they mourned the death of abraham lincoln. there was no greater legacy to abraham lincoln. i notes of legacy. abraham lincoln's usually on a knowledge legacy of the men white and black, in the armies and navies of the union. look at how they honored lincoln. they behaves as the fine soldiers they had become. i think lincoln would have been proud to know that. the next month following lincoln's assassination, and event took place over three days right here in d.c. the grand review of the armies of the east and west. there was a touch of melancholy. captured so beautifully i chamberlin. here was the president, his cabinet, ambassadors, judges, offices of the nation and states, but we missed the deep sad eyes of lincoln coming to u.s.. something is lacking to our hearts now at the supreme hour. they were coming home. 600,000 plus northern and southern soldiers would not come home. abraham lincoln would come home to springfield, illinois, but in a casket. soldiers had come back home before -- all of the american wars up until the time, never so many had debilitating injuries. t

let us turn to the inspiring, fascinating subject of abraham lincoln. our speakers bring fresh perspectives wide reading, and original research to many aspects of lincoln's life. professor wilson. [applause] professor wilson: good morning. see what it says here. my name is douglas wilson. [laughter] i'm the codirector of the lincoln studies center in illinois. it is my privilege to introduce the first speaker in the 2015 abraham lincoln institute symposium. he is a young scholar. he has already earned an array of honors. he was educated at penn state where he took his bachelor's degree in two dozen one, and the receipt of maryland where he earned a masters degree in 2003, and a phd in 2008. the department of history maryland awarded him a price in potable history. his doctoral dissertation earned a prestigious prize and thousand 10. he has already authored several books. including to lincoln titles -- most recently, "emancipation, and the union army and reelection of lincoln." more than two dozen articles have appeared under his name in scholarly journal

so abraham lincoln's father moves to indiana. he does not do well in indiana. ere lincoln's mother dies. and later on he moves to illinois. he never really gets his feet under him again. but among the people who have moved into this northwest territory there is the idea that government should not be dominated by a few wealthy people. they hold there is strongly to -- they hold very strongly to the northwest ordinance, which is after all based on the law that was written by thomas jefferson who is the same person who wrote or cribbed the declaration of independence. his name is associated with both of those laws. you see this very strongly in the lincoln-douglas debates where he talks about it a lot. lincoln and people like him believe that the government should not be controlled by a few wealthy men. and they are fairly confident that this has been taken care of with the northwest ordinance. and later on in 1820 they are going to fight over the missouri compromise which is going to divide the land acquired by the united states with the louisiana purchase, it is

throughout his presidency, abraham lincoln worshiped. in the new york avenue presbyterian church, he discussed theology with a man revered by the lincoln family. these discussions may well have influenced lincoln's thoughts on the war and the future of our nation, which he presented in his second inaugural address 150 years ago. as we stand here on the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday, it is also important to note this historic church sent ministers to selma to support dr. king's fight for civil rights. i have the pleasure to introduce roger of new york avenue presbyterian church to deliver the invocation. >> let us pray. oh god you raised up a profit for us -- [rprophet for us in abraham lincoln. amid a war that ruptured family and country, the spirit of the man rose in the life of his people to heal the nation. of what was a great offense of slavery. in the spirit of lincoln, we come boldly before you today giving thanks or his witness -- for his witness and pray that it might continue to inspire us for the momentous struggle for freed

of dust -- and the abraham lincoln institute. cludes lincoln's dreams of death. [applause] >> good morning. let me see what it says here. my name is douglas wilson. [laughter] i'm the codirector of the lincoln study center at knox college. it is my privilege to introduce the first speaker in the 2015 abraham lincoln institute symposium. he is a young scholar who has already earned an array of honors. he was educated at penn state where he took his bachelors degree in 2001 and at the university of maryland where he earned a masters degree in 2003 and a phd in 2008. the department of history at maryland awarded him its eb an jean smith prize in political history. he won the prize in 2010. he is already the author of several books including two lincoln titles. "abraham lincoln entries and in the -- and treason in the civil war," and most recently, "emancipation: the union army and abraham lincoln." more than two dozen articles have appeared under his name in scholarly journals and popular history magazines. in 2005, he won the john t

live coverage of the 150th anniversary commemoration of president abraham lincoln's second inaugural. his inauguration took place on march 4. this will not be taking place at the capital but instead at the lincoln memorial. his inauguration speech

