Welcome to the library of congresss National Book festival a vibrant series of programs meant to bring you into the heart of this historical dynamic institution in the library of congress, your national library. Thilibrary. This is a brandnew after it to which we hope to spark conversations, engage, inspire and entertain you with some of the most diverse, provocative and notable writers of the day. In every program that we put before you save from the childrens writer to a conversation with the literary novelist to the program that you have come to hear tonight we connect the work of living writers to a deeper understanding and we delight in making those connections for you and in that kind of exchanges that make all of us more informed and mindful citizens. You are part of that by being here tonight. Thank you for joining us and for helping us carry the torch. I hope youve taken a moment to look at the display put out for your nextdoor and perhaps youve taken that were some of the lib
President ial library, down in the stacks. We are in the most secure area in our facility. This is the vaults. More thanere we keep 1600 documents written by Abraham Lincoln as well as many of the pieces he owned, objects he owned that he and directed with during his lifetime. I want to show you some books that we have in our collection that were very special to Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln whenraham he was elected president in 1860, its not as if he was entirely unknown. He was a four term member of the legislature. He had served a term in congress. He was one of the most prominent politicians from the state of illinois. In large part, that popularity was due to his very successful debates against stephen a douglas, sitting senator on the democratic side in 1858. Abraham lincoln challenged him in illinois for that senate seat. They debated. Onee hourlong public debate several different occasions during that campaign season. Two years later, the same two individuals square off against each
At stanford, one of her areas of expertise is poster design, the late 19th and early 20th centuries natalia received her ph. D. In art history from university of southern california. She has worked as a curatorial assistant of collections exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in new york. Our second speaker is jean cannon, whos a Research Fellow and curator for north american collections at the Hoover Institution Library Archives before to hoover, jean was literary Collections Research associate at the harry ransom, where she cocurated the 2014 exhibition the world at war 1914 to 1918. She was also the curator of hoovers 2017 exhibit, weapon on the wall american political posters of world one. There will be a brief q a the end. Please use the chat any time during the presentation to submit your questions. Prior, you submit your questions. With that, were going to begin with the natalia lauricella. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you so much for the kind introduction, dr. Wakin and thank you t
Exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in new york. Our second speaker is jean cannon, whos a Research Fellow and curator for north american collections at the Hoover Institution Library Archives before to hoover, jean was literary Collections Research associate at the harry ransom, where she cocurated the 2014 exhibition the world at war 1914 to 1918. She was also the curator of hoovers 2017 exhibit, weapon on the wall american political posters of world one. There will be a brief q a the end. Please use the chat any time during the presentation to submit your questions. Prior, you submit your questions. With that, were going to begin with the natalia lauricella. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you so much for the kind introduction, dr. Wakin and thank you to burt sameera hana and their colleagues at the hoover for organizing this event. Im going to share my screen with my slides from their emergence in the early modern period printed materials have circulated political, social and cultural m
Know a lot about the artistic and political dimensions of the poster. Poster art. In the 20th century, the Natalia Lauricella is lecturer in the department of art in art history at stanford, one of her areas of expertise is poster design, the late 19th and early 20th ceuries nav . [talia received her ph. D. In art history from university of southern california. She has worked as a curatorial assistant of collections exhibitionat the Guggenheim Museum in new york. Our second speaker is jean cannon, whos a Research Fellow and curator for north american collections at the Hoover Institution Library Archives before to hoover, jean was literary Collections Research associate at the harry ransom, where she cocurated the 2014 exhibition the world at war 1914 to 1918. She was also the curator of hoovers 2017 exhibit, weapon on the wall american political posters ofld one. There will be a brief q a the end. Please use the chat any time during the presentation to submit your questions. Prior, yo