Ah gus tuss saint gaudin. It is called the standing lincoln. We will get back to this. I love this material. I got to tell you, i am so moved by lincoln and by his era and by the art and imagery about him, the photographs of him. I know it sounds creepy, im in love with his body, and well see in photographs of him theres lots to say. By the way, i know im kind of like old and thin and tall, but i do not dress up like Abraham Lincoln. Maybe one day. But, you know, having said that, you know, i realize public history or Performance History or living history is really, really important. Lincoln enactors have an important place in the way we understand history. So if youre interested in that, we have a wonderful scholar, amy tyson, in the History Department whose specialty that is. I used to give lots of talks like this around the state of illinois in the years leading up to lincolns buy centennial, bicentennial of his birth in 2009. He was born in 1809. I found out that illinois is a huge
A single painting or photograph. His class is about 70 minutes. Do you recognize this . Do you recognize this statue . Were all chicagoans. Im going to shame you a little bit. We should know. Its, like, maybe the best sculpture of lincoln from the 19th century, and its in lincoln park, right behind the chicago history museum. And just like the fact that you have free admission to the art institute, you also have free admission to chicago history museum. Step outside next time and take a look. This is a fantastic sculpture by augustus saintgaudens. Lincoln, the man, or the standing lincoln is what its called. But well get back to this. I love this material. I got to tell you. I am so moved by lincoln and by his era and by the art and imagery about him, photographs of him. I know it sounds creepy. Im in love with his body. And well snow photographs of him, theres lots to say. And by the way, i know im, like, old and thin and tall. I did not dress up like Abraham Lincoln. Maybe one day. B
Institute. Our first speaker this afternoon, to kick off our conference, is martin johnson. He is an associate professor of history at the university of miami, in ohio, where he teaches courses on Abraham Lincoln, the civil war, and modern europe. He earned his phd in 1993 from brown university. He has devoted much of his career to discussing the 16th resident of the United States. He is also the author of a number of books. His first two books were on european history. One is on the paris commune. And the other is on the dreyfus affair. And unlike most of us, he can only write between 18611865, martin is able to go into other fields and be successful in doing so. Martin earned the distinguished lincoln prize. He received that prize for writing the gettysburg address. Writing the gettysburg address is a superb book. It takes readers on lincolns journey to gettysburg. I dont want to get going too much of martins talk, but i will simply say this, that it reveals how lincolns intellectual
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