Emeritus at Mississippi State university where he taught courses on the civil war, jacksonian america and race relations. He earned his ph. D at notre dame and earned his faculty in Mississippi State in 1973 and during his time at Mississippi State, he also served the director and mentor of distinguished scholars and as the executive director and managing editor of the ulysses s. Grant association and the papers of ulysses s. Grant project, with grants papers being housed at Mississippi State university. Hes the author and editor of more than a dozen books and 250 articles that is impressive. Including his important work sherman. A soldiers passion for order, a finalist for the lincoln prize. Dr. Marslech received the Richard Wright literary award for Lifetime Achievement by a mississippi author and the Mississippi Historical society presented him its highest award the blc wales award for National Distinction in history. Hes currently at work on a book on the development of the mytholo
All right. We need to go ahead and get started with our first session today. And it is wonderful to see quite the turnout at 8 30 in the morning for a panel on James Buchanan, which is we all know that James Buchanan is often overlooked, but we are going to remedy that here in just a moment. I want to quickly introduce our two speakers. First is john quist. John is the tall one standing behind michael. He is a professor of history at shippensberg university. He teaches classes in 19th century u. S. As well as civil war era. He studied at the university of michigan under j. Mills thorton. Recall Michael Nieberg who you heard last night also a student of j. Mills thorton. John has published a very important book entitled the social roots of antebellum reform in alabama and michigan, and his cospeaker today is michael burkner, excuse me, professor of history at gettysburg college. Many of you might remember that michael was the interim director of the Civil War Institute. He played a pivo
Emeritus at Mississippi State university where he taught courses on the civil war, jacksonian america and race relations. He earned his ph. D at notre dame and earned his faculty in Mississippi State in 1973 and during his time at Mississippi State, he also served the director and mentor of distinguished scholars and as the executive director and managing editor of the ulysses s. Grant association and the papers of ulysses s. Grant project, with grants papers being housed at Mississippi State university. Hes the author and editor of more than a dozen books and 250 articles that is impressive. Including his important work sherman. A soldiers passion for order, a finalist for the lincoln prize. Dr. Marslech received the Richard Wright literary award for Lifetime Achievement by a mississippi author and the Mississippi Historical society presented him its highest award the blc wales award for National Distinction in history. Hes currently at work on a book on the development of the mytholo
Chief introduction into the world of lincoln i have to thank and jim mcpherson, who was a sponsor of my early work. Although he did tell me, he warned me when i first started my work, if you work on the south, you will have to go there. [laughter] but i have been welcomed there and i now reside there. But i really want to try to get to some of these issues of the lincolns after the death of lincoln. On april 21, 1865, 1 week after his assassination, a ninecar funeral train began the journey to escort lincoln and his son willies coffin back to springfield. The Lincoln Special was embraced by the american public. Americans were enthralled by this historic loss. The first assassination of a president. But what of those who called lincoln husband and father . The lincolns who were left behind, mary, tad and robert, suffer the loss of a man who came to symbolize the savior of the union. But for them, he was a husband and father, whose indulgence and compassion would be forever mourned. Afte
Chief introduction into the world of lincoln i have to thank and jim mcpherson, who was a sponsor of my early work. Although he did tell me, he warned me when i first started my work, if you work on the south, you will have to go there. [laughter] but i have been welcomed there and i now reside there. But i really want to try to get to some of these issues of the lincolns after the death of lincoln. On april 21, 1865, 1 week after his assassination, a ninecar funeral train began the journey to escort lincoln and his son willies coffin back to springfield. The Lincoln Special was embraced by the american public. Americans were enthralled by this historic loss. The first assassination of a president. But what of those who called lincoln husband and father . The lincolns who were left behind, mary, tad and robert, suffer the loss of a man who came to symbolize the savior of the union. But for them, he was a husband and father, whose indulgence and compassion would be forever mourned. Afte