a really close at abraham lincoln's life. in our lincoln collection, we have about 52,000 pieces that cover every aspect of abraham lincoln's life that collection would include about 18,000 monographs written about abraham lincoln. he is the most written about american ever, which is quite staggering. so on any given day, a visitor, the museum is able to see about 100 original pieces from our collection that are on display. and there's always a reason to come back to the abraham lincoln presidential museum, because we are rotating those items out or putting new pieces on all the time. and we always like to say a visitor that comes to the museum, if you come back one year later, you're going to see a whole new group of 100 pieces from abraham lincoln's life. so today i pulled some pieces out of our vault to show you. they help illustrate the life of abraham lincoln and some of my favorite pieces. i'll show you first. the oldest of writing that abraham lincoln did that survives. this is a piece of paper that abraham lincoln got

a really close at abraham lincoln's life. in our lincoln collection, we have about 52,000 pieces that cover every aspect of abraham lincoln's life that collection would include about 18,000 monographs written about abraham lincoln. he is the most written about american ever, which is quite staggering. so on any given day, a visitor, the museum is able to see about 100 original pieces from our collection that are on display. and there's always a reason to come back to the abraham lincoln presidential museum, because we are rotating those items out or putting new pieces on all the time. and we always like to say a visitor that comes to the museum, if you come back one year later, you're going to see a whole new group of 100 pieces from abraham lincoln's life. so today i pulled some pieces out of our vault to show you. they help illustrate the life of abraham lincoln and some of my favorite pieces. i'll show you first. the oldest of writing that abraham lincoln did that survives. this is a piece of paper that abraham lincoln got

, abraham lincoln himself, he's just a human being.hen you stand in front of one of those pieces, you understand that abraham lincoln was a human being. muck? >> a healthy democracy doesn't just look like this, it looks like this, where with americans can see democracy at work where citizens are truly informed. our republic thrives. get informed straight from the source on c-span. unfiltered, unbias biased, word for word. from the if nation's capital to wherever you are, because the opinion that matters the most is your own. this is what democracy looks like. c-span, powered by cable. ♪ ♪ >> american history tv, saturdays on c-span2, exploring the people and events that that tell the american story. at 6 p.m. eastern, librarian of congress carla hayden hosts a conversation marking president truman's executive order 99981 -- 99 81 prohibiting discrimination in the u.s. military. also president biden talks about its accomplishments for minority in the military at the truman if human rights symposium. an

lincoln in abraham lincoln himself. when you're standing in front of one of those pieces you understand thatt abraham lincoln was a human being.

it's the first abraham lincoln autograph that survives. look at how clearly he wrote his name as a young teenage boy. abraham lincoln told us in his autobiography he wrote for the election a little autobiographical sketch that his father had never done more in the way of writing then to sign his own name. abraham lincoln you can see wantedad a different life than s father had. his father had a rough later in his life his father was making is makinghis mark on documents t abraham lincoln wanted something else in his life he did not want to be a subsistence farmer. he wanted to have a life that might include things like being a lawyer. being a politician et cetera. he learned at a young age how tn make a good signature. and also what so special about this documents. on the back i think abraham lincoln might've got a little bored of working out some mathematical problems and he wrote for light little poem. abraham lincoln is my name. with my pen i wrote this same. i wrote in both haste and speed and left it here for fools to read.es this is a

abraham lincoln was born in 1809 in kentucky. he lived there just for fear as he moved me six or seven up to indiana and lived through his teens in indiana. he grew up on the front here. so he had a lot of hard work to do clearing land essentially being a farmer in many ways and again lived a very difficult life though. i think one that he was determined to move beyond so you see a very young lincoln already putting a real focus on learning as much as he could and finding those rare books. he could read and read them cover to cover over and over again because he knew he wanted to do something more with his life. from an early age abraham lincoln said he knew that if slavery wasn't wrong then nothing was wrong. we believe it's somewhat speculation that he would have seen slavery certainly growing up in kentucky when he was very young one of the reasons the family left, kentucky. our understanding is their dislike of slavery. but as a young man, he traveled down the mississippi river twice to new orleans, which at that point was th

abraham lincoln was born in 1809 in kentucky. he lived there just for fear as he moved me six or seven up to indiana and lived through his teens in indiana. he grew up on the front here. so he had a lot of hard work to do clearing land essentially being a farmer in many ways and again lived a very difficult life though. i think one that he was determined to move beyond so you see a very young lincoln already putting a real focus on learning as much as he could and finding those rare books. he could read and read them cover to cover over and over again because he knew he wanted to do something more with his life. from an early age abraham lincoln said he knew that if slavery wasn't wrong then nothing was wrong. we believe it's somewhat speculation that he would have seen slavery certainly growing up in kentucky when he was very young one of the reasons the family left, kentucky. our understanding is their dislike of slavery. but as a young man, he traveled down the mississippi river twice to new orleans, which at that point was th

