but there were too many people here in this little house as abraham lincoln was dying. so mary lincoln would sometimes come out that front door of the parlor and venture to the back. and her female trends escorted her down this hallway. by then, the bed had been pulled away from the wall. so the doctors could surround it and treat lincoln and observe him. so several times during the night, mary lincoln sat in a chair right here next to the bed pulled away from the wall. she really couldn't control herself. at one point when it sounded like lincoln was gasping and about to die, she let out a terrific shriek that so unnerved secretary of war stanton he said, "take that woman out of this room and don't let her back in again." which was a cruel thing to say. mary lincoln did not have a lot of fans in washington but it was not right to treat her that way in the presence of her dying husband. but she was so upset and unnerved, she really couldn't bear to be in this room. and so she only made a few trips back here throughout the night. and she was not present when the president

abraham lincoln hearse build. to remember, thank you president lincoln for affording us a reason to remember. to educate, thank you elizabeth simpson, president of the allstate capital foundation which afforded us a way to educate by reaching out to me last december for the opportunity to speak you this evening. to heal, thank you katie spindel, chair of the 2015 lincoln funeral coalition, for the opportunity to heal through this project and the upcoming reenactment event. thank you, our audience, our friends at c-span, our host, justin blanford, for being here and allowing us to share our story this evening as well. it is truly an honor to be here. my name is p.j. staab, representing the staab family of springfield, illinois, usa. i am a funeral director. not a historian. even though i have devoted hundreds of hours in researching this topic that i am very passionate about. a historic moment in time, about 150 years ago today, at 7:22 a.m., abraham lincoln was officially pronounced dead, news that shocked the nati

the abraham lincoln association book prize in 1996. his book won the 2010 lincoln prize.u have a netbook? prof. burlingame: no, it is 2000 pages. it weighs nine pounds. don't drop it on your foot. because it is so big and clumsy, i recommend, the 200 p0 pages are awkward to hold i recommend that people get it on kindle or ipad. they should be warned that as soon as you download abraham lincoln a life, your device becomes much heavier. host: craig is calling from pennsylvania. caller: hello, professor. my question has to do with the reenactors carrying the coffins. i assume that they were representing the veteran reserve corps. i understand they were the old ones who carry the coffin of president lincoln from -- all the way from washington to spring field. in springfield and number one, can you tell me the relationship between the so-called pallbearers and the veteran reserve corps. and secondly, my understanding the veteran reserve corps actually received a medal of honor for their honorary duty in guarding and escorting the body of president lincoln. prof. burlingame: th

the abraham lincoln association book prize in 1996. his book won the 2010 lincoln prize.u have a netbook? prof. burlingame: no, it is 2000 pages. it weighs nine pounds. don't drop it on your foot. because it is so big and clumsy, i recommend, the 200 p0 pages are awkward to hold i recommend that people get it on kindle or ipad. they should be warned that as soon as you download abraham lincoln a life, your device becomes much heavier. host: craig is calling from pennsylvania. caller: hello, professor. my question has to do with the reenactors carrying the coffins. i assume that they were representing the veteran reserve corps. i understand they were the old ones who carry the coffin of president lincoln from -- all the way from washington to spring field. in springfield and number one, can you tell me the relationship between the so-called pallbearers and the veteran reserve corps. and secondly, my understanding the veteran reserve corps actually received a medal of honor for their honorary duty in guarding and escorting the body of president lincoln. prof. burlingame: th

also, i understand that robert lincoln was at the final internment of abraham lincoln . is he buried there? richard: yes, the children are buried there, except for robert. robert todd lincoln, by all accounts, wished to be buried there. he was survived by his wife and she thought he deserved his own separate identity and monument. so he is buried in washington, d.c. it is very interesting. before he died, his son tom died in england and was brought back to the united states and was actually very -- buried with his grandfather abraham. when robert died tom was taken , out of this cemetery and taken back to washington to be buried with his father. to answer your question robert todd lincoln is not buried here. all of the other family members are. robert todd is buried in washington, d.c.. host: let's take another call. we will go to boise, idaho. caller: good afternoon. on this very sad memorial day. mr. hart, i have another question about robert todd lincoln. how did he get to the cemetery? i read somewhere he was staying a couple of days in washington to console his mothe

