next him up from the district of columbia, retired infectious disease specialist dr. john willen talks about charles leale, the first person to treat the mortally wounded abraham lincoln after he was shot while he watched the play at ford s theater in washington.he delivers an own an overview of the treatment administered to the dying president and describes the efforts of the doctors who assisted him. tonight is a very person.ced .he lecture service circuit he is been a practicing physician, infectious diseases for 30 years. californiad in before coming to d.c., where he then active in speaking for national museum of civil war medicine. he is a frequent like lecturer. we are happy to have him speak for us tonight. he is a board of directors of the society of civil war surgeons and he is what we call a switch hitter. reenacting as a surgeon for both union and confederate soldiers. we are happy to have you anyway. please help a welcome to the podium, our own dr. john wil
frequent lecturer for us here and the associate professor emeritus of history at george mason university and he s the author of realistic visionary and a portrait of george washington and soon will be publishing a book on essays about washington s leadership. so watch this. a side note if you want more hamilton, we will be offering a specialty tour at 10:00 every saturday starting this saturday titled hamilton s bff and frenemies. [ laughter ] i ll bet you know who we ll be talking about and don t miss the shot for the opportunity. i know, this is terrible. so here is your moment you ve been waiting for and dr. enriquez with the right-hand man and alexander hamilton s relationship with george washington, the musical versus the reality. [ applause ] thanks. thanks so much. actually, i thought we might be where two or three are gathered together and we have this kind of weather and i m really pleased that so many of them made it out now, if the power holds up for the next h
this entire list. [laughter] liz: but, we are here to see dr. peter henriques. he is a professor at george mason university. he is the author of a portrait of george washington and soon will be publishing a book on essays about washington s leadership. side know, if you want more hamilton we will be offering a specialty tour at 10:00 every saturday starting this saturday titled hamilton s bff and frenemies. [laughter] liz: don t miss your shot for this opportunity, you can buy tickets on that. [laughter] liz: i know, it is terrible. here is the moment you have been waiting for, dr. henriques, with alexander hamilton and george washington s relationship. [applause] dr. henriques: thanks so much. i thought we might be where two or three are gathered together in this kind of weather. i am really pleased so many of you made it out now. if the power holds up for the next hour we will be in business, otherwise we will talk the old fashion way by candlelight and see how it goes. a
david is a professor at nyu s department of history and director of the division of humanities at the nyu school in madison. in 2009 he won a pulitzer prize in history for his portfolio, an american story. a conspiracy so immense, and worse than slavery. professor oshinsky is for broaderwriting audiences. his works have appeared, his articles have appeared in the new york times and the wall street journal, and it is a privilege for me to welcome him here at the tenement museum. [applause] david oshinsky: i think this does work. can you will hear me? first what i would like to do is get the pulitzer thing out of the way. everybody asks the question. so i won for a book on polio. the pulitzer is the only price where they do not announce the finalist. the national book award, there were eight finalists, we eat at the same table. one wins, the others make like they are happy for them. kind of like the oscars. for this one, they announced the finalist, which is unusual. but to mak