Communications. Charters proud to be recognized as one of the best internet providers. Were just getting started. Building 100,000 miles of new infrastructure to reach those who need it most. Charter communications, along with these Television Companies, supports cspan 2 as a public service. Now, on American History tv, we continue our special series on speeches that define a presidency. Y this week, a look at the 1863 gettysburg address. Now, it was only three minutes and length, it proclaimed a new birth of freedom that to find Abraham Lincolns legacy in so many ways. Youll hear an actor read the entire gettysburg address. That is followed by a discussion on its historical significance. This begins now. Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now, we are engaged in a great civil war. Testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedi
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Next, karla knorowski reads passages from the book. Including writings by jimmy carter. Former secretary of state colon powell and julian bond. The New York Historical site and the Reading Group do hosted this hour long event. It is my great pleasure to introduce tonights speaker, carla. We have met a couple of times before most recently at the New York Historical society when we mounted wonderful exhibition lincoln and the jews which she then went on to mount with tremendous success in chicago. Carla is chief executive officer of the Abraham Lincoln president ial Library Foundation which serves the Abraham Lincoln president ial library and museum. The most visited president ial library and museum in the United States. She writes the regular column for the foundations magazine fore score and seven. And the founder and executive director of the 1350 foundation which is dedicated to engaging citizens in active and purposeful citizenship. Ladies and gentlemen, carla. [ applause ]. Good ev
Book. After the civil war king had led one of the important scientific migszs of the west and was the first person to incorporate photograph 23i into that sort of study. He chose to accompany him, a man who is becoming one of the Great American photographers timmy o sullivan, who then worked with king on the survey for three years. Osullivan had been a protojaj e jay of Matthew Brady quite possibly meeting him in the early 1850s as a boy where brady had a photographic portrait gallery. I realized that there was no first rate big ra fill of Matthew Brady and it seemed to me to deserve one. Heres a very flat i recall inging painting of brady. The years since have been a lesson in just how little i knew about the man when i decided to write about him. And how little i knew was accurate it should have struck me that if there was not a good book about such an important figure, there might be a reason why. He did not keep a journal or write a memoir. Wrote only a handful of prefungt ri lette