nixon can do. what can we do so that johnson and humphrey do appear for the victory. and then the talks will resume when i am president and we can make something happen. powerful example of how our understanding of the past is always changing and new evidence can also introduce new interpretations and how perhaps some of the, some of the things we thought were true about what a president did and why he did it can change many decades after his death. announcer: watching the entire program at 8:00 and midnight on lectures in history. american history tv only on c-span3. announcer: monday on the communicators, a look at small town and rural broadband. mrs. bloomfield told him our organization s disaster for rural expansion to be a greater priority. she is interviewed by communications daily senior editor david account. what would you say your biggest priorities are in congress or the fcc? how do we make sure broadband is part of a package that is considered? i look at it a
what a perfect introduction. thank you. that s great. john and i are delighted to be back here at the lincoln forum. those of you who know us even a little bit will not be surprise today hear last night we had an opportunity to get together and consume some wine. and in the midst of that conversation, fueled by wine we were talking about how we were th terribly jealous of ron chernow whose biography of hamilton inspired a very lucrative musical on broadway. so we thought how appropriate it would be to have joseph e. johnston the musical. [laughter] or william t. sherman the musical or the one that really inspired us was henry wager halek the musical. as you see on the screen here and you ll be delighted to hear, this is not going to be a musical presentation today. instead, alas, it is a tragedy in three acts. act one. on april 17, 1865, which is a full week after lee surrendered to grant at appomattox as we just heard a few moments ago, joseph e. johnston and william t.
the end of the civil war. their april 1865 meeting happened two days after president lincoln s assassination and a week after robert e lee surrendered at appomattox. this is part of the annually conform symposium and is just under an hour. welcome to session one of the 21st annual lincoln for him symposiumincoln forum . professor craig simons is professor emeritus of the united states naval academy and a member of the executive committee of the board of advisors of the lincoln forum. newlythe author or editor 2000 two dozen books, including neptune, the allied invasion of europe and the d-day andings that book won the samuel eliot morrison award for literature. the author of lincoln and his admirals, which won the lincoln prize in 2009. in recognition of his extraordinary contributions, the noble the naval historical foundation awarded him the navalore deadly w knox history award for a lifetime achievement. john marszalak came out of retirement in 2008 and accepte
he is also the winner of the that particular book won the samuel elliott morrison award. e is the author of lincoln and his admirals which won the lincoln prize in 2009. in recognition of his extraordinary contribution, the naval historicle foundation in 2014 awarded him the congressman duredudly w. knox history award for lifetime achievement. professor john mars lak is william s. giles distinguished professor emeritus of mississippi state university came out of retirement in 2008 and accepted the task of serving as executive director of the uelills sis s grant presidential library and managing editors. he is the tautsdzer of a dozen books. incheweding sherman. and sherman s other war. his honors include an excellence in writing award from the u.s. army historicle oundation. as testament to the high regard in which he is held, several of his students contributed to an editted volume titled, of times and race. ees says inspired. i was honored to have the opportunity to contr
our next speaker elizabeth brown pryor burst onto the scene in 2007 with the publication of reading the man, a portrait of robert e. lee through his private letters le. the book received eventually every prize in the world i think elizabeth, the lincoln prize, our jefferson davis award, the richard b . harwell book award and the richard slatten award for excellence in virginia biography. i personally had the opportunity to read aloud an expert from an uncorrected proof of that book standing at this podium during the introduction of our 2007 simple pose yum about robert e. lee. a sanchez often true, there is a story behind elizabeth s emergence as a major civil war historian. she earned an m.a. in history from the university of pennsylvania studying withdrew gilpin faust, the now the president of harvard university and i must tell a story about drew. when she was made the president of harvard people were sayingment is this an unbelievable, she is the first female to be th