abraham lincoln pondered whether the devastation of the civil war was god's punishment on our nation the terrible injustice of slavery. lincoln had a deep sense of the great price of the war where one out of every 10 young adult men in the country died, being paid because america had failed. in the words of dr. king spoke in century later on these very steps -- to live up to the meaning of its creed -- indeed the struggles of african-american slaves and their descendents to obtain equality and justice is one of the great challenges of our history. as secretary of the interior, i have the honor of overseeing hundreds of national parks that serve as america's storyteller. one of those critical stories is the journey from civil war to civil rights. at independence hall in philadelphia, you can tour the place where the authors of the constitution left the question of slavery for a future generation to solve. at jefferson national expansion memorial in missouri by the gateway arch and what we know as the dred scott courthouse, you can stand on the courthouse steps where slaves were sold li

the -- kill abraham lincoln th grandfather. ethis is of interest to america split the store because kentucky is governed by virginia's landlocked -- land laws. and virginia's law start with primogeniture. so our ever him lincoln's uncle mordecai, the oldest son, gets everything. uncle mordecai becomes a breeder or resof race horses. he becomes a leader in the state of kentucky but his two younger brothers josiah and thomas never even learn to read. they become day laborers because they do not get anything when their father is killed. so it becomes clear that there is a real problem in kentucky. and the same people who wrote some of the same people who wrote the declaration of independence and the constitution decide that they need to fix the potential problem in kentucky. one is primogeniture. but the other is slaveholding. and there problem with slaveholding in kentucky is not that they care about slavery one way or another, except for the fact that what it does is it allows a certain class of men to amass a fortune because the

abraham lincoln and frederick douglass. as these early photographs show, they not only had compelling platforms but unforgettable faces. no one who met either one ever forgot meeting them, or how they expressed themselves publicly and privately. tonight, by using the very words lincoln and douglas wrote and spoke to one another about each other and to the public, and by deploying the portraits for which they sat around the time of many of their major meetings and orations it is possible to , see and hear them confronting each other again over their shared aspirations and differences. the result, we would like to think, is an authentic lincoln douglas debate. in some cases, in actual regulated -- recollected conversation save for a few , conjunctions, each and every word you hear was actually written or spoken by these protagonists themselves. tonight, we will hear them again just as readers and audiences did in the 19th century. beginning with their first attempts at autobiography. mr. lincoln: i was born february 12 and 18

what we are seeing here are the manuscript copy of abraham lincoln's second inaugural address, and his reading copy. for this speech, unlike others, we know less about the composition, how long it took how long the actual process of it, but he was working up the thoughts in about the nine months, a year in advance. what lincoln would often do is he would have thoughts, he tried them out in letters or speeches, and they would get woven into ultimate speeches or addresses. with this, he has written out essentially a fair copy in his own handwriting and this is abraham lincoln's handwriting, but then you see at the bottom of the last page that he is changing his mind. you see cutting and pasting there. this draft would have gone off to the government printing office for typesetting. when you see fellow countrymen and the name flynn, that was added later at the gpo in addition to these marks. flynn would have been the typesetter who put this into type. lincoln got back an uncorrected proof, which he then decided to cut and paste to show how they wanted to read the address. it is in four pa

ligon's handwriting. -- abraham lincoln's handwriting. see cutting and pasting there. so this draft would have gone off to the public printer, the government printing office for typesetting. so, when you see the fellow countrymen, that was added later at the gpo in addition to these marks. flynn would have been the typesetter. lincoln got back an uncorrected proof which he decided to cut and paste to show how he wanted to read the address. whereas it's in four paragraph in the manuscript, he has cut it up into sections so he could know how he wanted to read the address, what the pasting was and what i think is the most interesting of how he wanted to read it, if you see the other copies "and the war came." so, he is describing four yeras ars ago, we had many more reasons to explain what is happening with the nation. now there is not so much of a reason. he accounts for the reason why the war had started. at the end he separated out -- "all dreaded the war, and the war came." you can imagine lincoln, reading and stopping. one thing you can

