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Inauguration. She comes back and shes disappointed in lincoln. By the 1865 inaugural, shes singing his praises. Shes one of the most eloquent of all and intelligent and thoughtful of all the abolitionists, male and female. Thats a good point. Thanks for pointing that out. I thank you for your attention. This weekend, we continue our fourday book tv and American History tv programming. Saturday at 10 00 eastern on book tvs afterwards, the history of the Birth Control pill and sunday at 11 00, bill nye the science guy. And an American History tv on cspan 3, saturday night, just before 9 00, Geor...

The normal way to start off a panel is to let each of the panelists have an opportunity to comment on what they have heard each other say. Before we go to general questions, does anybody want to comment on anybody elses talk before we turn to the questions from the audience . Well, its, i think, pretty clear from johns talk that john and i have a little bit of a different take on a couple of things. But here is one of the things that i will argue. Sure. I dont think that the soldiers becoming republicans or how they voted is hol wholly to down. I think its more of a bottom up experience. Sheer...

Was sitting up on the hill and when he saw that happen, he knew he had lost the battle. Without the navy, without the ships to take his army south, there was no point in going on any longer. And so he recalled the army, and the next day they left. And they went back to canada. And the battle was over. He planned to come and fight again in the spring, but, of course, the treaty happened in between and the soldiers, the red coated soldiers were never seen again here in the United States. Abraham lincoln won reelection over Union General George Mcclellan in 1864 with more than 70 of the soldier v...

Lectured throughout the country. Lincolns era and the politics of the era, and im sure this morning youre going to enjoy her talk. We heard copperheads referenced a lot this morning and this is the expert. Having heard her talk on the subject several years ago, i know youre going to find this a very interesting and useful subject. So ill turn this over to jennifer. [applause] good morning. Thank you very much for coming out, and id like to thank the lincoln group, and karen needles for inviting me today. Its always a pleasure to be in d. C. So, today im going to be talking about the summer of ...

In richmond. Both were well received. And the biography won many awards. Then her next book was on disunion which was about the whole debate about the discussion of strategizing about possible breakup of the union dating from 1789 onwards. Most recently her book is on victory and defeat and freedom at the end of the civil war. That has already won a number of prizes, including the library of virginia eye ward. Professor baron also has been speaking widely, including the lincoln bicentennial in springfield and the Gettysburg Civil War Institute and also on cspan, book tv. So now it is my great ...