Lincolns view of the world in one word, the word is is. He believes the United States is a country not the United States are. In the prior, states were reviewed as part of an overall confederation of states. He believed we were one country. And he wanted to bring the Southern States back. Second, he wanted to improve the status and the lot of the lives of the americans the africanamericans living in the United States of the time it. Those who were free before, and certainly those who became free. Many of them as a result of lincolns own efforts. When he was killed, everything changed. It sent back relations in this country over 100 years. And it setback the quality of life, and the economy and social development of the Southern States to the point where many Southern States to this day are lagging behind the rest of the country in education and health care and in so many other criteria. Would this have been different if lincoln survived . Impossible to know. But he would have tried. He
Can say this is the definitive site in the federal city and the one site i have really enjoyed in the course of my career and all the interaction i have had with various historians and other scholars who i see come and go, as well as the comradeship i have daily with fellow rangers. I want to cover the history of fords theatre, sort of a general history, and work my way into the assassination. A little bit about the historical background of the theatre. The theatre was created in 1860, 1861, from what was originally a Baptist Church built on the Current Location on 511 10th street in 1833. The ford brothers were originally from maryland baltimore, where they ran three or four other theatres as well as an opera house. The theatre, when it opened at the outset of president lincolns term in office, it had a shortlived life. Following the assassination of president lincoln, the ford brothers were unable to reopen the theatre in the aftermath of the tragedy. There was public outrage at any
See the carriage that transported president and mrs. Lincoln to fords on april 14th 1865. Behind me is the carriage that Abraham Lincoln rode to fords theater the night of his assassination on april 14th. Its part of an exhibit and a project were working with fords theater on in their sigh a lent witness exhibition which opens up this month. April 14th 1865 was an incredible day for both the lincolns and for washington. News had reached the city that robert e. Lee had surrendered to grant. The war was finally coming to a conclusion. That morning Abraham Lincoln has breakfast with his family. Robert todd lincoln his eldest son, joins them for breakfast. He was at appomattox. He was part of ulysses s. Grants staff. And he was telling the story to the family about what had just taken place. The city has in celebration. And the lincolns themselves were celebrating and finally seeing the end of this incredible war coming to an end and all of the burdens that that had on the president. He de
With a hockey stick knocked out all his upper teeth when he was 18. And sent him into a spell of depression and selfimposed seclusion in his house for three years. Was not able to go to college, which he had planned to do. He wanted to go to yale. Instead, he stayed at home. Very seldom ever went out at all. Reading. And providing himself with a liberal Arts Education of a kind most people would dream of having. All on his own. With the help of his father and the local public library. But it was it swerved his the path of his life in a way that no one had ever had any way of anticipating. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific, on cspans q a. Each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives museums and Historic Sites to learn what artifacts reveal about American History. 150 years ago, actor john willings booth shot president lincoln as he watched a play from his box at fords theater in washington, d. C. For the First Time Since that night, a collection of objects connected t
All. Reading. And providing himself with a liberal Arts Education of a kind most people would dream of having. All on his own. With the help of his father and the local public library. But it was it swerved his the path of his life in a way that no one had ever had any way of anticipating. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific, on cspans q a. Each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives museums and Historic Sites to learn what artifacts reveal about American History. 150 years ago, actor john willings booth shot president lincoln as he watched a play from his box at fords theater in washington, d. C. For the First Time Since that night, a collection of objects connected to the assassination are reunited in a special exhibit titled silent witnesses. Well visit the exhibit in the center for education and leadership at fords theater. First, we begin at the National Museum of American History to see the carriage that transported president and mrs. Lincoln to fords on april 1