Book team of rivals was the inspiration for Stephen Spielbergs lincoln in 2012. Doctor goodwin earned her phd at harvard. So coming up, were going to re air her in death appearance where she discussed her entire body of work and took phone calls. Will also be showing you discussions from her books, leadership in turbulent times. In holy pulpit. So well start with a january 1st, 1995 the parents on cspan series footnotes. In this hourlong interview, she discussed franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in the home front during world war ii. Her book, no ordinary time, won the Pulitzer Prize for history. Now here is historian doris goodwin. Author no ordinary time. If you could ask either Franklin Roosevelt or Eleanor Roosevelt a couple of questions after all of the work that is done. What would you be. I think it would like to understand why she was unable a certain moment in the middle of the war when he asked her to be his wife again and stop traveling and stay home and take care of him, and i
We have they spent here. Lets hear it for cspan. [applause] there is no better crow crowd ie washington, d. C. Metro area. All of the viewers of cspan i think are in this room right now. We love you and watching the regular viewers and we welcome everyone to cspan. But theres a couple of other things. First im going to tell you about the difference between history and destiny. This is true. I cannot believe that this is happening. But my father may he rest in peace was struck by lightning. His father, my grandfather, im not joking, was struck by lightning. That means dont stand next to me at rainstorms. [laughter] this last week i was telling my son listen, my dad was struck by lightning, his dad was struck by lightning and he was like my gosh, we could be struck by lightning. I was like we wont be but sure, you might be. This is true, my son, my family, my wife and my kids were taking a train from new york city here in washington, d. C. For this event and their train was struck by lig
I was invited by my colleague here, karen stone, who has done an amazing job of continuing to tell the story and to kind of bring this story out from the darkness and into the light. A little bit about karen. The director of the news seems division of saint marys countys government. She oversees three sites in that county, is responsible for strategic planning, fundraising, creating partnerships like this overseeing like this one, overseeing Museum Operations and more. This is exciting. Love this article she recently published an article about this disaster in American Civil War magazine potomac peril on the. Thank you for joining us on zoom this afternoon. Himn i am glad to tell people the story. The incident actually took place ago. , april 22, 155 years a great day for us to be talking about it, and there are a number of connections. Between our two institutions. The incident took place off of colts point, the site of one of my museums in maryland. That is why i am involved. It is n
Ending the civil war. The series has argued objects have the power to convey a story ofnarrative, the the civil war in our case. On the looking back books that inspired this series, are there objects or documents that you wish we had been able to include . Mr. Holzer from the book . I think we covered it well in terms of diversifying choices. Where thef regrets handwritten diaries of george templeton, one of the great diaries except it is written in such tiny hand. Know you feel, i the same way, from the theopolitan fair, Historical Society has a record and photographs. We will do it in the next eight episodes. And release from Abraham Lincoln. Long before computerized lincoln seems, able to comprehend and analyze the most fragmented early voting trends. You write lincoln had been a serious student of voting trends since his day as a poll watcher in illinois. Political,redictions statistical . Or instinctive . Above. Zer all of the he was a remarkable and localized analyst. He used to
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