and he goes to matthew brady studio on madison avenue and has his portrait taken. he then goes to the cooper union and delivers us incredible -- constitutional scholars can understand his speech. ordinary mortals do not unless you immerse yourself in legal culture. this is a well wrought speech about why it is unconstitutional for the cell to secede. so job done, lincoln convinces everybody. they might not vote for them, but they have to taken seriously as a candidate. more importantly, because of the popular politics of all of this, brady takes his photograph, which david davis -- this is a society that is intense -- they hadn't invented professional sports yet. there is religion and politics. they were the two organizing devices that galvanize local communities in a credible ways that we can't understand now, from participation rates in voting and participation rates in church going to participation rates in political activity. they republican party in particular is rising, this whole a sing of the whigs in the democrats led by lincoln creates modern campaigning.

lincoln goes to brooke brothers, buys a suit, and goes to matthew brady's studio and has his portrait taken. he then goes to the cooper union -- delivers this incredible constitutional scholars could understand. it is an incredibly complicated, itl-run speech about why is is unconstitutional for the south to succeed. they had to take them seriously as a candidate. he establishes that in the cooper union. brady takes his photograph, -- there werevis two things in the 19th century that they hav. tligion and politics with it .o devices that galvanized republican party, is the rising -- creates modern campaigning. mthis is one of my favorite its are it you could edit and a very lightweight. the hair has been smoothed out. invented not quite photoshop, but you could see -- they cannot quite invented photoshop, but you could see it. they hired an intern to cut little ovals and put them inside these really nice, wooden, painted gold ovals and created a political pin. you could wear your lincoln heartthrob on your sleeve. there was the man. there was lincoln himself. you could proudly proclai