it brought him his second again lincoln prize. "lincoln and douglas." published in 2008. it did not win the lincoln prize. [laughter] the next came out from oxford university press in 2012. the fifth title is "gettysburg, the last invasion." lincoln prizehird to allen. he is the only one to win three. he is currently working on a biography of robert e. lee. he and i will talk about his work today and about the field of civil war studies more broadly. i want to begin with a question relating to the opportunities for people in our field to reach a broader audience. allen writes for national newspapers and other publications. he has done courses for the great courses company. you have reached a broader audience and i would like your thoughts about whether this is something we should strive to -- why you do it, how effective you think it is, and what it yields for our field in terms of disseminating really good scholarship to a broader audience. allen: first of all, thank you for the opportunity to be her. especially to the center and to everyone here who has -- stephanie, to

the lincoln group has existed since the 1930s to honor the life and legacy of abraham lincoln. and this year we have a special opportunity to hear from an extraordinary speaker. and in introducing him i would like to repeat something that he said at the first national republican convention that he attended as a young man in 1884. he was part of a reform wing of the republican party, and they had an insurgent candidate to be temporary chair of the convention, taking on the candidacy of the republican national committee. that candidate happened to be the african-american congressman from mississippi, john r. lynch. here is some of what our speaker said. it is now less than a quarter of a century since in this city, chicago, the great republican party organized for victory and nominated abraham lincoln of illinois who broke the fetors of the slaves and rent them asunder forever. it is a fitting thing for us to choose to preside over this convention one of that race whose right to sit within these walls is due to the blood and the treasures so lavishly spent by the founders of the

one lincoln book became another lincoln book came another lincoln book, and so on and so forth. you have artie gone down the list. i never have actually gotten back to writing that free will to point out. -- free will 2.0. >> i can infer the way you are talking, you think there are more elements to lincoln that deserve further study. he has not been exhausted? >> i think that is entirely true. lincoln is an extremely complicated and complex individual. lincolnnderestimate because they think that he is just the 16th president, the civil war president, just a politician, just a lawyer. that misses what people in lincoln's own time new and said about him. he was a very reticent shut mouthed man. another who practiced law with him said that anyone who took a blink and for a simpleminded -- abe lincoln for a single-minded man -- simpleminded man would wake up with their back in a ditch. eager --man of very extraordinary intellectual curiosity. he would delve into anything. his secretary, in his diary in 1863, recorded an incident in t, theay said the tycoon which is what he called t

keep in mind, lincoln, one of lincoln was a lifelong politician. he really understood politics as a practicing politician, and how public opinion moved or didn't move, and how it affected things. so, meanwhile, he is waiting for a winning battle. pretty soon, he gets a battle, but it is not a winning battle. mcclellan is not fired, but he is sort of demoted. and this man, john pope, is placed in charge of a new, largest army in the east near washington d.c. and mcclellan is told to send some of his troops to join pope's army. and john pope has fought up to now in the western part of the west, theyd in the had actually won through some battles, unlike th in the east. pope thought very highly of himself, and as soon as he got this appointment, he issued various statements. he said, "in the west, we have always seen the backs of our enemies." he said, "he would keep his headquarters in the saddle." people joked that he was keeping his headquarters where his hindquarters should be. he said if he found guerillas operating, and he was in virginia, he wou

and -- so democrats are vicious against lincoln. i think it is people and people read this book i know all of you will it's a holiday gift whatever holiday you may have -- [laughter] but you will see that they are seeing things harder about abraham lincoln what you can imagine it is on his bloody hands that rest of death of your sons things like that that are very powerful so the democrats are a tough position because they don't want to -- pull against the united states. but they don't want to go too well because lincoln will be reelected so they are on a platform that says what we should be for is peace. how many of your sons are you willing to give and do you really want to sew the slaves freeded and do you really want them to flood into places papa? do you really want that because that's not what we went to war for we went to war to save the united states. and this republican party has turned it per verted it into an antislavery war is what in thes are saying he's remarkable thing. it's very close the democrats have their convent

