from there, the lincoln special went up to jersey where lincoln's the lincoln hearse car was put on toa ferry for crossing to new york. now at the ferry terminal, the clock was stopped at 722. i couldn't find a picture of a clock stopped at 722. this was a very common victorian superstition in that they were afraid that the dead would not be able to pass on to where they were going. the dead should know no time so they could pass into the next world. so it pretty much every stop all the clocks in the building were stopped at the minute of his death. and also, all the mirrors were draped. so this was another very common victorian superstition one that if the dead spirits saw themselves reflected in a mirror, they would realize they were dead. and again, they couldn't pass on. so all the mirrors would have been draped in all the locations that the lincoln obsequious were held. now, when the ferry arrived at the desroches street station, it was met by peter rella. he was a sexton undertaker in new york. he dug the graves at the willet street, methodist episcopal church, and as such, he wa

it the 150th of lincoln's election november six, 1860, and i wondered if i could follow lincoln through the months of november and december and january, then into february and, as i was studying him very closely, i realized the train journey in february was a great opportunity to write in a daily way, which is not how historian right historians think about years and decades and centuries. i was thinking i would try to follow lincoln on 13 days in a row and write different essay on each of those 13 days. so lincoln leaves springfield today and he goes to indianapolis, and here's what happened. it made sense in a newspaper kind of a way. and as i did it it was really exciting work. i a lot of different kinds of sources i quickly realized i had bitten off more than i could chew and. by the end of the 13 days of daily posts, we were using words like a post. this was kind of a bloggy exercise. it was only in the online york times, not in the paper. and i can talk about why in that era, the new york allowed this to even happen. it was kind of a miracle because history not really news but they

lincoln? no, i bought ' new pair of boots for this trip and they are pinching so desperately the man wrote andg said i still see thm getting on the streetcar, a lonely figure who knows what destiny awaited him blah, blah, blah.hi he knew it destiny awaited him to go right to the offices of the new york tribune where he had deposited his manuscript and make sure they typeset it word wanted tohe way he appear.po i think they had a pool arrangement the next morning for newspapers carried the speech. one fortunately with the audience reaction included. lincoln supervises two rounds of galleys himself. that is help eager he is for the speech to be in circulation for the only bad part of this is in the old newspaper days, when you finish with the original piece of the paper and you weren't satisfied you just drop it to the floor because you want to get it out of the way. it is done. and there's menu comes round and sweeps up the floor every 10 minutes. so lincoln'sr cooper union manuscript unless so

lincoln? he says, no. i bought a new pair of boots for this trip, and they're pinching so desperately. and the man wrote and said, i still see him getting on the streetcar alone. a lonely figure who knows what destiny awaited him. blah, blah, blah. lincoln knew what destiny awaited him. the destiny was to go right to the offices of the new york tribune, where he had deposited his manuscript up and make sure that they typeset it word for word the way he wanted it to appear. i think they had a pool arrangement because the next morning for newspapers carried the speech. one fortunately, with the audience reaction included. and lincoln supervises two rounds of galleys himself. that's how eager he is for this speech to be in circulation. the only bad part of this is that in the old newspaper days, when you finished with the original piece of paper and you're satisfied, you just drop it to the floor because you want to get it out of the way. it's done. and there is a man who comes around and sweeps up the floor

a small seminar on lincoln. brown has a very good lincoln collection, so i was always lucky in my research, and my one year at the library of congress was also really helpful. and a student, i was beginning to develop the book idea and i was always trying to see what lincoln looked like. what did someone in a small town right as lincoln came through? and that was probably the only time that person ever saw abraham lincoln. and i began to realize these 13 days where the time that most americans saul lincoln. because not that many people lived in washington, d.c. or visited washington, d.c. so i had this line of research that was very interested in, and i don't want to fail to think the people behind the database, which is called chronicling america, which was funded by the national endowment for the humanities, it is a massive database of 19th-century newspapers. and that was incredibly helpful to me. reading a newspaper in any small town that lincoln strain winter. i was always trying to look at lincoln. then a

who many people love, lincoln there's a good reason for our respect for lincoln. it's easier than talking about this mass movement of people who are talking about war against slavery the democratic party, whatever their causes are, it is more ominous or something a little creepy there and inspiring at the same time. and so i think it's been a story to tell. but my second question was my eyes aren't. but seeing that cover. talk about the capes. i can't help but think of the kkk. yes, right. and they feed the same idea of we're going become an army and. yeah. or the nazi folks. and yeah, people see often their pictures and say it reminds them of nuremberg or something like that of a mass march and they come the kkk fascism. all these things have a similar genesis in this big public nationalist moment in the 19th century, and they go different directions. right. but we saw charlottesville marching with torches is striking for very different causes, very different. it has a public impact. and that's what mass movements want to do, whether it's anti neo-nazi, whatever

