Brand new book. I had some conversation and now im speaking to you directly and i hope you enjoy it because were the children and grandchildren of immigrants and im the grandchildren of immigrants, and its a story that Many Americans share. Even if we approach it now from from different points of view. And if we were speaking at our old headquarters of fort lesley mcnair, i would have a perfect hyper local introduction to this topic. Thats because, i mean, your former meeting site, as you all know, is the site of the execution of the lincoln conspirators. But remember, one of them was a german immigrant, george axelrod. All of them were hanged under the supervision of the son of german immigrants. And the grisly result was photographed by an immigrant from scotland, alexander gardener, spare it by fate it might be added, was the leader of the gang John Wilkes Booth who was killed by a trigger happy british immigrant boston corbett, under the command of an irish born captain. So this is
Brand new book. I had some conversation and now im speaking to you directly and i hope you enjoy it because were the children and grandchildren of immigrants and im the grandchildren of immigrants, and its a story that Many Americans share. Even if we approach it now from from different points of view. And if we were speaking at our old headquarters of fort lesley mcnair, i would have a perfect hyper local introduction to this topic. Thats because, i mean, your former meeting site, as you all know, is the site of the execution of the lincoln conspirators. But remember, one of them was a german immigrant, george axelrod. All of them were hanged under the supervision of the son of german immigrants. And the grisly result was photographed by an immigrant from scotland, alexander gardener, spare it by fate it might be added, was the leader of the gang John Wilkes Booth who was killed by a trigger happy british immigrant boston corbett, under the command of an irish born captain. So this is
ok. before we get too far. i m going to start with the first slide here. this is a political cartoon from tuft magazine in 1899. it says school begins. uncle sam to his new class in civilization. now, children, you ve got to learn these lessons whether you want to or not. but just take a look at the class ahead of you, and remember that in a little while, you will feel as glad to be here as they are. all right. so it might be hard for you to see, but the students are labeled cuba, puerto rico, hawaii and the philippines. and these are supposed to be students that are named for the states that were already part of the united states. and if you look in the back this is supposed to be an african-american cleaning the windows, an indigenous student and this is supposed to be a chinese student that are excluded entirely. at this point we are already into the exclusion of chinese immigration. this is what s summing up the stuff we re going to talk about in this class some of backgr
examples and discusses her influences and reasons for painting lincoln. she concludes the program by discussing a summer-long daily tribute to veterans held at gettysburg national cemetery. the lincoln group of the district of columbia hosted this event. our speaker tonight is wendy allen. i think most people in the room probably know who wendy allen is, but for those who do not, she is an artist. did her first painting abraham lincoln in 1983. and since then, she has focused on abraham lincoln as her subject and has made many, many paintings in different styles that she will talk about. she also has been very active being interviewed by cnn and had her paintings in the historical society along with some other people you might have heard of. salvador dali. he was there, too. and norman rockwell. certainly in very good company, and so were they. in addition to all of this, she lives in gettysburg and has a gallery up there. she is also very active with the fellowship of penn
Memorial which you might recognize as the building right behind us. I want to start by lets have a rounder applause for the United States marine band. Band. The president s own brass quintet. And we will hear a lot more from them over the course of the next couple of hours. So dont go away. They have a lot more to do. So ill start by introducing who i am and why im here. My name is david j kent. Im the president of the Lincoln Group of the District Of Columbia or the Lincoln Group of dc. I assume thats for the Lincoln Group and not for me in particular. Lincoln group is one of the most active lincoln organizations in the country and even though we are based here in dc. Our membership is worldwide and really worldwide but especially countrywide so weve been around since the 1930s. So we are very happy today to have helped organize this program. Along with the National Park service, and i especially want to call out jamie boyle who without whom this none of this would have happened. And