years how many years abraham lincoln lived in springfield in that house? years. but the house that we know today was a two-story rather imposing 1856. structure in that neighborhood was not that tall until 1856. hou so most of the time that the lincolns spent in that house, it was a one-story, much more modest house. and it was only the last five years that they lived in the hous e with the extra story added. that was done by mrs. lincoln in 1856. so when we visit the house -- disto >> go ahead and finish. >> when we visit the house we get a somewhat distorted view of what most of the time that the lincolns lived in the house, it at we looked like. that it was much more cramped space than what we find when we go to the house today. it wasn't so cramped for the last five years of their residence. >> if people come to visit s refl springfield, what will they see that's reflective of abraham lincoln and his life there? >> well there's a great deal here in springfield. it's what i refer to as the holy land. linc you have the lincoln home of course and the linc

abraham lincoln had seem him perform on stage. d booth from coming into that theatre book. lincoln, i'm surprised, was not murdered in the executive mansion during the war. security was so poor. you could be a stranger go to the white house and gain entry and say i'd like to see the president and you would likely be told if you sit down for a few hours you could have a couple of words with lincoln. it's incredible he wasn't killed a year or two earlier. he didn't believe in having guards or security and unfortunately, that was his undoing. >> we're talking about dave swanson, author of "manhunt." we're giving you a look at what it was like outside of the ford theatre and we'll do that right now. >> the attention of the whole audience was centered upon the stage and booth took advantage of the distraction and made his way into the box where president lincoln sat. we heard the report of the shot and the subsequent tumbles in the theatre but in the remote regions at the back of the stage, we thought the noise was occasioned by some ne

where president abraham lincoln passed away at 7:2 7:22 a.m. house built in the early 1850s by a german i am grant to america, william peterson. he used it as boarding house, 10 to 12 lived here at a time. this is a relic of 19th civil war boarding house culture. once upon a time, everybody lived in boarding houses, congressmen, senators, vice presidents of the united states lived in group homes. so this house aside from its history being where abraham lincoln died is an important part in civil war washington, d.c. history. aside from the lincoln death house, this is a great museum of immigrant culture in washington and boarding house life in washington, d.c. i have been coming here years, making pilgrimages here. i started coming here in 1986 when i joined the reagan administration and i have been coming here for years. i am very excited that this year for the 150th anniversary there will be a big commemoration for abraham lincoln. in past years, i am usually here alone. no one comes here on the night of assassination, no one comes to honor li

- a mini abraham lincoln.t was just a little stick figure out a steel. i thought that was really cool that they had their own abraham lincoln. even would not have been on top of the lantern. -- he would not have been on top the lantern. we got through that. that was kind of neat. [laughter] p.j.: the travel team begins phase three february 2015. the travel team escorted the hearse from northern california to tombstone, arizona. here you will see eric hollenbeck and jack feather offloading at tombstone, arizona. the challenges we faced were tremendous. in northern california, if anyone has ever been there near there read would force, it is very wet and moist in the sun really shines. you cannot fly in or out without the fog getting in your way. we never anticipated the amount of shrinkage that we would experience due to the climate change. we had to wait two weeks in tombstone, arizona before we even began to do anything with it. so that was a challenge. we assembled the assembly of the chassis and the finishin

thank you. >> "uss abraham lincoln." attention. >> i'd once again like to thank the riders of the ft. myers caisson plat toon, the goshen hunt club, the crew of the "uss abraham lincoln," as well as dr. morris and mr. peck for joining us all today. thank you all. i hope this was a memorable day for you as it was for us. thank you. >>> coming up on c-span2, a panel of health care analysts will examine the emerging online medical care industry, or tele-medicine. they'll discuss regulations impacting interstate and international trade, prices and quality of care, and policy concerns. see it live from the cato institute at noon eastern. later on c-span, the bipartisan policy center will release its recommendations for improving health care in america. health care experts will discuss critical disease prevention and cost reduction. watch that live at 1:00 eastern. >>> david mccullough on the wright brothers their quest for flight, and wilbur's hockey accident that changed his course in history. >> it was the mystery of who it