where all day today we have been covering a symposium looking at president abraham lincoln's life andegacy. force theater is the site where president lincoln was assassinated nearly 150 years ago. for theater and ever have lincoln institute cohosted the days events. -- the abraham lincoln institute cohosted the days events. >> on the night of april 11 1855, a large crowd gathered outside of the north portico of the white house come of it come the president speak, and now with the war although one, is with the words northerners most wanted to hear and southerners most needed to hear. he spoke of black voting rights he spoke of reconciliation tolerance, and moderation towards fallen foes. it was not the best speech he had ever made, far from it. it stated outright that it fell dead with out effect on the audience. but given the time to make ease of his words, it might have been more far reaching. tragically, he was not to be granted that time. as has been noted, there was one in the audience that night he would use lincoln's words as the catalyst for one of the most heinous and disrupti

i term has been attributed to abraham lincoln by historians, but there's actually no direct evidence that lincoln ever use the term, and he certainly did not coin it. it was actually coined by napoleon, and his use of the term was derogatory. what he said was he wanted government to be aware when bayonets think. quote was applied to union veterans, and the first time i could find was in 1861 in "the new york daily tribune" it was positive from beginning. it has always been a positive attribute. the term "thinking bayonets" applies to union generals. in relation to lincoln's reelection -- it is our gloria pride that the union has been upheld by million thinking banayonets. when people talk let union soldiers, their sometimes all lumped together. i will make the point that the relative amount of material that has been written, discussed. paintings. their disproportionately confederate. one of my missions is to change that and point out that the real rebels of the civil war were union soldiers. not confederates. i will explain as i go along. who were union soldiers? nearly 2.5 million of

but she does not even mention abraham lincoln. meone you will see, if you read the book, i followed her through the whole story because she wrote so much about lincoln. there is a sense of at the immediate moment, i think garfield and mckinley were devastating events, but they didn't have the legacies that lincoln and kennedy had, partly because they were not -- although garfield was a very good president, they were not understood to be the kind of great statesman that lincoln and kennedy were understood to be. thank you. >> talking about people's feelings, i just wonder if you can tell 150 years ago about lincoln's assassination, we said 100 years later, we had the kennedy assassination and how people feel and also how they address the issues because the cause of the assassination may be freedom and justice and peace, could you give us a little bit related issues in the way how people feel? why to the sfa this person -- did they assassinate this person? why jfk is still --? martha: i think kennedy's assassination is still a trend

but she does not even mention abraham lincoln. meone you will see, if you read the book, i followed her through the whole story because she wrote so much about lincoln. there is a sense of at the immediate moment, i think garfield and mckinley were devastating events, but they didn't have the legacies that lincoln and kennedy had, partly because they were not -- although garfield was a very good president, they were not understood to be the kind of great statesman that lincoln and kennedy were understood to be. thank you. >> talking about people's feelings, i just wonder if you can tell 150 years ago about lincoln's assassination, we said 100 years later, we had the kennedy assassination and how people feel and also how they address the issues because the cause of the assassination may be freedom and justice and peace, could you give us a little bit related issues in the way how people feel? why to the sfa this person -- did they assassinate this person? why jfk is still --? martha: i think kennedy's assassination is still a trend

abraham lincoln's name is not mentioned in the document. he has become the most discussed man in the united states and he has not even hit booth's radar yet. as the war went on, he certainly did. in august of 1864 he began to recruit people abduct lincoln. john ford of ford's theater says this was not as crazy as it sounded, given that lincoln would travel without escort and he was regular about going to the soldiers' homes and ford thought it would be fair stroke in war. i don't have any reason to think lincoln would have resisted. what if there was a shootout or lincoln got hurt or killed in an abduction attempt? booth's feeling was that if they struck a blow most sufficiently daring and unexpected, they would be able to pull this thing off. booth gathered around him. if you young marylanders, people from the d.c. area. some these people looked pretty common and low-order to their contemporaries. one of the people he recruited was david herold, who traveled on the escape route with booth and was hanged. my research does not suggest that h

abraham lincoln's name is not mentioned in the document. he has become the most discussed man in the united states and he has not even hit booth's radar you. at the war went on, he certainly did. in august of 1864 he began to recruit people to duct lincoln. -- abductor 20. john ford of ford's theater says this was not as crazy as it sounded, given that lincoln would travel without escort and he was regular about going to the soldiers' homes and ford thought it would be fair stroke in war. i don't have any reason to think lincoln would have resisted. what if there was a shootout or lincoln got hurt or killed in an adoption attempt? booth's feeling was that if they struck a blow most sufficiently daring and unexpected, they would be able to pull this thing off. booth gathered around him. if you young marylanders, people from the d.c. area. some these people looked pretty common and low-order to their contemporaries. one of the people he recruited was david harold, who traveled on the escape route with booth and was hanged. my research does no

