His class is about 50 minutes. Allen guelzo welcome once again to civil war era studies 205, introduction to the American Civil War era. We are now in our third week in this course and my what ground we have covered thus far. We have more to cover because we are coming up to the 1850s now. We are talking about the crises of the 1850s that really begin with the compromise of 1850 that moved into the kansasnebraska act of 1854, and we are going to see still more earthquakes occurring. But as we do this, we have a character that we have to meet who is going to play a central role in this entire course, and that is Abraham Lincoln. We touched very briefly in our last session by way of introduction of lincoln, and just to go through some of the details once again, Abraham Lincoln is born in 1809, born the 12th of february. His parents are thomas and nancy hanks lincoln, and lincoln himself is born in hodginsville, kentucky in a log cabin quite literally. In 1818, his parents uproot from ken
First fulllength study of its kind. Dr. Silverman received his undergraduate degree at the university of virginia and his graduate degree at Colorado State and the university of kentucky. He has received many distinguished teaching awards. Is currently working on a companion volume detailing president lincolns reputation in 19thcentury europe. To elected terms of his local school board. Lets welcome professor jason silverman. [applause] thank you so much. When he mentioned the school board, that is where i learned the real meaning of the civil war. Inave been interested Abraham Lincoln since the fourth grade. Night which wes were going to do silent man yes. Iwo jima,hardt, signing of the declaration of independence. All sorts of things. Sne of the silent then yet would be the Lincoln Douglas debates. My fourth grade teacher told me you cant be abraham lycan, you are not, enough. Lincoln, you are not tall enough. She took me i had to be Stephen Douglas. [laughter] swore that i would stu
His recent work lincoln and the immigrant is a volume in a Concise Lincoln Library series. It was released in september. Of the more than 16,500 volumes 16,500 and counting volumes published on Abraham Lincoln, this is the first fulllength study of its kind. Dr. Silverman received his undergraduate degree at the university of virginia and his graduate degree at Colorado State and the university of kentucky. He has received many distinguished teaching awards. He is currently working on a companion volume detailing president lincolns reputation in 19thcentury europe. He also served to elected terms of his local school board. Lets welcome professor jason silverman. [applause] professor silverman thank you so much. That last part about the eight years on the Rock Hill School board, forget about all my education, that is where i learned the real meaning of the civil war. [laughter] professor silverman i have been interested in Abraham Lincoln since the fourth grade. We had a parents night w
University for four years. Author or editor of 11 books, several of which nominated for National Book awards, his recent work lincoln and the immigrant is a volume in the series con size Lincoln Library series published by Southern Illinois University Press and was released in september. Of the 16,500 and counting volumes published on Abraham Lincoln, this is the first full length study of its kind. Dr. Silverman received his undergraduate degree at the university of virginia and his graduate degrees at Colorado State and the university of kentucky. He has received many distinguished teaching awards. Is currently working on a companion volume detailing president lincolns reputation in 19th century europe. He also served two elected terms on his local school board. So lets welcome professor jason silverman. [ applause ] thank you so much. That last part about the eight years on the Rockhill School board, forget about all my education. Thats when i learned the real meaning of civil war.
Supervision of democracy because majority rule is the essence of the american project. There are, however, two things wrong with this formulation. First, it is utterly unrealistic and simple minded to think that there is a majority support for or majority interest in or even majority awareness of even a tiny fraction of what modern governments do in dishing out advantages to economic factions. Does anyone really think that when the nashville City Government dispenses favors for the taxi and limo cartels, it is acting on a will of the majority of the citys residents . Can anyone actually believe that a majority of louisianans give a tinkers dam about who sells caskets or arranges flowers . We know because he said so clearly and often that lincoln took his political bearings from the declaration of independence. Which brings me back again to 1854 to the kansas nebraska act and to lincolns noble recoil from the idea of popular sovereignty in the territories regarding slavery. That recoil