jefferson bible, which is going to be brief because a lot has been written about it and a lot more will be written about it. jefferson and you don't really think of as an individual who spends a lot of time thinking about religion or moral beliefs. this is a key part of his personality and his interest. he becomes engaged in this process through a depth for -- through a number of different means. part of it is the whole debate about what is the moral basis for the new republic and can we come up with one as this new nation emerges? the other issue is church of authority, which jefferson was very uncomfortable about. recognize, funded by tax dollars, etc.. jefferson questions the role between the church and the monarchy in europe that is consta

at monticello, jefferson is almost a prisoner. he really needs poplar forest to be by himself to recharge his .ntellectual batteries it is in the peace and quite of poplar forest that he does his last great project at the university of virginia. when that is under construction he is at poplar forest sometimes. of manya complication things that jefferson loved, is most fundamental being the octagon. he loves the shape of an octagon. forest becomes the first octagon house in america. within that octagon it is a geometrical puzzle. in the middle of this house is a 20 foot to and around that to octagonal toggle -- rooms. modern marvel of architecture because it was used for one person who used it occasionally. it did not have to operate as a typical house. five years after he started living here he asked for a wing of what he called service rooms. kitchen, laundry, smokehouse. these ideas of wings attached to the house he had seen in a book from the renaissance, but he makes it his own device by inventing a hidden room that gives you

you see it in places like mount vernon, monticello and the phenomenon at montpelier on the james river. you see the development and the creation of architectural masks. thomas jefferson enhances dumbwaiter built into the fireplace in the dining room. you have little literal dumbwaiter tables being put up in place of someone who's not going to be able to communicate. you are responding to ideas on slavery and furniture and passageways allow flexibility to high enslaved bodies are present inside bodies depending on who is coming to visit your plantation that day. it's not as if someone from friends that this somehow thomas thomas jefferson didn't own the enslaved people, but the fact that not show it off in a way that kept people out of the room to them not listen to conversations about the morality of slavery and the laws being passed in the fact that there were free nations all over the world and the united states of america was taking a little bit long to get around to abolishment. there is a huge misunderstanding about enslaved cooks in the country, businesses in the images of uncle

the international center for jefferson studies at monticello and she is the author of several books, including unwise passion, a true story about a remarkable woman and the first great scandal of 18th century america. monticello and most recently, we are all here today to learn about his wonderful, entertaining new book "how not to get rich: the financial misadventures of mark twain." please join me in welcoming alan crawford. [applause] alan: thank you, jamie. we are all familiar with the story of how mark twain's death was greatly exaggerated. there were two times in which this took place. the first one was in 1897 in london. the second one, the one he will today,out the first time , three yearsn 1907 before mark twain's death. this was during his last visit to the old dominion. he had come here for the jamestown exposition. the jamestown exposition was a thed's fair, celebrating 300 anniversary of the first permanent english settlement in the new world. exposition were steam engines, new forms of motorized engines, automobiles. mark twain was crazy about these kinds of technologic

twilight at monticello and most recently, we are all here today to learn about his wonderful, entertaining new book "how not to get rich: the financial misadventures of mark twain." we will hear more about his book in about mark twain in virginia. please join me in welcoming alan crawford. [applause] alan: thank you, jamie. we are all familiar, i think, with the story of how mark twain's death was greatly exaggerated. there were two times in which this took place. the first one, the one we are all familiar with, was in 1897 in london. but the second one, the one you will hear about the first time today, it occurred in 1907, 10 years later and three years before mark twain's death. this was during twain's last visit to the old dominion. he had come here for the jamestown exposition. the jamestown exposition was a kind of world's fair, celebrating the 300th anniversary of the first permanent english settlement in the new world. at this exposition were steam engines, new forms of motorized engines, automobiles. mark twain was crazy about these kinds of technological advances. he was also craz

who made most of his money through inheritance from his father in which he gained the estate of monticello his net worth is estimated to have been two hundred twelve million dollars that's your presidential fun fact for today hope you did well. professor montana welcome to the show to talk about presidents thank you so much for being here it's going to be a part so when we talk about.

