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deterioration of relationships between america and ghana. it took some time to work it out. eventually it was why this was a fake document. letters and telegrams are not the only forgeries. the east this time, german and czechoslovakia intelligence service stopped a worldwide campaign to undermine to paralyze the alterations of cia. at the time, the east germans came to publicist publish a book. the information came from czechoslovakian archives. under the soviet supervision. other can watch this and american history programs on our website where all of our video is archived. that is c-span.org/history. american history tv was recently at ford s theatre in washington dc for the 20th anniversary symposium hosted by the abraham lincoln institute and the ford theater society. next, a panel featuring speakers from the symposium discussing the president s life, career and legacy. this is followed by a brief ceremony awarding lee kim scholars. it is about 45 minute. my na ....
my great aunt was a strong influence and came out to my montana in a covered wagon and they met lincoln and one of the daughters of one of the great ands aunts decided she would marry this fellow. and one said, he is a democrat. and she said, yes. said,e other and aunt we would rather you marry a dog. but lincoln was very much in the picture. anyway, you have already met all of our distinguished panelists. so we are going to have a about the and various topics that have been covered here. and i think, is somebody saying something? which one, let s of you, i guess we will take questions from the audience. there is a question over there. yes, some of the lectures have talked about, in their lectures, looking back 150 years ago with 21st century glasses, and either making judgments or whatever. something has always interested me in reading from that time period, what the united states was like at that time, in the sense that it was incredibly provincial. most of ....
was the head of a regiment of the volunteers and became a major at appomattox for cutting off lee s retreat. my great aunt was a strong toluence on me and came out montana by covered wagon, and they all met lincoln. in one of the daughters of one of the great aunts decided she would marry this fellow. and one said, he is a democrat. and she said, yes. and the other one said, we would rather you marry a dog. [laughter] was lincoln was my very much in the picture. anyway, your party met all of our distinguished panelists here. so, we are going to have a about the and various topics that have been covered here. and i think, is somebody saying something? anyway, so, let s which one of you, i guess we will take questions from the audience. there is a question over there. good. yes, some of the lectures have talked about, in their lectures, looking back 150 years ago with 21st century glasses, and either making judgments or whatever. um, something that has always inte ....
speeches in american history, the gettysburg address. our first speaker to kick off our conference is martin johnson. he is an associate professor of history at university of miami in ohio. where he teaches courses on abraham lincoln, civil war and modern europe. he earned his ph.d in 1993 from brown university. he is devoted much of his career to studying the 16th president of the united states. he is also the author of a number of books. in fact his first two books are on european history. one is on the paris commune. and the other is on the triefis affairs. very diverse intellectual interest. unlike most of us, can only right between 1861 and 1865. martin certainly is able to go into other fields and to succeed in doing so. in 2014, martin earned the distinguished lincoln prize, lincoln prize as many of you know, is sponsored by gettysburg college. he received that prize for writing the gettysburg address. writing the gettysburg address is a superb book and it is a ....
in ohio. where he teaches courses on abraham lincoln, civil war and modern europe. he earned his ph.d in 1993 from brown university. he is devoted much of his career to studying the 16th president of the united states. he is also the author of a number of books. in fact his first two books are on european history. one is on the paris commune. and the other is on the triefis affairs. very diverse intellectual interest. unlike most of us, can only right between 1861 and 1865. martin certainly is able to go into other fields and to succeed in doing so. in 2014, martin earned the distinguished lincoln prize, lincoln prize as many of you know, is sponsored by gettysburg college. he received that prize for writing the gettysburg address. writing the gettysburg address is a superb book and it is a book that takes readers on lincoln s journey. again, i don t want to give away too much. but i will simply say this, that it reveals how lincoln s intellectual process. and that he w ....