i hope for everyone and you can learn many things about abraham lincoln about his times about the civil war. i hope they leave realizing at least one thing and that's that lincoln is still very relevant to us today that the ideas he stood for is still the idea is that we as a nation say we aspire to today and that he can be a great model for all of us of how we attain those attain those principles.

and repeated them was abraham lincoln who recognize these letters has eight periodicals and books from 1861, onward and present a lincoln enjoys writing so much that he often share them with others. he had kept them to memory sketches which he recited spontaneously at key moments when he didn't have this in the rainy would pull out the book from either or pocket or his drawer and read from it and one evening, group of politicians appeared and in the presence of his with a pile of official papers for him to consider and he looked at the documents clearly and push them aside and he pulled down from his drawer, the pamphlet any read one of those allowed and periodically broke out into an explosive left which a witness compared to wildhorse and is native prairie. and lincoln enjoyed reading the pamphlet so much that he jumped at the evening at the end of the reading, i want him to come down here i tend to tell him that if he will communicate his talent to me, i will swap places with him read say in adoration for him. what was it about davis ross block. they made him unique and lincoln's ey

emphatically the black man's president african-american correspondence and conversations with abraham lincoln and i realized very quickly that i had so many letters and so many conversations that were recorded between black men and women and lincoln that it was more than i could do in a single book and so in 2011 just a couple months ago. i published this book here to address you as my friend african americans letters to abraham lincoln with the university of north carolina, press i did the letters as one book and then i wanted to write a narrative history with the conversations. and so i took all of those and then turned it into a house built by slaves so you got two books two books that very much. i got it together out of it. that's yeah, you need both shelf. all right, so we are going to dive in to a detailed discussion of a house built by slaves in just a moment folks. but first i first i want to talk about something that happened to this week. it happened yesterday. and that is the annual announcement of the gilder larman lincoln prize and we are gonna bring that up here today because jo

great emancipator abraham lincoln. i'm going to share just one last essay and it was written by lincoln. the film lincoln producer kathy kennedy kennedy and her essays entitled clarity purpose. and it's very good at helping kind of close. although i'll say a few remarks just this. and she writes, we spend much, if not all of our lives in search of our reason for being. and the harder we look, the more the hidden meaning our own existence seems to elude us. abraham lincoln, on the other hand, had an enviable clarity of purpose that resulted in his many great achievements. he recognized the party to play in american history and wasted no time in accomplishing all he could. those seemingly insurmountable obstacles were put in his path. his understanding of how fit into his time and place, coupled with his ambition, vision, inner strength, strong moral compass, all always gave him the will to overcome them. but that personal presence we often fail to recognize often comes at serious cost. the response ability to fulfill one

set out to draw back the curtain on the domestic life of abraham lincoln. lincoln contended with political and military battlegrounds during the civil war. his home life did not provide the relief he sought. drawing upon diaries, correspondence and federal records, burlingame explores the marriage of abraham and mary lincoln. michael burlingame, holder of the distinguished chair in lincoln studies at the university of illinois-springfield, was born in washington, d.c. and raised in nearby arlington. his first book, the inner world of abraham lincoln, was written in 1994. he's written over a dozen books including one of the five best books of the year by the atlantic. this october pegasus books will release his study, "the black man's president: abraham lin on the, frederick douglass and the quest for racial justice." now let's hear from michael burlingame. thank you for joining us today. >> before i begin my remarks, i would like to thank the archives for letting me participate in this series. over the years i've spent many ours in the archives conducting l

and in this remarkable speech he says abraham lincoln was preeminently the white man's president the first to rise above the prejudices of his time and his country by inviting me frederick douglass to the white house to consult on public affairs. lincoln was saying by that gesture that i am the president of the black people as well as the white and i mean to honor their rights as men and citizens. and it's a striking contrast to the speech. that is very well. known widely anthologized and commented on regularly and that is a speech he gave 11 years later. at the dedication of a statue the emancipation memorial in washington in which he said abraham lincoln was preeminently the white man's president. and i remember when i first encountered the speech in the douglas papers in manuscript. i was i was astounded i said surely i would have seen this speech in the five. i am addition of douglas's speeches that the yale press published or the four-volume study of philip phone or had anza which phone her and i went back to those sources and those speeches weren't that speech wasn't included. u

