Joy Hakim lecture: Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Legacy in America

[close] This is the recorded lecture and Q & A session hosted by the Abrahamic Initiative (www.abrahamicinitiative.org) on January 26, 2014. Here is the event description:

In 1779, Thomas Jefferson introduced the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom to the Virginia General Assembly. It took more than seven years for the proposed document to be adopted into law. Author Joy Hakim spoke on why the US has not had a religious war and the importance of this long-forgotten Virginia document, which was a vital precursor to the passing of the First Amendment.

Joy Hakim is an author of prizewinning books on US History and Science. She has a Bachelor's degree from Smith College and a Master's and Honorary Doctorate from Goucher College. Her major published works include the ten-volume A History of US, published by Oxford University Press, and The Story of Science, which is co-published by Smithsonian Books and the National Science Teachers Association. Though these are written in an engaging narrative styl