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Abraham lincolns life through 4s and portraits and discusses idiosyncrasies like what his close reveal about his health, or why he chose certain photographers. The university of st. Mary hosted this 90 minute event. Good evening. My name is brian lebeau. I would like to welcome you to the 18th annual university of st. Mary lincoln event. Featuring Smithsonian National portrait gallery Senior Historian david seymour. How Abraham Lincoln used photography for politics. A special welcome to the crew...

Good evening. My name is brian lebeau. You to like to welcome the 18th annual university of st. Mary lincoln event. Featuring Smithsonian National portrait gallery Senior Historian david seymour. How Abraham Lincoln used photography for politics. A special welcome to the crew from cspan. When we open the floor to questions, be sure to use the microphones. Our speaker tonight david ward joined to the National Portrait gallery in 1981. He oversees the sections devoted to the antebellum age as well...

The members and sometimes we have members from the museum and members of the town so coming out to support a spirit we really do appreciate the support here Jonathan White is an assistant professor of american studies and a fellow at the center for american studies at Christopher Newport university where he serves as the prelaw advisor for he is the author of Abraham Lincoln and treason in the civil war. He is currently at work on three books. Please join me in welcoming Jonathan White. [applaus...

Photographs of the plywood and bags of salt that sit on top of these metal bilcostyle doors, the doors that gave way beneath two cousins on their walk to school. 5yearold iona barnes says it was cold dark and dirty. I was crying. I was like somebody get me out of here. Somebody get me out of here. And they kept taking pictures of me. Reporter when she and cousin dropped six feet into the basement of this empty building on their walk to school on southard street thursday. It was a passing bus dri...

Is already starting to show a an improvement. Reporter San Franciscos da says apple has already implemented this technology in its latest iphones and he says the results have been dramatic. Reporter everywhere you look on Market Street you will see smart phones and eyes glued do them. They draw our attention, no wonder that make us targets. We know that here in our own city we have several people that were assaulted and injured due to a cell phone robbery. Reporter George Gascon has spear headed...

[inaudible conversations] [applause] they key is so much. Thank you for that very generous introduction they give for this Republican Party for hosting us with such a wonderful organization in to support women. I want to start today by stinking you for a loving me to talk to you today about the need for fairness in the tax code system in than need for the success to pay the government and what a Great Success president obama has done in the middle east. [laughter] that he negotiates with iran . ...

Effects some of the most popular vehicles on the road. This recall involves 11 auto manufacturers, and many different parts suppliers, not just takata, and roughly double the number of vehicles built in the you had every year. Reporter now recall notices will be sent out so that Vehicle Owners can get their cars fix but this will not be a quick process. Replacement parts has to be manufactured, shipped and then work has to be done. This will be going on for months and months. I have posted more ...

If you are planning to go to the park this afternoon, if you hold off taking one of these, they are in the back. We will get you some. Its on park row. My talk is referred to as black thursday, the battle for Sailors Creek. One of the Union Generals who was involved in the battle, he wrote in his book about the fighting 5 of the intelligent people of the united states, north or south ever heard of the battle of Sailors Creek. They dont know anything of its magnitude or importance. This is not st...

Studying it, i have a lot of questions as to where these events took place and how the armys got from here to there. This book set up my quest to learn more about these sites. When i worked at appomattox, i worked with a gem in a lot of you may know. His name was harold howard. He was the role of a former confederate soldier. I took the role of the union soldier. He and i were companions in trying to learn more about the events that took place on the retreat. One of the areas that i was interest...

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...