Is the site where president lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. As he sat in a theater with a play running. The play running at the time was our american cousin. President lincoln died the next day across the street at the peterson boardling house. Fords is now a working theater as well as a National Historic site. He current play running is 110 in the shade. While we wait, lets take a ook at todays speakers. Lincoln, African Americans, and the emancipation struggle. And 35 the book lincoln the problem of reconstruction. There will be a midday break for lunch at approximately 1 55 p. M. Well hear stacy mcdormant on mary lincolns life and legacy. At 3 05 Thomas Carson on incolns ethics. At 3 55 all of todays speakers will participate in a closing panel. What youre looking at there is the box where Abraham Lincoln was sitting the night that he was shot. The president apparently enjoyed theater and was attending a performance of our american cousin at the time he was shot by ac
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
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