Lincoln visited with Wounded Soldiers spent time with self , emancipated men, women and children, and drafted the emancipation proclamation. Joan cummins is a public historian, artist, and educator. As a program assistant, she supports their public facing programming, particularly for students and teachers. She works very closely with one of their programs called students opposing slavery for young abolitionists working to combat human trafficking. She is the cohost of a podcast, which i think is a terrific name, called q and abe. Welcome to history happy hour. Thanks so much for having me. Im excited to be here and to share you all about lincolns experience during the summer of his presidency. He lived at president lincolns cottage for three summers while he was president. The summer of 1862, 1863, and 1864. The family was planning to come out here again for the summer of 1865 when the president was killed. There were three main reasons the family moved to the cottage as opposed to st
Our first guest tonight is from the lincolns cottage, where Abraham Lincoln resided for over a quarter of his presidency. Situated on a hilltop in northwest washington, d. C. , president lincoln made some of his most critical decisions at lincolns cottage. Lincoln visited with winded Wounded Soldiers, spent time with self emancipated men, women and children and drafted the emancipation proclamation. Joan cummins is a public historian, artist and educator. She supports their public facing programming, particularly for students and teachers. She also works closely with one of their programs called students opposing slavery for young abolitionist working to combat human trafficking. She is the cohost of a podcast, called q and abe. Welcome to history happy hour. Joan thanks so much for having me. Im excited to be here and to share you all about lincolns experience during the summer of his presidency. He lived at the cottage for three summers while he was president. The summer of 1862, 186
Lexington. I do not know whether ending with mark means we are ending with a southerner or a northerner. He went to berkeley for his phd. Or one of those famous border states. I lectured in kentucky in many times and i learned that kentucky seceded after appomattox and became a confederate state. Before that, it was the United States. In a sense, that is the complexity of the history we have been dealing with. When the 13th amendment was being considered, the delegates from the house and kentucky tried to get an exemption to the 13th amendment. They did not do so. Mark is working on two books, one on Andrew Johnsons impeachment and another on gilded age politics. Imd am delighted that he has come to join us and tell us about Andrew Johnson. Thank you. Most kind of you. Thank you for giving me a chance for giving me the half hour i have. We were asked and advised that we should treat this talk the way we would teaching a class as opposed to reading a paper. In my case, that is dangerous
Welcome to the december meeting of the Lincoln Group of the district of columbia. Group was formed in ,he 1930s to honor the memory legacy, principles of Abraham Lincoln, and for over 80 years, we have had programs like this with outside speakers, and our own members, and today, we are very pleased to have three of the members of the Lincoln Group of d. C. Who have authored books related to the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. Each of our speakers will talk for about 15 minutes, and then the three will gather here and have an opportunity to take your questions. , so keep your questions that you have in mind for the first and second speaker, or after the third speaker. Briefly. Troduce them all three of them. And then have an opportunity to say a few more words about each as they begin their talks. Is a biography of lincoln, subtitled the man who saved america. And it is for the general reader. Show,thor, david, will has some astonishing illustrations. The second book, by elizabeth ex
Memories, the legacy, the principles of Abraham Lincoln for over 80 years weve had programs like this with outside speakers and our own members. And today, we are very pleased to have three of the members of the Lincoln Group of d. C. Who have authored books related to the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. Each of our speakers will talk for about 15 minutes, and then the three will gather here and have an opportunity to take your questions. So keep your questions that you have in mind for the first and second speaker, or after the third speaker. I will introduce them briefly. All three of them. And then have an opportunity to say a few more words about each as they begin their talks. The first book is a biography of lincoln, subtitled the man who saved america. And it is for the general reader. As the author, david kent, will show, has some astonishing illustrations. The second book, by Elizabeth Smith brownstein, an experienced washington journalists, talks about what is today called