and the abraham lincoln he arse, except for two silver medallions. we recovered one of them in the mercantile library in st. louis. the director of the museum library indicated that he had a funeral ornament from lincoln's funeral. he brought it out. he and hunt was with me, the historian for the foundation here at the abraham lincoln presidential library foundation. and he said, you won't believe it. he said, this is an item that has been taken from the hearse probably given to the mayor or some local authority there in the st. louis area, and ultimately ended up in the museum. out of the woodwork, they did some searching, and found the second one. it was also removed prior to the fire. these were keepsakes, if you will, off the sides of the hearse. that is how that came about. how the fire started ? i don't know. even the train, it burned up in minnesota from some unknown -- well i think they know but i am not privy to that, i do not know the details. it also burned in a fire. it is being re-created as well by a company in northern illinois, elgin,

abraham lincoln says, no he'd like to go just the two. and they take this ride around the city and they talk about their future. and lincoln turns to her and says, now is the time where we should really put aside our sorrows and think about the future. and he says that he would like to go to -- you know, to see the holy lands, see the gold mines in the west, and mary talks about how she'd like to go visit the capitals of europe. and then what should they do, should they move back to springfield or possibly go to chicago? and you know they really say they're going to look to the future and put aside the sorrows of the past. and let's go to the theater. and that night, you know, they get ready to go to the theater. and they take -- they invite a number of people. that they might want to take to the theater. many people turned them down. originally they were hoping that the grants would join them. they take a young couple. major rathbone and his fiance clara harris. they pick them up in the carriage that i'm standing in front of. and they go

even mary todd lincoln, abraham lincoln was devastated after his first unsuccessful run for the senate and it was mary todd who said you can do this. what if she hadn't been that kind of encouragement and we wouldn't have had abraham lincoln wising up in politics. you know the story of nancy ragenned and how powerful she was. she watched his back and was his closest person advisor. they worked as a couple from the time he entered politics. the women in the victorian age, frances cleveland was enormously popular, first celebrity first lady yet her husband didn't want her in the public eye. she had to find other ways to wield her influence. she, when they lost the white house after the first time, turned and said to the staff keep the drapes as they, are we'll be back in four years, and they were. she was right about that. she knew the strength of her

abraham lincoln and frederick douglass.raphs show, they not only had compelling platforms but unforgettable faces. no one who met either one ever forgot being in their presence or how they expressed themselves publicly and privately. tonight, by using the very words lincoln and douglass 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 many of their major meetings and orations occurred, it is almost 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-douglass debate. 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 auto biology. >> i was born february 12, 1809. my parents were born in virginia of undistinguished families. second fam

abraham lincoln, redeemer president. lincoln's emancipation proclamation. the end of slavery in america. those two books one the lincoln prize. lincoln and douglas, the debates that defined america. that one won the lincoln institute prize. his most recent work is abraham lincoln as a man of ideas, a collection of essays. lincoln, a volume at oxford in 2009. his book on the battle of gettysburg gettysburg the last invasion published in 2013. he spent eight weeks on the new york times bestseller list. and possibly the best book written on the battle of gettysburg. his articles and essays have appeared in scholarly journals. new york times, the wall street journal, the washington post, los angeles times, a very long list. allen guelzo is our most distinguished biographer of abraham lincoln, and historian of the civil war. we are delighted to welcome him here today. he's going to talk about the subject, did religion make america's civil war worse? [applause] prof. guelzo: it is a pleasure to be able to speak to you once again, especially when i can come to a v

his most recent work is abraham lincoln as a man of ideas, a collection of essays. lincoln, a volume at oxford in 2009. his book on the battle of gettysburg publish in 2013. he spent eight weeks on the new york times bestseller list. possibly the best book written on the battle of gettysburg. his articles and essays have appeared in scholarly journals. los angeles times, a very long list. allen guelzo is our most distinguished biographer of abraham lincoln, historian of the civil war. we are delighted to welcome him here today. he's going to talk about the subject of did religion make america civil war worse? [applause] prof. guelzo: it is a pleasure to be able to speak to you once again, especially when i can come to a venue where the person who introduces me knows how to pronounce my name correctly. i have considered petitioning congress for some kind of recognition of special status protected status. my name in his in a vowel. no one seems to be able to pronounce it properly. i should receive some special recognition. you know when someone who is calling you reall

