lincoln is bereft. of course, it is the second senator lincoln's who has died. elizabeth keckley is very much a part of the lincoln white house. obviously, the civil war is happening at this time. mary lincoln always been highly emotional, volatile and president lincoln, of course, is very busy trying to deal with the civil war. and elizabeth becomes almost again that confidante that close with the lincolns, both president and mary lincoln, and with their sons. but at that time, it's elizabeth keckley who consoles mary lincoln, and this is what binds them in their friendship that went on for not just the time that the lincolns were in the white house, but beyond. elizabeth keckley is the one who prepares little boy for the funeral. she is the one in the room when president lincoln this is all president lincoln walks in and says goodbye to his dead son. six months prior to this, elizabeth's only son, george, who could pass as white, signed up to fight for the union in the civil war. it was premiums patient proclamation. so legally he wasn't because he was a mixed

the lincoln forum continues good morning. my name is jonathan white and i'm the vice chair of the lincoln forum, and it is a pleasure to introduce caroline janey. caroline janey is the john l. now the third professor in this history of the american civil war at the university of virginia where she also serves as director of the john l. now the third center for civil war history where she succeeded her mentor gary w gallagher she is the author or editor of seven books and is one of the series editors for the university of north carolina presses prestigious civil war america series. she has served as the president of the society of civil war historians and is here to talk about her new book ends of war the unfinished fight of lee's army after appomattox. i'm about 30 pages in and it is riveting. it is a wonderful book and i just this morning saw a brand new review that appeared in today's wall street journal by someone named harold holzer. and he calls it immensely readable and utterly convincing. please join me in welcoming ca

mary todd lincoln, julia grant, was not a big fan of mary todd lincoln. misses grant says they have to see their children in jersey. they did. president lincoln was assassinated that night. grant, has guilt and he thinks, if i would've been there, i would've been able to save president lincoln. he also was a target, grant was, of john wilkes booth. >> after lincoln was assassinated, grant stands at the time as the most popular figure. >> johnson, despised grant. he despised that he had that power. he grew to really hate him. johnson, did. to the point where he was trying to figure out how to get him out of the way? he wanted to send him to mexico and do all of these things, stood up to him and said, no. he said, if it's a military order, i will go. but, i am not going if it is just you sending me. >> grant was known as the northern union general. you're right in your book, because of the approach that he took to southern soldiers, to the confederates, i do not want to say people in the south admired him as they did in the north, but there really was a res

he, you know, lincoln is assassinated and johnson is erasing lincoln's vision day by day. grants can see that happening before him and he eventually is drafted to run for president, wins in a landslide. he pushes through the 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution, fights the with federal troops. he tries to keep the country together and win the peace after the war. that really thrilled me to be able to dig in and kind of tell that story. and then leaving the contested election of 1876. >> the file grant was one of the most underappreciated presidents? >> he is ranking, he has gone up 13 spots in recent years. that is before my book. eisenhower went up five spots. we've looked back. why the historians choose to look at it again, i think in this day and age when we are in such a partisan divide and everything that we talked about with race, will look back at all that he did to hold the country together at a really pivotal time. it gives him another look. to this day, known as one of the most if not the most brilliant of american generals. his reputation as a general ov

todd lincoln and mrs. grant says they have got to go see their children in new jersey, which they did and president lincoln was assassinated that night. grant is bereft with guilt and he thinks if i had been there married would have been able to save president lincoln. he was also a target, grant was of john wilkes-booth. >> after he was assassinated grant stands at the time of the most popular figure. >> by far. johnson despise that. he despised the grant had that power and grew to really hate him. johnson did to the point where he was just trying to figure out how to get them out of the way want to send them to mexico and do all these things in grant stood up to him and said no. he said if it's a military worker i will go but i'm not going if this is just you sending me. >> grant us known as the northern union general but you write in your book that because the approach that he took to southern soldiers to the confederates i don't want to see the people in the south admired him as much as those in the no

