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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 some margin of error here in my calculation. But youre looking at the equivalent of about 75 books. [laughter] authored edited coedited. Now, i know that number is skewed somewhat. [laughter] um. Lets just say, i mean, i have contributed two books. White and horrocks have done better than that. Ha but somewhere north of 60 accounts for the holzerwilliams combination. These two, appar ....
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. I welcome everybody. I am honored to be here and hosting this panel or moderating this panel on the election of 1864. We have a terrific group of scholars here. Im going to introduce them very briefly, because theyre very wellknown to you, as members of the foru ....