and i was talking about lincoln and one of the students stood up and he talked about lincoln. and the people told me later that he had never spoken in the class before, but just somehow hearing that somebody like lincoln had been through something that he was feeling anxiety and depression made him able to talk and they felt huge breakthrough. it happened at that moment. so i guess there's some hope, too, that if if young people can see what is that people go through, everybody goes through tough times in life, nobody is spared that. they might feel that they're not alone in what they're feeling. how important was it in your research of these four guys to have a friend, an ally mentor, someone who really believed in you like a joshua speed? i mean, think of gary ginsburg's book, first friends and important and significant of a role. i'm not family members, but but specifically someone who was not related but an ally, a friend or a mentor that got to where or helped get them to the highest office. i think the great example of that is lyndon johnson. he got to college. he decide

and i was talking about lincoln and one of the students stood up and he talked about lincoln. and the people told me later that he had never spoken in the class before, but just somehow hearing that somebody like lincoln had been through something that he was feeling anxiety and depression made him able to talk and they felt huge breakthrough. it happened at that moment. so i guess there's some hope, too, that if if young people can see what is that people go through, everybody goes through tough times in life, nobody is spared that. they might feel that they're not alone in what they're feeling. how important was it in your research of these four guys to have a friend, an ally mentor, someone who really believed in you like a joshua speed? i mean, think of gary ginsburg's book, first friends and important and significant of a role. i'm not family members, but but specifically someone who was not related but an ally, a friend or a mentor that got to where or helped get them to the highest office. i think the great example of that is lyndon johnson. he got to college. he decide

for lincoln riley.what he said. he was patient. they didn't have much success throwing the ball down in the red zone. they threw fades, they miss him. but, whether it mattered, he showed up. here's the fourth quarter. finding woody marks, stud running back, had a big night, running and catching the football out of the backfield. throwing a big outrout on third down. and then this is what he brings to the table. his ability to move and scramble. keep play the alive. that's what all the quarterbacks that lincoln riley has coached through the years have been able to do. and in big moments, jayden maiava showed up. >> paul: first three quarters, colt, he was under 50%. as lincoln riley just said to lewis, he stayed patient, and in the fourth quarter, you ee the numbers, our eyes told us, we heard lincoln riley talk about what he could do with his legs. he talked about his strong arm, the effortless power, and it all showed up when it mattered the most. >> colt: exactly right. ucla did a nice job containing

and lincoln kept his opponents prison. many confined without charges and without the promise of fair and speedy trial. so some defend lincoln's that desperate times call for desperate or that his vision, a strong centralized government was. good. we can debate that, but there's no debate that lincoln exercised almost dictatorial and his central authority came at the expense of the states. interestingly, the war robert e lee was amazed prophetic in about the concentration of power in washington. he wrote a letter lord acton, after the war in which he said the the consolidation of the states one vast republic. sure to be aggressive abroad. and despite at home will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it. was lee a traitor? if so, why was he never prosecuted for treason? in fact, why were no confederates, not even jefferson davis, ever tried for treason? was secession legal? the constitution, silent on the rights the states to secede. but like lee, believe that when their st

and lincoln kept his opponents prison. many confined without charges and without the promise of fair and speedy trial. so some defend lincoln's that desperate times call for desperate or that his vision, a strong centralized government was. good. we can debate that, but there's no debate that lincoln exercised almost dictatorial and his central authority came at the expense of the states. interestingly, the war robert e lee was amazed prophetic in about the concentration of power in washington. he wrote a letter lord acton, after the war in which he said the the consolidation of the states one vast republic. sure to be aggressive abroad. and despite at home will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it. was lee a traitor? if so, why was he never prosecuted for treason? in fact, why were no confederates, not even jefferson davis, ever tried for treason? was secession legal? the constitution, silent on the rights the states to secede. but like lee, believe that when their st