he doesn't know lincoln yet, he knows lincoln by reputation, he follows lincoln in the lincoln-douglas debates, a lot, and he also followed stephen douglas a lot. they had quite an exchange at times, and i was lucky to have a fellow at our center in yell who is studying that turns out stephen douglas and frederick douglass had quite an exchange. i had never known that. he becomes a republican in the civil war because the republican was waging war against slavery -- at least, it eventually was. as many of you know in this room, because you know you're lincoln, douglas was a ferocious critic of abraham lincoln in the first year, year and a half of war because the union government was not moving against slavery. it was protecting fugitive slaves and sending them back to slavery, or trying to. with the preliminary emancipation proclamation, the final proclamation of january 1863, douglas not only changed his tune, he appropriated lincoln as lincoln appropriated him. and he saw that what was now the civil war, had now become what lincoln had not wanted it to become and in lincoln's favorite

lincoln. magnanimity. you know, if you go to appomattox court house, the surrender grant, lincoln's son robert is only his oldest son, rather, and joshua chamberlain and others. lincoln gave them orders. tell grant to take his sword and firearm and just go home. lincoln grant did tell lee rather. i'm sorry. lee tell lee to take his horse sidearm. you know, just go home. grant lincoln did not want to see lee dragged through the streets in chains at go home and became president of a college. and lee then told his fellow southerners surrender, it's over. and most senior confederates pardoned. turner, the commandant would have been tried, i think, if they caught him as the commandant of here. wirtz was tried, hanged after the war. ouldave been, bubut afterwards,d him and let him go. they pardoned the guards and let them go. you know, lincoln, to not just win the war, but try to win the peace, reconstruction, one country, you know lincoln even sang both sides drew the sword. we were both guilty let us work toge

so did lincoln. they when they did not like was jefferson davis, he was said to be more cold-blooded than a reptile. davis was a monstrous human being. hard to say anything good about the guy. lincoln even wrote that if davis ran away to flee the country, i won't stop him. davis dressed as the skies as a woman and was caught. that was an embarrassing comeuppance for him. but he would be eventually pardoned as well. president andrew johnson pardons most everybody around 1868. >> was vmi college back in the day? >> it was. stonewall jackson was one of the professors there. the cadets from vmi actually fought bravely, impressively, and more than one battle. they were taken out of class, you could call it a lab and fought. stonewall jackson was therefore the battle of manassas. arguably, one of the greatest generals. he was shot and killed by one of his own men. lee and others always be mode the loss of the great stonewall. during the latter part of the war when the union under general david hunter, he b

lincoln wanted magnanimity. if you look at the courthouse for the surrender, lincoln's son robert -- his oldest son, rather -- lincoln gave him orders to help him take his e. sword, firearm and just go home. lincoln grant did not -- lee, rather. tell lee to take his horse and just go home. he did not want to see him drive through the streets in chains. go home and he became the president of a college and only then told his fellow seminars r to surrender. te most senior confederates were pardoned. turner would have been tried i think if they caught him as the common andersonville works was tried and hanged. he would have been, but he escaped. nick turner, the deputy warden was put in libby, but afterwards they pardoned him. g they pardoned the guards and let them go. lincoln wanted to not just win the war, but when the piece. reconstruction, one country and lincoln even saying both sides through the sword and we were ag both guilty, but let's work together. ne again, some of the former prisoners spent years tryin

he takes a picture of lincoln and that picture becomes v view of lincoln that the american people have. and it's sent around to newspapers all around the country. and it's a really big deal. people don't know what this guy, abraham lincoln, who was congressman for one term and then he loses a i guess he wins the senate debate but loses the senate race, too, to douglass in 1858. and so that photo was credited in large degree to making lincoln president. there's another story i heard that i just thought was terrific, that in the 1930s, roosevelt was so popular in the jewish community that when a boy would be bar mitzvahed at a synagogue, you would have the rabbi would walk the cantor word walk. the torah would be carried around the bar mitzvah boy would be there, and then there'd be somebody holding up picture of franklin roosevelt while. yeah, so yeah, i mean, the photos in iconography mean i mentioned the shepard fairey picture of obama i think those pictures are hugely important in conveying an image of the president who we want to and what what that an image can tell you so much abou

