why lincoln and why now? guest: why lincoln is something people who studied the 19th century grapple with. he seems to have his fingers on every part of the 19th century, at least in the united states and to some extent, around the world. i had written to previous books about the 19th century and each time lincoln was a minor character, which brought me more and more contact with this guy that i had been fascinated with ever since i was growing up in indiana where he spent the majority of his youth. i finally got to the point where i felt i might have something fresh and to say in spite of the thousands of books written. i got to the point where i felt like it fit the news i was covering as a journalist. this is a story about the past. i am not trying to do some analogy or metaphor about the present. lincoln was living in a republic, the basic rules of which we still have today, even some of the buildings were people govern are the same as they were in the 1800s. that would be really relevant and the more tha

lincoln. his little is a perfect gem deep in feeling compact, in thought and expression, and tasteful and elegant in every word and comma. edward himself wrote on november 20th, the very next day, i should be glad if i could flatter myself that i came as near to the center of. the law idea of the occasion and ours as you did and minutes the truth is that almost no contemporary understood the importance that the gettysburg would come to occupy not only in the american pantheon, but also among the world's great speeches. what was the basis? lincoln's concise remarks. lincoln himself said it best in philadelphia in 1861. i can say in return, sir, that all the political sentiments i entertain have been drawn so far as i have been able to draw them from the sentiments which originated and were given to the world. from this hall in which we stand. i have never a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the declaration of independence. i believe that we can and should t

not so, said lincoln. the world's most famous statement of equality was not or had never been a rhetorical tactic in his mind. at gettysburg, lincoln settled upon proposition. an objective yet to be achieved or an assertion to be proven. the nation had fallen short of his promise to be the last, best hope of the world. this was the conundrum. reverence for the constitution in his springfield lyceum in his springfield lyceum apple of gold that all men are created equal, and also shield it's anathema, slavery. because of this protection, william lloyd garrison believed the constitution was a proslavery document and publicly burned it, because it contained the three fifths compromise, the prohibition against ending international slave trade for r 20 years, the clause giving congress power to suppress insurrections, i.e. slave uprisings, and the fugitive slave clause. frederick douglass, on the other hand, argued that the constitution was an antislavery document because of, among other things, the word slave a

why lincoln and why now?: why lincoln is something people who studied the 19th century grapple with. he seems to have his fingers on every part of the 19th century, at least in the united states and to some extent, around the world. i had written to previous books about the 19th century and each time lincoln was a minor character, which brought me more and more contact with this guy that i had been fascinated with ever since i was growing up in indiana where he spent the majority of his youth. i finally got to the point where i felt i might have something fresh and to say in spite of the thousands of books written. i got to the point where i felt like it fit the news i was covering as a journalist. this is a story about the past. i am not trying to do some analogy or metaphor about the present. lincoln was living in a republic, the basic rules of which we still have today, even some of the buildings were people govern are the same as they were in the 1800s. that would be really relevant and the more that i go

lincoln cited with douglas. maybe the word slave nor slavery is to be found in the constitution, nor the word property even. any connection with language alluding to slave or slavery and that whatever that instrument a slave is alluded to, his father person and wherever the legal right is alluded to, it is spoken of as service or labor. would be open to show by contemporary news history that this motive alluded to slaves and slavery instead of speaking of them on purpose to exclude from the constitution the idea that there could be property in man. lincoln acknowledged as candidate and president that he could do nothing about slavery where it existed because of constitutional protection. he insisted, though, that congress have the power to bar slavery from the national territories just as they did when they affirmed the northwest ordinance in 1789. lincoln will never waver from this position in spite of the kansas nebraska act. hold firm is the advice of one congressman. the civil war changed all that and made p

lincoln is in control of this. and i like the example on the right, the statue, again, saying the same kind of thing about the great emancipator, but this one is a great way to way further than washington, d.c. there is a little clue at the bottom there in memory of scott as american soldiers. this is in scotland, i used to teach there, including u.s. civil war history. so, this is the field trip i would take my students to. it is just about a mile away from the campus. so, it was a place we would go to learn a little bit about civil war history. lincoln, obviously, is an important actor in this process, even if he is not the great emancipator, right? the only one who is playing any role in this process. as you know, i hope, lincoln did, in fact, signed the emancipation proclamation. so is like, you can't take that away from him, you can't say he didn't play an important role in this process. but, the myth of the great emancipator, i think, kind of blows that up a little bit more, and certainly obscures all the con