i see you have it there because abraham lincoln is the one who lives up to the hype.i wrote these books to give my kids better, to look up to, to teach them how to kind, to teach them generosity, to them. perseverance to teach them humility. remember, humility was a great american value, right? we've lost that. we now pay attention on social media to people who write in all caps and exclamation points. i'm tired of. that nonsense, right? we need to teach our kids better values. and i wrote this book series just to give my kids those heroes. so abraham, i love i also love. i'm helen keller. because in helen keller, when she goes blind, the pages of the book go black and it says, here's how i see the world. cover your ears. here's how i hear the world. and then put real braille into the book and it says, close your eyes. here's the braille alphabet is my name. my name is helen. what's your name? i watch my son with his eyes closed and he's feeling the dots and walk in as he's doing this. and he says to me, dad, this one's actually good. and i'm like, actually. again, sh

the work that glorifies abraham lincoln. common core was the lost cause and so by the time the last reconstruction congressman left, congress, in 1901, the narrative was in place and professor dunning as columbia wrote the academic histories about reconstruction saying it is the worst moment in the history of the idea of democracy. i will tell you how bad it was. i dug up this passage for you. it is from thomas dixon who was also a racist novelist and a klansman was the basis for birth of a nation but he wrote another book before it in 1902 called the leftist spot, a leper -- a leopard can't change its spots. it is in the old testament. this is what he said. i did you to listen to this, quote, the negroes here, two pairs. it seemed a joke sometimes, the thought of it, a huge preposterous joke, actual attempt to reverse the order, turn society upside down and take the negro yesterday was taken from the jungle, the proudest and strongest race halt in 2000 years of history, passion in the hearts of the demagogues, with social d

it's also one that president-elect abraham lincoln fully supported. when lincoln arrived in washington in february, he's going to spend some time talking to congressman and also going to the peace conference and supporting the efforts of folks to compromise. there was one thing he wouldn't compromise on right that's the territories because the territories are what the republican party had run on in 1860 restricting slavery in the territories, but in terms of where slavery existed yes, lincoln is on board with not interfering. on march 4th lincoln is going to deliver his inaugural address. much less confusing than james buchanan one of the wonderful things about abraham lincoln is his ability to sort of capture all of the key points of what's going on in that particular moment both sort of in general terms, but also constitutionally and so his at first inaugural address, which you read for today and we'll talk more about on thursday is going to lay out his constitutional vision for this particular moment. you can see in the first case that he says he ha

. >> edward acorn has been a lifelong leader of abraham lincoln. in 2020 he published his first spoke on the 16th president called "every drop of blood: the momentous second inauguration of abraham lincoln." in his second book on the nghe an, mr. acorn dropped back to the beginning of honest abe national political career. the year was 1850. the subject matter is inside the republican convention held in chicago. this time the book is titled "the lincoln miracle." edward acorn is the former editorial page editor of the province journal and it lives in rovers, massachusett >> on this episode of book notes plus available on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts.

your endorsement." >> seth: first of all, why is george washington just george washington, but abraham lincolnte great abraham -- i'm certain that's the extent of trump's knowledge about abraham lincoln. if you asked him to say anything else, it would just turn into word soup. "abraham lincoln, he was definitely great, and he is definitely late, aka dead, he died [ laughter ] he died so tragically, when john wilks jumped out of a phone booth and said, 'your hat or your life. but lincoln, he couldn't take off his hat. people don't know this he couldn't take off his hat, because it was a stove pipe, and therefore, hot to the touch. [ laughter ] trump then continued with his attacks on desantis. >> i said, "let's give it a shot, ron, okay? and he was desperate i said, "okay. i gave him a nice endorsement. i said, "you write out what you'd like and let me see it." he wrote it out, i thought it was terrible i changed it, made it great. from the moment i pressed that button, he blew the guy away the race was over. and i said, "ron, you can beat this guy let's go." i got him the nomination by the way

