Good morning. My name is jonathan white, and im the vice chair of thehe Lincoln Forum. Our final speaker this morning isbrian dirk. Ian is a professor of history at Anderson University in indiana. He is the author of numerous books on Abraham Lincoln, imagining america, lincoln in indiana, lincoln the lawyer, and others. His subjects probe some of the most interesting and relevant topics in lincolns life and he has won awards for his work including from the new york civil war roundtable for the best book on Abraham Lincoln published in 2007. He recently had the opportunity to travel to seoul, where he addressed the korean Abraham Lincoln society. I know. Id like to hear more about that. How can i get on that gravy train . Today he will talk to us about his new book the black heavens Abraham Lincoln and death, published earlier this year. A review at civil war monitor states students of the 16th president will want to add this concise, thoughtprovoking, and sensitively written volume t
He recently had the opportunity to travel to seoul where he addressed the korean Abraham Lincoln society. I know id like to hear more about that. How can i get on that gravy train . Today he will talk to us about his new book, the black heavens. Abraham lincoln and death which was published earlier this year by Southern Illinois university press. A review at civil war monitors states, students of the 16th president will want to add this concise thoughtprovoking and sensitively written volume to their bookshelves. Please welcome me in joining please join me in welcoming brian dark. Hello everybody its great to be here. I want to thank you for the invitation. Ive gotten to see some old friends, among many my come pinion in korea, fred. We had fun. Meaning lots of wonderful people. You are heroes, everybody in this room is a hero to a group of students at Anderson University who are going to get tomorrow off because i am here. They love the lincoln form. They are like doctor dirk. How fun
Including one from the new york civil war roundtable. He recently had the opportunity to travel to seoul, korea were he addressed the korean Abraham Lincoln society. I know i would like to hear more about that. [laughter] how can i get on the gravy train question mark [laughter] today, he will talk to us about his new book, Abraham Lincoln and death which was published earlier this year. A review at civil war monitor states students of the 16th president will want to add this concise, sensitively written volume to their bookshelves created please join me in welcoming brian dirck. [laughter] [applause] it is good to be here. Dirck its good to see old friends. Fred i know you are here somewhere. Meeting lots of wonderful people. You are heroes. You are all heroes to a group of students at Anderson University who are getting tomorrow off because i am here. [laughter] they love the lincoln form. No, dr. Dark, have fun. We will struggle through without you. Any of thenvolved in lincoln form
Our final speaker this morning is brian dirck. Brian is a professor of history at Anderson University in indiana. He is the author of numerous books on Abraham Lincoln including lincoln and davis, imagining america, lincoln the lawyer, lincoln and the constitution, Abraham Lincoln and White America and lincoln and indiana. His subjects probed some of the most interesting and relevant topics in lincolns life and he has won awards for his work including one from the new york civil war roundtable. He recently had the opportunity to travel to seoul, where he addressed the korean Abraham Lincoln society. I know i would like to hear more about that. [laughter] how can i get on the gravy train . [laughter] today, he will talk to us about Abraham Lincoln and death which was published earlier this year. A review at civil war monitor states students of the 16th president will want to add this concise, thoughtprovoking and sensitively written volume to their bookshelves created please join me in
Hopefully you are also a wise group as well. We are all in for a treat this evening with our speaker the turnout is a testimony of what obviously is the speaker and a testament to our patrons the paolucci who gave us this idea of the dual book award to celebrate the best and highest quality conservative book of conservative thought to elevate the debate is in order to continue that tradition that they started. I know they would be very happy this evening because of the Long Association with william f. Buckley, jr. Who was the first Vice President but also very involved with National Review and the conservative party of new york. Also the paolucci were involved with very for many decades. Were also happy to have to or three longtime friends of the paoluccis here. Two of whom are of the Book Selection Committee onetime york state senator and his wife in the long time secretary of the york states and executive director with a council of national literature. I encourage you to take a coupl