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
At some period photographs and everything we have done here, we have the 12 by 12, and its been through the types of photographs that we have seen from actual huts, so everything is authentic to the time period. Most of the men here are from Central Virginia area, we have been together for quite a long time, so we have formed quite a tight bond and friendship through that. Having this project even brought us closer together. For a lot of us guys, this 150th anniversary is probably the last hurrah for a lot of us. You can read all kinds of books on the battle of gettysberg or but very little is known about the life of a soldier, what they suffered through in camp. This brings another aspect through what we do when we reenact. Going out to reenact the battles is great, but portraying the hardships and life of a soldisol soldi soldier, i think this is a good way of doing that. Youre watching American History tv all weekend every weekend on cspan tv, saturday at 8 55 p. M. Eastern, George
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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
Scholars here. Im going to introduce them very briefly, because theyre very wellknown to you, as members of the forum. And also wellknown to the cspan audience. Then well get right into some questions that ill pose to the panelists and then well turn it open to the floor and have a round of q a from all of you as well. Let me just say this at the outset. I did a quick study of these figures. Frank williams, harold holzer, Jonathan White and Thomas Horrocks here. By my count, and you know, theres some margin of error here in my calculation. But youre looking at the equivalent of about 75 books. [laughter] authored edited coedited. Now, i know that number is skewed somewhat. [laughter] um. Lets just say, i mean, i have contributed two books. White and horrocks have done better than that. Ha but somewhere north of 60 accounts for the holzerwilliams combination. These two, apparently they have day jobs as well. Let me just say a few words. Frank williams is wellknown to everybody, the reti