The university of pennsylvania, and is the author of six books including popular print and popular medicine, Health Advice in early american almanacs, then the living live con. President James Buchanan and the crisis of national leadership. Lincoln Campaign Biographies is his most recent book, and his currently editing a book called annotated lincoln. Let me present tom horrocks. Hello, everyone, can you hear me . Im going to be showing some slides of several campaigns of lincolns biographies of the 1860s. I need to talk a little bit about the 60 Campaign Biographies to put the 1864 Campaign Biographies into context. Theres two points that i want to make at the outset. One is the close relationship between the world of politics, many newspapers were aligned with the Political Party, newspapers and their editors were openly partisan, this is a trefbtd that began in the 1920s, when newspapers became the favorite prichblt media. Newspapers were part of an extensive and powerful Publishing
To join the conversation, like us on facebook cspan history. Next on American History tv, we continue our look at the 1864 president ial election between Abraham Lincoln and general george mcclellan, lincolns former commander the battle of potomac. Elizabeth varon examines the point of view from the confederates. This is hosted by the Lincoln Group of d. C. My name is katherine lincoln. Im a loyal member of the Lincoln Group of d. C. And its my pleasure and privilege to introduce professor Elizabeth Varon from the university of virginia who will speak on the election of 1864 in confederate eyes. I think this is a really important topic to address early on in this symposium so that we dont forget that there is a whole other conversation going on in other parts of the country. Professor varon has got her bachelors degree from Swathmore College and then went on to teach at wellsly yan temple before coming to the university of virginia where she is a professor of American History. Her firs
In richmond. Both were well received. And the biography won many awards. Then her next book was on disunion which was about the whole debate about the discussion of strategizing about possible breakup of the union dating from 1789 onwards. Most recently her book is on victory and defeat and freedom at the end of the civil war. That has already won a number of prizes, including the library of virginia eye ward. Professor baron also has been speaking widely, including the lincoln bicentennial in springfield and the Gettysburg Civil War Institute and also on cspan, book tv. So now it is my great pleasure to introduce elizabeth varon. She will speak on catastrophe or setback. The election of 1864 in confederate eyes. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. And thanks so much for attending the event. It is a pleasure to speak in such a beautiful venue. This morning ill address the theme of confederate interpretations of the election of 1864, but also Southern Unionist and border south interpreta
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