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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Fords Theatre Lincoln Symposium 20160319

Is the site where president lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. As he sat in a theater with a play running. The play running at the time was our american cousin. President lincoln died the next day across the street at the peterson boardling house. Fords is now a working theater as well as a National Historic site. He current play running is 110 in the shade. While we wait, lets take a ook at todays speakers. Lincoln, African Americans, and the emancipation struggle. And 35 the book lincoln the problem of reconstruction. There will be a midday break for lunch at approximately 1 55 p. M. Well hear stacy mcdormant on mary lincolns life and legacy. At 3 05 Thomas Carson on incolns ethics. At 3 55 all of todays speakers will participate in a closing pa ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Abraham Lincoln And Reconstruction 20160424

A recent symposium about the president s life, career and legacy. He is the author of lincolns last speech this lecture took place at fords theatre and is about 50 minutes. On a rainy night of april 11 1865, president lincoln addressed a crowd for the last time. The speech was remarkably less for his oratorical qualities, stylistically, it was far from his best. Than for the fact with the conflict all but behind him, lincoln was looking forward in more ways than one to human a a wartornng nation. Three days later, the president would fall to an assassins bullet and the promise of a gentler reconstruction would go unfulfilled. In his current work titled, lincolns last speech wartime reconstruction and the crisis of reunion, dr. Lewis masur analyzes reconstruction in all of its iterations from the earliest days of the war to the end of lincolns presidency and his life. Then, in his epilogue, he cites, no less a person than Frederick ....

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