A single painting or photograph. His class is about 70 minutes. Do you recognize this . Do you recognize this statue . Were all chicagoans. Im going to shame you a little bit. We should know. Its, like, maybe the best sculpture of lincoln from the 19th century, and its in lincoln park, right behind the chicago history museum. And just like the fact that you have free admission to the art institute, you also have free admission to chicago history museum. Step outside next time and take a look. This is a fantastic sculpture by augustus saintgaudens. Lincoln, the man, or the standing lincoln is what its called. But well get back to this. I love this material. I got to tell you. I am so moved by lincoln and by his era and by the art and imagery about him, photographs of him. I know it sounds creepy. Im in love with his body. And well snow photographs of him, theres lots to say. And by the way, i know im, like, old and thin and tall. I did not dress up like Abraham Lincoln. Maybe one day. B
1950s. So when mr. s went out for runs mr. East went out for lunch, got in the door, someone was pounding on the drivers side window, and mr. East looked, and there was a very scary looking individual saying are you p. D. East, the the troublemaking newspaper man . [laughter] and with more courage than he felt, mr. East said, yes, i am. The man said, if you get out of this car, ill beat your brains out. [laughter] mr. East, said if you want me to get out of this car, youve got to give me a lot more incentive than that. [laughter] the roorld the the regard i have for the Virginia Historical society where i spent many, many weeks working on this book for nelson, for graham, thats all the incentive i needed to come. And again, i thank you for the invitation. The booth book grew actually from a class i taught on great crimes. And in that class we would take a different crime every week, the lindbergh kidnapping, haymarket riot the next week, then the lincoln assassination. Hands down, the
His name is peter dixon. He represents the military order of the loyal legion of the United States. Which is responsible each year for the laying of reefs at the lincoln memorial. The Lincoln Group of d. C. Has been very proud to be one of the Many Organizations that pays tribute to Abraham Lincoln and we had that opportunity courtesy of the organizing efforts of peter dixon. [applause] our speaker tonight is Catherine Canavan author of lincolns final hours. In two what it was like to be in washington that terrible night. April 14, 1865. Theatereer at fords and ive had the opportunity to visit with the thousands of americans who come to fords theater. Buy isthe things you can her book. It is a pleasure to welcome her to talk to us this evening. Thanks to all of you. It is an honor to be here. Who is lincolns archives digital project has made so many records available to so many researchers who arent fortunate enough to live near the archives. Thousands of people witnessed what went on
The curse continues in 1940, will that person also die in office, according to the curse . The first person who became a victim of the curse was William Henry harrison, who had been a military hero. Wellliked. He was elected in 1840. Before he was elected, and seven in92, lieutenant harrison 1792, lieutenant harrison served at the battle of Fallen Timbers. He was fighting against the miami native americans. It was about control over ohio. The treaty they have signed was being violated. By oup together a small a Small Coalition to do battle, they have been defeated. One of the shawnee leaders involved in the battle of Fallen Timbers was ironically, tecumseh , and would become the leader of a large band of shawnee. We have to individuals here whose path will cross in an ironic way. ,his is William Henry harrison the battle of Fallen Timbers, which ive just discussed, and chief tecumseh. Tecumseh was a chief of the shawnee. After a band of warriors the revolutionary war, years later, agai
Historical narrative about president lincolns wife mary. She considers how mary would have been remembered if she had died instead of her husband. Also talking about why the critics have labeled her crazy. Southern Methodist University center for president ial University Posted this event. It is not only an honor and a privilege to introduce tonight speaker, it is to me, a personal delight because she and i were classmates in princeton many years ago. Catherine clinton is the professor of American History at the university of texas at san antonio. She is also one of this countrys most distinguished historians of american women, the south, and the civil war. She is a proud daughter of kansas city, missouri, and she studied as an undergraduate at harvard. Shooin for a phd at princeton, completing her dissertation on the direction of james mcpherson. Her dissertation will be published in 1982 as the book the plantation mistress. It was her first work to be characterized justly as pioneeri