lincoln was not very happy. victory,s enough of a and lincoln then issued his preliminary emancipation proclamation. finally. slaverycartoon from it, lb of given the bu emancipation. a pretty racist for trail of slavery, o obviously. literally look at the emancipation. there is an interesting story about this. this is the handwritten preliminary emancipation proclamation. i am not sure, i think lincoln put it up for auction to raise money for troops and their families, but it ended up in the new york state library, a big institution connected with the government. is one of their proud possessions, obviously, and you can see lincoln is literally crossing things out and rewriting it, and his handwriting is certainly better. i mention it partly because one of the jobs of the new york public library when they decided to display this and put it on the website was to get it transcribed. if you go to the website, it is about four pages long of this size. it has got some stuff attached to it, and there is a transcriptio

abraham lincoln. neither of those two had greater functional respect for the rights of the states than abraham lincoln, whereas by contrast, jefferson davis is the great centralizer imposing his will on state governments. gary: the confederate central government is the most powerful and intrusive central government in american history until deep into the 20th century on the u.s. side. this allegedly states rights society put up with things that would have been incomprehensible. allen: it really depends on the issue and who would like to society put up with things that reach for the states rights argument first. gary: lincoln needed the governors. he needed the states, leaned on them. he depended on them and they functioned with great authority during the war. we have about three minutes left. i'm trying to find a question we can answer in three minutes, which is not our strongest suit. let's just have a brief answers. you can say one or two things. are there any civil war, is there any civil war subje

lincoln and whitman because whitman adored lincoln and wrote a wonderful elegy certainly after lincoln was killed. lincoln barnum, i'm not so sure. whitman is the pt barnum of poetry. whitman lovers may not agree with me. disrespect, doy i contradict myself? of course i contradict myself. i contain multitudes, which is exactly what the barnum museum did. why was the spiritualism before the war? i can understand after what you would want to contact the recently departed, there were so many of them. spiritualism actually started in 848, but i think of 1848 as in upstate new york, you see two sisters who here knocks. they interpret them and they can and put youl you, in communication with loved ones you have lost, or perhaps not even loved ones, but usually. the quakers who went to the fox sisters, they would find out that there was no slavery in heaven, which was what they hear. you see what i mean in the particular context. i was interested in bringing together various questions, or various items of various people and events, and trying to figure out what their relationship had to do wi

lincoln and whitman because adored lincoln and wrote a wonderful elegy. barnum i'm not sure -- of course i'm sure. hitman is the p.t. barnum of poetry. whitman lovers may not agree see -- thereou can are some here -- i don't mean disrespect. it is -- do i contradict myself? of course i do. i contain multiple attitudes which is what the barnum museum did. question, why was there spiritualism before the war? after the war d why you would want to contact the recently departed there were so many of them. but it started in 1848, probably think of 1848 when gain upstate new york you hear there are two sisters and they begin to interpret those knocks actually tell you and give communication with loved ones you have lost or perhaps even loved ones but usually loved ones and many of them, quakers, who went to the fox sisters, they would no out that there was slavery in heaven. so, you see what i mean in this context. mean is that i was interested in bringing together or various tions items of various people, various trying to figure out what their relationship had

lincoln had lost his patience. horace white wired lincoln that military operations of late and the commands of mcclellan and buell would ruin the state's november elections. lincoln relieved buell on october 30 and the command of the army fell to general rosencrantz. elateds related -- northerners. a newspaper said, " the most cheering item of the news this week is the announcement that buell has been relieved of command or rather that his command has been relieved of him." >> [laughter] >> the war's changing nature in 1861 and 1862 highlighted and undermined buell's significance in the west. his tenure was later scrutinized by the so-called buell commission, and investigative body that examined the operations of the army of the ohio during 1862 and to report an opinion in the case the commission resulted from governor oliver p morton and andrew johnson. it can been for nearly six months. -- this body convened for nearly six months. it adjourned may 6, 1863. it summoned 72 witnesses, a master report totaling 721 pa