>> the only bible that has gone out is the lincoln bible. is there a bigger library anywhere in the world than yours? >> and noaa. where the world's largest library. it's so interesting. it really takes off from jefferson. >> how many people in the coolidge auditorium is named after calvin coolidge? >> several people but it was mrs. coolidge who wanted a concert hall and a stradivarius violin, one of those flutes was president madison's. a popular person played and worked. [laughter] >> two people come from all of the world to do research here? >> yes. yes. the research and we think about the main reading room with alice haley and doris kearns goodwin so many of her books are here. grix the president -- and people write about the president because you have more pre- >> yes and we have things like the diaries of teddy roosevelt. one of the items people say what is an item? what is an item that has touched you when you look in his own hand on february 14, the light is gone out of congress for. >> what if someone says they want to see the diary

so somehow that got me thinking my father and about other fathers about lincoln and lincoln as a writer and you know, when you have life of your own and you're a scholar or a writer you're looking for subjects whether you're thinking with consciously or not or often, what can you do that that that can bring a contribution that will be distinctive. so i wrote a biography called lincoln. the biography, a writer. and a lot of people liked it so a lot of people like that that's nice they like that for me. maybe i can do another one. well, who else is a writer who is not a writer by profession? like like dickens and twain and so on and like out there and a great and glorious country. they're fascinated presidents, you know so of course and writing about lincoln i became very conscious of john quincy adams and and had to do of course with lincoln as the great emancipator and as adams someone who went through a long, a long life, born into the revolution and almost living through the civil war. and after you all this. so, so i became enthralled with adams's diaries. so among some of the great

and abraham lincoln why lincoln has become a hero to the oppressed people all over the world because he lived and died for freedom and equality and because he led the country through one of its greatest crises. he believed that government of the people by the people and for the people should not perish from the earth. well bill, washington and jefferson and lincoln are dead. they began our democracy, but they knew the job would have to be finished by those who lived after them. and they knew that this democracy would last only as long as its citizens were willing to keep working on it. it's our government bill. from here on it's up to us. all right. well, welcome to another edition, a north carolina history. so this lecture today actually well, with what we're studying right now in the class, the turn of the 20th century in north carolina, the tumultuous 1890, but i'm sure you've heard me call every time period in north carolina history tumultuous. but this is no exception. so today's lecture is called worth bagley, the southern

and abraham lincoln why lincoln has become a hero to the oppressed people all over the world because he lived and died for freedom and equality and because he led the country through one of its greatest crises. he believed that government of the people by the people and for the people should not perish from the earth. well bill, washington and jefferson and lincoln are dead. they began our democracy, but they knew the job would have to be finished by those who lived after them. and they knew that this democracy would last only as long as its citizens were willing to keep working on it. it's our government bill. from here on it's up to us.

hardy serves an assistant professor of history and the lincoln scholar at lincoln memorial university, where he's also the executive director of the abraham lincoln center for leadership and public policy outside of that, you should know that dr. hardy cares deeply for his family. he's an avid of the mountains. he's a founding member of the knoxville holsteins vintage club, and he has strong predilection for chocolate milk, donuts and olive garden in no particular. you should also know he's a dogged researcher, the type that understood the power of place and the importance individual stories to the art, to larger events and. in that vein, his forthcoming title is on the knoxville's million dollar fire, which will be an interesting publication, one that i've encouraged him to read title as one hot night in knoxville. but enough about the our topic at hand is a perfect the origins of baseball knoxville. please join me in welcoming my colleague and good friend dr. william hardy. well, good afternoon, everybody. it's a pleasure to. be back at the east tennessee history center where i spen

