. >> the papers of abraham lincoln is a long-term editing project from the abraham lincoln presidential library and museum to locate an image and frand describe and publish all of the documents written by lincoln or to lincoln during his entire lifetime. the papers of abraham lincoln began in 2001 as an expansion of the lincoln legal papers which have existed since 1985. we're systematically searching all of the record series that pertain to lincoln's presidency and a handful of series that pertain to his one term in congress. so we are trying to go systematically through each series that might contain documents. now, some series don't contain any documents. but as i tell my staff, no is an answer. and that's important for us to document that we've searched these records and we haven't found anything. we're going through pretty much anything that might contain correspondence to lincoln or by lincoln, so everything from military records, army, navy, to congressional records to, as i said, interior, treasury, state department, post office department, any -- any kinds of records that might

and it is also written by a clerk but signed by abraham lincoln. so it is, in effect, an official copy as well. and then finally he found about two dozen pieces of communication between lincoln and congress. again written by clerks but all signed by lincoln that we had known about in terms of the text from printed sources but had not known where the manuscript materials were. and they were all in this one small set of records. >> it's actually labeled "interior department." in addition, even though there's some exciting parts of this message, there's also some pretty dry parts where he's regurgitating what the secretary of state or caleb smith or whoever told him to say. so with this message, he transmitted to congress and was read by a clerk before the senate and house, there were also other reports submitted at the same time, reports from secretary of state, secretary of interior, war department, post office, postmaster general. so i think that's why this message is in this volume with the interior because following these pages are the message fro

we don't know if abraham lincoln attended this event, but was probably aware of its going on. it was in springfield, lincoln's home. lincoln was in springfield that particular day. that is the first possible instance they may have crossed paths. it's important, because menard comes into connection with the lincoln administration later. but this particular speech that he gives establishes him as a rising star in the abolitionist movement of the united states. he is invited to take a role as an assistant editor for an abolitionist newspaper in boston, james redpath. it was called "the pine and palm" when it was published around 1860 to '61. he appears writing several articles. normally opinion pieces on slavery. he publishes one in 1860, that's addressed to the free people of illinois. and it's an attack on the fugitive slave law. he's a very gifted writer in terms of his use of illusion, and he does not compromise in his stances. menard says in this article that the fugitive slave law has turned the whole north into one vast hunting ground for men, and chased us to the shores of

we believe the papers of abraham lincoln is obviously more comprehensive because it includes incoming correspondence as well. the other side of the conversation. but we're also finding new lincoln documents that basler and his colleagues didn't find in the 1950s. the federal government expanded greatly during the civil war. and so there is a lot more documentation than there would have been, say, for his predecessor, james buchanan. so there are lots of things militarily but even in the regular administration going on. and so lincoln was -- and lincoln was a very active president in terms of -- he wasn't a micromanager, but he was an active president who had a lot of different things cross his desk. so there's an enormous amount of paperwork. and there were, of course, people writing to him about a wide array of issues and much of that documentation found its way into the national archives. i would say that probably the search here at the national archives will go on for several more years, three to five, perhaps, and then we have to, back in springfield, transcribe it. part of it is

. >> let's start with a photograph of abraham lincoln that's next to the introduction by president obama. how did the president become involved in the issue and was it coincidental he chose to refer to this photograph in his comments or were you planning to use this as the front cover all along? >> we planned to use this as the cover after they showed us this alexander gardner photo of lincoln. it's a -- i think, it's a stunning photograph, port rat taken very late, right before lincoln was assassinated. gardner worked with a large, giant negative. after he took this picture of lincoln he removed the negative and dropped it and cracked it. there's a crack running through his forehead. he reassembled the plate and pulled one print off it, which is this photograph which hangs in the national gallery. we were hopeful the president might want to contribute something to this issue. so we did intend to make it the cover all along and sent him a copy via the press office and just asked for his meditation on this picture, what does it make him think of. >> the president talked about how he's in

influence on karl marx it was insult german but german idealist a lawsuit was also influenced abraham lincoln is not not widely known but very world's has an excellent book showing how the the new england transcendental is philosophers people like theodore parker they supplied a lot of the ideas that animated lincoln and for example inspired his sketches were good dress which acas and a number of significant ways. i stress in that book the german americans were hugely important fact of life at this time there was a massive immigration of hundreds of thousands of germans partly anomic migrants but also refugees from. the revolution of eight hundred forty eight blocks of course of been one of the revolutionaries of eight hundred forty eight and they had quite an influence on the republican party on the struggle against slavery and they also brought a new ideas like both the women or the organization of kindergarden another thing that they did is they established breweries. and produced beer and really this they united radicalism with a rather tolerant attitude towards. the whole and the previou