and there was the famous last line of course, of lincoln's first inaugural the healer , lincoln, the lincoln who appealed to the better angels of our nature. that same lincoln had taken, at that time, a firm stance against on the expansion of slavery and was making plans to reinforce for sumter. -- fort sumter. he was not compromising. we've come here today and tomorrow to figure out compromises. that could have saved the civil war from happening. [laughter] or not. to decide whether loyalty to state was more important than loyalty to country or not. one of the many reporters we have been talking to in the last few months have been the gift that keeps on giving to historians whether we wanted it or not. one of them asked me, what will you say to general kelly if you talked to him? the only thing that popped out of me was, "general have you , ever been to gettysburg, have you ever been to that cemetery? how many of those guys guide for the state? you ever read the gettysburg address? what did lincoln say?" just pointing that out. on the eve of the civil war, and even after secession,

i think you can say that about lincoln.incoln is more stridently against the slave power and tony is the last -- tawny is the last chip he has to say about it. and now it is all out on the table. maybe. david: douglass wanted this union. he wanted a breakup. dred scott used as that rhetorical tweed. he wanted an apocalyptic breakup . you can call that optimism or call it something darker. also kept saying i walk my faith and not by sight. [laughter] so optimistic. anyway, back to you. as we were being addressed by ny --ass's attack on taw is a coming through now? as we were being addressed about , itlass's attack on tawny struck on me -- struck a chord on me of trumps many attacks upon the judiciary. i wonder if that struck a chord with any of the panelists? if so, if they would like to address that? david: anyone lost a little sleep over that one? kate: yes. getting back to this decision that judge swan, the chief justice of ohio supreme court made. if i am hearing what you are saying correctly, swan made a avoid furthery

the healerne, lincoln, the lincoln who appealed to the better angels of our nature. that same lincoln had taken, at that time, a firm stance against slavery and was making plans against fort sumter. he was not compromising. we've come here today and tomorrow to figure out compromises. or not. loyalty tohether state is more important to loyalty to country or not. reporters --ny these last few months have been the gift that give -- that keeps on giving to historians whether we wanted it or not. asked, what would you say to general kelly if you talked to him? have you ever been to gettysburg, have you ever read the gettysburg address? just pointing that out. war, ande of the civil , there'sr secession commentary -- ample from so many people. jefferson davis gave a speech in late april to the confederate congress as confederate president, using the term "property in slaves" about seven times a speech, explaining to the confederate congress and the world why they had to secede from the union, to protect the special interest of property in slaves. it doesn't matter how man

lincoln's secretaries noted. of hours, the word "contraband" became culturally powerful, and butler knew it. the pro-emancipation press heape d accolades on their new hero. benjamin butler inadvertently offered his critics a wedge. in june as he remained behind at fortress monroe his forces , staggered into a clumsy fight, and engagement that betrayed not just the inexperience of his men, but lamentable traits that benjamin would make manifest throughout the war. the need for tactical finesse, placed faith in a net -- in inept subordinates. as the lincoln administration reeled from a defeat at bull appointedeld scott john rule to command the department of virginia and north carolina. other suspected that big bethel and the angst ridden atmosphere in washington after bull run had merely provided rhetorical cover for his ouster. he trusted that the a brazen declaration of his very decided opinions on fugitive slaves , the declaration he presented to the secretary of war simon cameron had inspired the move. in addre

the first choice, the obvious choice is, first-person, lincoln. he's the only one actually the only living person in this story. there's two to others but i dit know that at that time. duncan, yet. instantly that voice goes fourscore and seven minutes ago i did injury jan graveyard. so that, somebody could to but i'm not good enough. then you think waiting minute. who can narrate this thing. it's a guy alone in a graveyardd at night. a gravedigger? practicing? you know, look at that, that's a good one. i'll have to do that again tomorrow. so anyway, that did work. at that moment what happened, and here it gets tricky. i do want to go too long about this. i want to take some questions but often when we're called upon to explain our books, we had to simplify. the form of the questions that a writer gets are a lot like the way we thought about writing when we were in school. what's the theme? what was the authors intention? what is the color red such a prevalent motif? these are good questions from the critical standpoint but from the creative standp