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 almost like a few minutes. we had harold's 272 words, which i'd like share with you now. his essay was titled long remembered provide the essence of the gettysburg address in 272 words. quite a challenge. for a while, lincoln used, but two sheets of paper to compose it. historians have slaughtered entire forests to expound on it. yet the glittering essence lincoln's perhaps america's speech is magnificent economy. invited to deliver only a few appropriate remarks, lincoln summoned the rhetorical that revolutionized political oratory replaced the traditionally written with a new birth of simplicity and made virtue of brevity. of course, it's oh, i can memorize this length does not begin to explain its enduring. did it reinvent america as some have claimed? probably not. we've come a

manyny consider the gettysburg address to be abraham lincoln's greatest speech. t it would be difficult to argue otherwise. you might ask yourself, what could he have written that possibly rivaled it? and while you would be good to stand your ground where you to argue your case for the gettysburg address, other scholars, lincoln enthusiasts and armchaird historians might argue that lincoln's cooper union speech or his second inaugural might be even greater. as you probably know, lincoln's cooper union speech was delivered about two miles south of heree at the cooper institute which is now known as the cooper union. it was a speech which in part launched abraham lincoln's political career on the broader national stage. the speech delivered in february of 1860 when our nation was on the brink of civil war brought as the often quoted words let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to e the end bear to do our duts as we understand it. lincoln second inaugural address which is an great at the lincoln memorial on the wall opposite the gettysbur

and abraham lincoln wasn't still is a great american hero. a hero who saw the united states as the last best hope of earth. he was committed to making america live up to the principles espoused by our founding fathers, and the declaration of independence. our constitution, our bill of rights. he was committed to our nation having a new burst of freedom so that governments of the people, by the people, for the people, would not perish from the earth. he understood that the mighty scourge of war that had come upon our nation was just the physical manifestation of our nation's failure to live up to its own lofty principles. washington was the father of our country. visit was the savior and his story continues to be revealed, and revered. as the russian author leo toy story once wrote, the greatness of napoleon, cesar or washington is only moonlight by the son of lincoln. his example is universal it will last thousands of years. he was bigger than his country. bigger than all his presents together. lincoln lived and died a hero. it has a great ch

and for that, president abraham lincoln will always bebe remembered. truly remembered and just as lincoln looked introspectively and pondered these questions, i now ask each of you what is your destiny,t what is your purpose? what is it that is demanding tremendous sacrifice from you? what is your gettysburg address and what are your 272 words? abraham lincoln even from the grave still beckons us to complete the unfinished work so that we and future generations of americans may enjoy the fruits of a more perfect union and abraham lincoln was and still is a great american hero. a herota who saw the united stas as the last best hope of earth. he was committed to making america live up to the principles espoused by our founding fathers in the declaration of independence. our constitution and bill of rights. he was committed to the nation having a new birth of freedom so that government of the people, by the people, for the people wouldn't perish from the earth. he understood that the mighty scourge of war that had come upon the nation was the physical man

do you think abraham lincoln was a conservative? guest 2: i do. we go through in the book conservative philosophers who endorsed helping underserved communities. what abraham lincoln was endorsing was helping the underserved the help them rise up to free markets. host: do you think today's republican party, members of the house in particular, since they control the house, will buy into some of the visions you are expressing in your book? guest: i think yes because what you see now on the hill is a lot of members in the wake of the truck policies are now rallying -- the donald trump policies are now rallying around underserved communities. you see them talk a lot about issues of rural areas. there is a law of support around things like opportunity and creating a robust economy. host: we are joined by ja'ron smith and chris pilkerton, co-authors of the book "underserved: harnessing the principles of lincoln's vision for reconstruction with today's gone communities." we welcome your calls and comments. (202) 748-8001 is the republican line. (202) 748

