did i get that right out here. which, i guess it never hit me, but i guess it might, in a way, because i am a big fan of robert e. lee. what i m hoping to do among others, besides give you a timeline as to what robert e. lee did in the post-war years, chin is one of the most often overlooked portion of his life. the civil war is always going to be first and foremost. the other main theme of this lecture i m going to try to get across to you the park service is big on themes is that the amount of i wouldn t say that he did a lot of work in theory. but through his own personal example is probably the best way, through his own personal example, robert e. lee tries to reconcile the nation. and what i think a lot of us as americans today have forgotten is that how far apart this country was in 1865. i think it is the view of a lot of people that lee surrenders at appomattox and we ll forget about it. we ll just go we ll just hold hands and reunite and continue on down th
leave washington, d.c., he was disa disappointed. but he worked very, very hard to build up his law practice. lincoln was a great spinner of tales for juries. one time, he said this reminds me of the little boy on the farm who comes running in to his father, and says, pa, pa, sister is in the barn. and she s got her pants down, and she s pinned in the hay loft, and he says, my boy, you ve got your facts straight, and you ve come to the wrong conclusions. and he turns to the jury and says, sometimes the facts don t leave you to the right concl conclusions. lincoln was honest abe, but there s a tendency to say he s a moral paragon or a political animal. no, he s a hybrid. you have to understand both sides. by 1854, spain, france, and britain have abolished slavery. but it s very much alive in the united states. in may, president pierce signs the kansas-nebraska act. giving american slavery the opportunity to expand throughout 500,000 square miles of new territory.
very, very hard to build up his law practice. lincoln was a great spinner of tales for juries. one time, he said, this reminds me of the little boy on the farm who comes running into his father and says, pa, pa, sister s in the barn, and she s got her pants down, and she s a-peein in the hey lost, and her friend, joe, has got his pants down and he s squatting to do the other thing. and his father says, boy, you ve got the facts straight, but you ve come to the wrong conclusions. then he would turn to the jurors and say, sometimes the facts don t give you the right conclusion. lincoln was honest abe, but he often cut his answers to serve his cause. there s a ten dency to say he s this moral paragon, or he s just a political animal. no. he s a hybrid. if you want to understand him, you ve got to understand both sides. by 1854, spain, france, and britain have abolished slavery, but it s very much alive in the united states. in may, president franklin pierce signs the kan
costello teaches a class at american university about white house myths. he talks about the realities and legends about often repeated stories such as the gift alligator, decorating traditions began, and dolly madison rescuing george washington s portrait. so today s topic, white house myths and popular culture. you probably come across these things multiple times whether you are researching things on the internet, maybe even came across them as you are doing research for your papers on this class. but there are a number of stories that just continue to get circulated, and circulated, and perpetuated, and what i love about this is that you get to not only sort of debunked these things, but you get to try to figure out where they started and why people grew so attached to them. that also tells you a little bit more about how people understand the passed. and how they use it or misuse it. remember earlier in the semester we talked about the jackson magnolia. in, fact i thin
and circulated and perpetuated, and what i like about this is because you get to not only sort of debunk these things, but you get to try to figure out where they really started and why people grew so attached to them. because that also tells you a little bit more about how people understand the past and how they use it or misuse it. so remember earlier in the semester we talked about the jackson magnolia. in fact, i think a number of you went into detail about the jackson magnolia and was it alex was it you who wrote about the jackson magnolia? it was. okay. so you already know all of this. think back to when john than plisco visited our class and we talked about about the story behind the jackson magnolia and who remembers the story? not alex because he wrote a whole paper on it, but anybody else? yeah, william. andrew jackson s wife died right before he went to office so he planted the tree because it was her favorite tree. mm-hmm, and he brought the seeds from t