his awards include the abraham lincoln association's lincoln the lawyer award and the aura of lincoln, the highest honor bestowed by the state of illinois. frank also married well. [ laughter ] we are reminded, we are reminded that great men usually have extraordinary women at their sides who are doing their own thing. i and frank certainly is in that category. he will address the topic reconstruction after lincoln. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, edna, and you're absolutely right. i married a great lady. believe' be we've been married 50 years. [ applause ] and how anyone could put up with me for 50 years is deserving of great awards. [ laughter ] this paper could also be called "reconstruction, what went wrong." this is not a happy paper, and you're going to have to stay with me because of the pan rora of people, white and black, legalities, the cal any of our government, the lack of support for many americans, north and south. winning the, on the battlefield may be relatively easy, compared to winning the peace afterward. abraham lincoln was a political genius in keeping toget

lincoln forum. he is also president of the ulysses s. grant association. a former president of the abraham lincoln association and a former member of the abraham lincoln bicentennial commission and foundation. and he did all of this while serving the people of rhode island as their chief justice of the supreme court from 2001-2009. frank is the author, co-author or editor of several books, including "judging lincoln", "lincoln as hero", and most recently "the lincoln assassination riddle", which was published in 2016. the most important of his publications is the one he co-authored with harold and me, which was published in 2006. his awards include the abraham lincoln association's lincoln the lawyer award and the aura of lincoln, the highest honor bestowed by the state of illinois. frank also married well. [ laughter ] we are reminded, we are reminded that great men usually have extraordinary women at their sides who are doing their own thing. i and frank certainly is in that category. he will address the topic reconstruction after lincoln. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, edna, and y

lincoln forum. he is also president of the ulysses s. grant association. a former president of the abraham lincoln association and a former member of the abraham lincoln bicentennial commission and foundation. and he did all of this while serving the people of

the incoming president of the abraham lincoln institute -- associate professor john white whose opinion carries a lot more , weight than mine has written a review of stephen's work for the journal of american history. let me quote from john's review that will be published later this year. "gathering to save the nation will stand for years as the book on lincoln's relationship with the union governors. it is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how the north mobilized to win to win the civil war." it is my pleasure to present professor stephen engle. [applause] stephen engle: thank you. what a wonderful introduction. thanks for the preview of a review that i hope to receive in a few months. i want to thank everyone here who is make my stay an absolute delight. it is my first time on the state so if i appear a little nervous, i really am. this is a real stage. it is not any stage. in any case, i want to thank the staff here. i want to thank michelle and the board for inviting me. i am delighted to be here. i can tell you i'm probably the least lincoln scholar here given th

a statue of abraham lincoln's assassin will be removed from the lincoln presidential library and museum. the name of john wilkes booth will always be associated with america's 16th president but recently the library decided to at least change the statue. the statue of booth used to be seen at an exhibit of the white house. it showed the lincoln family standing outfront with booth lurking nearby. again, the statue has since been removed. >>> the san francisco library introducing a new library card that will come in handy for thousands of students. it's called the scholar card. it's an all access pass that connects over 55,000 san francisco unified students to millions of free resources. the card will be unveiled today at 11:00 at the tenderloin community elementary school. >>> i like the graphics on those cards, too. 4:56, laura, you have a food network story? >> we have future stars for you. >> stars and students from oakland. this is the winning team of chef's from oakland ralph's academy. jimmy and jaewon the cooking up change competition and by doing that they won a free trip to washington, d.c. there is a national cooking competition to t

associates made the most perceptive comment ever made about him. he said anyone who took abraham lincoln three simple man did -- simpleminded man would soon wake up with their back in a ditch. he used people's underestimation of him to his own advantage. economically and socially -- what he wants is success politically. political success is going to mean election to congress. what in 1846, he sets out to do. he is duly elected. he is not at this moment what you would think of as being an apostle of opposition to slavery. years later, he would say i am naturally antislavery. if slavery is not wrong, nothing is not wrong -- nothing is wrong. i cannot remember when i did not so think and feel. simply being opposed to flavor -- to slavery did not turn him into an abolitionist. it did not turn him into a william lloyd garrison. in 1837, while sitting on the state legislature, he joins with another whig representative to offer a resolution decrying slavery as bad practice, that policy -- bad policy and in justice. he does not do -- and injustice. he does not do more than that. he backs a bill