and as part of the challenge, essayists could about abraham lincoln gettysburg the gettysburg address or something that some a cause cause related topic that stirred passions. we had no clue kind of response we would receive, but we were hoping to receive enough that we might be able to put some out in a mini display with the gettysburg address, the 150th. but the news of the challenge started to spread we found ourselves doing more than our share of explaining that the point of the project was not to top the gettysburg address or to write as well as president lincoln, but rather to celebrate the man in his words. we first turned to gilder, lehrman, lincoln recipient harold holzer to see if he would help us launch the project by writing his own 272 words. and he wrote back an email and and he said, wow, who could be succinct? and then in parentheses, brilliant as abraham lincoln. and our answer, of course. well, harold, no one on the planet except for possibly who live by the tweet and are used to writing far less. but harold wasn't daunted. and in a few days we received actually it a

and as part of the challenge, essayists could about abraham lincoln gettysburg the gettysburg address or something that some a cause cause related topic that stirred passions. we had no clue kind of response we would receive, but we were hoping to receive enough that we might be able to put some out in a mini display with the gettysburg address, the 150th. but the news of the challenge started to spread we found ourselves doing more than our share of explaining that the point of the project was not to top the gettysburg address or to write as well as president lincoln, but rather to celebrate the man in his words. we first turned to gilder, lehrman, lincoln recipient harold holzer to see if he would help us launch the project by writing his own 272 words. and he wrote back an email and and he said, wow, who could be succinct? and then in parentheses, brilliant as abraham lincoln. and our answer, of course. well, harold, no one on the planet except for possibly who live by the tweet and are used to writing far less. but harold wasn't daunted. and in a few days we received actually it a

but think csi gettysburg address gettysburg address. okay. i'm not an animator. that's how i've just been explaining it to everybody. christopher described his project to a few of us at the 2019 forum. one night after dinner, we gathered his laptop in the windom lobby and we were all enthralled by the results of christopher's work and all of us who were there. that was a really wonderful memory and a really great thing, and it was kind of what this forum is about is just these these interactions with people discovering new things. what i personally find so exciting, christopher's project is the marriage of 19th century primary sources with 21st century technology to address historical questions from perspectives and given lincoln's interest in technology, i think he would be as fascinated by christopher's work as i suspect of you will be as well, to tell you more about his research and conclusions, i give you my good friend christopher oakley. wow. good morning. we just get my stuff arranged here. thank you, michel. that was very kind and and humbling. i apprecia

he was physically ill from his gettysburg egg wound that he had received. and got down to the front. so there was no coordinate. it was like the cat that had caught the mouse but couldn't figure out what to do with it. that's that's exactly what happened there at mule shoe. any event, more attacks take place there at spotsylvania courthouse. grant cannot break through. so he decides i'm going to maneuver again and again. he's maneuvering around the same of lee pushing his way down toward richmond because he knows lee has to try to defend richmond so he'll be able to stick lee a place where he can finally getting the end up moving south. the next defensible position, which is the north and a river, gave me the chance. write another book called to the north and a river. anyway north and a river, if you think about it, confederate get below the river. that's where lee is. grant then the and i use grant loosely. this is the army the potomac wants to bust through. lee misjudged what grant's maneuver was going to be, did not defend the river line itself, but he w

compared with such battles as malvern hill sharpe's burg, second manassas or gettysburg. it could be classified as a mere skirmish, but no other fight of the entire four years struggle was, followed by such important consequences. it was to the united states as waterloo, to europe. it made the united states a nation it was the immediate cause of the precipitate removal president jefferson davis and his governmental officials from the capital at richmond, and it forced robert ely to his old fortifications. he was ready to do so and to retreat towards appomattox. it extinguished the campfires of the hitherto invincible army and the mortal wound, which caused the southern confederacy to forever. now, this was not a yankee who wrote this. this was gentleman right here who in the battle on the in general lee's army, and one of the starting one of the interesting things as it says there, brigadier general, he actually was serving as a brigadier general. the congress never actually gave the title. so he actually ended war as a colonel. just to tell you how the technical armies o

