good morning. my name is jonathan white, and i m the vice chair of thehe lincoln forum. our final speaker this morning isbrian dirk. ian is a professor of history at anderson university in indiana. he is the author of numerous books on abraham lincoln, imagining america, lincoln in indiana, lincoln the lawyer, and others. his subjects probe some of the most interesting and relevant topics in lincoln s life and he has won awards for his work including from the new york civil war roundtable for the best book on abraham lincoln published in 2007. he recently had the opportunity to travel to seoul, where he addressed the korean abraham lincoln society. i know. i d like to hear more about that. how can i get on that gravy train? today he will talk to us about his new book the black heavens: abraham lincoln and death, published earlier this year. a review at civil war monitor states students of the 16th president will want to add this concise, thought-provoking, and sensiti
he recently had the opportunity to travel to seoul where he addressed the korean abraham lincoln society. i know i d like to hear more about that. how can i get on that gravy train? today he will talk to us about his new book, the black heavens. abraham lincoln and death which was published earlier this year by southern illinois university press. a review at civil war monitors states, students of the 16th president will want to add this concise thought-provoking and sensitively written volume to their bookshelves. please welcome me in joining please join me in welcoming brian dark. hello everybody it s great to be here. i want to thank you for the invitation. i ve gotten to see some old friends, among many my come pinion in korea, fred. we had fun. meaning lots of wonderful people. you are heroes, everybody in this room is a hero to a group of students at anderson university who are going to get tomorrow off because i am here. they love the lincoln form. they are like doc
he is the author of numerous books on abraham lincoln including lincoln and davis, imagining america, lincoln the lawyer , lincoln and the constitution , lincoln and america and lincoln. he probes some of the most interesting topics of lincoln including winning awards from the baroness award group in 2007. he recently had the opportunity to travel to seoul where he addressed the korean abraham lincoln society. [ laughter ] i know i would like to hear more about that. how can i get on that gravy train? today, he is going to talk to us about the new book the black heavens, abraham lincoln and death published earlier this year by southern illinois press. a review at silver monitor states that students of the 17th century will want to add this concise written volume to their bookshelves. please welcome me in joining brian dirck. it is good to be here. it really is. i wanted to thank you for the invitation. i have gotten to see some old friends among many of my south
my name is jonathan white and i ll the vice chair of the lincoln forum. our final speaker this morning is brian dirck. he s a professor of history at anderson university in indiana. he is the author of numerous books on abraham lincoln, imagining america, lincoln in indiana and others. his subjects probe some of the most interesting and relevant topics in lincoln s life and he has won awards for his work including the best book on lincoln published in 2007. he had the opportunity to travel to seoul where he addressed the korean abraham lincoln society. i know. i d like to hear more about that. how can i get on that gravy train? today he will talk to us about his new book the black heavens a review at civil war monitor states students of the 16th president will want to add this concise thought provoking and sensitively written volume to their book shelves. please join me in welcoming brian dirck. [ applause ] well, hello, everybody. it s good to be here. it really is.
welcome to the december meeting of the lincoln group of the district of columbia. group was formed in ,he 1930 s to honor the memory legacy, principles of abraham lincoln, and for over 80 years, we have had programs like this with outside speakers, and our own members, and today, we are very pleased to have three of the members of the lincoln group of d.c. who have authored books related to the life and times of abraham lincoln. each of our speakers will talk for about 15 minutes, and then the three will gather here and have an opportunity to take your questions. , so keep your questions that you have in mind for the first and second speaker, or after the third speaker. briefly.troduce them all three of them. and then have an opportunity to say a few more words about each as they begin their talks. is a biography of lincoln, subtitled the man who saved america. and it is for the general reader. show,thor, david, will has some astonishing illustrations. the second book, by