we've been covering the story of rodney lincoln.he was wrongly convicted of a shocking murder and spent over 30 years in prison. but now he is a free man and he and his incredible daughter kay join me now. rodney, what have you been doing? and filling your time with as a free man? >> just about anything that i want. i'll bunch of great grandchildren. i spend a lot of time with. i'm doing a little advocacy work when i can. >> tell me about your advocacy work, rodney. you're helping others now? >> yeah, i'm working with midwest innocence project and several other groups and advocating for the wrongfully convicted, trying to help those that are left behind me in the same situation that i was in . >> rodney, how is it possible that you can still have so much light within you and try and help others when such horrible things were done to you? >> by the grace of god. okay . >> what has it been like to have your dad back? >> oh my gosh . sometimes i still pinch myself to make sure it's real. you know, those first few months are just euphor

lincoln cannot be replaced. if you had the ability to bring her back out of all this, i would give up every earthly possession i have to see her infectious smile, hear her contagious laugh, and her infamous love you girl. and i would hug her neck, but you cannot. lincoln made this world in more specifically, my world better. my first two years of college, when i did not know lincoln, i went home all the time my last two years of college, you had to drag me home. that was because lincoln was my person so, your honor, i wish to proclaim the maximum sentence for the defendant as i will never be the same. her loving beautiful family will never be the same. and this world will never be the same. i hope this sentencing sets a precedent so it stops with lincoln and fails to happen to anyone again. lincoln was a hero and a warrior. she died a hero and a warrior. and she is a hero, a hero and warrior. warrior to all of us. lincoln was my source of light, joy, and unwavering happiness so when her life was taken, so was th

because he invokes lincoln a lot. he talks about how he may be the best president since lincoln.erence to perhaps lincoln should have just settled the civil war. is the concept gone? should we look at this as a specific donald trump thing that he's sort of taken up by vengeance and retribution? or are we just -- are those times behind us? >> well, i think it's much harder in some ways, because of the way we deal with the news today. you know, in lincoln's day, even though those cabinet members had a lot of fiery arguments against one another, it was mostly confined to their journals and diaries. we know about it after the fact. today it would be spread all over the news. if lincoln would have come back today, what he would say to mr. trump is don't let retribution be the thing you're going to do. other people were wishing he would go against his enemies at the end of the war, of course. they'd committed treason. he said, they should prosecute those enemies, he said, many of the radicals said. you should hang them. he said, i want no hangings, i want no more hate. we've had too mu

lincoln wants neither of those things. although at one point lincoln refers, to the awful arithmetic of the war, the ways in which we could host an overland campaign every season and the united states could go on because the north has so many more men. he is not committing to that. he's recognized that they will be able to outlast the confederacy, but he wants the bloody war at all possible because of importance of his political goals. last and it's and it's important not to understate this the degrees to which simple human charity and sympathy play a role here a piece of testimony from a confederate soldier, a guard at andersonville was commenting on the famous deadline at andersville that the space aroundhe perimeter of the wall and if soldiers breached that deadline, that his prisoners breached that deadne, walked too close to the wl guards in the outpost, were entitled to shoot them. and as he's suggesting here in a prate letter to jefferson davis, many of them did this just for the sake of killing someone. and as he s

um, lincoln says in november. of 1854, i think i'm a whig, but my friends say that they're that there aren't a whigs and i am a republican. um, his wife, rhodes, who of course it. and she says about this time he, he's a republican but he's not an abolitionist. and so she she she drew the distinction. but i think that that was the distinction that was probably consistent with most people who were were republicans in 1850 455, 56, when lincoln runs in 1860. um, this is about, uh, about a year after john brown's raid on harpers ferry and democrats are saying john brown is, is, is the face of the republican party and republicans said, no, we are an slave extension as party, but we recognize the constitution, the legality of slavery, where it currently stands. dr. brown it's an honor as a current student, i wanted to take this time to ask you, as far as your writing goes, when it comes to specifically your work, when it comes to your research, what would you say to students as far as finding your research and specifica

but even after lincoln's success, garibaldi coverage continued apace. still framed as a metaphor for the seeming calamity that befallen the white south on december the first, the agusta chronicle editorial page was filled with discussions. the crisis of lincoln's election and the debits and credits of secession. among the screeds advocating from the tyrannical government of the united states was a detailed description. italy's final unification and garibaldi's retirement. after presenting king emmanuel with his new kingdom. while the american people were receiving the returns of the late election, an impressive scene was present in the city of naples. the article, before extolling garibaldi's actions and the power of revolutionary engagement the great deliverer of italy had the paper admitted committed mistakes along the way. but those defects arose from the moral excellences of the man and did not detract from his greatness after all. the paper argued who was thiem's washington the last because the calmness of his countenance was sometimes disturbed an

