Everyone, andoon, welcome to our ninth jackson virtual discussion forum, our series of online gatherings on covid19 and Global Affairs exploring the farreaching impact of this pandemic. We are thankful to senator murphy and jackson senior fellow governor dean for joining us this afternoon. We will introduce them in a moment. Attendees, have your volume and video muted but we are excited to incorporate your questions as time allows. You can submit those using the q a feature in zoom. We will record this session and post a video afterward to the benefit of everyone. Stay tuned for Upcoming Forum discussions, former under secretary of defense will join us next thursday, may 28 and now i will turn it to jim levinsohn, director of Yale Universitys Jackson Institute for Global Affairs to introduce our special guest. Thanks, ted, and welcome everyone. As we grapple with the ramifications of this pandemic, we are grateful jackson to have a Wonderful Group of faculty and senior fellows whose ex
Director of the civil war era studies program. He did his graduate work in history at the university of pennsylvania, where he focused on the history of religion. He also has holds a master of divinity degree. His roster of publications is so long that im not going to even try to read them all to you. You can go to allen guelzo. Com and get a full accounting of not only his publications, but other salient elements of his biography and doings. What im going to do here is mention five books that i think are especially pertinent to what well be doing this afternoon, and ill just read it. Abraham lincoln redeemer president , 1998 and won the first of allens lincoln prizes. Lincolns emancipation proclamation, end of slavery in america, published by simon and schuster in 2004 brought him his second lincoln prize. Lincoln and douglas that defined america, simon and schuster 2008 for some reason didnt win the lincoln prize. Fateful lightning, new history of the civil war and reconstruction cam
Abraham lincoln and his project on confederate general robert e. Lee. Mr. Guelzo spoke about lincolns intellect and emphasized the importance of religion in everyday life during the civil war era. The university of virginias center for Civil War History hosted this event. Allen guelzo is the third professor of Gettysburg College where he serves as civil war curator. He did his undergrad ate at the university of pennsylvania where he focused on the history of religion. He also holds a master of divinity degree. His roster of publications is so long that im not even going to try to read them all to you. Go to allenguelzo. Com and get a full accounting of not only his publications but other salient elements of his biography and doings. What im going to do here is mention five books that i think are especially pertinent to what well be doing this afternoon, and i will just read them. The first is called Abraham Lincoln redeemer president. Caller and lincolns emancipation proclamation, the
Quickly tonight as we start, because as i tried to communicate last week, the drafting of or constitution, the history of its formation, is extraordinary, to say the least. It is a remarkable moment in all of world history. And we are here at 233 years later and our constitution is in the news daily, being referred to as we almost speak here tonight in the United States senate again and again in reference to one particular aspect of the constitution, but again, its alive and well and so, to think about the fact that this came together from a period of midmay until midseptember of 1787 is really remarkable. So, we recall from last week that we said that the revolutionary war, you know, a lot of folks arent really clear of the sequencing, and its important to know it, that conflict began in lexington and concord in massachusetts in 1774. And these very independent colonies, all british colonies that operated with their own governments and their own leadership and so forth, suddenly had t
Constitutional vision, you see Ronald Reagan aspiring to repeal the new deal republic through transformative Supreme Court appointments. Bruce ackerson was here. He argued that had reagan succeeded in his appointment of a rubber board, he would have been as great a president as roosevelt and lincoln because he would have been led to a new republic. With one more Supreme Court appointment, a republican president might achieve the resurrection of the republic. It would be just as transformative as the transformations of washington, lincoln and roosevelt. It is wanted to add one quick thing to that. I just wanted to add one quick thing to that. Often times, people say, about lincoln, he did not really do anything before he became president. I think one reason why lincoln gets elected is because the people cared about in the 19th century is what they still care about now. They care about vision. They care much less about experience than a president s judgment. Lincoln had both. Many of our