who made most of his money through inheritance from his father in which he gave in the estate of monticello his net worth is estimated to have been two hundred twelve million dollars that's your presidential fun fact for today hope you did well. professor montana welcome to the show to talk about presidents thank you so much for being here so when we talk about how much impact a president can have on the economy. they stopped work with congress so what is their power we see the president has just passed tax reform but how much power do they really have by themselves i think is story consensus among historians is that presidents don't have all that much power when it comes to the short term specially they have to act at the size that they have a vision of what they want to do with the economy and where they're going to actually take it but i guess the best indication is to see where presidents take the economy's seen long term we look back obviously the one nine hundred thirty s. the one nine hundred early part of the sixty's the eighty's the ninety's it's very difficult to tell now if the p

jefferson who made most of his money through an heritage from his father in which he gave me a state of monticello his net worth is estimated to have been two hundred twelve million dollars that's your presidential fun fact for today hope you did well. professor montana welcome to the show to talk about presidents thank you so much for being here so when we talk about how much impact a president can have on the economy. they stopped work with congress so what is their power we see the president has just passed tax reform but how much power do they really have by themselves i think is story could the consensus among historians is that presidents don't have all that much power when it comes to the short term specially they have to act at the size that they have a vision of what they want to do with the economy and where they're going to actually take it but i guess the best indication as to see where presidents take the economy is seen long term we look back obviously the one nine hundred thirty s. the one nine hundred early part of the sixty's the eighty's the ninety's it's very difficult to tell n

interesting because most other founding fathers did add third floors or wings, like mount vernon and monticello. george mason saw people like jefferson and others of the founding generation going into deep debt doing things like this. today we would think of it as keeping up with the joneses or keeping up with the kardashians. mason did not want to be in that position himself. so, we are going to have a chance to explore all of the spaces in the house. we will learn who george mason was and why we remember george mason today. why don't we step inside? we are stepping into the central path of the mansion, which is where visitors would have come during george mason's lifetime. this space is decorative and beautiful, again meant to show off that george mason belonged to the higher level in society. this might be the only space some visitors ever saw. some might be asked to wait here while the manservant, probably an enslaved person, went to see if whoever you had come to visit was available. you waited in this space. visitors who were deemed worthy of a visit were invited to the public spaces on t

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who made most of his money through inheritance from his father in which he gained the estate of monticello his net worth is estimated to have been two hundred twelve million dollars that's your presidential fun fact for today hope you did well. professor montana welcome to the show to talk about presidents thank you so much for being here so when we talk about how much impact a president can have on the economy. they stopped work with congress so what is their power we see the president has just passed tax reform but how much power do they really have by themselves i think is story they could the consensus among historians is that presidents don't have all that much power when it comes to the short term specially they have to act the size that they have a vision of what they want to do with the economy and where they're going to actually take it but i guess the best indications to see where president's take the economy is seen long term when we look back obviously the one nine hundred thirty s. the one nine hundred early part of the sixty's the eighty's the ninety's it's very difficult to

the tip holder is from the monticello, who we borrowed this from. dates it from 1775 to 1825. when he died. so it might be something that he used when he was writing the declaration of independence. we don't know. here we are with james madison, our fourth president, and also one of our founding fathers. and what we have borrowed for this is a document called "the worship document" of 1812 from the montpelier foundation. and this document is interesting because it's a document which is for a ship, and the ship is an american cargo ship assigned by president james madison and also signed by secretary of war james monroe. who becomes the next president. but this document is to show that the ship is a neutral ship. at the time, the french and the british are taking american ships and american sailors and impressing them into their navies to fight for them or to sail for them or claiming they're defectors from the british navy. this document was designed to claim that the ship was neutral and not let that happen. later on at the beginning of the war of 1812, the ship was actually

became friends after he became the editor of my other book about jefferson, the hemmings is at monticello the american family. it was a wonderful. the work of legendary whe legene reports about legendary when i see reports about nyc that word on his name and it makes sense because everybody i know that those of his work talks about him as the editors editor and the writer's editor and he was definitely that. taking a large view of the project, very low key about things he didn't accept in his suggestions. a person who loves history and we both fell in love with the great historian and he introduced me and leaves t we uo up to visit him and take him to dinner and so forth and it's been a wonderful experience. it's not just like having an editor and a professional relationship. he has been a dear friend of mine and has taken an interest in me in so many ways and championed the end was my greatest cheerleader and publicist. i am thrilled to be able to be here tonight because he's going to talk about a subject dear to my heart that can mean a lot of different things and i'm anxious to hear wh

if you like his cousin tanya at monticello. the answer is that there is zero evidence of this. he is not that kind of person. when weo see is that look at his jurisprudence, it is important to see that the way is perhaps aaw, it function of what goes on in his personal life. marshall'sn decisions on land ownership makes sense when you realize he land.15,000 acres of he owns large chunks of what is today i-66. he is a land speculator his whole life. similarly,'s decisions on his decisions on freedom dovetail with his economic interests. i mentioned there were 14 freedom cases, marshaled aside seven and the slaves lose in everyone. justice johnson decides the eighth and the slaves lose. and the other six, the slaves win and two are decided by slave-holding justices, justice wayne and justice duval. l. being a slave owner does not mean you would never side with freedom if the law requires it. actively engaged in acquiring slaves his whole life and distribute in them to his sons. why did he destroy his financial records? don'tare people who just want somebody messing in their priva

