Estimated. As thousands of firefighters working shifts to contain the flames, only a drenching rain will prevent the infernos from spreading even further. Of next, the Herbert Hoover president ial Library Hosts author and ned dunlap as she explores the evolution of first ladies fashion. She chronicles the impact fashion had on the image of the women living in the white house and what their wardrobe choices reveal about the time in which they lived. This program runs about an hour. Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Herbert Hoover president ial library museum. My name is tom schwartz. Im the director. Im pleased youve joined us for another program celebrating americas first ladies. In the lobby at the ticket desk, youll find a card which talk about some of our other Upcoming Events also dealing with our first lady exhibition. Were honored today to have Annette Dunlap as our speaker. Annette was awarded an m. B. A. From Washington University at and has more than 30 Years Experience
President James Buchanan and crisis of national leadership, Lincoln Campaign biographies is his most recent book and he is currently editing a book with Harold Holtzer entitled the an no tated lincoln. Let me present tom horrocks. Hello, everyone. Can you hear me . Im going to be showing some slides early on of several lincolns calm ina biographies from 1860s. Dont get upset. I do understand im talking about 1864 but i need to show talk a little bit about the 60 Campaign Biographies to put the 1864 Campaign Biographies into conte context. Theres two points i want to make at the outset. One is the close relationship between the world of prim and politics by mid 19th century, many newspapers and their editors were aligned with a Political Party. Newspapers and their editors were openly partisan. This is a trend that began in the 1820s when newspapers became the favorite print medium for political news. Newspapers were part of an extensive and powerful Publishing Industry that emerged in
Written several books and several articles, and ive heard him talk on the treason in the civil war about merriman. In fact, last night i watched him on cspan going over with his class this topic. It was really fun. It was neat to see how he interacted with the students and brought out in them a different opinion of what they had when they first came in, how they learned something from the discussion. And it was fun. And in particular, one of the questions one of the girls asked, with all the interests in merrimans rights, what about the gross treason of the whole situation . It seems like were looking at a little tiny speck, and the whole civil war was treason. So how he dealt with that was pretty good. And he has another book out thats this book. And he has another book out, the one hes going to be talking about today, and im looking forward to hearing about it. The first book is treason, Abraham Lincoln and treason in the civil war. Its about the merriman trial, and about what he did
The university of pennsylvania, and is the author of six books including popular print and popular medicine, Health Advice in early american almanacs, then the living live con. President James Buchanan and the crisis of national leadership. Lincoln Campaign Biographies is his most recent book, and his currently editing a book called annotated lincoln. Let me present tom horrocks. Hello, everyone, can you hear me . Im going to be showing some slides of several campaigns of lincolns biographies of the 1860s. I need to talk a little bit about the 60 Campaign Biographies to put the 1864 Campaign Biographies into context. Theres two points that i want to make at the outset. One is the close relationship between the world of politics, many newspapers were aligned with the Political Party, newspapers and their editors were openly partisan, this is a trefbtd that began in the 1920s, when newspapers became the favorite prichblt media. Newspapers were part of an extensive and powerful Publishing
Democratic Party Platform did not support emancipation. This hourlong discussion was part of a symposium on the 1864 election hosted by the Lincoln Group of d. C. Our next speaker is known to many of us. And some of us have the strength to have read one of the two volumes this is the second volume covering the period of todays symposium, of Abraham Lincoln a life by Michael Burlingame who holds the distinguished chair at university of illinois at springfield. His earlier work, the inner world of Abraham Lincoln, is being discussed on saturday mornings monthly by a Book Discussion group that is sponsored by the Lincoln Group of d. C. And we meet at fords theater education center. Michael has done the most Massive Research on Abraham Lincoln of any scholar. He has edited 12 major books that lay out original source material from those who knew lincoln or studied him closely in the early years after lincoln. So, we are very pleased to have, as our final speaker before our panel, professor