The metro poll tan museum of art hosted this hour long event. [ applause ] in their entire eventful lives they met facetoface only three times, maybe four at most. When they timely did they spent their time locked in political combat. One was a proud and brilliant radical, aggressive advocate for Racial Justice who ran out of patience with the status quo. The other was an ingenious g gradualist master of art of compromise timing leading from behind. One would save the union and slowly cure its major birth defects, slavery, the others frees slaves immediately even if it meant destroying union and the slavery together. They expressed views with uncommon eloquence. Two orators in an age of great or story. They developed a cautious Mutual Respect and ultimately genuine mutual admiration. Two great men whose furious dissonance ended up as common goals made each of them greater. Abraham lincoln and frederick douglass. No one who met either one never forgot being in his presence or how they e
March. Three days before the march he is saying we want to march and grant says no. I know they wanted to march. I think if they would have been allowed to march america would have seen them marching down pennsylvania avenue at a special time in the wake of the death of president lincoln at a time when the country was forming its opinion of a new nation. They took them out and gave the impression that our men didnt do anything worthy of note. We wanted to correct that wrong. It took years of suffering to correct that wrong. Im pleased to do that today. May we continue to prosper in this great country. The 150th anniversary of the civil war is over. How do people like yourself and historians and the public move forward now . Well you know, i feel like the young people who were standing at a place called camp barker four or six blocks from here waiting on president Abraham Lincoln to see them in 1862. Brady makes a photograph of them behind is slavery. Ahead is freedom. They dont know wh
The story of catherine sibeliuss resignation is top of most news organizations news items. A wellregarded former governor of the state of kansas. She is leaving after months of intense criticism over the botched rollout in the fall of the insurance marketplace. Doing the firestorm, president obama made clear to his aides that he would not seek the resignation of the health secretary. Joining us to break this down is john sullivan. Thank you for being with us is morning. Guest thank you for having me. One of the things is interesting is this caught democrats on capitol hill by surprise. Obama kept within a closeknit circle. Republicans have been calling for her resignation for months waiting dating back to the troubled rollout of the healthcare law last fall, as you mentioned. It seemed like obama was going to stick with her. She has been around for just about five years. It is something that caught people outside of the immediate orbit of the white house by surprise. As we have seen fr
House divided coming to you from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago if its on our shelves, its history. My name is bjorn scapton and i will be the host for todays episode of a house divided. And we will be discussing a house built by slaves with the author of that fine book professor Jonathan W White and will be talking with john in just a moment here. This program is coming to you from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago. We are a retail bookshop in independent bookshop 83 years 83 years old now. Independent antiquarian bookshop. We specialize in American History and specifically that means books about the life and presidency. Of Abraham Lincoln the us civil war and the us presidency we carry both old and new books antiquarian books that we sell on the second and market and new books like this one. You can get from Abraham Lincoln book shop. We also have many other historical artifacts you can get from us autographs photographs prints statuary. You see a couple of bus here theres T
House divided coming to you from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago if its on our shelves, its history. My name is bjorn scapton and i will be the host for todays episode of a house divided. And we will be discussing a house built by slaves with the author of that fine book professor Jonathan W White and will be talking with john in just a moment here. This program is coming to you from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago. We are a retail bookshop in independent bookshop 83 years 83 years old now. Independent antiquarian bookshop. We specialize in American History and specifically that means books about the life and presidency. Of Abraham Lincoln the us civil war and the us presidency we carry both old and new books antiquarian books that we sell on the second and market and new books like this one. You can get from Abraham Lincoln book shop. We also have many other historical artifacts you can get from us autographs photographs prints statuary. You see a couple of bus here theres T