important to note that 2015 will mark the 150th anniversary of the assassination of president abraham lincolnwe hope you enjoyed the visit to the exhibit on civil war medicine and the artifacts related to the assassination of president lincoln. it is important for us to share these artifacts that convey the lessons and history of military medicine from 150 years ago and that is the inspiration for much of the work that the museum does today to carry on that legacy of military medicine today and into the future. we hope you will consider visiting the museum when you are in the washington, d.c., area. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] you can watch this program or other programs at any time by visiting the website. announcer: monday night, we met up with tim moynihan at the consumer electronics show in las vegas. he gave us a tour of the latest in t.v. technology. >> it stands for organic light emitting diode. led refers to the backlight system. it uses that to cover liquid crystal displays. the viewpoint is using in

i think for abraham lincoln that is not a bad legacy, i don't think. not a bad legacy. thank you very much. thank you. [applause] no take some questions. >> -- i will take some questions. >> did you come to any conclusions about the extent of federal government authorities in the booth conspiracy? traveling to canada, supposedly getting money from confederate sources, and the person in charge of the secret service leaving the country and never talking about anything involving the war. did that lead you to any conclusions? dr. alford: yes. i was attentive to questions. i wanted to know what connections booth had with the government. i did not find anything. i just did not find anything. i did help the conspiracy people out a little bit because i was able to discover that booth, and you will not see this in any of the other books, booth went to canada about 10 days before the murder, not just in the fall of 1864 but april of 1865 and he met with james gordon, who is the nephew of jacob thompson. i found a statement from jacob thompson that has never been published in the

sherman sent a telegram to president abraham lincoln announcing the capture of savannah georgia. one of the confederacy's largest cities, and last remaining ports. with typical wit sherman presented the city to the president as a christmas present along with 150 heavy guns, plenty of sherman decided that the time to widen the kwurden and pain of the war beyond just rebel soldiers to include the civilian supporters of the confederacy, especially the common folk. sherman believed that forcing noncombatants to field what he called the hard hand of war was a military necessity. making the war as harsh as possible but bringing victory more quickly and with a minimum loss of life on both sides. it would undermine confederate morale on the home front. trigger a wave of desertions from the armies destroy the confederacy's ability to wage war and prove to the rebels that their cause was hopeless and their government impotent to protect them and their property. this new hard war doctrine was fully sanctioned by the united states government. the previous year president abraham lincoln had a

you demonstrated something about the legacy of abraham lincoln that you know those words today. what is so moving to me is that some of you actually probably have literally ancestors of yours who were present in 1865 that remembered the assassination, the funeral pageant, the entire morning -- mourning period. and they strove to community with a experience to their children. i know for a fact in 1909, the big revival of lincoln on the 100th anniversary of his birth those adults did everything in their power to pass lincoln knowledge and affection towards lincoln on to their children. and so here we are, the legacy of lincoln does, especially with respect to his greatest words live on. i tried in my book two, in effect revive awareness of his body, which was also, in my view, equally prominent among those ancestors that may have been present at the time of the assassination. with malice towards none, with charity for all, wasn't from lincoln's last speech. but it was from the most recent speech, delivered only a few weeks before, not even six weeks before him i believe on march 4

a series of speakers will be hosted at fords, where abraham lincoln was shot nearly 150 years ago. that is live on saturday march way first. >> next, on "american history tv speakers discussed the rosenbergs's devotion to the communist cause. this 90 minute event took place at the national archives in washington dc. >> good evening ladies and gentlemen. i will get us going. i am the senior adviser of the pulitzer center. a harvard professor emeritus i'm happy to add, and a former journalist for cbs and nbc. our program focuses on the rosenbergs and the role they played in soviet espionage in the united states during the cold war. it is a heck of story. to start with. i'm sure you are all here because you are involved in it emotionally or intellectually. it is a story that goes back to the 1930's when young people joined the communist party in the united states, and world war ii came along, and the united states in the soviet union were allies against hitler. a number of people carried on emotionally an attachment to the soviet union. in this part

for many decades. 2015 will mark the 150th anniversary of the assassination of the president abraham lincoln. we hope you enjoyed the visit and the artifacts to the assassination of president lincoln. it is important for us to share these artifacts that convey the lessons and history of military medicine from 150 years ago and that is the inspiration for much of the work that the museum does today to carry on that legacy of military medicine on and we hope you will consider visiting the museum when you are in the washington, d.c., area. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by national captioning institute]