murray abraham. >> reporter: f.bit of a character. >> was a squirrel. that was a hamster. >> reporter: this golden pet doesn't gather dust in a display case. it's a traveling companion. >> hello. >> i hide him on the stage for fun. and it's in the trash can. he is in a suitcase. he is in a drawer somewhere. >> reporter: here's what surprised me about f. murray abraham. he laughs a lot. here's what didn't surprise me. he is dead serious about his craft. >> i can't imagine not acting. my work is my salvation. >> reporter: anhe is still delivering. >> you are blaming me for your situation? that's rich. >> reporter: as a sexist charming patriarch in "the white lotus." >> i get older and older, but the women i desire remain young. natural, right? >> reporter: or in ill-fated drug dealer in "scarface." >> i am doing the talking, not you. watch my back. >> reporter: or the role that won him his pet oscar, a composer, bitterly jealous of mozart in "amadeus." >> and music finished as no music is ever finished. >> reporter: o

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i want to talk about the abraham accords. we will talk about iran and intergenerational complexities but when you look at what institutions are building that might create something different than the mess of the last many decades it's abraham woods. so tell us about your role moving them forward and if it is speeding up or slowing down? >> i worked to with president bush and secretary rice with my colleagues and before we got on stage we were saying what a difference 20 years makes. i remember so clearly traveling to the region with condi rice and what a tough time that was after 9/11 and how much she was urging those leaders to recognize what was happening in their countries, to recognize the yearning of their people but also how they had to shut down terrorist financing, they had to recognize the extremist elements within their populations, and those were pretty tough conversations. you fast forward 20 or so years, and i was in riyadh at that summit. 54 arab and muslim leaders hosted by king salman and actually hearing depu

abraham lincoln light. as well as his new book, faith black men's president, abraham lincoln and the pursuit of racial equality. -- professor of law, chair of the society of -- and frontal rector of the program on jewish and israeli law at harvard university. he is the author of nine books, including -- james madison and his latest book, which we discussed tonight, a broken constitution, lincoln and the founding of america. diana shelled is professor of political science and senior fellow at the american enterprise institute. she publishes on american history. she is the author of several books, including -- and her new book is his greatest speeches, how lincoln moved the nation. welcome noah feldman and diana schaub. michael burlingame let us begin with you. tell our friends why you argue in your new book that lincoln was the black man's president. you have several speeches of frederick douglass that you begin with, including in 1865, the eulogy on lincoln. he said no class of people has a better reason im

black man's president abraham lincoln, african-americans and the pursuit of racial inequality. the frankfurter professor, chair of the society of fellows and founding director of the program on jewish and israeli law at harvard university the author of nine books including the three lives of james madison, genius partisan president and his latest book that he will be discussing tonight the constitution lincoln's slavery and the re- founding of america. diana schaub is professor of political science at the university of maryland and a nonresident senior fellow at the american enterprise institute where she focuses on american political thought and history. she is the author of several books including [inaudible] and her new book is his greatest speeches, how lincoln moved the nation.h let us begin. tell our friends why you argue in your book that lincoln was the black man's president, and you have several speeches of frederick douglass that you begin with including an 1865 on lincoln where he said people have a better reason for lamenting the death of lincoln than the colored pe

now we move from abraham lincoln to teddy roosevelt.no president had more sporting activities and president roosevelt. late afternoon was a time for really active enterprise. it could be a boxing match, tennis, jujitsu, horseback ride, his enormous capacity for work was matched by an enormous capacity for play. he particularly loved taking friends on hikes. he made a simple rule, you had to move .2.ff you could not go around any obstacles. you came to iraqi had to go up. there were stories about these ridiculous walks he took. the best story was by the french ambassador. so excited onn his first walk with the president he came with this silk outfit on. he found himself in the woods hating every minute of this walk finally they came to the river and he thought thank god it's over. just to my horror i saw the president say it's an obstacle, we canno' go around it. let's get undressed. he said i, too, for the honor france took off my apparel. i left on my lavender kid gloves it would be most embarrassing if we were to meet ladies on the ot

lincoln, and to volume american abraham lincoln, a life. as well as his new book which will be discussing tonight. the black man's president. abraham, lincoln african americans and the pursuit of racial equality. noah feldman it is the frankfurter professor of law, chair of the society of fellows, and founding director of the -- program and jewish and israeli law at harvard university. he wrote nine books including the three lives of james madison, genius -- as president, and his latest book we will be discussing tonight, the broken constitution, lincoln -- 's and they re-founding of america. diana schaub it is professor of political science at maryland university. and a nonresident fellow at the american enterprise where she focuses on american political thoughts and history. she is the author of several books, including what is the problem with -- the american story and speech and song. and her new book, his greatest speeches, how lincoln world's the nation. welcome, michael burlingame, noah feldman and diana schaub. michael burlingame, l

