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Recording, if you could just come to the microphone by the white pillar so we can hear your questions and engage in a nice discussion, and lastly, once everything is done if you could please fold up your chairs and place them against the pillar. Our staff, as in me, would greatly appreciate that. [laughter] tonight im pleased to introduce jared cohen, the founder and ceo of jigsaw alphabet inc. As well as an adjunct senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. The New York Times best selli...

In American Civil War history at Dickinson College of course the alma mater of both president buchanan and chief Justice Taney for what thats worth. Matt is the author of a number of books and articles including lincolns sanctuary which is a history of the soldiers home where lincoln would go during the summer and he is the author of a forthcoming book which i think will radically force us to think about lincoln in a new way. Its hard to imagine anything that could force us to think about lincol...

The u. S. Capital historical society. Its about 45 minutes. Our next speaker is matt pinsker the associate professor of history and holds the chair in American Civil War history at Dickinson College of course the alma mater of both president buchanan and chief Justice Taney for what thats worth. Matt is the author of a number of books and articles including lincolns sanctuary which is a history of the soldiers home where lincoln would go during the summer and he is the author of a forthcoming bo...

Reject the scholar who doesnt give them what they want. It strikes me, in other words they are engaging in some way. Just on their own terms. You know, someone like Steve Mcqueen has an idea and he found this book. He had an idea. His wife found him the book and he put it all together and that is the narrative and the story and he has his ideas and scenes. I was struck powerfully by spielberg having scenes in his mind telling the historians what he saw. Was it possible . Could it be . What was t...

Theyre really quite intelligent, very intelligent, but are trained in a way that theyve been trained differently from the way we have so that they are interested in, you know, the impact visually and what people hear. And the overarching story or theme or thesis they want to put forward. And so whenever they come to historians, its not as theyre writing the work. It is usually after theyve already worked out in their mind what the opening scene is going to look like and the rest of it. And the s...

Television because black and white. A con cue period but not modern. Anything even in the 1990s might offend southern advertisers. That was the idea. In some ways i think television is a medium that responds so commercially and waits for, you know, like something happens in film and then five to ten years later it becomes okay. Im thinking of this, ive been oust the country for almost ten years and i notice it in the language on television what is now acceptable. Wait. They can see that on tv . ...

Amistad and the moment in the film where, which is certainly taken from the case. They throw them over board. The slaves are shackled and thrown overboard is one of the most visually powerful, arresting scenes. When i went to the International Museum of slavery in liverpool they had their own version of that so it is something that we deal in words and powerfully in telling stories but its something that we now in the 21st century back to media have to grapple with. Whos going to look at it . Ho...

Location and at the very end she says, tara, home, i will go home. Right . So thats going to fix it. Thats an incredibly powerful sense. I think this adds an element that these people werent fighting so they could keep people in subjugation. This is where they grew up and had a right to fight for their homes. It makes them feel more look crusaders rather than the version that they wanted black people to keep working for them so they could keep sipping their tea. What are some of the other ways t...

Death. [applause] good morning. Let me see what it says here. My name is douglas wilson. [laughter] im the codirector of the lincoln study center at knox college. It is my privilege to introduce the first speaker in the 2015 Abraham Lincoln institute symposium. He is a young scholar who has already earned an array of honors. He was educated at penn state where he took his bachelors degree in 2001 and at the university of maryland where he earned a masters degree in 2003 and a phd in 2008. The de...

Symposium which is about 45 minutes. Mattr next speaker is thinkpinksner. He is a professor at Dickinson College which is the alma mater of both president buchanan and the chief justice. , for what that is worth. The author of a number of books and articles, including lincolns sanctuary which is a history of the soldiers home in lincolns sanctuary which is a history of the soldiers home where lincoln would go during the summer and he is the author of a forthcoming book which i think will radical...