that honor belongs to abraham lincoln. herman melville once wrote who looks at lee must think of washington. hiding the fought with deepest meaning. i think we have had for too long. i hope you will be about it and i hope you will come to washington i am thankful to you all for coming and i will be happy to answer your questions. thank you. [applause] >> there is a story after the war in a church, a black man comes forward, you know the story. myself i don't believe it but i would like utah comment on it because it is told in several ways as very factual. >> the story is robert e. lee is in that church, there's a black man praying and no one knows what to do because robert e. lee goes up and kneels beside him. that is a story that has been told by many people. the truth is we don't know. was told many years after the event. is difficult to evaluate the accuracy of the story. i had seen a recent article of people debating it. i can answer the question. is there some evidence something like that happened? what robert e. lee'

that last blockade runner is entering the confederate port that is more then one month after abraham lincoln was assassinated. still they had not surrendered texas was still officially part of the confederacy that was a part of the war. >> so has the final end 1865 actually the last blockade runner to clear a confederate port. to talking in the book is a rough ending to blockade running because this is tied up in central wharf. and then doing all the things to tie a of so forth with the gangplanks and a confederate career on horseback yelling castoff. get your ship out into the harbor away from the dock. before they could do that of a gain of 200 soldiers confederate soldiers they were fed up. they swarmed the ship to break up the cargo hold and looking for alcohol when they found that a large group of citizens had arrived then the luting the game general with women and children with a blockade runner that add arrived half with anything they could use. also the captain managed to get enough people off the ship he could cast off and picked up the crew of another blockade runner that was left

the previous year, president abraham lincoln had approved the creation of the libor code, a set of rules based on accepted practices that authorized the army to destroy civilian property, starve noncombatants shell towns, keep enemy civilians in besieged cities free slaves, and summarily execute guerrillas if such measures were deemed necessary to winning the war, and defending the country. to save the country, the author, diplomacy professor francis libor stated is paramount to all other considerations. like other wartime chief executives right down to the present day, lincoln was willing to take drastic measures to ensure the survival of the united states. so on november the 15th, 1864, sherman's army set out from atlanta on its infamous march to the sea, cutting a swath of destruction towards savannah on the coast. sherman swore to make georgia howl and in his special field order number 120 he laid out the rules of destruction and conduct for the march. the army was to, quote, forage liberally on the country, with details of men sent and officers sent out each day to gather food. sold

for many decades. 2015, will mark the 150th anniversary of the assassination of the president abraham lincolnwe hope you enjoyed the visit and the artifacts to the assassination of president lincoln. it is important for us to share these artifacts that convey the lessons and history of military medicine from 150 years ago and that is the inspiration for much of the work that the museum does today to carry on that legacy of military medicine on and we hope you will consider visiting the museum when you are in the washington, d.c., area. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] you can visit -- you can watch this for other american artifacts programs on our website. >> you are watching american history tv, 48 hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span3. follow us on twitter for information on our schedule and upcoming programs, and to keep up with the latest history news. >> this sunday, on q and a erica larson on his new book "dead wake." eric: the story gets complicated when the question arises what

throughout his presidency, abraham lincoln worshiped. resbyterian church, he discussed theology with a man revered by the lincoln family. these discussions may well have influenced lincoln's thoughts on the war and the future of our nation, which he presented in his second inaugural address 150 years ago. as we stand here on the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday, it is also important to note this historic church sent ministers to selma to support dr. king's fight for civil rights. i have the pleasure to introduce roger of new york avenue presbyterian church to deliver the invocation. >> let us pray. oh god you raised up a profit for us -- [rprophet for us in abraham lincoln. amid a war that ruptured family and country, the spirit of the man rose in the life of his people to heal the nation. of what was a great offense of slavery. in the spirit of lincoln, we come boldly before you today giving thanks or his witness -- for his witness and pray that it might continue to inspire us for the momentous struggle for freedom and equality that con

