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Life and times. This is just over an hour. Im john eleff, president of the Lincoln Group of the District Of Columbia. The Lincoln Group has existed since the 1930s to honor the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. And this year we have a special opportunity to hear from an extraordinary speaker. And in introducing him i would like to repeat something that he said at the First National Republican Convention that he attended as a young man in 1884. He was part of a reform wing of the Republican Party, and they had an insurgent candidate to be temporary chair of the convention, taking on the candi...

Honor Taylor Branch. Taylor is best known for his trillage of the Civil Rights Movement, america in the king years, the first volume parting the waters won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. Two successive volumes and still remain essential text to any understanding of the role that Martin Luther king played in transforming our nation. Along the way, taylor won an in addition to the pults administer prize and many other prizes. I think he would agree that this extraordinary career really began in 1970 when he took a very low paid job with Charlie Peters, the legendary founder and editor of the Washin...

Prof. Kastor i want to begin today by talking about the International Exposition of arts manufacturers and products of the soil and mind. You all want to go to that, dont you . Do any of you know what this actually was . It was also referred to as the centennial International Exposition. It was held in philadelphia from may to november 1876. It was supposed to celebrate the centennial of american independence, and ideally it was supposed to celebrate the reunion of the nation following the civil war, which was really the first worlds fair. But in the midst of the celebration, there was terribl...

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