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Place to meet, and eventually lee, babcock and dunn ride into the village to the mclean house. The next time the confederate soldiers see general lee, they learn theyve been surrendered. They mistakenly assume that the federal officer talking to lee under the apple tree was general grant. So they went over and started to cut the tree down for souvenirs. Before long, federal troops came over and asked the confederate soldiers why they were cutting down the tree, and he said this is the tree where...

Of the union army, and he blocked general lees line of retreat, thus general lee had to continue further west, searching for rations and hoping to get around grants army. The next place general lee could gather supplies was about three miles from us here at appomattox station. Supplies had been brought over from lynchburg to feed general lees army. Its everything the army really needed. Hundreds of thousands of rations, new uniforms, equipment, and thats where theyre heading for on april 8 after...

They knew they couldnt help lincoln. He had been shot through the brain. Some people came because they wanted to say one day that they had been here. They had seen the Great Lincoln on the night he was assassinated. Some came so they could tell their grandchildren, decades later, i was there the night lincoln died. And so more people were in this house than really needed to be here. It was certainly appropriate that the members of the cabinet come, but there were too many people here in this lit...

The race between Hillary Clinton and bernie sanders. And alex isenstadt, how candidates plan to win nevada. Live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern tomorrow morning. Join the discussion. Coming up next on the civil war, author and historian james sw swanson compares the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and john f. Kennedy. Highlights the differences, backgrounds of the assassins and state of the country at the time. He also talks about the experience and reactions of the two widows. The Lincoln Forum hosted...

The first group of landgrant universities created in 1867 by the acts signed into law by lincoln five years earlier, and the only in lincolns home state. One reason i was drawn to take the job as law dean is the prospect that the university of illinois can he come linked with ellington in the way that the university of virginia is associated with Thomas Jefferson mind, was not as great of a president or person. Why bob woodward . That might be the easiest. Many consider the New York Times the ne...

Tv, broadcast historian and Communications Professor paddy scannell. He argues that sound is as important in film as film in capturing history. He was a keynote speaker at a conference in conjunction with the Radio Preservation Task force. This is about an hour and a half. Ms. Mcauliffe national and International Outrage is a newly created division of the library of congress that pulls together into one unit, all of the externally facing programs of the library. We started on october 1, so we ar...

It is always good to go back and touch base with a we think are areas of concern for this part of the course. Can i ask you guys to help us review the major themes we have in mind right now . Please . Mentioned, going back to over and over again, time to think carefully about what our visitation of the American Civil War tells us, about Popular American reality its into regards. Equality,ds to racial always reminding ourselves that the relationship between those a simplet in any sense relationsh...

Successors, including richard nixon, Ronald Reagan and barack obama. This focuses on president relevance,ontinuing 150 years after his death. This is about an hour. I am the dean of the college of law here at the university of illinois. On behalf of the law school in entire university, i am pleased to welcome you here today for the first lecture in a new series hosted by the college of law and title the new lincoln lectures, what lincoln means in the 21st century. During this series, we will com...

Be winning the civil war. Heels argues against reduction he also argues lincolns reelection was unlikely due to the state of the war in 1963. His classes about an hour. Tracy mckenzie now, this morning, we are going to be more or less looking at the. Hronological order of the war the focus today is going to be on the period roughly from lincolns announcement of the emancipation proclamation to the end of the war. That is chronologically our focus. I am trying to emphasize some of the things in a...

Obama. This is about an hour. Vick i am the dean of the college of law here at the university of illinois. Behalf of the law school in entire university, i am pleased to welcome you here today for the first lecture in a new series hosted by the college of law and title the new lincoln lectures, what lincoln means in the 21st century. During this series, we will come over the next few years, bring in 10 or so ideologically Diverse National thought leaders to reflect openly on lincolns legacy and ...