new york avenue presbyterian church in washington, certainly the minister of mary lincoln and abraham lincoln love to go listen to sermons said that lincoln had told him late in life, therefore during his presidency -- this is a quote from the unpublished manuscript that wasn't ever brought to light in publication until someone else published it in the early 20th century, according to gurley, late in life, lincoln said while others are asleep, i think. night is the only time i have to think. i want to just and with a brief reflection on that statement presumably lincoln would have made that statement, it makes sense. even if it was reported only much, much later. there would be no reason for phineas gurley to make that up. it's a wonderful idea for us, in thinking about how lincoln's mind works. and what he might have been thinking on april 14. he might've been thinking during his conscious hours, during the day on april 14 about what he was going to think about that night. he didn't have time to think things through in 30 seconds of talking about richmond was kyler colfax, or three minutes o

abraham lincoln asked him to come back. he needed him back in congress fighting the fight that lincoln had, and garfield understood that. it was difficult for him. you know, he loved his regiment which was, many of whom are made up from boys from the institute. so it was a difficult decision for him and he felt very passionately about the civil war, not only in keeping the country together but in bringing about abolition. he was a fierce abolitionist and what is our national hero because of his work in the civil war. thank you. >> thank you very much for an excellent presentation. toward the end of your presentation you said this in the last paragraph that dr. bliss was murdering the president. you don't see any malice to him but utter incompetence? and one more question, just a little bit about your background. i'm curious to know how you got interested in the subject. >> i will address the bliss thing. you are absolutely right. the lasting bliss wanted was for garfield to die. in fact he wrote a letter to a friend on white

it was more than a hundred years ago that abraham lincoln, a great president of another party, signedtion. but emancipation is a proclamation, and not a fact. a century has passed, more than a hundred years, since equal was promised, and yet the negro is not equal. a century has passed since the day of promise, and the promise is unkept.qu/0 the time of justice has now ax÷mpfq come. i tell you that i believe sincerely that nos for can hold it back. it is right in the eyes of man and god that it should come, and when it does, i think that day will brighten the lives of every american. [ applause ]lpe/+ for negroes are not the only victims. how many white children have gone uneducated? how many white families have lived in stark poverty? how many white lives have been scarred by fear because we've wasted our energy and our substance to maintain the barriers of hatred and terror? [ applause ] and so i say to all of you here, and to all in the nation tonight, that those who appeal to you to hold on to the past dor so at the cost of denying you your future. this great, rich, restless count

that honor belongs to abraham lincoln.herman melville once wrote: who looks at lee must think of washington so deep with grievance meaning, it is fraught. why i think we've hidden the fraught for too long. i hope you'll read about it in my book, and i hope you'll come to washington and see some of the places i've described. and i'm so thanking to you all for coming and i'd be happy to answer your questions. thank you. [applause] yes. >> there's a story after the war in a church a black man comes forward -- you know the story. myself, i don't believe it. but i'd like you to comment on it because it is told in several ways to be very factual. could you comment? >> sure. so the story is that robert e. lee is in a church, and there is a black man praying. and robert e. lee -- and no one knows what to do because it's -- and robert e. lee goes up, and he kneels beside him. and that's a story that's been told by many people. and the truth is, we don't know. it was told many years after the event, so it's very difficult to evaluat

parthenon from the parthenon to martin luther, from martin luther to the founding fathers, to abraham lincoln trying to decide to sign the emancipation proclamation, to franklin roosevelt reading his first inaugural, but he says that in all the times of human history i would want to be alive, i would want to be alive for a few years in the middle of the 20th century. because what king sees when he looks at american history is actually this expensive story of liberation. so lincoln come in a way, even though he is on the verge of winning a war is getting a kind of -- giving a kind of penitential speech. where asking, at the lowest moment in his life, you might say, is giving this really wonderful resurrected kind of speech about the advancement of human freedom. and they are both trying to read history and see what god is doing in history, and they do it in very different ways, but they do it with enormous refunded to. again, i think it is not only a kind of rhetoric, but a kind of the a lot go reading of history that we just don't do anymore. i think we can lend a lot from it. >> i find mysel

you might remember that abraham lincoln was shot at ford's theater at about 10:30 on friday the 14th of april, 1865. a few days after lee's surrender to grant at appomattox, effectively ending the civil war. lincoln is at the play and is shot in the back of the head by john wilkes booth. in a small, by a small lead bullet. that bullet is actually on display here. you can see it in that small glass globe. the bullet was recovered the next day at an autopsy performed at the white house. in the hours shortly after lincoln is shot, the surgeon general, joseph barnes, responds to the president's side. this is abby peterson house -- this is at the peterson house across from ford's theater. he calls for something called a nelaton probe to be threaded into the wound and identify where the fragment or bullet was. the bullet ended up being lodged behind lincoln's right eye. the nelaton probe is part of the exhibit we have on display. surgeon general barnes army medical staff and another surgeon were at the president's bedside in the hours before he died, about 7:@222 the next morning on the 15t