books including age shock how finance is failing us and an unfinished revolution karl marx and abraham lincoln the crisis of capitalism sweeping the globe right now perhaps it's time to revisit marx had to say about economics one of the reasons why i'm pleased to welcome robin blackburn from our studios in new york city robin thanks for joining us tonight. thank you great to have you with us your book an unfinished revolution izzy in part history of the relationship between karl marx and and abraham lincoln i was blown away to discover there even was one that these guys had in correspondence can you tell us about that. it began with knox's big involvement with the united states. the newspaper the new york tribune he was signed up in about eight hundred fifty two to write articles for the for the tribune by. managing editor charles c. downer and he subsequently wrote about four hundred fifty articles for the tribune really long articles and the rates of one or even sometimes two a week across a period of nearly a decade so this was a major part of marx's activity and the income was very useful

abraham lincoln, 1862. he spent a lot of hours crafting some of this language and to see it here before you is really something special. >> it's always great to have the original manuscript materials. as i mentioned with these two dozen other pieces of correspondence between lincoln and the senate, we had printed versions, but it's always good to have the manuscript materials because sometimes there are mistakes, sometimes there are omissions. so being able to have what congress actually received from the president is always a great addition to the corpus of materials. the publicly cauti lincoln is more comprehensive because it includes incoming keernd denies, as well.lincoln because it includes incoming keernd denies, as well. but we're also finding new lincoln documents that they didn't find in the 1950s. the federal government expanded greatly during the civil war, so there is a lot more documentation than there would have been, say, for his predecessor, james buchanan. so there are lots of things milita

freedom" writing in 1995, noted a tendency in the previous 15 years to slight the role played by abraham lincoln in the end of slavery and to say in effect, the slaves freed themselves. mcpherson disagreed, emphasizing the importance of lincoln's prosecuting the war successfully. edward better len of the university of maryland wrote a rejoinder in which he said in effect the slaves did too free themselves. i find this exchange very reassuring because it shows that you can become an eminent historian even though you slept through the high school biology lecture where the teacher explained symbiosis. two beings that live in a mutually beneficial relationship. edward berlin came close when he wrote" steadily as opportunities arose slaves risked all for freedom by abandoning their owners, coming uninvited into union lines, and offering their lives and labor in the federal cause, slaves forced federal soldiers at the lowest level to recognize their importance to the union's success. that understanding traveled quickly up the chain of command." that's it in a nutshell. the union army afforded the slav

this man in the center is james mitchell, who was abraham lincoln's commissioner of colonization. and he was the man that hired menard. mitchell was an irish-born american preacher that lincoln knew from illinois. he brought him to washington specifically for this role to administer the programs. and mitchell knew of menard through his abolitionist activities and thought of him as a potentially who could bridge the gap between the colkocolonin movement. he is hired on and makes him one of the first african-americans to obtain a white collar job in the united states government. he was given an equal salary to the white administrative workers in the interior department, which caused quite a bit of controversy. the other workers rebelled, complained to the secretary of interior and within three months had pressured them to discontinue menard's salary and urged the secretary of the interior to demote him to a messenger because they couldn't countenance standing there in the same office with an african-american who was attaining equal salary, even though he was probably better educated,

a new book on abraham lincoln describes the growth of lincoln through the years. the same could be written about washington. and then about franklin roosevelt. he's commanding a global power, a completely different undertaking at least in many of its parts. and he also built that broad base of very able leaders. putting republicans into the major positions early in the war, secretary of war, secretary of the navy, working across party lines in that regard. also doing the other great -- combining the other strengths of leadership that washington had done, but in a different key, in another era, in a different framework. now the question is what next? we can see that people took inspiration from lincoln for that same period of about 60 years that had work ed for washington. and then there's a wonderful book by bill link ten burg on the shadow of fdr at least to ronald reagan. even reagan turning against the new deal, but embracing that style of leadership on the explicit example of franklin roosevelt. and now what today? what for us? and we look at this country and

i am a counselor at abraham lincoln. i am here to speak in favor of the sfpd and taravel that is nearby, and i have been collaborating with the sro's but are currently serving our schools and a partnership to build a program that is either summer or after-school based. it started as of this past academic year, and i think it is a strong partnership that came from that department, someone coming to our office in the honor of helping the young people that they serve on a regular basis with the idea of expanding the program beyond just lincoln and other schools in the entire san francisco bay area through the sro officers. the program was focused on leadership. it started this summer. it was a great experience. it targeted students that were middle ground students that otherwise would not a have received leadership skills or like skills. they are kind of borderline. they are talking about why it is we have so many youth out and about, maybe not have an opportunity is everywhere all over the city, not just at lincoln, and we

