Welcome back, everyone to session to the second session of the impending crisis symposium. It is a very great pleasure now for me to introduce dr. Adam ip smith, the edward osborn, professor of u. S. Political history and director of the Rothermere American Institute at the university of oxford with a specialism in the political history of the United States in the 19th century. Dr. Smiths perspective will be invaluable to our discussions today. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome dr. Adam smith. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, rob. And good morning, everyone. Its wonderful to see you all here. And its fantastic honor for me to have been invited to take part in this symposium. Its always great to have a reason to come back to richmond, which is a city that i like very much indeed. My talk this morning is going to build, i think, i hope very nicely on Richard Blackett talk, which you just heard, the fugitive slave act of 1850, which was obviously the centerpiece of what he was
But one out of my class that i have no, i never thought about. Welcome back, everyone to session to the second session of the impending crisis symposium. It is a very great pleasure now for me to introduce dr. Adam ip smith, the edward osborn, professor of u. S. Political history and director of the Rothermere American Institute at the university of oxford with a specialism in the political history of the United States in the 19th century. Dr. Smiths perspective will be invaluable to our discussions today. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome dr. Adam smith. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, rob. And good morning, everyone. Its wonderful to see you all here. And its fantastic honor for me to have been invited to take part in this symposium. Its always great to have a reason to come back to richmond, which is a city that i like very much indeed. My talk this morning is going to build, i think, i hope very nicely on Richard Blackett talk, which you just heard, the fugitive slave
Brookhiser. It is part of the large Alexander Hamilton exhibition at the New York Historical society during it was 12 years ago, but it was transformative both in hamilton historiography and in the future of the New York Historical society. In addition to curating that show, he wrote a 1999 book Alexander Hamilton american. As well as, what would the founders do our questions, their answers. He is had the dream job that everyone would like, you have one job for a long time as young as he is. He is had it for more than four decades. He is been the same place. He is now Senior Editor at the national review, for whom he began writing nearly half a century ago. He is a winner of the National Humanities medal. I have the honor of being honored at the same ceremony eight years ago. It is a pleasure to welcome him for a reunion. He has written a wonderful book, founders son a life of Abraham Lincoln. It is unlike any other than as been produced because it harkens back to the founding interval
Brookhiser. It is part of the large Alexander Hamilton exhibition at the New York Historical society during it was 12 years ago, but it was transformative both in hamilton historiography and in the future of the New York Historical society. In addition to curating that show, he wrote a 1999 book Alexander Hamilton american. As well as, what would the founders do our questions, their answers. He is had the dream job that everyone would like, you have one job for a long time as young as he is. He is had it for more than four decades. He is been the same place. He is now Senior Editor at the national review, for whom he began writing nearly half a century ago. He is a winner of the National Humanities medal. I have the honor of being honored at the same ceremony eight years ago. It is a pleasure to welcome him for a reunion. He has written a wonderful book, founders son a life of Abraham Lincoln. It is unlike any other than as been produced because it harkens back to the founding interval
Great honor to be here at the lincoln forum. I am coming from a different country. This is certainly, eddies berg is one of the holy paces places in lincoln country. I have spent most of my career in Founding Fathers country. Although they are both in the United States, and they both helped define the United States, i think of the scholars and the two countries do not talk to each other as much as they should. Abraham lincoln talked to the Founding Fathers all his life. His most famous utterance was the speech he gave here, where he said, our fathers wrought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty. That was in november, 1863. Two and a half years into the civil war. But three years before that, february, 1860, at the cooper Union Address, the kickoff was his first president ial campaign. His new york city debut. A 90 minute speech, half of it was devoted to the framers of the constitution. Lincoln argued that a majority of them believed that the federal government ha