lincoln. foreign presenter to have created advertisements for bud bull. show of hands. if i'm wrong in any of you are bud bull animators. okay, we're good. christopher parlayed that experience as an animator and his talent as a painter and photographer into, a teaching career in the department of new media at the university of north carolina, asheville, where he oversees the track. and here is where his love of history and interest in abraham lincoln comes into play. in 2013, christopher started virtual lincoln project in, which he and his students are creating a photo real abraham lincoln and animating him delivering the gettysburg address christopher's supporting research on period images lincoln and all facets of the gettysburg address. prompted questions which he turned to mathematics and animation background to answer. christopher will explain a lot more about this in the next 40 minutes. but think csi gettysburg address gettysburg address. okay. i'm not an animator. that's how i've just

abraham lincoln. because for so long he's been the one who has gotten the credit for emancipation, basically. and so we'll spend some time digging into lincoln's views on race and slavery towards the end of the class. and then finally, we'll look at why not in public opinion, because after all, lincoln and the congress, they were both responsible to the elektra in the united states. and so public opinion really mattered in terms of what they could do when and how. so that's what we've got to look forward to today for purposes of the exam. we've got our usual identification terms, so i encourage you to be on the lookout for these. during the course of the lecture. think about if you get the question on the exam, how you would identify these terms and then briefly explain their significance. so the first one is kind of a three in one. it's frank baker, shepard, mallory and james townsend and those three. we'll talk about them in a bit more detail. but just to give you a preview, they're three and slave

he forced lincoln to have that discussion, which lincoln turned out to be willing to have.e these remarkable exchanges to me, some of which i had heard nothing about and some of which i had read a little about. in some longer biography. when i explored each individual meeting in every case, i learned something large or small. i felt i overall got a better idea of how lincoln operated and why we remember him today. host: it is interesting. we often remember lincoln for his speeches, the very famous ones, the gettysburg address, the second inaugural. you focus on the book on his personal skills and these private conversations and interactions with people. what is different about those two dynamics? guest:one thing is what lincoln avoided saying. he would also be careful about what he did not say. he would edit himself a lot and that was true in personal interactions and his speeches. he would focus on the one issue he thought would decide the election, which was very frequently slavery, and he would set aside everything else as a distraction. in personal conversations, he did

why lincoln and why now?est: why lincoln is something people who studied the 19th century grapple with. he seems to have his fingers on every part of the 19th century, at least in the united states and to some extent, around the world. i had written to previous books about the 19th century and each time lincoln was a minor character, which brought me more and more contact with this guy that i had been fascinated with ever since i was growing up in indiana where he spent the majority of his youth. i finally got to the point where i felt i might have something fresh and to say in spite of the thousands of books written. i got to the point where i felt like it fit the news i was covering as a journalist. this is a story about the past. i am not trying to do some analogy or metaphor about the present. lincoln was living in a republic, the basic rules of which we still have today, even some of the buildings were people govern are the same as they were in the 1800s. that would be really relevant and the more that i

lincoln and grant and because grant in 1863 emerges as i like to say he's lincoln's problem solver and he figures out vicksburg. there's a mess over at chattanooga he goes over there figures that out shows that he can can clean things up and get things done. and lee on lincoln finally has found the person who's going to get results. and i think a relationship that fascinates in 63 is lincoln in seward because you know, of course, lincoln has, that cabinet crisis in the end of 62 that could have led in seward's dismissal. lincoln plays it in the most excellent political which i think unshackle seward in some really effective ways for 63 who then basically he serves as full back and just you know runs forward as you making blocks and letting lincoln kind of do what lincoln needs to do by running a lot of political interference. so i think seward becomes much more effective. his relationship with lincoln becomes much sharper and, much more deeply seated in trust than. it had been up to that point. and sort of course, you know, does fantastic work all the way through. i want to start openi

lincoln articulates.incoln articulated so eloquently on a national level as a vision in late 1863. someone else? >> what rings for me ofwh course is when he says a new hope for freedom. of course that's going to come through the signature of the emancipation proclamation on january 1, 1863. he issued the emancipation proclamation in september 62 but that document is going to change over that 100 days. it is going to allow american men to serve in the army and, of course, a fewew months later you had the formation of the bureau ofof colored troops and get my penis is going to put the war on a whole new level of allowing this may deserve in the army. >> we all know a double negative for the confederacy is knowing taken labor way but it adding manpower to the union effort. >> yet we think about literally a new birth of freedom for people who had t been enslaved. and so this new national vision offers that literally new freedom. >> i even think about lincoln at this moment of course. lincoln is many things bu