what was abraham lincoln getting at and how would that fit today? who would be the one to stand up and make that speech today? >> well, in any war you have very emotional sentiments and very emotional debates. lincoln was a wig. his great hero was henry clay. and therefore was natural that he would desmice james polk and disspi d despise his war. it's a little bit ironic that he would be so opposed to this war on sort of moral grounds when, in fact, he became a war president on a grander, more significant scale than any president in our history. and shawn lents in the review of my book in the "new york times" suggests -- and i never seen this noted before that it was sort of my sentiment that this lincoln speech and some other speeches along the same lines, were ally attributable more to lincoln's partisanship than to any fundamental, philosophical grounding. >> and just a one-term congressman? >> he was a one-term congress n congressman. one of the reason, sort of assume that these group of people in illinois, that district, were going to trade off

what the republicans end up doing is going with this fairly new unknown guy by the name of abraham lincoln, okay. he's not well known. if you remember from your reading, some of ya'll read that primary source essay where lincoln's -- where you're reading about lincoln's position on the mexican war. one term in congress. that's pretty much it. he'd lost a senate race in 11858 in illinois, okay. but he's this kind of rising star who's clearly a very talented speaker. clever debater. he's that kind of guy who -- he's kind of got tt classic southern thing about him. you ever talk to somebody where they kind of talk a little slow and they look a little disheveled and you're like, all right, he's this country guy. he's this old guy. probably doesn't have that much education. ya'll probably don't. i do. i'm from the north. i fall for that trick. you're listening. next thing you know, he's lapped you three times. that was lincoln. he tell these barnyard jokes. kind of got this aw shucks kind of style. then bam, just kind of backhands you in the middle of a debate. what he's able to do is convince

abraham lincoln was a c colonizationist. it is also very reflective of that time in history. the movement was the belief that after emancipation that freed slaves should be settled abroad. liberia was a location where freed slaves set up their location and he investigated central america where he was hoping to obtain land. in 1862 lincoln held a meeting at the white house to pitch this proposal to them. he had obtained $600,000 in funding from congress to subsidize and support their transport and he was in the process of negotiating contracts with the government of club governments at ti one of the the time. and later, the government of the united kingdom, and the modern day country of gyana. meynard stirred quite a bit of attention. he said that the president made himself look ridiculous as his solution to slavery. menard saw this as an opportunity. while he did not agree with the notion of separating the races on a count of civil rights and civil liberties and that it should be a white man's government. menard did see this as an opportunity and find the location abroad that

i am a senior at galileo academy. >> i am a junior from abraham lincoln high school. i am a leader for youth for a single world leadership empowerment program. >> my family has never been able to drive. i have never woken up and said i am excited to take this bus. i met my friends across the country. they have a new york metro card. they were so excited to go back home and take the bus. i have never had that experience. all youth can take the bus. and be more excited about it. that can have the experience and have more access to take public transportation. we have identified the funding. i feel if muni was more efficient and move money around to not have so many overtimes, we could have more muni and have more people enjoy it. >> i really support this being for all youth. thank you for listening to parents and us. >> thank you so much. >> deron davis, juan, santiago. >> my name is davis. i am a sophomore at galileo school of sciences. i think that muni should be free to youth. a lot of youth has to travel a lot of places whether it is going to or from school. just han

on the other hand, abraham lincoln was not very well known in 1858. and the effect of the debates really catapulted his name and reputation across the nation. so lincoln was interested in having these debates because it would enhance his name and increase familiarity with his name throughout illinois. so in '58 both of them and both of their political allize on both sides decided that these debates would be beneficial to each of them. there were seven debates because there were seven political, congressional districts in illinois at that time. and when lincoln and douglas come to galesburg, lincoln knew very well what president and i know and the knox alums know which is lincoln knew very well about galesburg and knox college's reputation. he knew he was on very good ground that day. although you must understand there were many, many supporters of douglas in the audience that day, lincoln had a very friendly crowd that day. at one point he turns to douglas and says, you are blowing out the moral lights around us. you're putting us in the dark. if you c