the first one also can be seen actually with lincoln. one of the things that came up in the course we talk together was a virtue that lincoln exemplifies. very few great statesmen throughout the history of the west. and that is w humility. what do we mean by humility? the remarkable nature of lincoln 's life especially during the civil war. they did not fully understand it aligned somewhere after writing a famous letter. describing one of the most extraordinary things they have ever done which is very daring. explaining the whole decision of why he did it and when he did it urseems like a very strange thig to say. when i was speaking about this, i asked my friend, my other historian, when we were talking about churchill, whether he could think of any great european statement that had humility. he could not name one. churchill was a great man, but no one would ever describe them as normal. he got in a fight with his butler and his butler said you were very rude to me and he said but you are rude to me but i am a great man. he lightly unde

lincoln. he told several of his friends, especially louis einstein, a young diplomat, many years later, 50 years later. he said that i, like many people from massachusetts, had a very low opinion of lincoln. and he said i thought that the myth was being constructed about naked. but i have since read things that made me realize i was probably wrong about that. his views did change. >> i have a question regarding after he was donated by theodore roosevelt and before he was confirmed, he gave a lot of farewell addresses in boston, and he didn't want to the tavern club. in that address he was given a resume of his life and he said, he talked about the civil war, the civil war was perhaps the great experience of his life. but he followed up and said perhaps even a great moral experience was the first five or 10 years of the profession, becoming a lawyer. i wonder if you had any thoughts about that. >> it's very interesting, because they consistence training in his few words, metaphor, about being o

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well bill, washington and jefferson and lincoln are dead. they began our democracy, but they knew the job would have to be finished by those who lived after them. and they knew that this democracy would last only as long as its citizens were willing to keep working on it. it's our government bill. from here on it's up to us. i have known our next speaker for quite some time. i remember probably decade or so ago sitting on a bus going from gettysburg college to the shenandoah, talking about next projects, our next speaker has been a great friend of me and institute and a great supporter of our journal of the shenandoah valley during the civil era. so it gives me great pleasure to introduce brian matthew jordan. bryant is associate professor of civil war history and chair of the department of history at houston state university. he's the author or editor. six books on the civil war era, including marching home union veterans and their unending civil war, which was a finalist for the pulitzer prize in history in 2016. his more 100 reviews, arti

and george lincoln rockwell, fascinating guy.i don't really talk about too much in this book, but if you want to know more about george lincoln rockwell, you can pick up wicked, northern virginia. i have a whole chapter about george lincoln rockwell, who led the american nazi party from arlington. so arlington is actually the home of the american nazi party. so on the campaign trail, he would say these most radical things that he could possibly think of knowing that it would get headlines and it would get printed. so he was really in it for the publicity, but so the dynamics here of that election were so fascinating going because mills, godwin put together this crazy coalition and you don't really think of as being the bird machine. this was actually why it was falling apart i think also so a good example of this one of the things that godwin did in that 60 to 65 campaign for governor is the year before 65 and 64, he got on the lady bird special. so lyndon johnson's wife, the first lady, had this railroad train that she would tak

and the small role that i played was to work on the impact that the bible may have had on lincoln's statesmanship. it struck me as we as we taught this class and we were able to teach it both in the men's school and the graduate school, the women's undergraduate school, ishiba, and then a slightly different version at cardozo is, i began to ponder why i had never really taught a course that focused on the life of a of jewish statesman and really what texts existed that actually described the statesmanship or or the statecraft of jewish political leaders. there, biographies of, of course, certain modern jewish political figures, but beyond that there wasn't much. and i began to ask myself why that was. and i think part the answer is, or at least this is what i came to and i mentioned this in the introduction to the book is that even though the jewish intellectual corpus is is so broad and actually astonishing in its breadth from it covers throughout the centuries, it covers law and philosophy and theology, mysticism and biblical exegesis and so much else. there are two lacunae. one o