abraham lincoln. it did not go well after first bull run. lincoln what i think was a fairly consistent military vision that he hewed to until the end war protect washington. fight the confederate army in virginia. somewhere between washington and richmond because he didn't want to deal with the richmond entrenchment by the end of 1861. he certainly talking what we come to think of as concentration and time, the greater resources and numbers of the federal army in the west and on the seas. he's also developing his own operational plans, notably the oklahoma plan of. december 1861, when he's developing own theoretical idea of to defeat the confederates at manassas. and he's often to talk to his generals about, not just winning the war, but the war in manner. so was george mcclellan difficult deal with. absolutely. but in some ways i think it becomes a bad marriage on both sides. certainly if we look at what president did in 1862 during the the gunboat during that period when. he essentially restructures

abraham lincoln was preeminently the white man's president.emember when i first encountered the speech. i was astounded. i said surely i would have seen the speech in the five volume edition that was published or the four volume study and then went back to the sources and those speeches were not, that speech was not included. .... .... and race in general. and then cape, missouri, very fine historian at northwestern university published an article recently on the white house receptions and black people's attendance people's attendance out white house receptions and they have a little bit to say about that but how much did i miss of the information? that led me deeper and deeper into speak will and in washington and lincoln's interaction described in his autobiography and detail but little has been doneti about tht interaction with others so things to modern databases things to these databases so what i found lincoln interactive with all of whom commented on how kind and generous and it was gestures and actions based on appeals that indicates m

mingus had a son named abraham mingus and he had daughter named clarinda mingus. around 8 to 18 seventies period a year. daniel mingus was actually helping that to john mingus build a home and during that time a child was conceived at this time this was conceived between daniel mingus and clarinda mingus. the thing about is daniel mingus actually was already mad and in fact may to a white woman by the name of sarah and he had several kids. these kids would have been known as instead, you know, biracial, mulatto, which is the term we don't use now. but at the time for historical significance or you know, it the it was mulatto and so he you know these kids and then he had a kid out of wedlock and what happened was clarinda mingus actually moved to severe county remarried and never took care of this child they had actually the child was care of by a doctor john mingus and abraham mingus and you're probably wonder what was his life like at the time. well we talk this child well, this child, mingus will have an interest in life what we're looking at here which is reall

so now we move from abraham lincoln to teddy roosevelt. i think no president had more sporting activities than teddy roosevelt late afternoon was a time for really active enterprise. it could be a boxing match a raucous game of tennis jujitsu a horseback ride his enormous capacity for work was matched by an enormous capacity for play. he particularly loved taking friends on hikes through rock creek parks wooded area and he made a simple rule you had to move point to point. you couldn't go around any obstacle if you came to a rock you had to go off you came to preview you had to go down it so there are stories of journalists and friends falling by the wayside in these ridiculous walks that he took but the best story was told by the french ambassador jewels juicer on he was so excited on his first walk with president. he came with his silk outfit on as if he were gonna walk in the sham say he say he found himself in the woods hating every minute of this walk. finally they came to the river. he thought thank god it's over. so he later wrote j

the black man's president abraham lincoln african americans and the pursuit of racial equality. noah. feldman is the felix frankfurter professor of law chair of the society of fellows and founding director of the julis rabinowitz program on jewish and israeli law at harvard university. he's the author of nine books including the three lives of james madison genius partisan president and his latest book which will be tonight the broken constitution lincoln's slavery and the re-founding of america diana. shall is professor of political science at loyola university, maryland and a non-resident senior fellow at the american enterprise institute where she focuses on american political thought and history. she is the author of several books including what so proudly we hail the american soul and story speech and song and her new book is his greatest speeches how lincoln moved the nation welcome michael burlingame noah feldman and diana schaub. michael berlin. let us begin with you. tell our friends why you argue in your new book that lincoln was the black man's president and you have

