Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Contact: Madge Gibson
news@utsi.edu
Dr. Richard A. Samuelson will be the guest speaker for Thomas
Jefferson Lectures to be held at The University of Tennessee Space
Institute’s auditorium from 3:00-4:30 pm on Thursday, April 22,
2010.
The topic of Dr. Samuelson’s lecture will be “Thomas Jefferson,
John Adams, and the American Future”. It was an exciting time
for Jefferson, Adams and their friends as they proceeded in creating
a new nation, knowing the task at hand. John Adams wrote in the
spring of 1776, “You and I, my dear friend, have been sent into life
at a time when the greatest lawgivers of antiquity would have wished
to live. How few of the human race have ever enjoyed an opportunity
of making an election of government, more than of air, soil, or
climate, for themselves or their children!”
Dr. Samuelson, Assistant Professor of History at California State
University, San Bernardino, California, is currently the Garwood
Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton
University. He has held fellowships or teaching appointments at
Claremont McKenna College, the University of Paris VIII, the
National University of Ireland, Galway, the University of Glasgow,
Liberty Fund, the Massachusetts Historical Society and the
International Center for Jefferson Studies. He also writes about
‘constitutionalism, the rule of law, religion, politics, and empire
in America’s founding era’. He has been published extensively and
currently is writing a book on John Adams’ political thought,
John Adams and the Republic of Laws.
The Thomas Jefferson Lectures began in 1996 as the result of a gift
from a generous benefactor, and UTSI has been able to bring to the
community guest lecturers who have presented many interesting and
informative areas of Thomas Jefferson’s life and times.
Area high school students have been notified through their schools
of this event and have an opportunity to write an essay that will be
judged and the winner announced at the end of the lecture.
A reception will follow in the UTSI lobby. This event is free and
open to the public and everyone is invited to attend.
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