got another copy of one of your other books out there, among other awards for his books jeffrey's gettysburg day three. it was nominated for a pulitzer prize and a national book award. his articles and essays on the civil war have appeared in many publications, including civil war. times illustrated, american history illustrated and the and gray. please welcome jeffry wert. from oh, good afternoon. i don't know what football game you're watching, but it's important. let me know. score anyhow. i live in the shadow of penn state university. we bad trip last week to michigan. but anyhow a couple of things i begin i don't have a powerpoint presentation there's various reasons for that. i think the best word to cover it is old. secondly, to show our biases. if i thought about this a good bit, if i had to spend an evening with jubal early or phil sheridan, i would choose that irascible old. and the theory is very i think the whiskey would have been better. so. you've probably heard this expression and it's true that history is what historians tell us. it is. so that means the histories, the histor

my statement of values is the gettysburg address, not the declaration of independence. oh my, my, my, my, my accent. okay. so one of the things to me that is probably greatest setback for black rights in america was the so-called compromise of 1887. and that was when 1876. you know, it's happened twice in the last 20 years, but only three times in the first 200 years did the winner of the popular vote not win the electoral vote or the end of the electoral college. and so, samuel had actually won the popular vote. but rutherford b hayes won the electoral college. so the compromise was that the democrats agreed to pull out all the soldiers from the south with the republican and then said, well they they would promise to obviously continue their to uphold rights and political rights for blacks. and obviously, that did not happen. and, you know, that led obviously to all a lot of stuff that happened in the early 20th century. i love you. just to talk a little bit about that and because that to me was one of the great american tragedies in terms rights. absolutely. i think i

wendy my name wendy allen and i'm an artist here in gettysburg, pennsylvania studio is in gettysburg. my galleries gettysburg and i've been painting for over 40 years now, specializing mostly in different portraits of abraham lincoln of. abraham lincoln. prior to that, i had a corporate life, um, educational publishing, um, and i decided to pursue my painting full time about 12 or 13 years ago. well, as for i'm rather new to both the lincoln forum and, the lincoln audience. by abraham lincoln is my very first lincoln book and. i only became introduced to the forum last year. i was here for the second day and not the first my other my eldest son came in my place the first day. and he said, dad, you have to be here. so i. professionally, i'm a. i own and publish weekly trade newspaper for people who are in the association. and tourism and meeting community. it's called usaa. i dreamed it up 40 years ago and it's still going strong. so to start, i are anybody here can buy a show of hands was alive in 1901. that's i figured. how about 1924? all right. well, those were the two years when a

official dedication ceremony for the national cemetery at gettysburg and pennsylvania. the speeches were enacted by actor john cullum. >> our fathers brought upon this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. >> watch our ten part series saturdays at 9:30 a.m. and p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2. >> booktv every sunday on c-span2 features leading authors discussing the latest nonfiction books. ap eastern following access to president biden and his top advisers chris whipple gives an inside account of the presidency in progress with his book, the fight of his life come inside joeid's white house. at 10 p.m. eastern on "after words", inside congressional committees which looks at the functions of these committees and examines their strengths and weaknesses. she's interviewed by senior fellow kevin kosar. watch booktv every sunday c-span2 and fin a full schedule on your guide for watch online anytime at booktv.org. >> in 1848 husband and wife what you and ellen craft embarked on a journey of

this week, abraham lincoln's 1863 gettysburg address given during the official dedication ceremony for the national cemetery in gettysburg, pennsylvania. >> our for that -- our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. >> watch over 10 part series, speeches that the finder presidency, saturdays at 9:30 a.m. and p.m. eastern on american history tv. >> next week on c-span, the house is out. the senate is in and will be working on president biden's judicial nominations for u.s. circuit court of appeals and district courts. tuesday morning, the commerce committe considers the feder communications commission. when say, senate finance commite nsiders daniel warfel as commissioner of the later, departments of state, justice and the white house testified before the senate foreign relations committee on combating fentanyl trafficking.