lincoln's election in november 1860. and this very precarious, dangerous time, which is the counting of the electoral vote. in february of 1861. and then he's lincoln's not inaugurated until march. so there's all kinds of plot afoot there's i never knew were ideas of assassinating lincoln even before the war began. so that's one of the things i found out marvelously, fully detailed here in this book. but you quote, a navy lieutenant, a guy named dixon porter, who wrote something about president buchanan that gave me the chills. and this is the first time. the only time i felt this reading this book, porter wrote this frederick rising with rebels by the of the united states struck me as very singular i could not understand how a man who had sworn to uphold the constitution and maintain the laws of the country could be receiving the felicity of a rebel cause. so you can see why had some chills. my question he wasn't alluding to anything was buchanan no, nothing was a buffoon or was he a pro-slavery sympathizer? and what ro

and that is their goal for lincoln. it is to preserve the union. and, of course, in a very famous letter in 1862, lincoln will say that my goal is to preserve the union. i would preserve the union by freeing none of the slaves. i would preserve the union by freeing some of the slaves. i would preserve the union by freeing all slaves. but my goal is to preserve the union. now, what's fascinating about that letter to the new york tribune is he's already written the emancipation proclamation. so the nonsense about freeing none of the slaves is simply his political argument. directed at northern, it has nothing to do with the reality. by the time lincoln that letter more than 100,000 slaves have not only been freed but are working in civilian capacities for. the united states army. he has already signed the militia act of 1862, which, for the first time since the revolution authorized, since the enlistment of blacks as soldiers in the united states army. and so his i would free none of the slaves simply is not on the table and the goal is to free all t

i think lincoln was a great man. lincoln free the slaves. the slaves in large part freed themselves. they knew what was going on and when they had opportunity to flee their plantation to escape their masters, they did. and it became problematic for the union from the beginning of the war. what do you do with these former enslaved people now? do you read enslaved them? we actually do that in the first months of the war. or do you allow them and encourage them? and then when we need manpower, put them in the army. when lincoln places flack for the emancipation proclamation, which all it did right was free slaves and confederates spaces. all it did. it's a war order to end contraband and the slaves are contraband of the confederacy. lincoln says to the northern governors and others who resist this. he says, really? so you want to send more of your people instead into the army? right. this is the beginning of a long story in our history where disenfranchized disempowered groups go into us military and find through their military service a claim

her name lincoln riley. she is one of dozens of americans allegedly murdered by harris, biden unvetted illegal immigrants. dozens of other americans have been raped, including children. hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of other americans, victims of violent crimes by harris, biden unvetted illegal immigrants. lincoln riley she was a 22 year old nursing student in augusta, georgia. she was out running. she was an avid runner, an active member of her sorority, and was described by everybody that knew her as a loving, caring person someone that could light up a room with her smile. but on february 22nd, while out on a jog at the university of georgia, lincoln, riley was brutally beaten. she was sexually assaulted, she was murdered. her lifeless body was left in the woods near a running trail. a 26 year old illegal immigrant from venezuela who crossed joe bide. kamala harris wide open border. of course, there was aiding and abetting, going on unlawfully in 2022 is now on trial for lincoln's murder. and today p

>> lincoln. lincoln was a wrestler. >> marisa tomei, every time. abraham lincoln and marisa tomei.nthony agrees. >> i am going to go with j robert oppenheimer, because that just seems dope. >> the answer is abraham lincoln and bad bunny. >> okay! >> bad bunny participated in several professional wrestling matches including wrestlemania 37 and 39 and abraham lincoln participated in as many as 300 wrestling matches, earning a reputation as a "a stud frontier grappler." front tier grappler, anthony, i think that was your job in the white house. what was -- [ laughter ] >> i had a lot of jobs, but that wasn't one of them. >> when you were in the oval office with donald trump, what are you thinking? like, are you thinking, "how did this happen? why is he here? how the hell am i here?" >> definitely thinking that. >> is he nuts in person, or is he sort of cogent when he is in person? >> there are 40 of us telling you how crazy he is, right? you john kelly, who was 18 months his chief of staff, who was telling people that he thinks and acts like a fascist. he pulled out the definition of

