Corporation and reading room. And the hsbc corporation. And all else who made it possible for me to appear here tonight. It is a particular privilege to speak here in New York city. Already in 1860 as it remains today New York was the Nerve Center of the nation. The herald, the tribune, the times, the three most influential and widely read newspapers of the United States were published right here. Each provides a historian with a wealth of insights, each informs my presentation tonight. Heres what im going to talk about. I focus on the fateful series of events in late 1860 and early 1861. When a president ial election triggered a grave crisis and before long a civil war. Let us hope that history never repeats itself. Let us remember that any durable electoral system has attributes which we dare not take for granted it presupposes some degree of shared values. It presupposes that you accept the legitimacy of your opponents. And that you accept the verdict of the voters. It presupposes t
Dozen magazine articles about events and personalities of the 19th century. He is a popular symposium speaker a history tour guide. And served as historical consultant for battlefield preservation in the shenandoah valley, which is where i live. So he kind of affects me a little bit. Mr. Eckelbarger is also lincoln scholar with a featured article in the Current Issue of the journal of abraham, lincoln association. So without further delay, please join me in welcoming mr. Eckelbarger to the National Archives where he will discuss his most recent book. Which we have a copy of here. The great comeback how Abraham Lincoln built the beat the odds to win the 1860 republican nomination, which has been acclaimed by critics and fellow lincoln authors. So ladies and gentlemen. Introduce you to gary. Good afternoon, folks as you can see. Im blessed with lincolns height not but we have a good close knit group. We didnt need 150 or whatever. We i think well all be singing kumbaya before this events
And he argues that president lincoln was against slavery, but was willing to accept it in order to preserve the union. This is an hour and a half, hosted by the New York Historical society and the bryant park reading room. Thank you alex castle and paul room arrow. And thanks to the Bryant Park Corporation and the bryant park reading room, and the hsbc corporation and all those who have made it possible for me to appear here tonight. Its a particular privilege to speak here in new york city. Already, in 1860, as it remains today, new york was the nerve center of the nation. The herald, the tribune, the times, the three most influential and widely read newspapers in the United States, were publish right here. Each provides the historian with a wealth of insights, and each informs my presentation tonight. Here is what i am going to talk about. I focus on the fateful series of events in late 1860, and early 1861, when a president ial election triggered a grave crisis, and before long, a c
Count 1191 books in. On Abraham Lincoln. More than john Kennedy Franklin roosevelt and Robert Kennedy combined. Guest i knew i wanted to live with him and i had to have a leap of faith that i could find something that would be my own way into it but the last one on Eleanor Franklin took six years longer than world war ii so i knew this would be a fundamental. He turned out to be the best companion i could imagine. Host how did you begin the process class guest at first i read. I hope its beginning to do a book about marriage the way ive done with eleanor and franklin but i realized they couldnt hold the public side of the story the way eleanor did. I realized he spent more time with the members of his than with mary. He was married to them more protected tense time theyd wait for news from the battlefield and go to the front of relax at night. These are the guys im interested in when it turned out theyd been as rivals beforehand that i finally realized that got my story. Host book came
I am also very troubled about how deep the political divide is mainly between democrats and republicans but even within the two parties it is restive, it is not settled. People are not happy. For a lot of reasons. We are racially divided you saw that terrible shooting in georgia that got into the news the last couple of dates. Were trying to figure out what it means to be american and weve talked about that many times the book project has helped me a lot to reflect on that larger question and he began with a pretty ordinary way. I was writing a series of blog posts. I wouldnt call them quite articles. It began around 2010. All around the one 50th anniversary of our civil war. In the idea was that we could find younger historians who were comfortable in and the digital the environment to put up more articles about history in the online New York Times that they would have been able to put in the printed paper when it started the online New York Times was kind of like a backyard that no o