this would will feature abraham lincoln's gettysburg address given during the official dedication ceremony for the national cemetery of gettysburg in pennsylvania. >> our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. announcer: watch our 10 part series speeches that defined the presidency saturday set 9:30 a.m. oamerican history tv on c-span 2. announcer: c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more, including comcast. >> you think this is just a community center? no, it is way more than that. >> comcast is partnering with a 1000 community centers so students from low income families can get the tools they need to beeady for anything. announcer: comcast supports c-span as a public service along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. announcer:

instead of retiring to take it easy on his little farm in gettysburg he'll point a picture of this baby, a chip off the old block, and he'd tell you, i want my grandson and yours to up in a free america. he's proud of his grandchildren. there are three of them now. you can tell that eisenhower believes that our real first line of defense is the family and old fashioned, well understood americans and admired and the rest of the world, especially in france. france was the first nation to hail eisenhower for his crusade. europe. the french love liberty. under hitler, they tasted slave reign. the frenchman eisenhower as a liberator. this ally likes ike to and across english channel, which hitler could not cause the people of battle in london who never yield to the blitz surrendered with a cheer to ike to worry londoners whether they could run my soldiers into his home. i say, you'll always have my profound gratitude to everyone has smilingly directed one of my men to the albert hall or the marble arch by your thanks. also churchill's for for all of history to remember. ladies and gentlemen,

gettysburg. okay here we have the embalming shed of william burnell thomas holmes's brother in law.this is taken at fredericksburg. and then over here, this is doctors chamberlain and lefferts, embalming tent camp letterman at gettysburg. these two gentlemen in the coffin, they are alive. okay. they had the exciting prospect of having their picture made. so those are models. so let's now move to february of 1862, when a calamity rocks the white house, willie lincoln dies of typhoid fever. and this is on mrs. lincoln's mind. he looks natural. he looks like he's only sleeping. okay. so they send vernon bomber. now they don't send for thomas holmes. i have never read anything on why. what i suspect is holmes was out in the field in bombing. these embalmers would follow the armies. so she calls on the firm of brown and alexander the same dr. brown that bought suitcase or license doctor. suitcase, embalming the zinc chloride and a 23 year old man by the name of henry cattell embalmed a young willie lincoln. all. and he was laid out in the green room of the white house. and. and then he w

i also have a gettysburg connection. i had ancestors here before the battle during battle. and they're still here today. their name was macfarlane and i. they they lived in the 1840 and fifties. i know that from death dates on their stones, but i don't think they were here during the battle or i would hear some story about it. the only family story i hear is at the macphail hollins had a neat little middle class family burial plot. upright stones, good quality, all surrounded a low wrought iron fence, but all of that was blasted to ground in the grand confederate bombardment and cannonade that commenced at 107 on the afternoon of momentous day of july 30, 1863. so the story is that the whole place was and if you go there, the graves are still there, but they are broken off the bottom. the epigraph is a damage. there legible, but they're wide in the ground with turf growing up along the sides. so they were apparently blown up in the in the bombardment. and the spot where those graves are is not far from where lincoln gave his address. so i can honestly say that in a sense, i

ronald reagan. 1863 gettysburg address given the -- for the national cemetery of gettysburg, pennsylvania. >> our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation to seek liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. >> watch our 10 part series, speeches that define presidencies. saturdays at 9:30 8 a.m. on american history tv on c-span2. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. brett you buy these television companies and more.

abraham lincoln began his remarks at gettysburg in 1863 by noting that the nation he served and was fighting a civil war to preserve was founded "four score and seven years ago." as the great hadley arkes has observed, if one does the arithmetic, this takes us back not to the ratification of the constitution in 1788 or its adoption by the constitutional convention in 1787, but to the signing and publishing of the declaration of independence in 1776. in this matter, as in so many others, lincoln's understanding was very much in line with the nation's founders. they, too, believed that with the declaration they established a new nation, albeit one whose political institutions and fundamental law were changed in significant ways by the constitution and then by its amendments. lincoln observed that the nation they founded was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. this led to a law understanding of the american founding and the american regime is, once again, something lincoln held in common with the founders themselves. as the declaration itself pr

from god's country to gettysburg, i heard you when you said you want good schools for our kids, safe communities, and an economy that gives people a shot and lifts them up. you also sent a clear message, democrats, republicans and independents, when you came together to resoundingly reject extremism. [applause] together, hope defeated fear. unity triumphed over division. we proved that we value our freedoms, and we're willing to do the hard work necessary to protect our fundamental rights.. [applause]e] and to those who didn't cast their vote for me, i heard you too. and i will do my best every day to be a governor for all pennsylvanians. now is the time to join together behind the unifying strength ofh three simple truths that have sustained our nation over the past two-and-a-half centuries, that above all else, beyond any momentary political differences, we value our freedom, we cherish our democracy, and we love this country. [applause] our democracy is indeed now stronger because that historic coalition came together and fought for it, voted for it. but our democracy is not a giv