hamish linklater is an amazing abraham lincoln. nown a few lincolns, i've known gregory peck, i've known sam waterston. i met hal holbrook. they were in their own ways, different lincolns. but hamish is i remember when i was on set in savannah when we were filming some scenes and hamish and i had dinner for the first time and he said, i'm very nervous to meet watched you perm all day to day. you are abraham and he's abraham lincoln in the series, tobias is a fabulous secretary of war. sam, a very important thing is to show the relationship and friendship between lincoln and tobias captured this perfectly. tobias menzies. tobias menzies, yes. and so i felt i was watching the real abraham lincoln, the real secretary of war, stanton you know, can in any tv series have every fact in my book? of course not. but are the characters real? yes. so i'm very happy with it. a series that viewers can watch on apple tv. plus, let's go back to the scene of the crime, though, as it were, to ford's theater. how does john wilkes booth get within derr

he's right behind abraham lincoln. lincoln sees something in the audi lincoln leans forward to see what's going on. so lincoln doubt is presenting the rear left of his head to the sightline of john wilkes booth. booth has to do nothing but take the opportunity out of his pocket. aim it forward. he can almost lincoln's head with a pistol and he fires that one shot and lincoln slumps down. he doesn't know what hit him. lincoln doesn't even hear the shot. he's unconscious immediately because the bullet enters behind his lift, air goes diagonally through his brain and comes to rest behind his right eye. and then major rathbone, one of lincoln's theater guests, leaps up. he realizes something is wrong. booth shouts, freedom, freedom to the south. and then booth withdraws a dagger and stabs rather deeply through his arm. rathbone is bleeding. booth then goes to the balustrade. he slides over and he jumps down. now, normally i'd make that shot with no problem, but his spirit catches on either flag or on a portrait of george wa

its guests haluded abraham lincoln, mark twain. world war two soldiers and t first japanese delegation the united states in 1861. welcome to the willard. i'm carr and i owns this wonderful asset and today you'll hear a lot its rich history. hello, marie carr. welcome to the willard hotel, located in the heart of the city. just two blocks away from the ite house. the willard is conveniently located to many of the city's notable attractions, including iconic monuments, memorials and museums on the national mall. we're very fortunate to have location and we can know wre thanks to captain john taylor. captain john taylor was reputed to be one of virginia's wealthiest plantation owners. he was a friend and supporter of to build the city of washington, d.c. captain taylor acquired the land on 14th and pennsylvania avenue in 181he built six two story atc dwellings. now, you might won this was a goestmt for him, because the city of washington at the time was, really not a city at all. it was more of a town. in fact, it was far marshlands.

abraham lincoln bicentennial commission. like our lincoln forum chairman, john white, based on his study output and public engagement, i'm not sure that our forum actually sleeps either. harold currently serves the john f, jonathan f stanton, director of hunter college's roosevelt house public policy institute and has authored or coauthored or edited more than 50 books in. 2020. he published the presidents, the press the endless battle between the white house and the media from the founding fathers to fake news. his previous book on a similar theme was the award winning lincoln and the power of the press the war for public opinion, which won the gilder lehrman lincoln prize in 2015. among his many publications, lincoln harold has also written an important biography of lincoln memorial sculptor daniel chester, french in monument man the life and art of daniel chester french published in 2019. i could go on at some length about harold's history as lincoln scholar, his 23 years as senior vice president for public affairs at the

abraham lincoln and his family ayed at the willard for ten days. and in fact, first check he wrote when he was a president was to pay for his willard hotel bill ulysses grant also at the willard. however, when he appeared to check in with his son, he didn't have on his uniform. he looked disheveled and unfortunately one recognized him. so his room wasn't very nice. we're lucky, though, he doesn't hold a grudge because he came back to the willard multiple times. he liked to smoke a cigar, sit by the fireplace, and spend time in the lobby. a lot ofessm decide to take the opportune a grant sitting in the lobby at the will askor favors, and president grant called them lobbyists. the term lobbyists origat in london, but it was president grant who made a word that's common in our picture. we learned today. juliet ward howe was also a guest at willard. she was the sister, the famous lobbyist, sam ward, and he had recommended she and her husband at the willard. the willard was one of the few hotels that offered stationery to his guest. it was on one of the

