Good evening. Im harold, the chair of the lincoln forum. It is time now for our main event. I am proud to welcome back to the forum two of my favorite people, not only as friends, but as colleagues in the civil war field. Gary gallagher and joan waugh. Individually and as a team, they are superlative interpreters of the civil war era who combine military history and social and cultural history and bring to their scholarship and engagement with readers and audiences great knowledge, sophistication, and style. As your packets enumerate, they have individually and together and live into the literature over the years. Gary gallagher is a Professor Emeritus in the history of the American Civil War at the university of virginia and he is former director of the now civil war Sector Center there. You are all familiar with his major works, the confederate war, the union war, lee and his generals in war and memory. He is also, like many in this room, an aficionado, but more, an expert on civil w
disappointed but he worked very, very hard to build up his law practice. lincoln was a great spinner of tales for juries. one time they said this reminds me of the little boy on the farm who comes running in his father and says pap, pap, sister is in the barn and she s got her pants down and her friend, joe, got his pants down and he s squatting to do the other thing. the father says you got the facts straight but you come to a wrong conclusion. he turns the the jurors and says, sometimes the facts does not give you the right conc conclusion. oh, no, he s a hybrid. if you want to understand him, you have to understand both sides. 1854, spain, france and britain abolished slavery. it is very much alive in the united states. and may, president franklin signs the kansas, nebraska, act given american the opportunity to expand 500 square miles of new territory. the kansas/nebraska act repealed the compromise which says there could be no slavery. settlers can decide for the
Leaders, military officers, explorers, and scientists. Up next on American History tvs, american artifacts we build it gallery to see a selection of works by Charles Willson peale. Karie diethorn. Im with the National Park service in philadelphia. I oversee a large collection of artifacts here. We are here at the second bank of the United States, a historic building, part of the Independence National historical park. 1824,as finished in literally the fort knox of its day. The building has been restored on the exterior, when you come to see it, you will see how it looked ran no, brandnew. Inside we have the fine arts exhibit to tell the story of what it was like to live in 18th century america, the world that those people knew and the worldly revolution belt. The portrait collection at Independence National historical park is a very old one. The bulk of our collection, 94 pictures was painted by peel, of philadelphia Charles Willson peale of philadelphia. Wereof the pictures purchased b
American artifacts, we visit the gallery to learn about a selection of works by Charles Willson peale. Karie im karie diethorn. I am the chief curator. I oversee a large collection of artifacts here. We are here at the second bank of the United States, a historic building, part of the Independence National historical park. This was finished in 1824, literally the fort knox of its day. The building has been restored on the exterior. When you come to see it, you will see how it looked brandnew in 1824. Inside we have the fine arts exhibit to tell the story of what it was like to live in 18th century america, the world that those people knew and the world that the revolutionists built. The portrait collection at Independence National historical park is a very old one. The bulk of our collection, 94 pictures, was painted by Charles Willson peale of philadelphia. Philadelphia artist who had his own museum in the city. The museum was so popular that in the middle of the 19th century, many of
Im kariehorn diethorn. I am the chief curator at the Independence National park, the National Park service in philadelphia. I oversee a large collection of Museum Artifacts here, almost 4 million of them. We are here at the second bank of the United States, a Historic Building that is part of the Independence National historical park. The second bank of the United States, which was finished in 1824, was literally the fort knox of its day. The building has been restored on the exterior, so when you come to see us you will see how , it looked brandnew. Exhibits the fine arts from the early 19th century to tell the story of what it was like to live in 18th century america, the world that those people knew and the worldly world that the revolution built. The portrait collection at Independence National historical park is a very, very old one. The bulk of our collection, 94 pictures, was painted by Charles Wilson peel, a Philadelphia Artist who had a museum here in the city. The museum was