Presentations
FORTHCOMING PRESENTATIONS
SELECTED PAST PRESENTATIONS
“’A Constitutional Way’: Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and a Loyal Opposition,” Monticello Education and Visitors Programs, January 11, 2023
“Jefferson and Religious Freedom,” OLLI, UC San Diego, November 14, 2022
“Thomas Jefferson: A Model for Leadership?”, Roads Scholars, October 4, 25, September 13, 2022
“Patrick Henry and the Crisis of Union that Died in 1799,” Thomas Jefferson Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, June 4, 2022
“The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson: America’s Third President,” Summer Jefferson Symposium, University of Virginia Office of Lifetime Learning, June 26-29, 2022
“Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson,” on the Thomas Jefferson Hour, January 18, 2022
“Patrick Henry and the Crisis of Union that Died in 1799,” University of California San Diego, Osher Lifelong Learning, January 10, 2022
“Hornets, Snakes, Baptists, and Presbyterians,” Historic Christ’s Church, Weems, VA, November 7, 2021
“Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, and Lighthorse Harry Lee: A Complicated Dance,” Stratford Hall, October 9, 2021
“Patrick Henry and the Crisis of Union that Died in 1799,” SHEAR Conference, July 15, 2021
“Thomas Jefferson: American Icon and Slaveowner,” U.S. Institute on American Politics and Political Thought, State Department/UMass Amherst, July 26, 2019
“Jefferson and the Meaning of Religious Freedom,” Smithsonian Associates, June 17, 2019
“Thomas Jefferson’s Contributions and Contradictions,” University of Virginia Founder’s Day (invited by the office of the president), April 12, 2019
“Hamilton v. Jefferson: On History, Freedom, and American Government,” Alexander Hamilton Institute and Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, November 15-17, 2018
Moderator, “Fake News: Today and in Jefferson’s Time,” Poplar Forest, March 30, 2017
“Witches, Patriots, and Partisans,” Virginia Festival of the Book, March 24, 2017
Moderator, “Religious Freedom Now and Jefferson’s Time,” Poplar Forest, September 22, 2016
“Thomas Jefferson, Our Times, and the Challenge of Leadership,” National Executive Institute, Charlottesville, September 23, 2015
“Who Defines Religious Freedom?” Richard Reynolds Foundation Lecture, Polegreen Foundation, Richmond, June 11, 2015
“Religious Freedom: Is the American Revolutionary Experience Relevant to Africa?” Young African Leaders Initiative, Monticello, July 2, 2014
“Hornets, Snakes, Presbyterians & Baptists,” Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, April 2013.
“Is James Madison Still Speaking to Us about Religious Freedom?” Montpelier, March 16, 2012 (invited for Madison’s birthday)
“America as ‘Christian Nation,’” People for the American Way, November 2011
“Patrick Henry: Federalist,” Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, October 2011
“Washington and Jefferson on States’ Rights,” Teachers’ Institute at Mount Vernon, July 2011
"Religious Freedom — How we got it: Hornets, Snakes, Presbyterians, and Baptists,” Library of Virginia, Historic Polegreen Church Foundation, July 12, 2011
“Why We Teach: Baptists and the American Revolution,” Baptist History and Heritage Society, Dallas, May 19, 2011