C cspan. Org. Up next, as part of the programming marking the 150th anniversary of the assassination of president lincoln, we visit fords theater to learn about an online project to collect douchlts and artyifacts detailing responses to the death of the president. Welcome to fords theater, director of Educational Programs here. Im david, the Digital Projects manager here at fords. So excited to share our prompt with you today. We have been working for the last year and a half to create remembering lincoln, a project supported by the Institution Museum Library Services allowing us to take resources primary source resources from around the country and around the world and digitize them and put them online so that anyone anywhere in the world can can learn more about how people, regular people responded to the assassination. Now when lincoln was assassinated, of course this was five days after general robert e. Lee surrendered to general grant down in appommaammattox courthouse, this is t
Here are some featured programs this weekend. On cspan, saturday starting at noon politicians, white house officials, and Business Leaders offer advice and encouragement to the class of 2015, including former president bush and the chair of Dreamworks Animation and 9 15 p. M. , Staff Members reflect on the presidency of george h. W. Bush and at noon, mu commencement speeches from Condoleezza Rice and michael nutter. On saturday morning,booktv is in new york with book expo american beginning at 10 00 and live callin segments with publishers and authors throughout the day. Sunday evening at 9 00 on after words, we look at the case that considered the constitutionality of proposition 8 the law that resended the right of samesex couples to marry in california. On cspan3 7 00 eastern conversation with white house historian william seal on first ladies who had the most impact on the executive mansion. Sunday afternoon before 2 00 life and death of the 20th president , jameis garfield serving
Congressman from ohio assassinated 200 days into his term as president. Get the complete schedule at c hf c cspan. Org. Up next, as part of the programming marking the 150th anniversary of the assassination of president lincoln, we visit fords theater to learn about an online project to collect douchlts and artyifacts detailing responses to the death of the president. Welcome to fords theater, director of Educational Programs here. Im david, the Digital Projects manager here at fords. So excited to share our prompt with you today. We have been working for the last year and a half to create remembering lincoln, a project supported by the Institution Museum Library Services allowing us to take resources primary source resources from around the country and around the world and digitize them and put them online so that anyone anywhere in the world can can learn more about how people, regular people responded to the assassination. Now when lincoln was assassinated, of course this was five d
my name is harris. i m beautiful. downtown springs field, mr. lincoln s hometown in illinois. and i didn t write this, but i m going to read it to see what kind of lies were told told cause course. now, first, i have to find my name. okay, catherine harris member of the forum executive committee was a long time division manager of library services at. the abraham lincoln presidential library three, formerly the illinois state historical library. that was my ad lib where she now serves on the board, which is a gubernatorial appointment even. she was the first woman and and the first african-american to as president of the abraham association. and that is honor of which i am very proud. if and i served as president from 2016 to 2018, and lo and behold i still keeping up my membership. okay. our first presenter or this afternoon is someone we we ve seen a lot. so i m going to tell you a little bit about him. jonathan white vice chairman the lincoln forum is professor of american