. >> we mentioned abraham lincoln. there is a myth that exists, and i give credit to this myth or bill stern, a former sports broadcaster. he created a lot of myths, but one of them was abraham lincoln, on his deathbed called abner doubleday, and one of the last words that lincoln said was, make sure baseball survives. it's not true. but it's a great story. >> we talked about fdr, but the first pitch -- when and how did that pitch begin with the u.s. president. >> it began in 1890 seven. william mckinley was president. he was invited to the opening day and had about a hundred members of congress. william mckinley miss the opportunity to throw out the first pitch of the season. they went from mckinley to teddy roosevelt. he was never a baseball fan. from there, we went to william howard taft. >> he was a senator manager who was lost history. he sgested that taft do this, but there was no sense then that there would be a situation. it was a one-off. it wasn't until years later that they made an annual tradition. had a fi

[speaking foreign language] ♪ ♪ >> edward acorn has been a lifelong reader of abraham lincoln.20 he published his first book on the 16th president called every jostled blood. subtitled the momentous inoculation of president lincoln. in his second book mr. acorn dropped back to the beginning of honest abe's national political career. the year was 1860. the subject matter, inside the republican convention held in chicago. this time the book is entitled the lincoln miracle. edward acorn is the editor of the providence journal and lives in behoved with, massachusetts. -- and lives in rehobeth, massachutt >> book notes plus is available on the c-span mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. funded by these television companies and more including sparklight. >> the greatest town on earth is the place you call home. at sparklight it is our home too. right now we are all facing our greatest challenge. that is why sparklight is working around-the-clock to keep you connected. we are doing our part so it is a little easier to do yours.

inauguration of abraham lincoln. in his second book just published on mr. acorn dropped back to the beginning of honest abe's national political career. that year was 1860. the subject matter, inside the republican convention held in chicago. this time the book is titled the lincoln miracle. edward acorn is the former editorial page editor of the providence journal and lives in rehab with, massachusetts. >> edward acorn and his book the n miracle on this episode of book notes plus paired book notes plus is available on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. a front row seat to democracy. >> ♪ ♪ susan: philip k howard you have a brand-new book out titled not accountable rethinking the constitutionality of public employee unions. your introduction begins with a story of a man who was convicted of killing george floyd. how does his story illustrate your? philip: the head of the police and minneapolis had no authority to manage personnel and the police force so they didn't have the authority to terminate him or have the authority to r

hear the words of george washington, abraham lincoln, ronald reagan, and this week, barack obama.e to the nation after the mass shooting at sandy hook elementary school, and three years later after the shooting at the mother of emmanuel ame church in south carolina. resident biden once again led the country in mourning by singing amazing grace. >> ♪ amazing grace how sweet the sound ♪ >> watch our 10 part series, speeches that defined a presidency, saturday at 9:30 am and pm on american history tv. ♪ >> the up-to-date in the latest publishing's with book tv's podcast, about books, with current nonfiction book releases. plus the bestseller list as well as interviews and trends through insider reviews. you can find about more on c-span now, our free mobile app, or wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more, including comcast. >> you thought this was just a community center? no, it is way more than that. >> comcast is partnering with 1,000 community centers to create wi-fi enabled listings so

a race riot in the home of springfield, illinois the home of abraham lincoln. we don't want anybody to know about that. i'm sure that why you know, it's it's a black spot. a black spot on springfield history. who ever would have that? there would be a race right? the home of mr. lincoln. that would be the last place and place was in the north. you usually associate race riots in to be in the south and in the south, but no, this this was in the north. you it says we should learn remember our history or else we are condemned or something like that to repeat it because. i hope that we would never get to the stage or get to the stage in springfield where. something that would hap