You can cherry picked certain things, but later on during his presidency he gains quite deep respect and affection even springfield. He lived in the neighborhood, this was back in illinois, a neighborhood that was full of africanericans. He became friendly to them and he kept corresponding with several of them while he was in the wte house. While he was in the white house Frederick Douglass who was at first thought he was quite conservative of slary that in a couple of timesn the white house and really was astounded. He came out of this thing, this is the least prejudiced white person i think ive ever met. The same thing with sojourner truth. She was an oer africanamerican feminist and she said before i die i want to et this guy, this president abraham lincoln. Sh had a delightful time with him and felt very, very close to hi Martin Delaney who was, we would call him beyond black lives matter. Heas like a black nationalist. Very militant. He became at the end of the war, lioln appointe
Constitution. And now it is such a pleasure to introduce our extremely distinguished panel of americas leading lincoln scholars to discuss lincolns speeches and the american idea. Michael birmingham holds the chancellor naomi b lynn distinguished chair and lichen studies at the university of illinois springfield. Hes the author of several books on lincoln including and lincoln observed the inner world of Abraham Lincoln and the two volume american Abraham Lincoln a life as well as his new book, which hell be discussing tonight. The black mans president Abraham Lincoln African Americans and the pursuit of racial equality. Noah. Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter professor of law chair of the society of fellows and founding director of the Julis Rabinowitz Program on jewish and israeli law at harvard university. Hes the author of nine books including the three lives of James Madison genius partisan president and his latest book which will be tonight the broken constitution lincolns slavery
And now it is such a pleasure to introduce our extremely extinguished panel of leading lincoln scholars to discuss lincolns speeches and the american idea. Michael, Michael Burlingame chancellor know b lynn, distinguished at the university of illinois, springfield, is the author of many books on lincoln including the enrolled of Abraham Lincoln, and to volume american Abraham Lincoln, a life. As well as his new book which will be discussing tonight. The black mans president. Abraham, lincoln African Americans and the pursuit of racial equality. Noah feldman it is the frankfurter professor of law, chair of the society of fellows, and founding director of the program and jewish and israeli law at harvard university. He wrote nine books including the three lives of james madison, genius as president , and his latest book we will be discussing tonight, the broken constitution, lincoln s and they refounding of america. Diana schaub it is professor of Political Science at maryland university
Distinguished panel of americas leading lincoln scholars to discuss lincolns speeches and the american idea. Michael birmingham holds the chancellor naomi b lynn distinguished chair and lichen studies at the university of illinois springfield. Hes the author of several books on lincoln including and lincoln observed the inner world of Abraham Lincoln and the two volume american Abraham Lincoln a life as well as his new book, which hell be discussing tonight. The black mans president Abraham Lincoln African Americans and the pursuit of racial equality. Noah. Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter professor of law chair of the society of fellows and founding director of the Julis Rabinowitz Program on jewish and israeli law at harvard university. Hes the author of nine books including the three lives of James Madison genius partisan president and his latest book which will be tonight the broken constitution lincolns slavery and the refounding of america diana. Shall is professor of Political S
that s just he here so i would like to call this i would like to call this roundtable to order. okay, i ve always wanted to do that. hello everyone and welcome to our round table today constitutional history is political history. i m dr. yvonne pitts. i m an associate professor and i proudly call purdue s history department my home. i m affiliated with women s gender and sexuality studies american studies and critical. abilities, i m currently working on a project on transformations in jurisdictional authority during the american civil war. the timing for this round table is certainly propipitous propitious. excuse me. we wait with bated breath at least most of us in this room for a supreme court decisions that may well become the landmark decisions. we are teaching years from now. so before i introduce our panel, it would like to. thinkers with a special shout out. to dr. rachel sheldon and my colleague dr. katie brunell who organized this wonderful conference and round tabl