abraham lincoln did not stay in this room. the room was named after him. he stayed in the structure. it was dated in 1864, ten days prior to his election. but let's go back to what the city of washington was like in 1860. in 1860, there was a lot of focus on military and political activity, one historian noted that hotel demand so great the hotels were able to their prices from $2 to $4 a night. the willard, unlike other hotels, was considered neutral the northerners would enter from the pennsylvania avenue entrance, and our southerners entered from the f street entrance, the willard hall, with a large, spacious room that was able to accommodate the peace convention the convention was a last ditch to try to avert the civil war. it was held from fe 4th to february 27th, in 1861. it. 131 polities from 21 states and our former tyler was chair of the unfortunate. lee. it failed. and six weeks later the civil war started the arrival abraham lincoln to washington not without excitement. war fever was, broiling emotions there feelings in maryland there were sympa

and this is a letter that she wrote to abraham lincoln talking about how patriotic appleton was. and she enclosed a patriotic that appleton had written. and i believe that lincoln knew who she was because lincoln kept, this letter and it is now actually michelle's care at the library of congress in the lincoln papers there, appleton's wife also to abraham lincoln. lincoln didn't know who she was. that letter is buried in the national archives. he didn't keep that one. the mother in law and the the wife were working together to try to get appleton released. even they actually hated one another at this point. eventually the federal government decided to move william seward decided to move appleton to fort warren because they believed it would be to get a conviction in a court than in a new york city court. and appleton, at this point didn't know why he was moved to fort warren on christmas day, 1861. appleton there with a lot of other political prisoners, members of the maryland state legislature, and all these political prisoners just hated william seward and the way they celebrate

abraham lincoln was one who really derided it. he says, look, we'll follow the court. but it's one of these things that maybe we need to get decision changed some time. lincoln to. but again, not james brookes and buchanan likes and he makes the comment when this comes out this decision so full explicit establish the right the master to take his slaves into the territory and hold them there. and despite of all conflicting congressional or territorial legislation, what does the constitution say? what are the law say? what are the court say? that's what was going to be the hallmark for james buchanan as president of united states. don't expect him to go outside of those guardrails? well, the issue in kansas continues to to rile up they've gone from a territorial legislature now to the point where they're actually getting ready to apply statehood. time for another election. they're going to elect delegates to a state constitutional convention to write constitution so that they can become a state. same story again. is it going to be a pro-slavery group or a free state group

award and the author of the highly praised every drop of momentous second inaugural ocean of, abraham lincolnalso available, i believe, in the bookstore along with the lincoln miracle. he also s widely acclaimed books about 19th century baseball. and is something i didn't know until we■wl and american culture titled entitled 59 and 84. and the of beer and whiskey. i to read that one so please eddie cohen. wow. thank you so much. w much of an honor is it to receive an award with the name of harold sir on it? i've turned to his books for insight into inspiration for decades now. and i never honestly imagined a moment like this would come. so thank you to the forum. and to him. thank my wife, valerie, who is here today. she's the one to whom the book is dedicated. lincoln like to read aloud. finding that sense inside combined to make his writing clearer and better. and he pretty much drove his law partner, billy herndon, with that. but valerie seemed, to take it. well, when i read each chapter of, this book to her and i, i was on the right track when, she said, i can't wait to hear what happens

african-americans on abraham lincoln. this segment of our program allows us to eavesdrop on a conversation between and matt as they discuss the heartwarming highly emotional and keenly relationship between president lincoln and black americans who knew him by. i give you professors and norman. good morning can everyone hear me? excellent. excellent. benjamin quarrels, who was a pioneer african-american history in author of the book lincoln and the --, along with several other books like the -- and the civil war, frederick douglass. he did a book on african-american in the american revolution. so and a number of books. he was a true pioneer in african-american history. i he said many, many years ago in the sixties that lincoln became lincoln because of the --. and it was the latter who first reflected the image of lincoln. that was to live. in other words, it was the african-american and who actually created and encouraged the great emancipator image. and so quarrels, i think was was partially right even before lincoln issu

he understood that lincoln was the boss and that there was more to abraham lincoln that he had originally. yeah, exactly. there was more to it. and graham not only handled his role as lincoln with his team of rivals, he actually was the leader with the actors as well and was able to work with them on, their lines, and he would have them to apartment and and he didn't take a moment off in the months that he did this. i mean he barely slept. he barely eight he he worked nonstop and really built that community, not just as a fellow actor, but really embodying lincoln. it was really extraordinary to hear about it. we would do zooms with with him as he going in the process and to hear what he was up against and actually looking at michelle. michelle was our lifeline. anytime we didn't know the answer to something which happened you know even with doris he was been doing this for a long time and michelle would be our life line and we would say, michelle, help win. what? here, what? what did this look like? and so it's really great and but graham just embodied lincoln in a way that it just blew