although abraham lincoln was not a musical man himself, music certainly appealed to him.ts. music was an integral part of his life on the frontier and in the white house. during his 1860 presidential campaign, lincoln adopted "lincoln and liberty" as his official campaign song, a song that spoke of abolitionism and log cabin values. and perhaps a little more surprising, a favorite song of the president was dixie. in the afterglow of the surrender at appomattox, he remarked to a group of well-wishers, i have always thought that dixie was one of the best to ever heard and our adversaries for the way attempted to appropriate it. i presented it to the attorney general and he gave it as his legal opinion that it is our lawful prize. here to play lincoln and liberty and dixie is bobby and music -- bobby horton a music historian and great friend of our national parks. he has successfully combined his love of music and civil war history. i'm pleased to introduce you bobby horton. [applause] >> hello, everyone. this is lincoln and liberty. actually, the melody was an old irish tun

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as a student of history, and i know you are as well you think about abraham lincoln and the emancipation proclamation and the anger on the part of his supporters because he wasn't quick enough to do it. franklin roosevelt running as kind of an isolationist even as he was maneuvering the country to get into war. sometimes you have to pick the time and place and move the country along with you. on this issue, i think the president has done that and he'll be remembered not for this but as the president who ended "don't ask don't tell," doma who did endorse gay marriage at a time it gave real acceleration to the movement and i think that's what's ultimately important. >> i'm going to take a quick break. we'll be back with more on david axelrod and the things that don't have to do with president obama, in just a moment. >>> back for more with david axelrod and his book "believer." i remember the first time i read that you were the political consultant helping this guy barack obama when he was running for the u.s. senate and i thought, that makes a lot of sense. david axelrod is always the con

evening there will be an observance in the rotunda sponsored by the illinois state society and the abraham lincoln bicentennial foundation to observe this anniversary. my colleague senator kirk, is scheduled to be there. former transportation secretary ray lahood steven lange and some of the most distinguished lincoln scholars in america. dr. edna green medford chief justice frank williams of rhode island and the most prolific lincoln writer i know harold holzer of new york. there have been 15,000 books written about abraham lincoln. i think mr. holzer has written about half of them. he is not only prolific but he is profound. his observations about this great man's life. and he will be joined by edith holzer, his wife, who has stood by him through his lincoln travails. historians disagree on whether the second inaugural address of abraham lincoln was his greatest speech or only his second greatest. i'm in the latter camp. i accord the highest honor to the gettysburg address for its brevity as well as its inspiration, but both speeches are immore tall. i'm not a lincoln scholar but my life as an a

that means abraham lincoln was probably in town when he was making the photograph. go somewhere and take a picture of him. that is the greatest picture there never was. can you imagine, abraham lincoln on the steps of the capitol? but it did not happen. downtown richmond, at least the part where the evacuation fire occurred this looks like berlin. it gives people the impression that all of richmond burned out. wrong. don't believe that. if you are a photographer, are you going to want to take pictures of this or the untouched houses? i know what i'm going to pick. we do it today. we have tanks rolling into baghdad. we don't want to see the order and peacefulness. this is visual. this is what you want. you will see this particular ruling. and then this -- ruin. and then this door like thing. you have seen that before. countless times. there is the wall. i was able to find the original caption. view of ruins richmond, from main street. lee's army still on the field. lincoln still very much alive. all of this, that big week has yet to occur with the exception of the ev

have the opportunity to explore two great leaders separated by 100 years, but united by history, abraham lincoln and martin lincoln king junior, dealt with polarized divisions and called for a union -- a unified nation. what can we learn about their speeches then and now. i want to thank you again for joining us tonight. ford's theater has a number of events planned between now and may marking the anniversary of lincoln's death and end of the civil war. in your program you will find details and i hope you will be able to join us for some or all of those events. i would like to introduce you to our moderator for this evening. after serving in the peace corps in africa, chris matthews works in the united states senate and moved on to be a presidential speech writer and became top aide to the speaker of the house. since becoming a journalist he , has had an incredibly successful career by skillful and tactful coverage of the fall of the berlin wall and in south africa, among many other news events. he is probably best known today for his show "hardball with chris matthews" on msnbc and he is the au