it's a sad thing to see abraham lincoln's party reduced to j abraham lincoln's party reduced to an authoritarianersonality. lincoln's party was in anti—slavery pro—freedom anti—, no nothing, pro—immigrant party and it has been reduced into this collection of conspiracy theories and hatred against different groups in the country. and donald trump exercises autocratic power over that party. so that is this i think that the vast majority of which americans reject it, rememberjoe biden beat donald trump by 7 million votes and so all that has happened in the intervening years between 2020 at our election next year in 2024 is 20 million plus new voters, young people, have entered the franchise. people who have no interest in the anti—choice climate to nihilism, election to nihilism of today's gop. final question. i do think the rest of the world is watching today seen the former president indicted now for the third time. i the former president indicted now for the third time.— the former president indicted now for the third time. i don't know you would be a — for the third time. i don't know you would

especially for abraham and his grandmother. his first day at school here in oakland. she says during the first day kids feel a little weird until they feel comfortable again in the class room but he is happy. abraham is just one of at least 34,000 oakland unified school district students in one of the district's 77 elementary, middle and high schools ready to learn just a week earlier than other districts in the bay area. coming just 2-1/2 months after a search day strike back in may forced oakland unified school district students to be out of class for more than a week. now, it is a new school year, a fresh start for many students. >> i am just excited that school is starting. i think you can feel the energy, kids being excited to be back. you can see all of the staff just doing their thing to set expectations and build community. maria says she likes the yad of an early start. good for the kids to get used to the school and not be afraid. they added this year's school district's priorities are to continue battling public safety, mental health and academic and financ

in will only two names, abraham lincoln and everett dirksen. how can you resist? i'll tell you the last story. it was an extraordinary thing he did and next year to sell my demonstrationshappen . he knows it's got to go before a joint session and argued for voting rights even though he thought civil rights needed two years to be worked on before he went to voting rights and i must say my late ushusband wrote that speech though we shall overcome the four lyndon johnson. every now and then a story and they meet at a certain time it was in lexington and concorde, so it was in selma alabama. it's not a problem, it's not a northern problem. it's not a moral problem, ro there is no moral right to deny your fellow citizens the right to vote. it is an american problem and we are met here tonight to meet that problem weeks later the voting rights act passed. those were acts of courage on his part. i'd like to believe and i think his children linda and lucy have seen it happen that he's going to be rewarded for what he did in social justice and in economic opportunity he wa

john mingus and abraham mingus. you probably wonder what was his life like at the time when we talk about this child. this child charles would have an interesting life. what we're lookinge at here whh is really difficult to read, we are looking at in 1886 since dexter 1880 census record what i have here is a couple stars highlighted. there's a gold star at a red star, a purple start and you also have an outline blue star. and we get to the story about charles mingus sr., and daniel moves on. his mother clarinda mingus on. he's raised by his grandparents and great-grandparents. now, if you look at the census record you will see a yellow star by john mingus. you will see a red star by clarinda. you see out my lightning pure star by charles, which is charles mingus sr. which we will talk about anything youe also e the outline blue star by daniel mingus again, he took the last name, daniel mingus took the last date of his in slavery. and what you noticed in this census record is that little charles mingus sr. would be i

thank you very much, not abraham who's _ belarus.not abraham who's been _ belarus. thank you very much, not abraham who's been investigating | belarus. thank you very much, not. abraham who's been investigating the wagner group. we've seen some from the russian telegram channels that there's been suspicion that yevgeny prigozhin might�*ve been on a different plane than the one that crashed today, and are giving numbers of a different chat. those plane records are accessible through a popular website, plane records are accessible through a popularwebsite, but plane records are accessible through a popular website, but data shows it departed from st. petersburg earlier today and flew towards moscow, the trail disappears in the russian capital, and just to underscore the bbc has so far been unable to confirm which plane yevgeny prigozhin was on board. so of course we can confirm that he was listed as a passenger on the private plane where you are seeing pictures of that crash, which happened north of moscow. we do not know if he was act

more interestingly he rents a room from abraham's sister. so woodhull, riding his horse can come into manhattan just say he's visiting his sister and knock on robert's door and get all the news robert has collected since they last met. now, and spring of 79, simcoe and the rangers are ready to depart oyster bay. as they left sunday 18, somebody else's with him. liz escaped, somewhere in his wagon or in his regimental group as they departed, she left with him. pretty incredible the bravery it must have taken is about a 17-year-old to risk the punishment of being a runaway for the promise to become a free person. now, eight days after she escaped we got this letter in our collection, probably our most important letter we own about liz. it is the spite robert townsend writing to his father. the bottom of the first page he says the queens rangers are now beyond kingsbridge. kingsbridge was a physical wooden bridge at the tip of manhattan. it seems as though robert is following the regiment from the rear. he says if i see any of the officers, i w