To study, although i wasnt planning on being a historian. I was originally going to go into the foreign service. Cspan can you remember when you first got interested in history, say, in high school, or even grade school . Guest no, because it was taught so poorly in high school i cant imagine why i would have been interested in it from the High School Teacher. He used to have us read from muzzey, the textbook. That was how we did history. Each would read a paragraph, and hed go up and down the row, and i would plan ahead when i would be reading, and then id go ahead and read on my own and keep my finger on the spot which i would have to read. But so it was not because of the teaching. It was just something i was interested in, despite the very bad High School Teacher we had. Cspan where did you grow up . Guest i grew up in new england, in Greater Boston lived in worcester for a while but graduated from waltham high school, which is a little town right outside of boston. Cspan and do yo
Brookhiser. It is part of the large Alexander Hamilton exhibition at the New York Historical society during it was 12 years ago, but it was transformative both in hamilton historiography and in the future of the New York Historical society. In addition to curating that show, he wrote a 1999 book Alexander Hamilton american. As well as, what would the founders do our questions, their answers. He is had the dream job that everyone would like, you have one job for a long time as young as he is. He is had it for more than four decades. He is been the same place. He is now Senior Editor at the national review, for whom he began writing nearly half a century ago. He is a winner of the National Humanities medal. I have the honor of being honored at the same ceremony eight years ago. It is a pleasure to welcome him for a reunion. He has written a wonderful book, founders son a life of Abraham Lincoln. It is unlike any other than as been produced because it harkens back to the founding interval
Brookhiser. It is part of the large Alexander Hamilton exhibition at the New York Historical society during it was 12 years ago, but it was transformative both in hamilton historiography and in the future of the New York Historical society. In addition to curating that show, he wrote a 1999 book Alexander Hamilton american. As well as, what would the founders do our questions, their answers. He is had the dream job that everyone would like, you have one job for a long time as young as he is. He is had it for more than four decades. He is been the same place. He is now Senior Editor at the national review, for whom he began writing nearly half a century ago. He is a winner of the National Humanities medal. I have the honor of being honored at the same ceremony eight years ago. It is a pleasure to welcome him for a reunion. He has written a wonderful book, founders son a life of Abraham Lincoln. It is unlike any other than as been produced because it harkens back to the founding interval
Great honor to be here at the lincoln forum. I am coming from a different country. This is certainly, eddies berg is one of the holy paces places in lincoln country. I have spent most of my career in Founding Fathers country. Although they are both in the United States, and they both helped define the United States, i think of the scholars and the two countries do not talk to each other as much as they should. Abraham lincoln talked to the Founding Fathers all his life. His most famous utterance was the speech he gave here, where he said, our fathers wrought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty. That was in november, 1863. Two and a half years into the civil war. But three years before that, february, 1860, at the cooper Union Address, the kickoff was his first president ial campaign. His new york city debut. A 90 minute speech, half of it was devoted to the framers of the constitution. Lincoln argued that a majority of them believed that the federal government ha
Great honor to be here at the lincoln forum. I am coming from a different country. This is certainly, eddies berg is one of the holy paces places in lincoln country. I have spent most of my career in Founding Fathers country. Although they are both in the United States, and they both helped define the United States, i think of the scholars and the two countries do not talk to each other as much as they should. Abraham lincoln talked to the Founding Fathers all his life. His most famous utterance was the speech he gave here, where he said, our fathers wrought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty. That was in november, 1863. Two and a half years into the civil war. But three years before that, february, 1860, at the cooper Union Address, the kickoff was his first president ial campaign. His new york city debut. A 90 minute speech, half of it was devoted to the framers of the constitution. Lincoln argued that a majority of them believed that the federal government ha