Is the site where president lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. As he sat in a theater with a play running. The play running at the time was our american cousin. President lincoln died the next day across the street at the peterson boardling house. Fords is now a working theater as well as a National Historic site. He current play running is 110 in the shade. While we wait, lets take a ook at todays speakers. Lincoln, African Americans, and the emancipation struggle. And 35 the book lincoln the problem of reconstruction. There will be a midday break for lunch at approximately 1 55 p. M. Well hear stacy mcdormant on mary lincolns life and legacy. At 3 05 Thomas Carson on incolns ethics. At 3 55 all of todays speakers will participate in a closing panel. What youre looking at there is the box where Abraham Lincoln was sitting the night that he was shot. The president apparently enjoyed theater and was attending a performance of our american cousin at the time he was shot by ac
And tim schultz, president of First Amendment partnership will discuss religious freedom laws in several states and the pushback from opponents who view laws as discriminatory. Then alex rogers with the National Journal will be on to talk about the gop president ial candidates efforts to woo unbound delegates, a process that could determine whether republicans will need to go past a first ballot at a president ial nominating convention for the first time in more than 70 years. Be sure to watch washington journal beginning live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern thursday morning. Join the discussion. Next, author and former political adviser Sidney Blumental talks about his book. He spoke at fords theater in washington. Sidney blumental, our first speaker, is a native of chicago, a ba degree and write for i alternative newspapers. He has been here since 1985. A journalist with the washington post, covering president s with reporting. He was bureau chief and contributed for the guardian and served as
Pathbreaking for the institution on Alexander Hamilton, American Made modern america. We also want to recognize his receipt of the National Humanities medal to keep of course has written numerous books on revolutionary america including biographies on George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. His most recent book which was released just last week is founders son a life of Abraham Lincoln and it is already getting wonderful reviews. As always i would like to ask before invite Richard Brookhiser to the stage you make sure anything that makes noise like a cell phone is off. And now please join me in welcoming Richard Brookhiser to the stage. [applause] thank you for that i am being adjusted. They didnt need this stuff in the 19th century. They also did need to tell people to be quiet because they would be. Its always a pleasure and an honor to be at the historical society. I just want to thank a few people who are in the room. My publicist from basic, kathy nelson, basic bo
Times. I found i admired raymond a great deal. Greely called him the little villain, a nickname that stuck. Cartoonists portrayed him as a very little fellow with a big beard. But he stuck to and it made the New York Times he committed the New York Times to the same idea of all the news that is fit to print that it still practices today, albeit under a different ownership. How does he fit into this scenario. Bennett was the first on the scene and was the oldest and born in scotland, before the turn of the 19th century, fell in love with newspapers, had a facility for language so he got jobs as a translator of foreign news, and then ultimately wrote so many good things about the Andrew Jackson administration that he expected that jackson and jacksons successor, martin van buren, would find a way to get him money to start his own newspaper. The administration didnt like it. Vaguely foreign, a little smarmy and from that day on, bennett is more independent than practically any newspaper e
Reject the scholar who doesnt give them what they want. It strikes me, in other words they are engaging in some way. Just on their own terms. You know, someone like Steve Mcqueen has an idea and he found this book. He had an idea. His wife found him the book and he put it all together and that is the narrative and the story and he has his ideas and scenes. I was struck powerfully by spielberg having scenes in his mind telling the historians what he saw. Was it possible . Could it be . What was the weather at the gettysburg address . Could the flag have been flying . And the several hundred page screen play gets shrunk down to a few months. So there are ways. Theyre saying can mary lincoln wear this . Can she wear that . Well, she was actually wearing black. She was in mourning. But the larger authenticity of the film was to portray her as a vain shopaholic, someone difficult. So she wasnt accurate. If i had been someone who said, no. She must wear the black, otherwise its inaccurate, y