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Read more about "Innovations in Democracy: First 100 Days of Trump" on TomTomFest.com.April 13 is Thomas Jefferson’s birthday. Charlottesville, Virginia was his home, alongside three other Founding Fathers whose influence on American democracy is difficult to overstate. At the sixth annual Tom Tom Founders Festival, we will sit down with some of the nation’s leading presidential scholars and journalists covering the White House to assess President Trump at 100 Days, the state of American democracy, where we’re headed, and what some of the big ideas are for our collective future.
Segment 1: Keynote ConversationKeynote Speakers include
Mark Warner, United States Senator, and
Bill Antholis, Director and CEO of the Miller Center.
Segment 2: BackStory Panel on History of Media and the Presidency BackStory’s
Ed Ayers and
Brian Balogh welcome
Christa Dierksheide, a historian at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, to a panel discussion on the “History of Media and the Presidency.”
Segment 3: Miller Center – Innovations in the Media Speakers will include Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent of The New York Times;
Chris Cillizza, political commentator and writer of “The Fix” at the Washington Post;
Russell Riley, co-director of the Presidential Oral History Program at the Miller Center;
Douglas A. Blackmon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and host of the Miller Center’s American Forum TV program; and
Nicole Hemmer, columnist for US News & World Report and Vox.com and assistant professor of presidential studies at the Miller Center.
