Cspan2. Here we go. Excellent. Thank you so much for coming tonight we want to welcome you to our new home we are so honored and thankful that you are here. We are not here for us to probably the you know brian kill mead from his job on fox and friends. It is the mosthe popular morning cable new show on the planet 213 months two weeks and four days you might also know brian from his National Syndicated radio show the brian kill mead show which 150 radio stations across the country and was named one of the ten most talk radio host in america. Between tv and radio he is on the airwaves six hours a day five days a week but yet he has found the time to write bestselling book George Washington secret six Thomas Jefferson the tripoli pirates Andrew Jackson the miracle of new orleans each have reached over two. 5 million readershed around the world which is very impressive. His latest book which we are celebrating tonight is sam houston and the alamo avengers another bestseller that debuted l
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 freshly minted professor at my university with my first boo
Brookhiser. It is part of the large Alexander Hamilton exhibition at the New York Historical society during it was 12 years ago, but it was transformative both in hamilton historiography and in the future of the New York Historical society. In addition to curating that show, he wrote a 1999 book Alexander Hamilton american. As well as, what would the founders do our questions, their answers. He is had the dream job that everyone would like, you have one job for a long time as young as he is. He is had it for more than four decades. He is been the same place. He is now Senior Editor at the national review, for whom he began writing nearly half a century ago. He is a winner of the National Humanities medal. I have the honor of being honored at the same ceremony eight years ago. It is a pleasure to welcome him for a reunion. He has written a wonderful book, founders son a life of Abraham Lincoln. It is unlike any other than as been produced because it harkens back to the founding interval
Brookhiser. It is part of the large Alexander Hamilton exhibition at the New York Historical society during it was 12 years ago, but it was transformative both in hamilton historiography and in the future of the New York Historical society. In addition to curating that show, he wrote a 1999 book Alexander Hamilton american. As well as, what would the founders do our questions, their answers. He is had the dream job that everyone would like, you have one job for a long time as young as he is. He is had it for more than four decades. He is been the same place. He is now Senior Editor at the national review, for whom he began writing nearly half a century ago. He is a winner of the National Humanities medal. I have the honor of being honored at the same ceremony eight years ago. It is a pleasure to welcome him for a reunion. He has written a wonderful book, founders son a life of Abraham Lincoln. It is unlike any other than as been produced because it harkens back to the founding interval
Great honor to be here at the lincoln forum. I am coming from a different country. This is certainly, eddies berg is one of the holy paces places in lincoln country. I have spent most of my career in Founding Fathers country. Although they are both in the United States, and they both helped define the United States, i think of the scholars and the two countries do not talk to each other as much as they should. Abraham lincoln talked to the Founding Fathers all his life. His most famous utterance was the speech he gave here, where he said, our fathers wrought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty. That was in november, 1863. Two and a half years into the civil war. But three years before that, february, 1860, at the cooper Union Address, the kickoff was his first president ial campaign. His new york city debut. A 90 minute speech, half of it was devoted to the framers of the constitution. Lincoln argued that a majority of them believed that the federal government ha