we are now in the abraham lincoln suite. lincoln did not stay in this room. it was named after him because -- let's go back to what washington was like in 1860. there was a lot of focus on military and political activity. hotel demand was great and hotels were able to raise their rates to four dollars per night. willard hall was a large states room. a convention was held from february 4 through for board seventh in 1861 and it had 131 politicians from 21 states and former president tyler was chair of it. it failed, and the civil war started. the arrival of abraham lincoln to washington was met with excitement. growing, maryland was so the defendant to the southern cause. willard was concerned about them safety of abraham lincoln traveling to washington. so it was decided that abraham lincoln would be removed from the last railcar in the baltimore depot and take it to washington dc. he was smuggled in disguise through the ladies entrance and taken immediately to a suite in the second floor. when he arrived, a piece of wasr on an envelope delivered with the not

, read lincoln's papers. he is -- he ought to be topping number one in every business school in america. he is magical in dealing with difficult people. now, the challenge that faced joseph hooker in january of 1863 was not simply one of winning a military success but of rehabilitating an army that was, without question, in crisis after the mud march, after the relief of mcclellan, after the relief of burnside, after the defeat of fredericksburg. and i would argue, and i think that the evidence suggests this, that is probably the case, that hooker walked into an army that was probably as grumbly as any ever to serve under the post revolutionary flag. for the first time soldiers felt widely that their efforts had been wasted in the field. one soldier wrote, i am yet alive in this wicked war, a war of ambition in negros. a war carried out in thousands after thousands of men being killed and made cripple for life. for what? god only knows. another soldier in the army, henry ropes. an officer in the 20th massachu

abraham lincoln did not stay in this room. the room was named after him because he stayed in the structure that was dated 1860, for 10 days, prior to his election. let's go back to the city in 1860. there was a lot of focus on military and political activity. one historian noted that hotel demand was so great, hotels were able to raise their rates to four dollars per night. the willard was considered neutral, the northerners would enter from pennsylvania avenue and his southerners from the other entrance. the willard hall was a large spacious room that was able to accommodate the peace convention. it was a last-ditch effort to try to avert the civil war. it was held from february 4 through the 27th in 1861 and it had 131 politicians from 21 states and former president tyler was chair of it. unfortunately, it failed. and the civil war started. the arrival of abraham lincoln to washington was met with excitement. war fever was growing, maryland was sympathetic to the southern cause and emotions were reaching dangerous levels. th

lincoln's papers. he ought to be topic number one in every business for america. he is magical in dealing with difficult people. challenge that faced joseph hooker in january of 1863 was not one of successful an army rehabilitating that was without question in crisis. after the relief of mcclellan and burnside. after the defeat of fredericksburg. and i would argue, and i think the evidence suggests this, that hooker walked into a army that was probably as grumbly as any ever to serve under the postrevolutionary flag. for the first time soldiers felt , widely that their efforts had been wasted. one soldier wrote, i am alive in a war of ambition and a war with thousands upon thousands being killed or crippled for life. and for what? god only knows. army insoldier in the the 20th massachusetts said that peace would be held with joy in almost any terms. and the army does not care. and while these were not universal opinions, they were certainly opinions widely held in the army. all of this despair and thes

lincoln relied on him in any emergency. there were many stories that could be told about how the b&o railroad worked with the union army during the civil war. john garrett is without question the most important personality of our story throughout the five years. he was president of b&o railroad. some historians said the history of the b&o railroad can be written in three time periods. before garrett, during garrett, and after garrett. i probably agree with that summation. garrett was a fantastic businessman. he understood how to get things done. he was very demanding. working with his most able assistant, william prescott smith, master of transportation they provided the first support in bythe union war effort 1859 sending marines and robert e. lee and harper student to harpers ferry to counteract john brown's raid. they were instrumental in moving troops and supplies to and from washington. and then then maintaining the main line of the b&o throughout the war. one of the aspects that make the civil war the first modern war