even in great britain, there is one visible reminder of civil war history and it is a statue of abraham lincoln and i'm going to blow up these images so you will be able to see them so that the statue in the city center and in the old burial grounds of lincoln and it was really nice when i was teaching civil war history in scotland to go on a field trip and that we could walk and i would talk about lincoln and talk about the civil war. that isn't the only statue in the united kingdom. there are three. the middle one is manchester, which is my hometown and the third one is in london. not quite a foreign invasion, but it is a visible presence for a foreign leader and a leader from a different century. when people hear about these status the question they ask, which is why, why do these statues exist 3,000 miles away from here? after all, lincoln never stepped foot in these cities and never visited the united kingdom and never traveled to any overseas country. his name wasn't really known overseas until the last few years of his life. yet these statues are physical proof that as lincoln himself di

and last but not least barney i didn't pain lee (clapping) the principle of abraham lincoln high school he's a noah valley native attended another lowell high school graduate and okay ease an everybody else scout part of cities interest group in the 19 year at sfusd and previously taught eight grade and as a principle never sits still has a standing deck in his office we've been somewhere with barney i didn't one the most principles i've seen in a grocery shopping cart and seen him break dance at parties seen him do flips an football fields some amazing things and the kids just love him needless to say he's part of a family that sfusd his brother tony is a principle, too, and i have another special thing for us or you this is from bill who is part of our school and he says this is something that comes those are very special this is an air force retirement award on the back principle of the year ward principle from abraham lincoln this is from the pta so bill stand up and get acknowledged a little bit of something special for you i love you (clapping.) barry photo i'm sorry. i'm to embra

grandma 150 years ago this weekend, a grieving nation gathered along abraham lincoln's funeral train as it made its way from washington dc to its final resting place in springfield illinois. today on american history tv we're live in oak ridge cemetery to commemorate t abraham lincoln's funeral with actors speeches musical performances, as well as historians and others. also on c-span this weekend tonight at 8:00, the festivities of the state visit of japanese prime minister, including his arrival at the white house and the toast in his honor. at 10:30 on sunday, oral arguments on same-sex marriage. on c-span two's booktv, tonight at 10:00 on "afterwards," peter slevin looks at michelle obama. and sunday at noon on "in-depth," author jon ronson. join the conversation with jon ronson. we will also be taking your phone calls, e-mails, facebook comments and tweets. get the complete schedule at c-span.org. >> the new congressional direct

even in edinburgh, there is one very visible reminder of civil war history and it is a statue of abraham lincoln. i will blow up these images later so you can actually see them. there is a statue in the city center of lincoln and it was really nice when teaching civil war history in scotland to be able to go on a field trip that we could walk to so i would take my students to visit the statue of lincoln and talk about him and the civil war. that is not the only lincoln system. the middle one is in manchester which is my hometown is john mentioned it is not quite a foreign invasion but it is still quite a striking visible presence for a foreign leader and a leader from a different century. when people hear about these statues the question they usually ask is, why do these statues exist 3000 miles away from here after all, lincoln never stepped foot in any of the cities never visited united kingdom are traveled to any overseas country and even his name wasn't really known overseas to the last few years of his life. yet these statues are physical proof that even if lincoln himself didn't travel ove

online so that anyone anywhere in the world can learn more about how regular people responded to abraham lincoln's assassination. david mckenzie: when lincoln was assassinated, of course this was five days after general robert e. lee surrendered to general ulysses s grant down at appomattox courthouse, and this is, going back and the moment, the first presidential assassination in the country's history. it is something that americans had never experienced before. they had also experienced four years of death and warfare. it was a terrible time. and it is really getting back into the moment is what we are trying to do here. sarah jencks: there is real value, we feel, and we have learned this from watching our visitors, and finding out what -- in finding out what they can -- what regular people experience with the lincoln assassination. so often, we really only care about the assassination through the stories of the people who were major players that night. and even sometimes then we will then about the stories of the people who were secondary players on the night of the assassination, like the doct