>> at 10:30 in the morning in the old monticello hotel which is now demolished, i stood up in prayered that group of 200-plus people in prayer, we rebuked the hurricane, this monster in the atlantic ocean and commanded it in the name of jesus for it to turn around and go where it came from. this is a true story. you can look at the record if you don't believe me. kate: it is a wonderful arrogance. the hubris of it, i sort of love it. you can see my face when a much something like that. i have been in a million healing rallies. part of what i like is they have gumption like nobody else. they really believe they can turn away a hurricane. i'm glad they try. the problem is -- brian: why have there been several hurricanes on virginia beach since? kate: it immediately opens itself then, why can't it work all the time, uniformity? what condemnation then lies on those who fail? this is always a problem that prosperity preachers' funerals. unless they die at 96 or something, then there is a bit of a bulletin that has to explain why a man of faith would pass away and people are screaming and

host: david is calling from monticello, georgia, you support the president's plan.aller: thank you for c-span and "washington journal." a couple things i want to respond to, the caller from gray, georgia, which is 26 miles from where i live. she said it has nothing to do with mental illness, nothing to do with arming teachers, it is about getting rid of the guns. 1994 to 2004.rom when they did a ban on what they considered assault rifles, it did not work. it did not make one change at all. it has already been tried. let's try this. first of all, the president is not just talking about arming qualified teachers. he is talking about securing the schools. you do not need to be able to go into the school haphazardly. you need to be able to make a fort out of that school. if the schools had mega-amounts inside, icash guarantee it will be fortified. all of this argument about banning assault rifles, it has already been done. todaysome other headlines , "president trump is accelerating his move to test his push to move -- his push to move the embassy to jerusalem. pressing

and we became friends after he became the editor of my other book about jefferson, the hemings of monticello: the american family. it was a wonderful experience being with bob. the word legendary, when i see news reports about him, i see that word appended to his name, and it makes sense because everybody that i know who knows of his work talks about him as the editor's editor and the writer's editor, and he was definitely that. line editing, taking a large view of the project, very, very, you know, low key about things. if you didn't accept his suggestions, that was fine, but if you did, that was great as well. marvelously erudite, a person who loved history. we both fell in love with ed morgan, the great historian s and he introduced me to ed. and we used to go up and visit him periodically and take him out to dinner and so forth. it's been a wonderful experience. it's not just like having an editor as a professional relationship. bob has been a dear friend of mine and has taken an interest in me in so many different ways and has championed me. besides my husband, my greatest cheerleader,

so you see places like mount vernon, you see this at monticello, and you see this phenomenon at montpelier and the plantation on james river. you see the development and the creation of architectural masks, right? thomas jefferson has his dumb waiter built into his fireplace in his dining room. you have literal dumbwaiters, tables being put up in place of -- if you think about it, you know, what is a dumbwaiter? it's someone who's not able to communicate. you have furniture or responding to ideas in shame about slavery, and they allowed the flexibility to either hide enslaved bodies or present enslaved bodies, depending on who was coming to visit your plantation that day. and it's not as if, you know, someone from france thought somehow thomas jefferson didn't own any enslaved people, but it's the fact that you're not going to show it off in a way. and it kept people out of the room, enslaved waiters out of the room to then not listen to conversations about the immorality of slavery and the laws being passed and the fact that there were free nations all over the world and that the united s

most other founding fathers did actually add third floors and wings like mount vernon, or monticello, which jefferson built out to be this grand home. jefferson,n like going into deep debt doing things like this. mason didn't want to be in that position himself. the house we see is what he ended up with in his lifetime. wrote in 1884on that george mason was among the best of men. mason was really well known and well respected by the founding generation. people like washington jefferson, madison. even though his brother is a lawyer, george mason it seems was more well-known in his capacity to think about law in ways that helped shape government. known through his work throughout the colonies. he was really well-respected in that period. i think that changes when he refuses to sign the constitution, especially with washington. washington was the president of the constitutional convention, he was fed up with mission. the fact that he was standing up and disagreeing with the constitution. their relationship cooled after that. but mason was really well-received by the antifederalists, the