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. >> abraham lincoln is an opponent to the war, he gives a series of speeches. >> the war, first in history documented with photographs, breaks out in april 1846. mexico sunder sund surrounders . >> u.s., acquires not just american southwest but also california. jamie: where slavery will be allowed is unsolved. >> debate over whether they will be slave or free is going to be so contention, and divisive that is going to lead to the civil war in 1861. jamie: patrick a box contains a number of civil war items too. cool stuff, certificate from confederate postal service, he can't be sure, how all of those items came to his family, some most likely are from that great, great grandfather who fought in mexico. >> other possibility his son, hudson who was a lawyer, and he represented soldiers. jamie: artifacts are passed down, making their way to family estate in virginia. when patrick a grandfather dies in 1956, and family clears out the house, his fa lea father wip with items by chance. >> on a wim he said we'll fake those 6 boxes. jamie: they are in basement of the home, outside of washington, d

these here this morning to discuss how abraham lincoln second inaugural marked a transition for the nationd in a struggle for civil rights for all citizens. please help me in welcoming dr. edna meade correct -- dr. edna medford. [applause] >> good morning. i was present at the inauguration of mr. lincoln, the fourth of march, 18 65. i heard him deliver this wonderful address. i know not how many times and before how many people i quoted the following words of our martyred president. they struck me at the time and have seemed to me ever since to contain more vital substance than i have ever seen compressed in a space so narrow. frederick douglass, 1865. for nearly two years as president lincoln initially struggled to keep the border states within the union, douglas had been a relentless critic. only after the president promised freedom to enslaved men and women in the seceded states did douglas temper his criticism. but even then, he continued to press lincoln for greater concessions, especially equal treatment for black soldiers. as lincoln grew in his recognition of the role black men wer

this week marks 150 years since president abraham lincoln's second inauguration. erday people reenacted the moment on the steps of the lincoln memorial. lincoln was assassinated a month after he gave that second inaugural speech. >> if there's one place i would recommend visiting that we take for granted all the museums and memorials around here, lincoln's cottage at petworth very his stork. that's where he spent a lot of days contemplating the civil war. >> i would not have envied his position at all in life. you get to be president, but president during the civil war, yikes. >> today is a good day to see any memorial right. >> if you want a picture of the national mall with snow on it you better hurry up and get out there. snowflakes meanting so fast you can almost hear it taking place out on the front lawn of channel 4. outside around all of the area temperatures will be way above freezing today. most everybody should be at least 20 degrees above freezing today, and in some neighborhoods, 30 degrees above freezing tomorrow. so the ice on the potomac is starting

the country speaks on november 8, and they reelect abraham lincoln. with that, you can say that the course is set. because now grant and the union army is operating around petersburg and richmond have their marching orders. they are to bring lee's armie -- army to bay, and they are to reunify the country. wintertime is no time for armies to maneuver and make those kind of movements comments of the armies go into winter quarters. grant himself has been in a tent outside petersburg since he arrived in june, has a log hut built to move into for the wintertime. his soldiers are going to do the same thing. as the army goes into winter camp, they are going to be bolstered by news from home up north that the holidays have approached and people are celebrating, while the confederate soldiers are faced with less and less in the trenches around heaters burgh and morale is harder and harder to keep these men steadfast to their duty. one of the most important events that happens in the siege of petersburg takes place not only not around petersburg but not even in

and it causes us to reflect on really what abraham lincoln meant to the country the whole purpose and what happened with the civil war, and who we are as a people. kimberly: the exhibit at ford's theater opens to the public monday. the carriage is now on display at the museum of american history. coming up on saturday news extra, amazon is expanding its one-hour delivery service. we'll tell you where and how much it will cost you. plus plans for a wal-mart supercenter in bowie running into channels and why some oppose that project. eileen: it was a comfortable and really pleasant first full day of spring. so what will the second full day of spring bring us? i've got details on the other side of the break. stay w kimberly: some 600 new jobs are coming to fair farks county. virginia governor terry mcclafe said navy federal credit union will invest $115 million to expand its headquarters in vienna. this project will include a new $233,000 square foot office building. governor mccauliffe approved a grant from the state's opportunity fund as an incentive for the expansion. amazon prime has