i don't know if we continue to do that but i'm just -- as a parent who has kids at james lincoln, i see the benefits just on a personal level. you know, i've had mr. conversations with you about students at other schools and how you handle things and pure -- peer resources is always the resource of advice to me. so i know what you guys are doing in our schools is really making a huge difference. my daughter is a little bit of an introvert is at a large school. came from a school that has 500. she had three friends. and this year she has five. that's how she rolls. at a parent you're concerned that that's not how she should be rolling. i remember a time when there were a lot of suicides happening unfortunately, in many of our high schools, both in our public and private schools. she was telling me about this presentation that she had to do on suicides and the kind of permanent solution to a temporary problem and i thought that was one of the most profound things i'd ever heard and that's kind of how she approached this whole thing and had to do a presentation for the first time in front

i don't know if we continue to do that but i'm just -- as a parent who has kids at james lincoln, i see the benefits just on a personal level. you know, i've had mr. conversations with you about students at other schools and how you handle things and pure -- peer resources is always the resource of advice to me. so i know what you guys are doing in our schools is really making a huge difference. my daughter is a little of

this man in the center is james mitchell, who was abraham lincoln's commissioner of colonization. and he was the man that hired menard. mitchell was an irish-born american preacher that lincoln knew from illinois. he brought him to washington specifically for this role to administer the programs. and mitchell knew of menard through his abolitionist activities and thought of him as a potentially who could bridge the gap between the colkocolonin movement. he is hired on and makes him one of the first african-americans to obtain a white collar job in the united states government. he was given an equal salary to the white administrative workers in the interior department, which caused quite a bit of controversy. the other workers rebelled, complained to the secretary of interior and within three months had pressured them to discontinue menard's salary and urged the secretary of the interior to demote him to a messenger because they couldn't countenance standing there in the same office with an african-american who was attaining equal salary, even though he was probably better educated

abraham lincoln or the union army or were they self-emancipated? james mcpherson writing in 1995 noted a tendency in the previous 15 years to sleight the role played by abraham lincoln in the end of slavery and to say, in effect, the slaves freed themselves. mcpherson disagreed, emphasizing the importance of lincoln's insistence on prosecuting the war successfully. excuse me. berlin of the university of maryland wrote a rejoiner in which he wrote in effect the slaves did, too, free themselves. i find this exchange very reassuring because it shows that you can become an imminent historian even though you slept through the high school biology lecture where their teacher explain explained symbiosis, two being that lived in a beneficial relationship. berlin came close when he wrote, steadily as opportunities arose, slaves risked all for freedom by abandoning their owners, coming uninvited into union lines and offering their lives and labor in the federal cause. slaves forced federal soldiers at the lowest level to recognize their importance to the union's su

lincoln. if you are referring to james polk he was born in north carolina, but served as governor of tennesseew is the time when you say you were referring to your former roommate seth polk blah, blah, blah. >> seth polk who went to university of illinois and was rower and had some hard times. but they called it the land of polk because he would be living on the streets. >> dana, you defended the romney campaign on the etch-a-sketch which makes sense. what did you make of gingrich saying, quote, if we are dumb enough to nominate him, we should accept that he will move back to the left? >> that's a little much, wasn't it? >> it will be fun to watch him eat those words in about three weeks. >> chris, you said it is not unfair to use this against -- wow, i never finished this thought. let me see if i can remember where i was going. i am going to read it and see where it ends up. chris, you said it is not unfair to use this against romney. never should have said the etch-a-sketch thing which is probably true. i don't remember where i was going. >> did you notice when newt gingrich was talking the