rockwell also ran for governor that year, 1965 is a really fascinating year, george lincoln rockwell, fascinating guy, don't talk about him much in this book but if you want to know more about george lincoln rockwell you can pick up northern virginia, had a whole chapter about george lincoln rockwell who led the american nazi party arlington so arlington is home of the american nazi party. on the campaign trail, he would say the most radical things he could possibly think of knowing it would get headlines and would get printed. he was in it for the publicity so the dynamics here of that election were so fascinating because god when put together this crazy coalition you don't really think of as being the bird machine. this is why it was falling apart. a good example of this, one of the things god when did in that 60-65 campaign for governor is the year before, he got on the lady bird special, sold and then johnson's wife, the first lady, had this railroad train, the lady bird special, so godwin was a democrat but he was a conservative democrat, a bird democrat, they did not like the n

so what, let's just martin, what's interesting to with, with lincoln's visit be. so i thought it was a very good friends. i'm having a photo off at a cemetery, and that's lincoln's dirty work best as his paper. okay. i, i don't know who is doing the optics, but it was a cringe worthy here. but it's, it's, it's interesting that during the lincoln's visit the co to get more money, of course. but i don't know. i was rather taken aback, but he was talk so much about post war ukraine. i mean, what, where is this coming from? i think what? no one, none of us. we don't know. i don't know if anybody really knows how this is going to be resolved, but he wants to talk about what your queen is going to be like afterwards when we don't even know what you claim. well, we won't even know what it's geographical. borders will be, pardon, or anyone, faintly objective about the claim or risk regardless of whether you take sides or not. i mean anybody who is able to get some distance and look up the, the grand will sign spring comes narrative really but not. i mean, it really is jus

i know you grew up in lincoln, nebraska.w how popular sports and sporting events are in nebraskale but talk about this moment and how important it is. clearly we see the value of women's sports. how do we keep the momentum going? >> well, that's exactly right. you think of the 90,000 fans that packed the rose bowl in 1999 to see the world cup victory there. women's sports haven't sustained that level of interest necessarily, but it's not for lack of trying. when you see what they did by, it shows what can happen. they're growing in popularity. viewership is up. you had nearly 0 million viewers for the women's final on espn. when they tee sided to put if game on abc, it lifted the ceiling for who could be watching the game. you're breaking records with the world cup. the first rounds of the women's tournament are breaking records year after year. people are showing up for these events. i couldn't be more thrilled to see nebraska in the middle of it. >> women's volleyball popular a you laid out. it's a little different. how do

brinkley: people should visit the lincoln presidential library in springfield, lincoln's tomb, but now you can do eight guided tour in springfield of the so-called racial unrest of 1908, where we have been talking about stuff recently, but there was a horrible racial incident in 1908 in springfield. i never associate you with ohio, and now i will. hayden: i've been involved for 30 years. so. [indiscernible] in the midwest, and 1918. brinkley: her family moved, and this was a smart choice because my antonia is not only just a brilliantly written book, it's part of a prairie trilogy that began with all pioneers -- oh pioneers, and then the songs of the mark, and my antonia, it's a trilogy. you could pick any one of the three, and you should pick the right one. she is writing about growing up on the great plains, and in a very brilliant way deals with rattlesnakes or planting crops, they deal with european immigration in the midwest, and what it was like for pioneer families out there. how they had to rely on each other, and also love interest stories with the guy that ends up leaving tha

in 2010 i wrote a book about it called lincoln's way.y own political and ideological tendencies tend in that direction. i am not advocating wishy-washy moderation. i admire decisive action when needed. it is just that i am an independent thinker, and eisenhower was too. i find myself often repelled by what seems to me the elements of folly that can crop up on the left or the right. i reserve to myself the right to steer my own course and to borrow whatever elements of wisdom make emanate from the left or the right, and eisenhower's presidency, eisenhower became an exemplar. one of the things i seek to do in this book is to explore his ideological development, because his thinking traversed a rather twisty course. he veered back and forth, and one of the most interesting things of all to me was the way his intellectual and ideological development related to his underlying emotional development . it is one seamless mental continuing, and i think i have broken new ground in that respect. host: you referenced her career in previous books. ho