President James Buchanan and crisis of national leadership, Lincoln Campaign biographies is his most recent book and he is currently editing a book with Harold Holtzer entitled the an no tated lincoln. Let me present tom horrocks. Hello, everyone. Can you hear me . Im going to be showing some slides early on of several lincolns calm ina biographies from 1860s. Dont get upset. I do understand im talking about 1864 but i need to show talk a little bit about the 60 Campaign Biographies to put the 1864 Campaign Biographies into conte context. Theres two points i want to make at the outset. One is the close relationship between the world of prim and politics by mid 19th century, many newspapers and their editors were aligned with a Political Party. Newspapers and their editors were openly partisan. This is a trend that began in the 1820s when newspapers became the favorite print medium for political news. Newspapers were part of an extensive and powerful Publishing Industry that emerged in
good morning. my name is holt merchant. i teach history next door in washington lee university. and i am enormously pleased to have this opportunity [ applause ] i am still enormously pleased to have this opportunity to introduce you to two of my long standing friends. robert k. krick who will speak first and carol reardon. the first thing to be said about bob crick is he is unemployed. actually, retired from the national park service after 35 years. chief historian, the last 32 of those years at the fredericksburg, spotsylvania, national military park. before he came to virginia, he was the historian at fort necessity, national battlefield and fort mchenry, national monument, a total of 35 years of service. many of us also know bob crick as a hero of the effort to preserve civil war battlefields from the assaults of generations of commercial developers of parking lots and strip malls. [ applause ] and for that, we owe him a great deal. we also know bob as an author, lect
our local content vehicles recently visited wichita to learn about its rich history. learn more at c-span.o c-span.org-localcontent. this week on the civil war, two historians discuss robert e. lee s leadership during the civil war. they consider his education, work as a general and his ability to maintain troop morale under challenging circumstances. this is the second in a series of sessions we are airing from a conference organized by the virginia civil war ses question centennial convention. this portion is about an hour and ten minutes. good morning. my name is holt merchant. i teach history next door in washington lee university. and i am enormously pleased to have this opportunity [ applause ] i am still enormously pleased to have this opportunity to introduce you to two of my long standing friends. robert k. krick who will speak first and carol reardon. the first thing to be said about bob crick is he is unemployed. actually, retired from the national park service
civil war. they consider lee s education, his work as a general, and his ability to maintain troop morale under challenging circumstances. this is the second in the series of sessions we re airing from a conference organized by the virginia commission. the theme was leadership and generalship in the civil war. the virginia military institute in lexington, virginia, hosted the conference and this portion is about 1:10. good morning. my name is holt merchant. i teach history next door in washington lee university. and i am enormously pleased to have this opportunity [ applause ] i am still enormously pleased to have this opportunity to introduce you to you, two of my long standing friends. robert k.crick who will speak first and carol reardon. the first thing to be said about bob crick is he is unemployed. actually, retired. from the national park service after 35 years. chief historian, the last 32 of those years. at the fredericksburg, spotsylvania, national military park