An introduction by jonathan silverman. I recently joined twitter. [applause] you can feel free to follow me. Soont may tweak something about Abraham Lincoln. It is a great pleasure for me to introduce Jason Silverman. I last met him in springfield we talked about immigrants of the old state capitol. He is the author and editor of 11 books. The beerbook under sign. Is the professor at winthrop university. I wanted to find a little bit about him, i went to no better source than rate my professors. Com. Loved,ell he is well heres a few comments. One wrote that he is an amazing professor in his class he lectures but they are far from boring. You will need to read for the test because he does not cover everything, you also have to attend class because every day is something new. Another one wrote that this but you can easy talk to him and he will tell you to take notes. [laughter] in the student remarks that he always begins with a joke. Most are dirty that funny. I just want to warn you, t
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His class is about 50 minutes. Allen guelzo welcome once again to civil war era studies 205, introduction to the American Civil War era. We are now in our third week in this course and my what ground we have covered thus far. We have more to cover because we are coming up to the 1850s now. We are talking about the crises of the 1850s that really begin with the compromise of 1850 that moved into the kansasnebraska act of 1854, and we are going to see still more earthquakes occurring. But as we do this, we have a character that we have to meet who is going to play a central role in this entire course, and that is Abraham Lincoln. We touched very briefly in our last session by way of introduction of lincoln, and just to go through some of the details once again, Abraham Lincoln is born in 1809, born the 12th of february. His parents are thomas and nancy hanks lincoln, and lincoln himself is born in hodginsville, kentucky in a log cabin quite literally. In 1818, his parents uproot from ken
His class is about 50 minutes. Allen guelzo welcome once again to civil war era studies 205, introduction to the American Civil War era. We are now in our third week in this course and my what ground we have covered thus far. We have more to cover because we are coming up to the 1850s now. We are talking about the crises of the 1850s that really begin with the compromise of 1850 that moved into the kansasnebraska act of 1854, and we are going to see still more earthquakes occurring. But as we do this, we have a character that we have to meet who is going to play a central role in this entire course, and that is Abraham Lincoln. We touched very briefly in our last session by way of introduction of lincoln, and just to go through some of the details once again, Abraham Lincoln is born in 1809, born the 12th of february. His parents are thomas and nancy hanks lincoln, and lincoln himself is born in hodginsville, kentucky in a log cabin quite literally. In 1818, his parents uproot from ken