lincoln retained burnside, of course. wouldrnside's dismissal result from the failure of his next gambit, a turning movement upstream from fredericksburg that was spoiled by a terrible nor'easter. the various options that burnside had in january of 1863. but the plan that he eventually seized upon was nearly identical to the one that hooker would employ too much historical approbation following spring. by weather conditions, or inside's plan proved to be an abject failure. aware of the constant efforts by hooker to undermine his superior officer and discuss the by the lack of cooperation offered by others in the army, burnside asked the president to dismiss hooker and three other general and transfer for others, adding that, if the president did not see fit to authorize this, he would tender his resignation. ultimately, of course, lincoln refused to implement burnside's recommendations or accept his resignation. instead, signing the general to the command of the department of the ohio, as we discussed. as burnside'sker su

willard was concerned about the safety of abraham lincoln. so it was decided that abraham lincoln would be removed from the last railcar in the baltimore depot and taken to washington, d.c. he was smuggled in disguise through the ladies entrance and taken immediately to a suite in the second floor. when he arrived, a piece of paper from an envelope was delivered with the note, the president is here. he stayed for 10 days. when he introduced himself, his inauguration brought magnitudes of people to the hotel. the hotels were filled to the max and the willard found itself bringing in 475 mattresses. the first check he wrote was the willard hotel bill. grant also stayed here. when he was here to check in, he did not have on his uniform and no one recognized him. so his room was not very nice. he came back multiple times. he liked to smoke a cigar and sit by the fire. a lot of businessmen took the opportunity of president grant sitting in the lobby to ask for favors. president grant called them lobbyists. the term originated in london but it was

thanks of lincoln and secretary of war stanton. it allowed the government to install a pro union governor in newburn. helped cause the evacuation of norfolk, closed the north carolina sounds to blockade running. this is a campaign i don't think gets as much attention as it deserves. it was a fantastic amphibious operation. burnside had hoped to continue his campaign against north carolina. focusing that in the railroad junction town. the defeat of mcclellan's army on the peninsula and lee's subsequent movement into piedmont, virginia, caused the war department to order burnside and his coast division old dominion. prior to the army's arrival, burnside met with lincoln and stanton in washington between july 22 and july 27th, and to his surprise, they offered him command of the army. burnside declined protesting that mcclellan was really the better general, and that his failure on the peninsula stemmed from bad luck. not incompetence. lincoln reluctantly accepted the response but marked the general for greater things in the future. b

it was something that was important to lincoln for sure. -- lincoln, for sure. you have confidence in yourself, which is valuable. you are ambitious, which does good rather than harm. lincoln who was, in my view, if learn want to promote and -- if you want to learn how to manage difficult people, read his papers. he ought to be topic number one in every business for america. he is magical in dealing with difficult people. now, the challenge that faced joseph hooker in 1863, was not one of successful rehabilitating an army that was without question in crisis. after the relief of mcclellan and burnside. after the defeat of fredericksburg. -- after the relief of mcclellan. after the relief of burnside. after the defeat of fredericksburg. i would argue, and i think the evidence suggests this, hooker walked into an army that was probably as grumbly as any after theny ever to serve under postrevolutionary flag. for the first time, soldiers felt widely that their efforts have been wasted. one soldier wrote i am alive in a war of ambition and a war with thousands upon t

through lincoln's experience and the graveyard walks mr. saunders tasks with deciding whether suffering, regret, or warfare are good or bad, but whether these things are practical, are they purposeful, do the serve us, i will we take action? roger bev vince iii instructs us, all we can do is what we should. saunders gives us the additional gift of visiting with lynn lib, a president who whose shoulders these moral questions could truly rest, reminding us what it looks like when a president could serve as the moral compass of a nation. >> my grandmother would have loved this book . i'm sure her ghost does. even more, she would have loved teaching it. thank you on her behalf. mr. george saunders is the author of nine books, including tenth of december, a finalist for the national book award and won to prize for best work of fiction in english, and the story paris, he has received macarthur and guggenheim awards in 2013 he was name one of world's 100 most influential people by "time magazine." he create inside a creating writing program at syr

and abraham lincoln. i grew up as a fan of abraham lincoln because of the role that he and illinois played in the and litigation of slavery. my mother was a great abraham linchingon fan. as a little boy, i knew every story you could think of about abraham linchingon. is ost thing i'm proud of the diversity of our state. representative lahood, you have represented and demonstrated what illinois is all about and that is bringing all of us together to talk about the virtues of our great state. i thank you for your leadership and i thank you for your action and i yield back the balance of our time. mr. lahood: thank you, congressman davis, about the state of illinois and the city of chicago and all your advocacy. in closing, each of our districts has played a role in shaping illinois' history and that of the entire history. whether the business hub of chicago, the farmers downstate or the many main street businesses. illinois' influence can be seen every day. that is why our theme of born, built and grown is

