A recent symposium about the president s life, career and legacy. He is the author of lincolns last speech this lecture took place at fords theatre and is about 50 minutes. On a rainy night of april 11 1865, president lincoln addressed a crowd for the last time. The speech was remarkably less for his oratorical qualities, stylistically, it was far from his best. Than for the fact with the conflict all but behind him, lincoln was looking forward in more ways than one to human a a wartornng nation. Three days later, the president would fall to an assassins bullet and the promise of a gentler reconstruction would go unfulfilled. In his current work titled, lincolns last speech wartime reconstruction and the crisis of reunion, dr. Lewis masur analyzes reconstruction in all of its iterations from the earliest days of the war to the end of lincolns presidency and his life. Then, in his epilogue, he cites, no less a person than Frederick Douglass stating how reconstruction would have evolved
Than for the fact with the conflict all but behind him, lincoln was looking forward in more ways than one to human a wartorn nation. Three days later, the president would fall to an assassins bullet and the promise of a gentler reconstruction would go unfulfilled. In his current work titled, lincolns last speech wartime reconstruction and the crisis of reunion, dr. Lewis masur performs skillful surgery on mr. Lincolns final address. He analyzes reconstruction in all of its conceptual iterations from the earliest days of the war to the end of lincolns presidency and his life. Then, in his epilogue, he cites, no less a person than Frederick Douglass stating how reconstruction would have evolved, had lincoln lived. It is a what if situation pondered by ackerman dish and medicians, but seldom in such a readerfriendly context. I was remembering when the late Professor William lee miller, who was never a fan of what ifs, talked about the time during the Civil Rights Era when a student approa
Screeria nigeria. Lincolns life. Professor wilson. [applause] professor wilson good morning. See what it says here. My name is douglas wilson. [laughter] im the codirector of the Lincoln Studies Center in illinois. It is my privilege to introduce the first speaker in the 2015 Abraham Lincoln institute symposium. He is a young scholar. He has already earned an array of honors. He was educated at penn state where he took his bachelors degree in two dozen one, and the receipt of maryland where he earned a masters degree in 2003, and a phd in 2008. The department of history maryland awarded him a price in potable history. His doctoral dissertation earned a prestigious prize and thousand 10. He has already authored several books. Including to lincoln titles most recently, emancipation, and the union army and reelection of lincoln. More than two dozen articles have appeared under his name in scholarly journals and Popular History magazines. In 2005, he won the john t hubble prize for the bes
1814, they offered other terms of negotiation. The we were not entirely satisfied by those terms negotiation was better than no negotiation at all. Our own ministers there, mr. Adams, mr. Craig, mr. Russell they will recommence the negotiations. Hopefully something fruitful has arrived. We wont know yet. Thank you. [applause] you are watching American History tv. 48 hours of American History on cspan 3. Follow us on twitter. This is a live picture inside fords theatre, where all day today, until about 4 30 p. M. , we will be you live coverage of a symposium on lincolns life and legacy. Fords theatre is the site where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by john looks toy John Wilkes Booth. The event should be getting underway in just a few moments. Live coverage here on cspan 3. [inaudible chatter] good morning. I know some of you are still getting settled, but we have a very packed schedule today. We want to try and keep ourselves on that schedule. My name is paul. Im the director fords t
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