Good afternoon. Im michelle crowell. Im the secretary of the Lincoln Forum, and i will be your moderator for session two of the forum today. Im not entirely sure that our its probably facing better. If not, ill just use my teacher and screaming at you. Im not entirely sure that our next presenter actually sleeps. And you already know who im talking about because no one could be as productive he is and actually get a good nights. But we are all the beneficial of mr. Sandmans deficiencies as year after year. Jonathan white continues to enrich us with new sources and scholarship on abraham and the civil war. For those of you who are not familiar already with john, john whites many accomplishment arts, he is a professor of american studies at Christopher Newport university, where hes taught since 2009, in 2019, he received state council of higher education, virginias outstanding faculty. Thats a really long name, jonathan the highest honor bestowed upon College Faculty by the commonwealth
Likes to remind his readers that the individuals participated in momentous events, didnt know how things would turn out. That is definitely the case. In his 2023 book, the lincoln miracle inside the republican convention, that changed history as he takes through the blow by blow action in back rooms and the wigwam at the 1860 Republican National convention forum, attendees will also remember a similar you are their approach in acorns every drop of blood the momentous second inaugural of Abraham Lincoln, which was named one of the best books of 2020 by the economist magazine. This Pulitzer Prize finalist for commentary has also written two acclaimed books about 19th century baseball and american culture, 59 and 84 and the summer of beer whiskey. So well have to have him talk at the cash bar later. Joseph fornieri is american political story and a professor of Political Science at the Rochester Institute of technology and is an expert on the political ideology of Abraham Lincoln. He is t
Forum esblhed an annual book prize recently named in honor of our distinguished chairman with cash award of 1,000 to honor outstanding scholarship on the life and career of our nations 16th president. Published the year preceding aw. Previous winners of the book prize include sidney blumenthal, james oakes, ted widmer and. Roger lowenstein. On behalf of my colleagues on the book prize jury, michele crowe, kristen mcwherter and daniel weinberg, it my honor and pleasure to announce the 2023 hord holter or lincoln book prize winner edward acorn for his the lincoln miracle inside the repu the changed history. Not yet. Acornresents a brilliantly written, riveting account of the 1860 Republican Convention that was held in chicago ding summer of that year. He recounts in comprehensive how Abraham Lincoln the darkest, dark, stunned the political pundits of the time by defeating William Seward of new york. Considered by most observers as overwhelmingite for the republican nomination for preside
from new york city police on the beating of two officers near a migrant shelter in times square. this caught the attention of the entire nation because of the concerns about crime and migrants in our city and we understand that we will likely get some news details about some of the most guilty among those who were the attackers who are still out there somewhere on the loose. now sources tell fox that some of the suspects that were arrested and released with no bail may be headed to the california-mexico border. who can forget this suspect flipping off the media as he was set free. quite a message to the city and the country. former new york republican congressman and candidate for governor, lee zeldin is standing by. first to c.b. cotton live at one police plaza in lower manhattan. hi, c.b. hi, martha. investigators are trying to figure out whether the migrant men suspected in this attack on two nypd officers are linked to a larger theft ring, which was busted overnight.
john: fox news alert and doctors have diagnosed king charles iii with a form of cancer. buckingham palace just made that announcement in the last hour, calling it a separate issue of concern that came up during the king s recent hospital procedure for benign prostate enlargement. with that, welcome back to hour two, john roberts in washington. a lot we don t know about this. sandra: good to be with you, sandra smith in new york. the palace says the king will be postponing-public facing duties as treatment is underway. evening falls there, the statement just out from the palace, what else are we learning so far, greg? yeah, just in the past hour we get the news and you can imagine the u.k. is riveted to this breaking information about their king, king charles, diagnosed with a form of cancer. we are told that he is being treated as an outpatient at a clinic in the center of london. he was there today, he left his country home for treatment today. he is now said to be a