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and lincolnism. it seems ludicrous to me. >> he wrote that op-ed. >> probably nobody here. is there any scholarly legitimacy to that or is that a propagandist effort? i think newt gingrich may have advanced it. i just one your thoughts on it because i do not know what to do with it. >> from mars. [laughter] >> is everybody taking that and running with it within the parties? [laughter] >> what's the question? can we really draw parallels? >> or "that" parallel. [inaudible] >> i was going to often a different parallel. this is a different parallel and it is one that i think was brought appear today and it is something that pertains to the democratic party today, not the republican party. if we look at the republicans before the war, they are a coalition of folks who are fully this capitalist development and a lot of people are benefiting from it. these prosperous farmers are benefiting. these in dutch death industrialists are prep -- are benefiting. wage laborers, those in the building trade, paid by t

abe lincoln was a regulation cutter. who would have known that?aid you mean i beat abraham lincoln? i said that's pretty good. i don't know if regulation sounds so glamorous, but i can tell you it's very important. >> so here's a regulation that abraham-lengthen did not get rid of. this is the regulation that requires airlines to show you exactly what the baggage fee is going to be when you're buying a ticket. abraham lincoln did not get rid of that regulation. donald trump did, but he forgot to mention it. to the people in his audience tonight who really actually care about what the baggage fees are. >> that's right. there's a whole host of airline regulations that abraham lincoln -- look, there's a whole host of regulations donald trump has attacked. but i think we're going to start to see the implications of those. people are going to be paying more for their baggage fees. people are going to start seeing their air is little bit more polluted. we're going to see a series of these. and none of these regulations benefit the american public. we're

my man blanket he's not a lincoln. i tried one day i bought five. of the american. there is a still a lot of i i don't know what to say about that honestly because it's just american dream it's so to me subject and honestly my parents. were there and you know they give me an education and to them i suppose that's. an america i feel is still you know went off truly but you know things are changing. just says you know the u.s. is prospering so around the country and third world countries are slowly becoming more and more you know. psychologically developed yes exactly and so with things i doubt honestly i feel like you know the world is a lot more. you know how small a lot more potential no matter where you go. you're in arizona you're running for the federal state see correct us that you're running for the u.s. senate. where are you now in your journey. of empowering women have been on that journey of empowering women a very long time when i became a civil rights and social justice advocates here in arizona basically i was running organizations going around the state

you know who was right up there, honest abb lincoln, you can believe it? cutter. can you believe it? (applause) abe lincoln was the regulation kiter who would have known that? i said you mean i beat abraham lincoln, that's pretty good for ten months. >> trevor: okay, that's just a weird thing to brag about. of all the things lincoln is known for deregulation is probably not even on the list. it's the beard, abolishing slavery and then the hat. but deregulation, like bragging about being better than lincoln at deregulation say it is like say rug better than serena williams at microsoft e cell, it doesn't make sense, who cares. and just like deregulating aid, donald truch is apparently also beloved by those of the danke shane. >> i love these guise, look at these guise, blacks for trump, i love you. i love you. any hispanics here? any hispanics? any hispanics? you guys were great. >> trevor: you know what i love, you know what i love is when trump calls hispanics, they don't know whether to respond. any his tannics-- because even if you support him you weren

so the areas i'm going to cover are the lincoln tenant provements, lincoln facility maintenance, p.r.i. retail transit and sydney will cover security. so these are just a few progress updates as we move towards construction of the focus areas in late march. to let you know that the teams have started discussions on finishes and selections, meeting with d.b.i. was held last month to work out the permitting process, to enable lincoln to directly pull perimeter starting with the retail areas. the follow-up is going to be either an amendment of the existing agreement or creation of a new intergovernmental agreement. operational areas, meeting on the layout were held, in particular, equipment, this impacts electrical and the selection of the general contractor was discussed earlier and i'll give you more detail on the information on the r.f.p. on a subsequent slide. so, on facility maintenance, the primary update is not directly related to maintenance but getting the project started, the purchase of domain names. aside from salesforce transit center retail.com, also purchased salesforce tra