on c-span3. >> 150 years ago this weekend from a grieving nation gathered along the route of abraham lincoln's funeral train as it made its way from washington d.c. do is final resting place in springfield, illinois. this sunday afternoon on c-span3, we are alive from oak ridge cemetery to commemorate the anniversary of resident lincoln's funeral with over 1000 reenactors and every creation of the 1865 eulogy, speeches, and musical performances. historians and authors and a tour of the newly re-created lincoln funeral car. also this weekend tonight at 8:00, the festivities of the state visit of japanese prime minister including his arrival at the white house and the toast at the dinner in his honor. sunday morning, the supreme court has arguments on the issue of same-sex marriage. on c-span two this weekend tonight at 10:00, peter's love and looks at the life of our first lady. sunday at noon, our live three-hour conversation with jon ronson, who has written many books. join the conversation. we will also be taking your phone calls e-mails, facebook,, tweets. get the full schedule at www.c-spa

was a book about abraham lincoln. and as i looked, and i know this is virginia, so i am not asking you -- it is too late to have to vote for or against abraham lincoln. so don't worry. but lincoln was a master of words. i entitled the review, abraham lincoln, a man of his words, with an s, because, as i will explain in a minute, he and ronald reagan is one of the few others who was a president of his words. he will be remembered for his words because his gift for expressing his ideals was quite powerful. and i tried to, well, i just started -- as i was doing the review of the lincoln book, i started thinking more and more about ronald reagan. i think you will see why. most presses are defined by what happened while they were in office and what others write about them afterward. few paint an endured self-portrait in their own words. in the 20 century only franklin roosevelt and ronald reagan embedded themselves in history largely through their living words and images. fdr via radio and film and ronald reagan with telev

for a time, he was the leading whig politician in illinois, not abraham lincoln. some people have argued he makes lincoln's half forward and wrote the presidency policy the less possible because he was under the shadow of harding until that happened. his family is deeply affected by the u.s.-mexico war. let me tell you a little bit about the war. i am assuming like most people, you probably don't know much about it. the north american invasion as it was known in mexico began with president -- when president james polk sent troops into a disputed area with the intention of starting a war. polk wanted war. he was set on declaring war if the mexican army did not rise to debate. he found the mexican army had crossed the river and killed 14 sold to -- soldiers. polk went to his cabinet and set i think we should declare war against mexico. his cabinet said we really cannot because the mexicans have not done anything. we sent 4000 american troops into land mexico thinks is there's, and we are waiting for something to happen and has not happened so cannot declare war yet.

about this time in the evening 150 years ago abraham lincoln and his wife mary todd lincoln were preparing to go see the noted actress laura king in the comic play "our american cousin" which was featured at ford's theater. it was well-known that lincoln a regular theater goer would be at the play that evening because the story was in the headlines. washington was still in celebration over the surrender of robert e. lee to ulysses s. grant five days earlier. april 14th was also the four-year anniversary of the beginning of the civil war at ft. sumpter in charleston harbor south carolina despite all the joy and excitement lincoln had second thoughts about going out that fight, not that he had any scruples about it being good friday. he didn't share the strict christian problems that christians had of going to the theater on a holy day. however, he had had a disturbing dream the night before his bodyguard ward hill layman had left town warning him not to go out in public due to the highly charged atmosphere with disgruntled enemies surely lurking about. also lincoln had a hard time getting p

. >> ♪ ♪ >> abraham lincoln. you like him? >> i love him. >> you love lincoln? >> i would venture to say i'm obsessed with lincoln. >> i think he just craves a little affection. >> when was lincoln president. >> 1850. >> civil war era. >> 1830s or something. >> 40s? 50s. >> 60? >> there is plenty. that's a lot. >> 1850. [ buzzer ] >> 1860. >> 1860s, yeah. >> you like lincoln. >> 1886. >> around when was lincoln president. >> 1860s. >> he freed the slaves? >> did he free the slaves. >> emancipation proclamation he saved the slaves. say that five times fast. >> emancipation proclamation. >> i was just kidding. >> i'm laughing. >> i read the declaration of the independence. >> that wasn't lincoln. >> who was that? thomas jefferson, yes. >> how did lincoln free the slaves? [crickets chirping] >> do you remember that? >> in some parts of the universe it's considered cool to know what's going on in the world. >> do you think he is the best president? >> no. >> you guys fans of lincoln? >> no. >> do you admire him? >> y