as abraham lincoln once stand -- and said, a divided house will not stand. have to come together as a community. if you want to change the world, you have to change the continent. everybody asks, can we come together to fix problems in the community, thank you. >> my name is frank, i am on the board of directors at the san francisco youth fishing program. i have been a fisherman all my life. i take kids fishing with the police and i have nothing but positive things to say about the work that the police department has done in this realm. they have taken 1500 young people a year out fishing. these are guys that are gang members, we take people from all walks of life. every district, hunters point, you name it. i have seen major changes in a lot of the folks that come out fishing. i have seen them get health and to police jobs, i have seen them become firemen, and i have seen a couple of them do my job. we have been doing this for 44 years. 1500 kids a year, it has taken a lot of people off the street and introducing them to something that is very healthy and w

in my own view abraham lincoln would not have been elected president, which was the final spur to cessation and then civil war. i think john brown's raid and lincoln's election were the one-two punch that drove the south out of the union. it's a slightly complicated story, and i won't spell it all out. but the raid occurs in the early stages of the 1860 campaign for president. their campaigns were nothing like ours today, but at this stage lincoln is really a second or third tier candidate in the republican field. the raid does several things.

michigan about ten days ago romney and i are the two candidates speaking and he didn't mention abraham lincoln once or about another dozen speakers for its office no one mentioned lincoln except for me and i said you know i'm an abraham lincoln republican i did all tribute to him so i'm i'm fearful that this republican party of two thousand probably is even distancing itself from lincoln which is a major tragedy that's amazing i grew up in ingham county michigan that's where lansing is and just down the road in. and jackson i believe it is an eight hundred fifty six is where the republican party started so many of fred thanks so much for being with us tonight fred card. appreciate your visit. crazy alert mr mustache makes me money. u.s. representative from maryland roscoe bartlett as introduce the stache act or the stimulus to allow critical care expenses act in a congress right will introduce the bill to the house ways and means committee for study last week. dr john uter and a supporter of the aca a professor of accounting and tax policy at northeastern state university argues that the socia

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abraham lincoln. >> where liberty dwells, there is my country.y tis of thee sweet land of liberty of thee i see land where my fathers died led freedom ring ring ring to be free >> freedom has its life in the heart. the action, the spirit of men, dwight d. eisenhower. >> we stand for freedom. that is our conviction for ourselves. that is our only commitment to others. john f. kennedy. >> ♪ free free ♪ >> give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teaming shores, send these, your homeless, tempest tossed to me. i lift my lamp to the golden door. >> ♪ [applause] [cheers and applause] >> good mo. supervisor carmen chu, thank you for being here in our city administrator, namely kelly, thank you for being here. of course, our new public works director and his wonderful staff here. thank you very much there is a reason why there's three public works directors on this side. ed risk then, our new mta director, and i have the former public works directors. we're here with muhammed and with our

antes de la primarias republicanas en ese estado, dijo que serÍan bienvenidos a la tierra de abraham lincoln vamos a la pausa, y en instantes, por quÉ califican de milagro, el salto del paso de un tornado en michigan. >>> opciones pa indocumentados graduadoseue aspiran a un buen trabajo, consejos utiles, e incidentes con tintes hispanos en un partido de baloncesto en mississip mississippi, no le cambie. ♪. ♪. >>> residentes de una comunidad de michigan, limpian escombros que dejÓ tornado, alcanzo a 135 millas por hora, destruyÓ un centenar de viviendas, milagrosamente no dejÓ muertos, dicen que se debiÓ a que avisaron a tiempo de la llegada del temporal, y un posible tornado, la grabaciÓn clandestina de la vida intima de un estudiante de la universidad en nueva jersey, tutu un trÁgico resultado en el 2010, el autor del video enfrentÓ la justicia, fue condado por prinvasiÓ de la privacidad e intimidaciÓn, lo llevÓ al joven homosexual a suicidarse saltando de un puente. >>> al escuchar el veredicto, sin emociÓn, el rosto del ex estudiante universitario que espiÓ el encuentro intimo de su compa

[laughter and applause] oh, yes, care, care to join us in a three-way centaur abraham lincoln? yes, yes, it's an open virtual republican convention where anything is possible. wait! they're announcing the nominee. it's... it's... mitt romney. [bleeped]. [cheering and applause] really? come on. i got to get some cheat coats for this thing. in the mean-time, abe, patricia, let's do this. we'll be right back. [cheering and applause] >> thank. welcome back, everybody. nation, i was going to wait to report on this next story tomorrow, but there may not be a tomorrow. because this threat comes from the actis of evil, which is just as evil and as axisy as ever. but tonight it's not iraq or north korea. tonight evil comes from... [beeping sequence] ... iran. didn't see that coming. jim? >> the possibility of yet another bloody battle in the middle east, this time against iran. >> could there be another war with iran? >> iran has been funding proxy wars now against our own military. i think the war's already started. it's percolating. >> that's right, a war with iran is already percolat