Invite Tony Williams, Author and Scholar, Via Multi-Media to your Classroom or Event!
Item Number: 167
Time Left: CLOSED
Value: $300
Online Close: Apr 30, 2020 10:00 PM EDT
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Tony Williams of the renowned "Bill of Rights Institute" has generously offered to be a guest at your bookclub, club or classroom! Imagine choosing one of the exceptional books Tony has written and having a very special event with a remarkable and accomplished author and scholar!
Tony will delight you with his knowledge and insights and provide you a 30-40 minute virtual appearance at your book club or club! Please read about Tony below.
Tony is an accomplished scholar and writer:
Washington and Hamilton (2015)
Jamestown Experiment (2011)
America’s Beginning (2010)
Hurricane of Independence (2008)
Hamilton (2018)
Each of these books are on our auction!
"Tony Williams is a Senior Teaching Fellow with the Bill of Rights Institute in Arlington, VA. He earned a B.A. in history from Syracuse University and an M.A. in U.S. History from Ohio State University. He taught middle school and high school for 15 years in Ohio and Virginia, and was the Program Director of the Washington, Jefferson & Madison Institute in Charlottesville, VA. He is the author of five books including Washington and Hamilton (2015), The Jamestown Experiment (2011), America’s Beginnings (2010), Pox and the Covenant(2010), and Hurricane of Independence (2008), as well as numerous articles and reviews.
His Washington and Hamilton was nominated for a Washington Book Prize and a Library of Virginia Non-Fiction award. He was a fellow at the Rockefeller Library at Colonial Williamsburg. He lectures around the country including C-SPAN Book TV, Fox News Legends & Lies: The Patriots, the U.S. State Department, Revolutionary War battlesites, Colonial Williamsburg, the Virginia Festival of the Book, and several universities. He lives with his wife and children in Williamsburg, VA."
The Battle of Antietam and the Emancipation Proclamation
Guest Essayist for Constituting America's 2020 Study, Tony Williams:
"President Abraham Lincoln faced an important decision point in the summer of 1862. Lincoln was opposed to slavery and sought a way to end the immoral institution that was at odds with republican principles. However, he had a reverence for the constitutional rule of law and an obligation to follow the Constitution. He discovered a means of ending slavery, saving the Union, and preserving the Constitution.
President Lincoln had reversed previous attempts by his generals to free the slaves because of their dubious constitutionality and because they would drive border states such as Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland into the arms of the Confederacy. He reluctantly signed the First and Second Confiscation Acts but doubted their constitutionality as well and did little to enforce them. He offered compensated emancipation to the border states, but none took him up on his offer.
On July 22, Lincoln met with the members of his Cabinet and shared his idea with them. He presented a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation on two pages of lined paper. It would free the slaves in the Confederate states as a “military necessity” by weakening the enemy under his constitutional presidential war powers.
The cabinet agreed with his reasoning even if some members were lukewarm. Some feared the effects on the upcoming congressional elections and that it would cause European states to recognize the Confederacy to protect their sources of cotton. Secretary of State William H. Seward counseled the president to issue the proclamation from a position of strength after a military victory. "
"Tony Williams is a Senior Fellow at the Bill of Rights Institute and is the author of six books including Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance that Forged America with Stephen Knott. Williams is currently writing a book on the Declaration of Independence." March, 2020