this is an age obsessed with lincoln. david kennedy, who is a general editor of the series, pointedded out that the only great president and the only hero in my book was abraham lincoln and he died on the first page. and that is true. the gilded age will never produce anybody remotely like lincoln, but his point was in the end, that really doesn't matter. he says it's the insufficiency of the -- the sufficiency of the common. that matters. he said, if america means anything at all it means the sufficiency of the common, the insufficiency of the uncommon. i think in a democracy, the sufficiency of the common is ultimately all that matters. it's if -- if the common fails in a democratic it's all over. the uncommon will never save it. but how sufficiency of the common can seem a thin thread during the turmoil of the gilded age and a thin thread to us today, in the second gilded age, in the gilded age things did not work out as people imagined. there were astonished to find themselves living in a world that many of them had n

abraham lincoln said this, and it was official. this was his proclamation. those that think it's inappropriate for government to say these things, this was abraham lincoln who knew where in our hopes lie. lincoln said in his official proclamation, it's the duty of nations as well as of men to own their own dependence upon the overruling power of god. to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow yet with assured hope that genuine rependence will lead to mercy, and mercy and pardon and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the holy scriptures and proven by all history that those nations are only blessed whose god is the ord. n his second inaugural, just 45 days before he was struck down by assassin's bullet, abraham lincoln was trying to make sense of such a bloody, the north between and south and it's inscribed on o the inside wall of the lincoln memorial on the north side. thank god, the literal, thank g no one has required that those beautiful words be removed. but he's trying to reconcile how there could be something so bloody and awful

the lincoln group has existed since the 1930s to honor the life and legacy of abraham lincoln. and this year we have a special opportunity to hear from an extraordinary speaker.

lincoln relied on him in any emergency. john garrett is without question most important personality. he was president of b&o railroad. some historians said the history of the b&o railroad can be written in three time periods. before garrett, during garrett, after garrett. he was a fantastic businessman. he understood how to get things done. he was very demanding. working with his most able assistant, william prescott smith, they provided the first support for the union by sending marines and robert eva lee to .arpers ferry to counteract they were instrumental in moving troops and supplies to and from washington. then maintaining the main line of the b&o throughout the war. one of the aspects that make the civil war that the first modern war was that railroad and its application to moving supplies and troops. the u.s. army did not have a component until the civil war when it created the united states military railroad. part of that railroad was the construction corps commanded by hermann howe. given regiments of white crews.

for now reporting from the lincoln memorial. corey coffin, fox5 local news. >> the brand new i66 toll lanes are only four days old but plenty of commuters are fed up with the costly fares. in fact some of these descriefers out here have paid as much as $40 just to drive the ten-mile stretch. kristin leone in arlington about how lawmakers are trying to put a brake on these costly fares. that's right, they're trying to bump the brakes. they are calling the toll faifers highway robbery . peak phaser reaching about 40 bucks earlier this week . and then dropping to about half that amount yesterday and today. but according to northern virginia lawmakers that's still way too much for drivers to be paying for them they want to cap the cost or scrap it completely. tonight they met with the northern virginia transportation commission in arlington hoping to propose a resolution. in case you're wondering, that commission they collect the toll revenue and in turn thatting go es towards funding transit programs and other options like buses in

