disappointed but he worked very, very hard to build up his law practice. lincoln was a great spinner of tales for juries. one time they said this reminds me of the little boy on the farm who comes running in his father and says pap, pap, sister is in the barn and she s got her pants down and her friend, joe, got his pants down and he s squatting to do the other thing. the father says you got the facts straight but you come to a wrong conclusion. he turns the the jurors and says, sometimes the facts does not give you the right conc conclusion. oh, no, he s a hybrid. if you want to understand him, you have to understand both sides. 1854, spain, france and britain abolished slavery. it is very much alive in the united states. and may, president franklin signs the kansas, nebraska, act given american the opportunity to expand 500 square miles of new territory. the kansas/nebraska act repealed the compromise which says there could be no slavery. settlers can decide for the
raffles going on. at your table you ve been given a note card that we would like you to write down a question for our panel this afternoon. if you have a question for them. and what i will do, i will take out the most objectionable ones. and then we ll proceed from there. but so if you find that and if you ve got a question, then write it down and we ll ask our wonderful speakers today. we ve also, at the break we re going to bring in my staff and we re going to have a chance to acknowledge them. and then our panel discussion is after lunch at 1:00. so that will be the end of our day. i really like our speaker s presentation title today, mission impossible, rethinking george b. mcclel an. after this conference i think it s more impossibler to do that. but dr. george rable, professor at the university of alabama where he held the care of southern history. he is the author of of a book that won the 2003 lincoln prize and was the choice outstanding academic title. his most rec
[inaudible conversations] how are you? good. here s bob more sis. of course morris. how are you? happy occasion. yeah, this is great. a lot of familiar faces, and we ll have some white house photographers and white house folks good. people who have covered all this stuff like you have. eager to hear more about the book. so i m glad you re here. going to have a little talk? yeah, we re going to have a couple of little surprise moments, so [laughter] thanks for coming. thank you. hey. hi, nice to see you. hi, ken. thank you for the invitation, and my husband. yes, nice to see you. hello. nice to see you, hi. yeah, i feel great, oh, okay, great. thanks for coming. you got in okay? the traffic and the construction? perfect. 30 minutes to here exactly. great. hey. thanks for coming. how are you? thanks for for coming. thanks for having me. okay, good. too late in the game, but we have our tv folks here, so that ll be nice. ma
booktv recently attended a book party for ken walsh, chief white house correspondent for u.s. news and world report. or his most recent book ultimate insiders: white house photographers and how they shape history. this is about 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] how re you? good. this is great. a lot of familiar faces. we ll have some white house photographers and white house folks and people who have covered all the stuff like you have. great. i m glad you re here. are you going to have a little talk? a couple of surprise moments. thanks for coming. thank you. hey. nice to see you. thank you for this. this is my husband. nice to see you. thanks for coming. you got it okay? the traffic and the construction? perfect. 30 minutes from fdr to hear. great. thanks for coming. i m glad. we have our tv folks here so that will be nice. straight back. everything is good. good. we will tell you a couple of easy questions. thank you. thanks, susan. yo
history,n lectures in william harris teaches a class about abraham lincoln, the civil war battle of antietam, and the issuing of the emancipation proclamation in 1862. his classes about an hour and 15 minutes. today, we have pivotd in some ways the point of the war and the pivot point of the entire class. the months when a war to save the union also became a war to end slavery. that took lots of politics and it also took lots of fighting, including the bloodiest single day war, which was the battle of antietam. we will look at that in some depth, but also starting with what happenedof in the first year of the war. july 1861, lincoln and congress both say they are fighting a war for the union. we are not trying to revolutionize the south or end slavery. we want to restore the constitutional relationship between the states. and this is a conservative way to prevent the breakup of a country. things happened. contraband as they were called started running away. here is a whole fa