And the brooks still worth reading. Thank you for your time and good nights been a good afternoon. I want to welcome you on the half of humanity tennessee to the southern festival of books. I want to particularly thank our key sponsors, Metro National art commission, and chrome content, tennessee art commission, vanderbilt university. This session is entitled dreaming america. We have a panel of three authors and three books and our first we will read some, but im going to reduce the authors first. I will begin with amra sabicelrayess. She grew up in bosnia. After surviving ethnic cleansing and more than 1100 days under the serbs military siege she immigrated to the United States in 1986. By december, 1999, she earned a ba from Brown University and later obtained to master degrees in a doctorate from Columbia University currently, shes a compass a professor eric on the egg working on understanding how and why societies fall apart and what role education plays a rebuilding decimated cou
In the north bay where some upper 30s can be found in saint in santa rosa at 3937 degrees currently so that chilly for some of us but not all that bad. Im talking more about what to expect into the holiday still to come. Robin sounds good. Thank you. John were checking in on the traffic for folks who do have to get out there and maybe had to work maybe do some shopping trip into San Francisco looks really good so its holding up nicely so far we havent had any delays at all that may happen later on this morning but for now youre good come on into San Francisco in 12 minutes after fremont street. Just getting word of a car fire in san leanne sorrel as you transition from northbound to 38 approaching the nimitz freeway split theres a car thats on fire crews are heading out to sea backing up a little bit there toward 5. 80 so keep that in mind as you transition from Castro Valley to leandro that car fire still working crews are responding the rest of the east bay looks good 24 the nimitz t
And he argues that president lincoln was against slavery, but was willing to accept it in order to preserve the union. This is an hour and a half, hosted by the New York Historical society and the bryant park reading room. Thank you alex castle and paul room arrow. And thanks to the Bryant Park Corporation and the bryant park reading room, and the hsbc corporation and all those who have made it possible for me to appear here tonight. Its a particular privilege to speak here in new york city. Already, in 1860, as it remains today, new york was the nerve center of the nation. The herald, the tribune, the times, the three most influential and widely read newspapers in the United States, were publish right here. Each provides the historian with a wealth of insights, and each informs my presentation tonight. Here is what i am going to talk about. I focus on the fateful series of events in late 1860, and early 1861, when a president ial election triggered a grave crisis, and before long, a c
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 lilienth. Lincoln won the 1860 president ial election because he carried every free state except for a divided electoral vote in new jersey. So he compiled a clear majority in the Electoral College and as we all know, of course, it is electoral votes that count. He also amassed far more popular votes than any of the other three candidates. But his plurality victory gained only 40 of the nationwide popular vote. He got no electoral votes and hardly any popular votes in the south. He was not on the ball loballotn Southern States. As we have seen an articulate ideological minority of republicans did consider slavery a moral problem, but mainstream republican moderates always said slavery was beyond their reach. Lincolns victory shocked the south. Throughout the summer and fall political orators warned of catastrophe. A symbolic humiliation added to southern distress. The south contended for a supposed constitutional right the rig
China virus pandemic, heightened security concerns in the Nations Capital as well. And over the course of 70 minutes, President Trump went through his unprecedented and historic accomplishments of his historic first term in office. President trump reminded voters as well that there is much, much more to be done, more battles for him to fight and to win for the American People. Together we have ended the rule of the failed Political Class are, and they are desperate to get their power back by any means necessary. Youve seen that. They are angry at me because instead of putting them first, i very simply said america first. [cheers and applause] so tonight i say to all americans, this is the most important election in the history of our country. There has never been such a difference between two parties or two individuals in ideology, philosophy or vision than there is right now. Our opponents believe that america is a depraved nation. We want our sons and daughters to know the truth, ame