, world war ii soldiers and the first japanese -- >> abraham lincoln stayed here 10 days. when he introduced himself and his wife, who was quite a bit shorter than him, he said i want to introduce the long and short of the american residency. >> american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3. slap discussed her personal and professional life, the current state of discourse in the u.s. and serving in the administrations of bush to the bush and donald trump -- administrations of george w. bush and donald trump. steve: mercedes, let's begin with your story. you came to the u.s. when and why? mercedes: i was born in miami, florida. my parents came from cuba, they were fleeing the castro regime. my father at the time was in prison under fidel castro. he was a political prisoner. he basically fought to help free cuba, when obviously the dictatorship came in in the late 1950's. he served time in jail, and it was a trying moment for my family. they came to the united states, and it was one of those things where theyrt

world war ii soldiers and the first japanese delegation to the united states in 1850. >> abraham lincoln stayed here 10 days. when he introduced himself and his wife, who was quite a bit shorter than him, he said i want to introduce you to the long and the short of the new presidency. >> american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3. unfoldsn, where history daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. agriculture secretary sonny perdue talks about the departments operations, next year's farm bill, and the ongoing nafta negotiations. from the national press club, this is an hour. mr. bjerga: i am alan bjerga. we are pleased to have our luncheon speaker sonny perdue. we welcome them to the natio

of course, he succeeded lincoln. he also got involved in politics, trying to promote the idea of this new centrist coalition. no one knew what was going to happen after the war politically. everyone knew what was going on before the war. you had the northern democrats, southern democrats, republicans, and some assorted others. but the republican party had been an abolitionist party. slavery had gone. the southern democrats had been for slavery. well, it's gone. so how is it going to sort out? and one theory was oh, it will be like these northern democrats and ex-rebels and disaffected people from the republican party will get together and form a centrist thing and that will be the new dominant force. so custer got involved in that kind of politics. well, bad move. what really happened is the republicans took over. even without abolitionism as an issue, it did not matter. they had a new issue. they had won the war. that is a much stronger issue. and all of the relationships that were made during the war became politic

the examiners looked at 52 real estate loans lincoln made.ll 52. >> on top of that, charles keating has lincoln savings sell uninsured junk bonds, and he targets the widows and the retirement community. >> there were 23,000 customers who would buy $250 million of these bonds. >> we had sold our home in sherman oaks. my husband had a stroke. we moved down here, went to lincoln savings. >> how much? >> you really want to know? >> it was $30,000 and for us, that was quite a bit. >> capitalize on this, the bond salesman were told. the weak, meek, and ignorant are always good targets. >> the regulators were looking at us saying, this guy is a disaster. we have got to stop this. but by that time, keating had a construction company in arizona. he had thrifts in california. his tentacles spread out to several states. so he was able to call on congressmen and senators and say, hey, get these dogs off my back. >> this morning, the s&l crisis goes to capitol hill. the senate ethics committee is looking into charges against five senators accused of inter

and this is live look at lincoln finance field. the eagles don't have to worry about the snow tomorrow. they're in sunny los angeles to take on the ram. steve sosna joins wus the latest on the snow and what's next. >> several things to talk about. first is the widespread black ice. and that's why i've extended the first alert through 10:00 tomorrow morning. if you're out tonight and especially before sun rise just be very careful i your footing and also make sure you layoff the gas in your car. going too fast is not a great idea. once we get the sun up tomorrow temperatures will rebound to the upper 30s, and we'll see some meting conditions. but it's short-lived. there's a blast of arctic air coming in and temperatures are going to drop. we have the concern for black ice, 39 in philadelphia, 27 in allan town. temperatures over night tonight into the teens northwest of the city and in and around the city. look at the swaths of snow this snow laid down. all the way down to the florida panhandle. yes, the florida panhandle has snow on

they tried to -- i'm reading this book on lincoln, carl sandberg's book on lincoln, they tried to impeachhim. lincoln. they thought he was a dunce. so, you know, you've got to look back and understand somebody's not perfect and also understand when you try to do great things, people are going to get in your way. now, there's nothing great about the trail of tears, i get it. so i'll take it on, but i'm not going to be blindly defending anybody. but i'll blindly defend that war, that battle, his leadership and his confidence and his patriotism. he always had america's best interests in mind. matter of fact, if you don't mind me reading this, this is his farewell. i thank god that my life has been spent in a land of liberty and that it has given me a heart to love my country and the affection of a son and and a son to his country and a father to the people. i mean, that's a guy that felt pretty good when he passed away and felt pretty fortunate despite the hardships. spent his whole life, he had a bullet in his lung, he had dysentery, he had a series of illnesses that would have destroyed th