he lets lincoln do what lincoln has to do by running a lot of political interference and of course heoes fantastic work all the way through. i saw your hand up first. ask the question if you want to direct it to a specific panelist please mention him by name. >> my question is open ended. we've heard about the relationships between grant and a number of people especially sherman. can you compare and contrast that relationship during that campaign just we've heard about how one seemed to merge and the other seemed to diverge. >> your eye is before you even ask the question. >> there's a glare in my glasses. [laughter] if we had robert e lee right now he said to did you have a falling out with long straight i think that he would deny. they just needed the space. hand they gone to couples counseling they could have worked through those things without having to send him to knoxville to harass. i think long street, they need a space from one another but i don't think either of them would have said the relationship has dissolved any. he is eager to have him back. theytu are welcomed onto th

there is no security force for lincoln. he had two companies of calvary which were assigned to go with him when he went on a ride which he did all the time on his own. he did not want them around him because he wanted his -- you have to imagine the stress he is under. anybody could walk to the white house present a card, say i would like a few minutes with the president at this time. eventually the president would try to find time. anybody can walk in. there is no security beyond that. lincoln would go out to get away from all of the clamor in the white house. he would just ride the streets out toward the summer white house. we know that later in the war there is a shot taken where it knocks his hat off. remember john wilkes booth, his initial plan was to kidnap lincoln and not kill him. this is certainly something that was thought of in other ways. let's send a couple of men in and see what they can do. now how many people here are mosley fans to the hill? all right. so, since this was published, mosley fans had latched on

now, the papers at the time -- they either hated lincoln or they love to lincoln. nothing has really exchanged. [ indescernible ] published june 23rd, this item dated june 20th. there are not only now going to capture or kidnap those men, they're going to burn the city of washington. how that gets in there, i have no clue. the clarity of the story had grown a little bit. in february or march 1864, [ indescernible ] controversial raid to richmond trent [ indescernible ] found on baldwin's body after he is killed. they were going to kill jefferson davis and they were going to burn the city. and this absolutely inflames the south. they cannot believe. to them, the north has raised the black flag, they have escalated the whole level of the poor. this is really over-the-top for them. just because nothing happens and lincoln is not actually cannot doesn't mean they don't believe that the south didn't try to do this earlier. you see the connection there? [ indescernible ] we don't know, lincoln never admitted to anything. [ indescernible ] no one else took any responsibil

however, lincoln did time to time sit in the lincoln in the president's pew, number 54, with his secretary, nicolay hay. but most of the time he did not formally attend st john's. however, during the civil war, he would from time to time during the evening services of st john's and that were instituted. he would come in the very back door. the church on the south side and sit and a very pew in the back of the church where he could have a quiet of contemplation and reflection without becoming the center of attention, which he would have been had he sat in the president's pew in the front, in the center of, the church. so this pew back is is the lincoln pew at st john's pew, number 89. and you can see it's at the back door. someone could easily come in slip in, enjoy the service and leave without being the center of attention. as you can see, just the visuals from this. if you sit here, you look at the front of the church as, a very private place there, really can probably be no better place for a person. wanted some privacy to deal with all the burdens of being president during a civil war

and i would not say that abraham lincoln got along with everybody.ntry. sometimes, you cannot bridge those divides. but the goal if you're in a democracy is to get a majority on your side. which is something that lincoln worked very hard before the war to do, and during the war, to keep a majority of the union on the side of defending american institutions, of supporting the constitution, of supporting the federal government, of supporting the basic idea that we are one country. and in order to build that majority, he did have to overlook a lot of instances in which he massively disagreed with people. you mentioned his best friend oe his life, joshua speed, who grew up in a slave holding family, but lincoln did not ostracize this guy, and they ended up on the same side in the civil war. joshua speed helped to keep the union together at a key moment. abraham lincoln reached out to people who didn't agree with him about immigration. they were against immigrants, againstgr foreigners, which he s not, but he wanted their votes against slavery. he reached