it was soon reported that lincoln was unhappy with mcclellan for his action after antietam. the initial assault on fredericksburg were described as successful blows, but within a few days, the same paper noted that our troops fought at a great disadvantage. enemy losses were inconsiderable when compared to ours, and the result was described as truly disheartening. a far more interesting case was that of joe hooker because of his western links. he was stationed in the far west, resigned from the army and spent time in oregon. the oregonian criticized the letter published in a kansas paper which claimed that our old oregonian hooker is very ambitious and looks to no second in rank. the oregonian wrote that great faulty certainly has, but selfishness, meanness, or ingratitude we cannot believe are among them. he is too brave and frank a man to enter into intrigues against his superiors. in any event, his 1863 offensive was described as little better than a defeat by the union. he escaped reputational advantage despite being described as mediocre, even though newspapers in kansa

abraham lincoln slave -- widow. all through the power of speech through her newspaper that she establishes through agitating the press. again, it just illustrates how these rights are actually one thing. it doesn't make sense to try to start describing what particular right is at issue when the right is liberty. the first amendment -- economic rights were a prerequisite for her exercising her first amendment right. these things are all intertwined. i just want to talk about my paper and my life most important leap. how that brings out that theme. she goes to court again and is denied her right to be an attorney so she starts the chicago legal news. it's really amazing what an entrepreneur she was. within months, she is able to secure a contract with the state of illinois which says that she can print the statutes before the end of the term such that lawyers no longer have to wait months to get access to these statutes. she becomes invaluable to lawyers. she secures a court rule that says that if a legal decision app

instead, many biographies about abraham lincoln. actually, through the help of maia broadwell and her descendants, saving her papers, this story starts to come out. it's all a very interesting theme of speech and what happens when we don't have speech. you don't have the other side of the story. you are not able to have this debate. to this day, there are people who think robert todd lincoln was justified in what he did and that she really was unwell. at least now that we have both sides of the story, we can have that debate openly and people can draw their own conclusions instead of only having one side of the story. there's one last theme i want to bring out about free-speech and myra's life. that's about how her story hasn't really been told that well. especially if you think about her story compared to the slaughterhouse cases which are much -- which is a much more famous case. it was decided the day before her case. it was the same issue. whether you have the right to earn a living. in that case, the court decided 5-4 that peop

after lincoln's victory, the troubled waters of italian unification still stirred as fighting began in south carolina. the resonance of the italian campaigns and global fame of garibaldi ensured the two simultaneous battles would be joined by more than the calendar, as everyone in america would seek to marshal the image of the italian leader as an ahave a avatar of their own cause. much of made of the united states forces. his fight for union in italy resonated with those in the north fighting for union in america. he was also a looming presence in southern media. for this study, georgia media in particular. even prior to the election of 1860. would remain a presence in the public white southern mind. as ann tucker explained, white southerners who sought to legitimatize the new nation, they were creating, hoped that self-comparisons with garibaldi and his nationalism strengthened their case for independent nationhood. that presence however existed on a decided arc, as the tumult gave to national unification in italy. newspapers in georgia interpreted him as an avatar of southern aims a

>> lincoln. >> marisa tomei, every time. abraham lincoln and marisa tomei.-he agrees. >> i'm going with oppenheimer, that seems dope. >> abraham lincoln and bad bunny. bad bunny dissipated in several professional wrestling matches including wrestlemania 37 and 39, abraham lincoln in as many as 300 wrestling matches, earning a reputation as "a stud, frontier grappler." frontier grappler, anthony, i think that is your job in the white house. >> i have a lot of jobs, that wasn't one of them. so when you are in the oval office with donald trump, what are you thinking? are you thinking how did this happen? why is he here? how the am i here? is he nuts in person? or is he sort of cogent? >> there's 40 of us telling you how crazy he is, i mean you had john kelly, 18 months as chief of staff, telling people he thinks and acts like a fascist, he pulled out the definition of fascism and read it to the new york times. >> do you feel like you were witnessing that behavior? >> someone who wanted to break the law and disavow the constitution. >> that's roy, roy does that.

lincoln's loyalty so the senators were embarrassed and left. so if lincoln's ghost is there, i'm sure it has to do with that encounter in the senate. lincoln, of course, served in the house of representatives and not the senate. >> the library of congress conversation, where was the library of congress when it was in the capitol and what is in there now? >> the wing that sticks out toward the mall. it was added after the capitol was designed because the congress had purchased thomas jefferson's library which is too large for the room they were using at that point. so it was almost the entire wing at least of the upper floors that sticks out toward the mall from the rotunda. it is now occupied on the south by the speaker's office and on the north by a number of hide away offices including the president of the senate and several other people there. then they added another floor above it out of the space, the room was two stories high. i think we have even scheduled a lunch bite later on to talk about that. >> maybe then we can ask if there are an