this beautiful day in downtown bridgeport connecticut. it is in fact, barnum news last museum. as we all know he started museum in 1942, this was his last gift not just to the city of bridgeport, really to the global community that we serve. many of you are very familiar with the museum in 2010, we were at a tornado. that s the kind of stuff that happens to barnum. the year after that it was hurricane - i also want to give a huge shadow to the state of connecticut in the delegation who really supported $72 million bonding appropriation because were just about to embark on a major reese doric rehab of that gorgeous barnum bailey building from 1993. thank you. [applause] are congressman has also really been working very hard with us to get to the barn building in the national register of historic places. i feel like i m on the register this. but we are in the process of being reviewed to become a national historic landmark and that, there s only about 2500 in this country that
it is your stories we get to tell, it is an honor. i would also be remiss if i didn t say i came to history at a young age. there are a few scholars i can point to who helped me get there. the gentleman i have the honor to introduce is one of those. often times, you listen to a biography and think i know who that is. you definitely don t need a biography, but this one is worth noting. a 34 year veteran of the national parks service, served as gettysburg s supervisor historian for 30 years. award the freeman told an in 1993. growthfundamental in the of gettysburg s on-site interpretation and living history program, even if it was the lummis site on his the 11th site on his. also included the distance and satellite educational efforts to keep players for the design of the gettysburg museum. he retired from the park service in 2014. when you retire, you stay busy. he has authored numerous articles, essays, and books on civil war subjects, has appeared on the history channel, d
the political history of the coming of the civil war is as important as history can get the only timeause we ve ever had in the political system disintegrated. have three people to talk about this. we have tried to mix the generations. comment.state general we like to mix the generations. we don t want everyone as old as me. our first speaker will be pamela brand line. she holds a professorship in political science at the university of michigan. she has also taught at ut austin. historians andof social scientist to. she is the author of two important books. rethinking the judicial system of resettlement. a title long before the age of trump. that was a slip, i didn t mean that. honestly. pamela is going to speak on the of rethinking party appeals and capitalist contexts. lynnecond speaker is josh who is a postdoctoral fellow here at yale. he s part of the macmillan center. he did his phd at the university of north carolina at chapel hill. is teaching a course here at yell o
this statue? we are all chicagoans. i am going to shame you a little bit, you should know what may be the best sculpture of lincoln from the 19th century, linkin park. lincoln park. there is free admission there. aep outside next time, it is amazing sculpture. it is called the standing lincoln. but we will get back to this. i love this material. he sso moved by lincoln, his error his era. i am in love with his body there are lots of things to say about his photographs. i do not dress up like abraham lincoln, even though i am tall and thin my came. maybe one day. thatg said that, i realize public history or formative history or living history is really important. lincoln actors have a wonderful place in history. we have one of them and our history department. i used to give lots of talks like this in the state of illinois leading up to his bicentennial, the bicentennial of the birth of lincoln back of abraham lincoln in art andin 2009. he was born in 1809. illinois
harold: good afternoon. the vice-chairman of the lincoln forum and it is a pleasure to welcome to you what we think will be an illuminating and original session. a session devoted to private lives, not only the private life of the very public president of the united states during the civil war, but the most private lives of his soldiers as well. speaker amusingly calls it the remarkable nightlife of civil war americans. what he is describing in that subtitle is their dreams. not their cautious hopes, but their subconscious imaginings. and what they were home to describe in remembering what occurred during the precious hours during which the troops managed to catch the rest in t ents or in the field, drifting into dreams that expressed longing for home, their parents, their sweethearts, siblings, children and others, as you will hear. it is like our service, the other is the most intriguing. we all know how much lincoln loved shakespeare, including hamlet and its most famous