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miami in ohio. where he teaches courses on abraham lincoln, the civil war and modern europe. he earned his hpd in 1983 from brown university. he s devoted much of his career to studying the 16th president of the united states. he s also the author of a number of books, his first two books are on european history. one is on the paris commune. and the other is on the trifus affairs. a very diverse intellectual. he can only write between 1861 and 1865. martin is able to go into other fields and to succeed in doing so. in 2014 martin earned the distinguished lincoln prize, the lincoln prize as many of you know, as sponsored by the guildner learnman institute. he received that for writing the gettysburg address. writing the gettysburg address is a superb book, a book that takes readers on lincoln s journey, to gettysburg and again, i don t want to give away too much of martin s talk. but i ll say it reveals how lincoln s intellectual process, that it kept going. he was revis ....
was given at the dedication of a national cemetery for soldiers killed during the civil war battle. this hour-long talk was part of a conference hosted by the gettysburg college civil war institute. our first speaker to kick off our conference is martin johnson. he is an associate professor of history at university of miami in ohio, where he teaches courses on abraham lincoln, the civil war, and modern europe. he earned his ph.d in 1993 from brown university. he has devoted much of his career to studying the 16th president of the united states. he is also the author of a number of books. in fact his first two books are on european history. one is on the paris commune. and the other is on the triefis affairs. very diverse intellectual interest. unlike most of us, can only right between 1861 and 1865. martin certainly is able to go into other fields and to succeed in doing so. in 2014, martin earned the distinguished lincoln prize, lincoln prize as many of you know, is ....
with that, i m going to throw it over to our interviewer, elizabeth taylor, the literary editor at large for the chicago tribune. [applause] hi. thank you. are these mics on? great. you can hear me? thank you so much for coming out. this is a wonderful turnout for a wonderful book, and we re delighted to be here. i ve actually in this chair, year ago, talking about the first volume of sidney blumenthal s four to be four volumes on lincoln, and i m really excite it excited about this one. i loved that one and this is even norwich. wrestling with the angel. . so, like to set the stage. begins in march 1849. lincoln returns to springfield to practice law. 1849. and then 1856, no-nothing party, nominates bill moore for president, national convention for the republican party. we have that blackdrop. what s the title about? host: wrestling with his angel is a title i took from the story of jacob in the bible in the bible, jacob wrestles through a long night, p ....
peanuts, and tosses them out to her students. she has a mean right arm. we have ordered boxes of heart attack hard tack. she will be speaking on grant and the meeting of appomattox. [applause] dr. waugh: thank you, peter for the hilarious introduction. i m not a right-hander. if i threw hard tack at you, it would be painful. well, good morning. it is delightful to be here. i have not been at the conference for a long time at the civil war institute. i m happy to be back. i love gettysburg. i have been here many many times . when i say good morning i mean good morning because it is about 5:30 in the morning for me coming from los angeles. i think that will get through this. i do want to say that while i published the book on grant, i have not finished with him yet. i became fascinated by the surrenders that he conducted during the war and really look at surrenders as a way to understand the nature of this war as i have done in my title, and what it meant for reconstruc ....
some who don t receive the care they need to get washed, even some who ve fallen and not been found for days. a&e staff recognise the problems too. i think the pressures on the nhs, and especially in emergency care, are particularly intense at the moment. but what is more concerning is the number of patients who have been managed within four hours, and then the delays to admission into the hospital bed base, which unfortunately are very, very significant, and our staff are working under some pretty intolerable conditions at times trying to manage. and sometimes they just can t manage. figures from nhs england show that overflowing a&e departments had to close their doors to new patients more than 140 times over the last month. compare that with the same month in 2015 it s up more than 60%. the suspicion is that it s a combination of the cuts that we ve seen in social care, in community services run by the nhs, and very heavy pressure in general practice. so is the str ....