it's in lincoln.ted to say in with us is the in the studio with us is the conservative mp for lincoln, karl mccartney. steam been coming ever coming out of your ears ever since it? just take since they banned it? just take us what this idiot us through what this idiot council done. us through what this idiot couwell, done. us through what this idiot couwell, backone. us through what this idiot couwell, back ins. us through what this idiot couwell, back in february of >> well, back in february of this year, they announced without any previous, you know , without any previous, you know, even hinted they were even hinted that they were thinking not running thinking of not running a christmas market. just christmas market. they just announced carte blanche that it was forever . not was it was ended forever. not just were going to take just that we were going to take a year out to reorganise and make because that's the make it safer because that's the shield that they seem to be hiding the local hiding beh

don't you dare, lincoln. here we go.ion called you will go, it dates back to ancient pagan festivals, everybody gathers and worships a goat or as they call it, in hamas, date night. stop it. 1969, a whole new life after someone came up with the idea to build a giant straw coach, this is how ikea started. [laughter] would you go to a goat party? >> yes. to see the spectacle, of course. >> isn't it weird so? >> it is weird, a christmas g goat. [laughter] >> rudolph the red nose goat. [laughter] lincoln, you know how many countries have of on the shelf? >> to 24. it's global, lincoln had enough, what was your dog's name? >> losey. >> fast daddy. he had a reindeer. >> enter was a dog. >> we are because every one of his characters made it sound like he owed people money. a 3-year-old, you shouldn't have a friend named fast eddie. that, i'm going to play with billy chicago, i wrote if it sounds legit. >> he came up with it, we don't know why. >> you guys lived up to the h hype. the white trash duties, no the family of the whit

most for morale and public opinion in lincoln's reelection. davis's stubbornness in retaining bragg yielded disaster later and established the conditions for lincoln to put grant in charge and through open the gates to georgia. so that william t sherman could make its people howl. we can know briefly in defense of davis and bragg, there have been no better option quoted general in the full acceptation of the word as a rare product. scarcely more than one can be expected in a generation. but in this mighty war in which we are engaged, there is need for half a dozen. that's what bragg wrote. he certainly never found his half dozen, and he certainly didn't find them in the western theater. one of my favorite sketches here of the fight at chickamauga and a great ambrose bierce aphorism after alberon johnston's death, he could hardly find one general in the full acceptation of the word. who could command the army in the western theater, joe johnstonr beauregard, who he clearly distrusted, were no better than bragg. therwas polk who porter alexderef

lincoln. they fought a war against or nothing's really changed. you'll see how this has become a play that i've jumped ahead of. i want to look at the tape there. papers published june third is an item dated june 20th that they're not now going to capture or kidnap those men they're going to burn the city of washington. how that gets in there, i have no the clear their story had grown a little bit. in february march 1864 over dog needs a very controversial raid to richmond with and killed them and i put on the key documents there that are found on dog body after these kill that they were going to kill jefferson davis and they were going to the city in this absolutely inflames the south they can i believe what they've just to them the north raised the black flag they've changed the whole level of the war. this is really over the top. but if are the north just because nothing happens and lincoln is not actually kidnaped doesn't mean they don't believe that the south would try to do this earlier.

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good, lincoln obviously. lincoln's definition of democracy was that the government ensures that everyone has a fair chance in the race of. and i think that says it all and the reason why he was so anti slavery was because people who were enslaved did not have a fair chance. they could not elevate themselves. and so if you get rid of slavery, you strengthen democracy and strengthen the nation. and so i think he had the best definition of democracy that i've heard. bill bryant, that's a tough one because those are the democracies a moving target. and i agree it that lincoln had this understanding of democracy. but, of course, in lincoln's black people couldn't and women couldn't vote. and that would be utterly unacceptable by the middle or the end of the 20th century. so. hmm, i don't if i have an answer to that, the single best one i sort of that a simplistic answer would be the president we've got right now and not saying just because he's joe biden but because our understanding what democracy should be has c

it would not have changed lincoln's view. i just should add that the united states has generally taken the position that the business of government. when they operate within their own country is mostly their own affair. this is kind of imposed on the united states and the world after world war ii. and the united nations was founded on the principal of national sovereingnty. within your boundaries you can not do anything you it want. but the united states has no authority to tell the government of russia that you need to have this form of government. you need to do this. president of the united states lectured other countries. well, and the united states has not followed this rule entirely. the united states invaded iraq because it did not like the government of saddam hussein. there are all of those exceptions to this. the reason i put it out there is to just ask ourselves to think more carefully about how we look on things that happen around, throughout history. and i could of added, the united states apparently at least if