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Scholars here. Im going to introduce them very briefly, because theyre very wellknown to you, as members of the forum. And also wellknown to the cspan audience. Then well get right into some questions that ill pose to the panelists and then well turn it open to the floor and have a round of q a from all of you as well. Let me just say this at the outset. I did a quick study of these figures. Frank williams, harold holzer, Jonathan White and Thomas Horrocks here. By my count, and you know, theres...

Next, on the civil war, a panel of historians and authors talks about factors that impacted lincoln Election Campaign in 1864. They explore lincolns expansion of president ial war powers and his relationship with both democratic and Republican Newspapers. They also debate whether the gettysburg address was the beginning of lincolns reElection Campaign and the impact of the soldiers vote. This hourlong event was part of the Lincoln Forums annual symposium in gettysburg, pennsylvania. Good morning...

Is cbs3 Eyewitness News. Demonstrators return to the streets of philadelphia marching to make themselves heard. Disrupting a Tree Lighting ceremony in city hall to protest what they call injustice in society. These protests were fueled by a new york city grand jurys decision not to indict an nypd Police Officer in the choke hold death of a black man. That is sparking hours of demonstrations in new york city and well have more on that situation in new york in just a moment. But we will start here...

All right todd we will keep an eye on everything. In new york breaking news as a grand jury has declined to indict a Police Officer on criminal charges in the choke hold death of eric garner. A confrontation caught on video. Unarmed man was stopped in Staten Island on suspicion of selling untaxed cigarettes in july. Amateur rid ohio shows garner refusing to be handcuffed and officer Daniel Pantleo putting again inner a choke hold as that maneuver is banned under nypd pol willcy. New yorks mayor ...

People who want their children to see Something Like this. Reporter some felt uneasy as arguments erupted and protesters drowned out the children caroling on stage. All of these young folks down here they come out and put on a good show and they drawn them out with the sirens. Why dont they go protest somewhere else. Reporter for some two hours tensions simmered at city hall. One man was arrested for jumping a Police Barricade and officers scrambled to stop reported efforts to derail the Tree Li...

Youre finding a similar look along the coastline every where. 39 degrees there. Notice wind, 26mile an hour winds. We will go over to storm scan three and thinks where youll see areas in green. This is Coastal Flood Advisory, the pink beyond that is gale watch and warning that we have not just for this morning but also for tomorrow morning as well. So atlantic, burlington, cape may, sussex counties, weve got a lot of, a lot of weather coming and in fact a lot of that weather will be moving inlan...

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 and he is a young scholar who has already earned an array of honors. He was at penn state and the university of maryland where he earned a masters degree and a phd. The department of history at maryland awarded him its prize in political history. Hes already in his books. Abraham lincoln published in 2011 and most recently Emancipation Union army and reelection of Abraham Lincoln both published by louisiana State University press. More than two dozen articles have appeared under his na...

Scholar who has already earned an array of honors. He was at penn state and the university of maryland where he earned a masters degree and a phd. The department of history at maryland awarded him its prize in political history. Hes already in his books. Abraham lincoln published in 2011 and most recently Emancipation Union army and reelection of Abraham Lincoln both published by louisiana State University press. More than two dozen articles have appeared under his name in scholarly journals in ...

Its my privilege to introduce the first speaker in the 2015 Abraham Lincoln Institute Symposium and he is a young scholar who has already earned an array of honors. He was at penn state and the university of maryland where he earned a masters degree and a phd. The department of history at maryland awarded him its prize in political history. Hes already in his books. Abraham lincoln published in 2011 and most recently Emancipation Union army and reelection of Abraham Lincoln both published by lou...