Brian amity shlaes, why do we spend so much time in this country, and on our network, and in your life, talking about president s . Ms. Shlaes thank you, brian. Im glad to be with you and with harold. We talk about president s because people understand People Better than ideas. And we eventually want to get to ideas, but we get at those ideas through people, our president s. Brian dr. Holzer, im often i often want to call you even though youre not a doctor. Mr. Holzer thank you for that mixed introduction. Thank you for having me on the show, and welcome to Franklin Roosevelts home, from which we are broadcasting tonight. Why . I think amity has it right. I also think that we were blessed to have a first president who was a National Hero before he became president , and was a touchstone and an icon and created a presidency that was centered on both personality and ideas, but in large measure, personality. Everyone since has been measured against George Washington. And we look for extra
Us, a little about history in the park service. So since he retired dr. Pitcaithley teaches at new mexico state university. He teaches public history and Civil War History. He had a book that came out this week, the u. S. Constitution and secession, a documentary anthology of slavery and White Supremacy. So it is my distinct pleasure and honor to introduce you to dr. Dwight pitcaithley. Nick promised he wasnt going to include the rock star part, but best laid plans. Thank you for coming tonight. Thanks to nick for that wonderful introduction, thanks to the grant site for hosting this event. Im going to talk for about 25 or 30 minutes and then turn it over to you so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about, and we hope that during my time ive been provocative enough that we can have a conversation that goes on for another 30 or 45 minutes. Robert penn warren, who many of you know threetime Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote in 1961 at the centennial of the war that the civil war is
Contagion. Struggle against epidemics is a global one. Sunday, at 4 00 p. M. On real america, the 1948 film the eternal fight. From a disease infected zone, the traveler became unwittingly a carrier of deadly germs. The germs stayed and spread. Sunday, at 6 00 p. M. John hancock created a committee as a whole to gather amongst ourselves an individual caucuses and decide how we should proceed. Do we really want independentsy and then he committed a committee of five men. From the tour of monticello and bill barker you know i served 40 years in Public Service and yet i have often thought if heaven had given me a position to migrate it would have been on a small spot of ground, well watered and near a good market for the produce. Gardening is one of my greatest delights. This weekend on cspan3. Every saturday night American History tv takes you to College Classrooms around the country for lectures in history. Why do you all know who Lizzie Borden is and raise your hand if you ever heard o
He did his graduate work in history at the university of pennsylvania, where he focused on the history of religion, he holds a master, and his roster of publications is so long that i am not going to try to read them all to you you can go to get a full account of his publications, and other salient elements of his biography in his doings i am going to mention five books that i think are especially pertinent to what we will be doing this afternoon. The first is called Abraham Lincoln, redeemer president. It was published in 1998. It is the first of his lincoln books. The emancipation proclamation the end of slavery in america published by simon and schuster. That brought him his second lincoln prize. Lincoln and douglas the debates that defined america. For some reason that did not win the lincoln prize. A new history of the civil war and reconstruction came out in 2012. The fifth title i will mention is called gettysburg, the last invasion, which brought a third lincoln prize to alan.
Craig fehrman, the author of the new book author in chief. Who was oran follett . Why did he make the claim that he made Abraham Lincoln president . Oran follett was a publisher in ohio. He had is a Printing Firm in ohio. They published lots of different local books. He had the distinct privilege to publish Abraham Lincolns bestselling book. We should probably back up, because a lot of people do not know that he wrote one. When lincoln ran for the senate and lost to Stephen Douglas, they had their famous debate. During the debates, there were a couple of people from newspapers transcribing the debates, writing down shorthand and then a couple of days later, they would print it in papers so people who didnt attend could read it in the newspapers. Lincoln, after he lost the senate race, for most people, the story stopped there. This is breaking news. Lets move on. Lincoln, after he lost the senate race, he worked hard to gather those newspaper transcript. He worked hard. There are at lea