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90minutes conversation. Allen is the third professor of the gettysburg college. He serves as the director of the studies program. He did his graduate work at the university of pennsylvania where he focused on the history of religion. He also holds a master of divinity degree. His roster of publications is so long that i am not going to even try to read them all to you. You can go to allenguelzo. Com and get a full accounting of not only his publications, but other salient elements of his biography. What i am going to do here is areion books i think especially pertinent to what we will be doing this afternoon. I will read them in order. First is called Abraham Lincoln, redeemer president. Published in 1998 and won the zes. T of the lincoln price emancipation proclamation published by simon schuster. It brought him his second again lincoln prize. Lincoln and douglas. Published in 2008. It did not win the lincoln prize. [laughter] t ....
Comparison of Abraham Lincoln and jefferson davis. The two wartime president s. He also wrote lincoln the lawyer, which probably everyone in this room has read. He wrote lincoln and the constitution, and lincoln and white america. He will be talking about his new this book coming out in lincoln in indiana. February,he will talk about lincolns indiana years. Thats where he spent from seven to 21, his formative years. He is going to tell us how important it was to his life. Please welcome dr. Brian dirck. [applause] prof. Dirck is my powerpoint oh. It is on. It is good to go. In my powerpoint. Let me try that nothing is happening. While he is working on that, thank you for inviting me back. I was sitting at dinner this evening. This is actually my third visit to the lincoln group. I have very fond memories of you guys. I dont know if any of you were here the first time i was here way back, i want to say in the year 2000. I was a fr ....
Is about immigration. And lets face it, it is a fraught issue, a provocative issue, and unresolved issue then and now. On then, and focus see if we can get some insight into lincoln and his times and this hot topic. With december 6, after his a month reelection as president. Its the day Abraham Lincoln and as fate would have it his final message to congress. It is known today as the state of the union. By the tradition of the lincoln era they were not or rated in person, they were sent Via White House staff and read aloud by a clerk. Maybe with feeling. Probably not. Certainly not the way lincoln himself would have read it, so we can only imagine how the document was received by a body that would ultimately just take a reading copy and study it more closely. That one passage, particularly, caught the that day. Attention and keep in mind as we set the stage, not only had lin ....