bush had champ that jefferson, abraham lincoln theodore roosevelt and ike. william jefferson clinton thomas jefferson, abraham lincoln, and george washington. he took down ike. george w. bush returned to ike and may not be the worst thing he did as president about removed abraham lincoln's picture from the wall. our current president, president obama, has put up harry hard harry truman, george washington, thomas jefferson and theodore roosevelt. he has lincoln in another room. in the oval office. so when it came to hanging portraits in the white house cabinet room, presidents number 40 through 44 all had one predecessor in common thomas jefferson. so this book spans about three-quarters of a century but i'm going to start with the year -- the winter of 1924-1925 when a book was published that had a profound impact on the democratic party and specifically on franklin d. roosevelt who at that time was a failed vice presidential nominee, and still eight years from becoming president. he wrote the first and only book review of his life about this book by man fro

>> osgood: the assassination of president abraham lincoln shocked this country 150 years ago this past month. coming just days after the lee surrendered to grant and the end of the civil war lincoln's death plunged the nation into new uncertainty, and prompted a very long good-bye, martha teichner sets the scene. >> a stunned sad sea of mourners lined the streets in the rain as abraham lincoln's casket was taken from the white house to the capitol on the day of the assassinated president's funeral. tens of thousands of people filed past the body lying in state, but millions would see it as abraham lincoln made what is probably the most extraordinary train journey in american history, home to springfield, illinois. >> people traveled for miles over rugged country just to see the train that carried the body of president lincoln. >> robert reed wrote and account of lincoln's funeral train. >> they got in that horse drawn wagons, they got on horseback. they walked. these weren't interstates, these were very primitive paths to the rail track. >> reporter: the train carried not just lincoln'

negroes hemmed and hawed about abraham lincoln. "abraham lincoln did the best he could. he was on the path." the "on the path" argument. when you like them, they are coming around. when you don't like them, they are not coming around. so black folks reinterpreted lincoln, they reinterpreted the civil war, they reinterpreted everything, and that major interpretation was really something else. it was about we are going to rediscover black people's fight for freedom, fight for equality. and protest becomes the central piece of african american history. the theme changes. mr. appelbaum: so the scene shifts to protests, reflecting what is happening on the ground. there is an understanding of the past, which helps us, gives us the tools to grapple with the present. but you can also go back to the civil war era and find the 55th massachusetts demanding equal pay, equal rights. there is a protest tradition that roots itself. dr. scott: and that's what we'll talk about. mr. appelbaum: excellent. so there is a way to do it, but it's not the way it's done. and that's an interesting

william jefferson clinton, thomas jefferson, abraham lincoln and george washington. he took down train six. george w. bush returned ike and may not be the worst thing you did as president, but he removed abraham lincoln's picture from the wall. our current president, president obama has put up harry truman, george washington, thomas jefferson and theodore roosevelt. he has lincoln in the oval office. so when it came to hanging portraits in the white house cabinet room president number 40 through 44 all had one predecessor in common. thomas jefferson. so the book spans about three quarters of a century, but i am going to start with the winter of 1924-in 1825 when his book was published that had a profound impact on the democratic party and particularly for nt roosevelt who at that time was a failed vice presidential nominee and still eight years from becoming president. he wrote the first and only book review of his life about this book by a man from indiana named claude bowers. the book was called jefferson and hamilton: the struggle for democracy in america. rooseve

like the first time around, the reenactment of that final solemn procession, the bearing of abraham lincoln's casket through the streets of springfield at last. >> to the vault where he would be laid to rest took center stage. >> >> but unlike in 1865, the builders of this replica are determined that lincoln's funeral car and its remarkable story will not be lost again. >> >> osgood: still to come -- >> hello there, beaver. >> here you are. >> moms on tv. >> daytona. >> osgood: later -- moms taking stock. >> hi dear, did you get it from the a way home from school. >> is he home left? >> no he left his room in a mess again this morning. >> he is probably playing with some of the other neighborhood monsters. >> it is sunday morning on cbs and here again is charles os food. >> osgood: reed played the perfect mom in the 1960's tv show bearing her name, it could have been called mother knows best. >> it is nice to find out how to find out today's tv moms compare. >> excuse me? >> mom, i have watched you lick cocaine crumbs out of a shag carpet. >> it is good to be thrifty dear. >> on the sitcom mo