Times. She is well known for her work knapsacks and to make weapons and all sorts of machinery for on Abraham Lincoln. In fact, her book team of rivals the war and obviously middlemen was the inspiration for steven made a way and produced spielbergs film lincoln in [inaudible] that fell apart in the rain and produced pistols that didnt 2012. Dr. Goodwin earned her ph. D. Work. You could see some of the at harvard, so coming up were worries that we might have going to reair her in depth evened today. But the interesting thing ias te secretary of war, was about to appearance where he discussed her entire body of work and took be censureed, and his whole viewer phone calls. Well also be showing you career, he felt, would be destroyed forever. Lincoln stood u fir of war and f excerpts from her books, but well tart with her january 1, ca are at fault, myself and my 1995, appearance on the cspan entire cin something totartponsd series book notes. She discussed franklin and ad question that w
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We got them movedd around and elected to office and got them married. It is time to elect him president. Going to look at elec the election of 1860 and using the term everybodys second choice, at the National Convention that year in 1860 a r lincoln supporter sent a wire that said, i think hes going to win the nomination. Hes the second choice of everybody. Well lincolnth himselfe seco ha, my name is new in the field. And i suppose im not the first choice of a very great many, ou. Policy there is to give no offense to others, leave them i a mood to come to us if they u should be compelled to give up their first love. I know, it kind of gets you yo right there. Ere. Giving up your first love. Okay. Y. So so the themes were going to be talking about and im also going to explain why there is suddenly a book cover in the upper per corner, but first of all republicans showed they were no the whig party. They actually ran a very wellorganized campaign. At the same time there is an oll saying
You managed to find. 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
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