We are now in our third week in this course, and my what ground we have covered thus far. We have more to cover today, because we are coming up to the 1850s now. We are talking about the crises of the 1850s that really begin with the compromise of 1850 that moved into the kansasnebraska act of 1854, and we are going to see still more earthquakes occurring. But as we do this, we have a character that we have to meet who is going to play a central role in this entire course, and that is Abraham Lincoln. Now we touched very briefly in our last session by way of introduction of lincoln, and just to go through some of the details once again Abraham Lincoln is born in 1809, born the 12th of february. His parents are thomas and nancy hanks lincoln, and lincoln himself was born in hodgenville, kentucky, in a log cabin, yes, quite literally. He doesnt stay in kentucky. In 1818, his parents uproot from kentucky and move northwards across the ohio river into southern indiana. That is where lincol
This course, and my what ground we have covered thus far. We have more to cover because we are coming up to the 1850s now. We are talking about the crises of the 1850s that really begin with the compromise of 1850 that moved into the kansasnebraska act of 1854, and we are going to see still more earthquakes occurring. But as we do this, we have a character that we have to meet who is going to play a central role in this entire course, and that is Abraham Lincoln. We touched very briefly in our last session by way of introduction of lincoln, and just to go through some of the details once again, Abraham Lincoln is born in 1809, born the 12th of february. His parents are thomas and nancy hanks lincoln, and lincoln himself is born in hodginville, kentucky in a log cabin quite literally. In 1818, his parents uproot from kentucky and move northwards across the ohio river into southern indiana. That is where lincoln grows up. Alas, that is also where lincolns mother dies. Lincolns father goe
Have for outreach for over 150 years and it has got an ally the critical praise the Washington Post says a professor of history at Boston College with the trajectory of modern conservativism so Publishers Weekly says that richardson under emphasizes the privilege of racism and sexism and other parts during the civil war. There is a wealth of evidence to support that provocative title. They will say live leaders will be so if you are out there in the world listening and would like to share your questions and then into that q a box at the bottom of your screen and then the second part of the program it will last about an hour now is my great pleasure to professor of history at Boston College and author of six books and those letters from an american. Welcome heather. Thank you. Also the Brooklyn Historical society to say im incredibly excited about this because the first time joanne and i to do her own stuff together and i asked her to open up way beyond my book and also to talk about ho
soon culminate in publication of a seven volume scholarly edition of the voluminous papers of founding father john jay. this series involved decades of work by our dedicated experts and will introduce generations of students and researchers to this founding father s pivotal role in shaping american democracy. the libraries at columbia are grateful to be able to partner on this keynote presentation with the forum. a program of the office of the university president we are also excited to collaborate with c-span 3. which will air this program in the coming weeks? i am delighted to introduce our keynote speaker followed by our moderator who will join for a discussion after the address. our keynote speaker professor joanne freeman is the class of 1954 professor of history and american studies at yale university. professor freeman s work specializes in an early politics and political culture her interest and political violence and polarization dirty nasty politics has made her exp
papers conference. thank you so much for joining us for this discussion at a moment in our nation s history when greater understanding of the legacy of congressional violence and polarizing partisan politics is essential to enable our country to move forward in a constructive way. i m ann thornton vice provost and university librarian at columbia. the john jay papers project will soon culminate in publication of a seven volume scholarly edition of the voluminous papers of founding father john jay. this series involved decades of work by our dedicated experts and will introduce generations of students and researchers to this founding father s pivotal role in shaping american democracy. the libraries at columbia are grateful to be able to partner on this keynote presentation with the forum. a program of the office of the university president we are also excited to collaborate with c-span 3. which will air this program in the coming weeks? i am delighted to introduce our keynote