lincoln documents that they didn't find in the 1950s. the federal government expanded greatly during the civil war, so there is a lot more documentation than there would have been, say, for his predecessor, james buchanan. so there are lots of things militarily, but even in the regular administration going on. and lincoln was a very active president who had a lot of different things cross his desk. so there's an enormous amount of paperwork. and there were of course people writing to him about a wide array of issues and much of that documentation found its way into the national archives. i would say that probably the search here at the national archives will go on for several more year, four or five plans, and then we have to back in springfield transcribe and annotate all this material. part of it is finding it and scanning it, but a big part is that people who can't read all read the documents and finally annotate them so that we have the context, people understand what the document meant at the time. because even if you can read words, sometimes they don't make any sense if you don't understand the issues of the day. the ultimate goal is that we will publish these documents online. it won't

james buchanan. so there are lots of things militarily, but even in the regular administration, going on. and so lincoln was -- and lincoln was a very active president in terms of -- he wasn't a micromanager, but he was an active president who had a lot of different things cross his desk. so there's just an enormous amount of there were, of course, people writing to him about a wid of it documentation found its way into the national archives. i would say that probably the searche go on for several more years. four or five, perhaps. then we have to go back to springfield, transcribe and annotate this material. rt finding it. a big part is transcribing so people who can't read all the handwriting will be able to read all the documents. finallnty to at. people understand what the document meant at the time. because even if you can read the words, sometimes they don't make any sense if you don't understand the issues of the day. the ultimate goal is that we will publish these documents online. now, that won't be right away. but we will publish transcriptions and the images of the documents of everything we'

lincoln was a wig. his great hero was henry clay. and therefore was natural that he would desmice james polk and disspi d despise his war. it's a little bit ironic that he would be so opposed to this war on sort of moral grounds when, in fact, he became a war president on a grander, more significant scale than any president in our history. and shawn lents in the review of my book in the "new york times" suggests -- and i never seen this noted before that it was sort of my sentiment that this lincoln speech and some other speeches along the same lines, were ally attributable more to lincoln's partisanship than to any fundamental, philosophical grounding. >> and just a one-term congressman? >> he was a one-term congress n congressman. one of the reason, sort of assume that these group of people in illinois, that district, were going to trade off on the district but lincoln really wanted to remain in washington but even if his colleagues in illinois had wanted him to, his opposition to polk and the nature of his opposition had kind of destroyed his prospect of having another term. >> very little time to get into this, but y

james awad, investment strategist at zephyr management. >> tom: still ahead? with today's big tumble in gold prices, are commodities still the place to be? we ask "street critique" guest lincoln ellis. microsoft opened up its latest windows software today at a technology conference in barcelona, spain. even though it's officially a consumer preview of windows 8, microsoft calls the new operating system a "generational change for windows." >> we set out to build windows in a new way. we thought about engineering and design from the chip set through the experience and we did this while still maintaining the st of the p.c. ecosystem. >> tom: that computer ecosystem has changed considerably since microsoft last unveiled a new windows software. tablets, smartphones, apps and cloud computing are competing with the familiar desktop computer. >> i think this is the biggest launch that microsoft's going to have since windows 95. i think there's a lot of positive buzz around it, and i think this is going to be a big winner for them. >> reporter: with windows 8, microsoft acknowledges its operating system has to stretch across digital devices. >> that's what everyone wants, really-- a s

lincoln reasons. i'll tell you. i said why not. after all, faulkner was the mississippi james joy. so why can i be a tiny words faulkner. my wife and my daughter and my son and mom and many others encouraged me along the line. i give them credit. anyway, when asked to be on the panel about the depression, i gladly accept it. i'll say just a few more words because i ain't we ought to hear from you and ask questions. first i've heard ad nauseam. i want to hear about the current grand recession. still looking for names as to how to find this. we begin in 2000 name. and i think the economists are still groping for what this period means in economics as the social and political florida policy i'm not sure. it's so different. but the great depression was the great depression. i don't know what we're in now, but there's no compares them. you can take it from jamie. there's no comparison. how many people really go -- there's a lot of hungry people. how many people are really unemployed? in the 1934, 1935, we had 28% gainfully unemployed and the household. that's when women didn't work. tha