Civil war, but the most private lives of his soldiers as well. As our first speaker amusingly calls it, the remarkable nightlife of civil war americans. What he is describing in that subtitle is their dreams. Not there conscious hopes, but their subconscious imaginings. And what they wrote home to describe in remembering what occurred during the precious hours during which the troops aged to catch the rest their rest in tents or in the field, drifting into dreams that expressed longing for home, their parents, their sweethearts, siblings, children and others, as you will hear. It is like our surveys. The other is the most intriguing. We all know how much lincoln loved shakespeare, including hamlet and its most famous be,oquy to be or not to even if he confided that he liked another soliloquy better. Within the poetry of course is this gorgeous and a telling phrase, to sleep perchance to dream. There is the rub, for in the dreams mayath, what come when we have shuffled off this mortal c
Harold good afternoon. The vicechairman of the Lincoln Forum and it is a pleasure to welcome to you what we think will be an illuminating and original session. A session devoted to private lives, not only the private life of the very public president of the United States during the civil war, but the most private lives of his soldiers as well. Speaker amusingly calls it the remarkable nightlife of civil war americans. What he is describing in that subtitle is their dreams. Not their cautious hopes, but their subconscious imaginings. And what they were home to describe in remembering what occurred during the precious hours during which the troops managed to catch the rest in t ents or in the field, drifting into dreams that expressed longing for home, their parents, their sweethearts, siblings, children and others, as you will hear. It is like our service, the other is the most intriguing. We all know how much lincoln loved shakespeare, including hamlet and its most famous a locally to
The eye would like to welcome and let you know that today is the sponsor is the law firm. Rtat he is a partner at the firm. Particularly for those of you that are not from mississippi welcome to the treasure that is the state capital. I see my partner over here and we are thrilled to have the privilege of being a part of what we think is one of the greatest gifts of people working for free to honor to the people of our state. Please help me thank them. [applause] as many as you know the spiritual guide of the enterprise and between the two of them, but look fast and at the Mississippi Museum of history into the civil rights as museum simply wouldnt have happened without two of them, so thats thank them. [applause] i would like to introduce the moderator although i would say at a time perhaps as any in ther last 50 years our nation most needor nation mostneeds to be cn domestic history. Its wonderful the hands of our disposal some of the nations genuine foremost experts on lincoln, gran
Work and support. Lets give them all i hand. Program will last an hour and include a question and answer session. The q and a will be conducted with written questions on note cards. You should have received a note card in pencil as you enter the auditorium, but well also have Staff Members circulating through. Just raise your hands if you want a card. They will be collecting them a little later in the program. There will also be a formal book signing with the speakers and copies of the book will be in store which is on the 77th street side of the building. We are honored to welcome back mr. Schechter, the author of several books on American History including a quote the the civil wark draft rights in the fight to reconstruct america. Severaln advisor in exhibitions here and as a fellow of the new york academy of history and a contributor to the encyclopedia of new york city. We are also so pleased to back to new york historical. He has been riding about the culture and history of new y
Hosted this event. Its about an hour. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to New York Historical society. Im vicepresident for public programs. Im thrilled to welcome you to our spectacular robert h. Smith auditorium. Tonights program, the battle for new york, rallying and rioting, is part of the distinguished Speaker Series which is the heart of our public programs. We always want to thank mr. Schwartz for his support which enabled us to invite so many authors and historians. He would like to thank all the Council Members for all their great work and support. Lets give them all a hand. [ applause ] the program will last an hour and include a question and answer session. The q a will be conducted on note cards. You should have received a note card and pencil as you were entering. We will have our Staff Members circulating through. Just raise your hand if you want a card. They will be collecting them a little later in the program. There will be a normal book signing with our speakers. Copie