Actors david selby and Craig Wallace. All these men have either appeared on the ford stage or created works that appeared on the ford stage. We are to have them with us today. Like to say weve been watching demonstrations unfold in our neighborhoods and across the nation. We know we have work to do. We commit to using our platform to tell stories that speak to the present moment with courage, abrahamion, and lincolns presidency. A specific play in which they all took part, assess every very sacrifices, which fords theater premiered in 2012. This play explores the relationship between president lincoln and the abolitionist Frederick Douglass. It seems particularly important this week to consider the leadership of these two great americans as they helped our country find its way through one of our greatest crises. I want to start this afternoon just by welcoming you all, thank you so much for being with us from across the country, d. C. Ornia, and washington, i want to start with richard
leading. all episodes of american history tv lectures in history series are available to watch online, anytime, at c-span dot org slash history. pleas good morning. morning, my name is jonathan white and i am the vice chair of the lincoln forum. it s my pleasure to welcome tom clorox, who is a member of our executive committee to the stage, he is going to give a special presentation and then introduce our next speaker. good, morning everyone. . three years, ago the lincoln forum established an annual book prize. with a cash award of $1, 000, to honor outstanding scholarship on the life and career of our nation 16th president. published in the year preceding the presentation of the award. on behalf of the book prize committee, consisting of michel crowley, christian mick word or and daniel weinberg, it is my honor and pleasure to announce the 2021 lincoln book prize winner, james oakes for his book the crooked path to abolition, abraham lincoln and the anti slavery const
To show some of the flaws of democracy, the positive things in democracy, and during the Tumultuous Times i served there was so much that occurred that showed the weakness of what we are doing. My book was talking about how can we improve democracy and also remind people of the great history of western civilization and what we have in this country, and try to move forward to a rebirth of democracy. Host im interested in your thoughts on the title what are you trying to a couple should . Guest a restless wrote a book folly,n pursuit of highly political, but it was moving toward the protestant reformation, and talking about how much reform was needed. I use that title as a backdrop to really show how important it is to reform and change the way we do things in d. C. Onef there were 1 major step congress could take to reform, what could it be . Guest we should have a balanced budget every year. He saw recently we had a continuing resolution that moved us from september 2 december, and now
Individual you have all seen but whose name you may not recognize, natalie larson. Natalie larson is the unsung hero of mount vernon. She is responsible for physically recreating beds, curtains, and household textiles that make mount vernon believable as a home. Natalie is widely recognized as on leading american expert furnishing textiles of the 18th and 19th century and is the sole textilesr of historic incorporated of williamsburg, virginia. She began her career as an archaeologist, deeply interested in the ways people lived in the past and how they lived with and expressed themselves through their material possessions. Over the past 30 years, natalie has taken that approach above andnd by studying documenting surviving furnishing textiles to recreate them for use and house museums. An began her career as archaeological draftsman and Colonial Williamsburg before becoming a versions specialist. At williamsburg natalie refurnished nearly every exhibition building, including the most r
Civil war era at gettysburg also serves ashe director for the civil war era studies program. He did his graduate work of history at the university of pennsylvania where he focused on the history of religion. He also holds a master of divinity degree. His roster of publications is so long that i am not going to even try to read them all to you. Nguelzo. Comto alle and get a full accounting of all his publications and his biography and doings. What im going to do is mention five books that i think are especially pertinent to what we will be doing this afternoon. I will read them in order. The first is called abraham. Ncoln, redeemer president lincolns emancipation proclamation the end of slavery in america. Published by Simon Schuster in 2004. Lincoln and douglas, the debates that defined america. Whitening gettysburg, the last invasion. Published in 2013 which brought a third lincoln prize to alan, he is the only person who is 13. Has won 3. He is currently working on a biography of rob