he understood that lincoln was the boss and that there was more to abraham lincoln that he had originally. yeah, exactly. there was more to it. and graham not only handled his role as lincoln with his team of rivals, he actually was the leader with the actors as well and was able to work with them on, their lines, and he would have them to apartment and and he didn't take a moment off in the months that he did this. i mean he barely slept. he barely eight he he worked nonstop and really built that community, not just as a fellow actor, but really embodying lincoln. it was really extraordinary to hear about it. we would do zooms with with him as he going in the process and to hear what he was up against and actually looking at michelle. michelle was our lifeline. anytime we didn't know the answer to something which happened you know even with doris he was been doing this for a long time and michelle would be our life line and we would say, michelle, help win. what? here, what? what did this look like? and so it's really great and but graham just embodied lincoln in a way that it just blew

abraham lincoln. mr. matthew, i'm ' e over a cliff when everyone else is reined in theirncoln sees a road where you don't, mr. douglas. mr. trump, i would to dance with you in the worst way. i. lincoln had a great for women. he wasery bashful he was very shy. but that didn't mean that he was not always thinking about women. mary todd was the bell of the town. she was beautiful. she was witty. she attracted many suitors. she was actually courted others she was educated. she came from a long line of diplomat, ambassadors, governors. she was very interested in politics. she was from a prominent whig political family. her father was a slaveholder henry clay, who was lincoln's political hero. i myself am a great man can play really well. well, i think the lady like yourself, he interested in well i hope you'll find i'm not like her ladies. mr. lincoln. and tell me, what is this, cliff? you determined to drive lincoln felt an instant connection to her and she. to him she saw something in him right away. well, m

abraham lincoln received that letter. and lincoln had a very keen sense of justice when it to matters like this. and he knew that this young woman been wronged and that very day he received the letter, he took it, he read it, he turned it over and on the back. he wrote pardon a lincoln. november 5th, 1864, i believe. it is the fastest pardon lincoln issued during his presidency and to make it all the more incredible. november 5th was three days before he would stand for reelection. we know how big elections in this country. but lincoln took out of his very busy schedule to right a wrong as he could to this young black woman woman. i just go right in, right. lincoln would travel around washington, d.c. and he interacted with many african-americans around the city and often he would stop at the contraband camp, which was located near where howard university is today, and when he would get there. sometimes the black refugees who would who were there would sing for him. the commander of the camp one day said to a young black w

in fact, sherman's brother asked abraham lincoln at a reception, do you know where my brother is? ncoln said, well, know what hole we went into, but we don't know what hole he's coming out of. but when he came out of that hole and markland was there just off shore with a boat with 28 tons of mail, those soldiers, it is the most remarkable logistical in the civil war. i, i haven't heard anybody dispute that. but it is just amazing. and so he the war is over in april of 1865, mark en to go into civilian life, become a lawyer, lobis and and grant who has just done, you know, lee on april 9th and is now trying to get the get everything in order to reduce the army, put everybody back in the into civilian mode, takes out from his busy schedule to send mark on this this is a saddle this saddle that grant used throughout the civil war and the tt that accompanies it is just beautiful. i have it in the book, but it basically says this is a token ofythe hopes that we can contue our service together. it is the prize of the artermaster museum at, a place that used to be calledor lee, virginia,

lives of black citizens following emancipation and the legacy of president abraham lincoln. and at 6:p.m. eastern we'll tour the state department diplomatic rooms, with the curator virginia hart and interview stacey shipp about the first democrat, president abraham lincoln and we'll watch "free to produce" by rose friedman and her husband. explore the american story. watch american history tv on saturday and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online at any time on c-span.org/history. >> house democratic leader hakeem jeffries called the president smokin' joe biden speaking to reporters and saying the president was on fire, he was lit in last night's state of the union address and later he took questions on the port in gaza that was announced the u.s. would be building for assistance and the status of funding for ukraine. this is about 15 minutes. mr. jeffries: good morning, everyone. smokin' joe biden was on fire during the state of the union address. he was lit. he delivered a compelling vision for the american maga extremism. questions? reporter: one of th

he's related to abraham lincoln, whose mother, of course, was nancy hanks. lincoln, they were both originally from virginia, went kentucky. he's not to finish that. he died three years later. and i was unable get that work done. i had pretty much hired a genealogist and but covid shut all the archives for genealogy and he died. and when he died there were newspaper articles him all over the country remembering him for the work that he did, keeping the front lines in the home front together, and then reuniting the north in the south through the mail after the war, he is buried in dumbarton oaks cemetery and this memorial, not for him. this catherine, a great friend of ours, of mine, tooa lot of photographs for me of the onhat stone.d his name is etched but that is really was really originally put there for his father motr in law. and so they are buried there. he and his wife are and then a number of other symmes relatives are buried there. so there's at least that that we have in the washington area about him. and then here at the postal museum. as you go into