Next, the panel of scholars talks about Abraham Lincolns friendships both before and after he became president. This was part of the annual lincoln symposium in gettysburg, pennsylvania. Its just under an hour. Welcome to the Lincoln Forum and to a special Panel Discussion on lincolns friends. Lets start, if we can, with a lincoln quote because on todays topic, as with most subjects, Abraham Lincoln expressed himself better than almost anyone, and as he said in 1849, the better part of ones life consists of his friendships. Well, we want to look today at what, if anything, he meant by that. How sincere he was or how well he understood his own commitment to and concept of friendship. And i have a group of very accomplished friends to explore that topic with me. Chuck strozier who has spoken at the Lincoln Forum. Who brings his experience as a psycho analyst, a psychobiographer, a one time resident of springfield. Which i moon he knows about lincoln springfield, not one must be a psychoa
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] good morning. ,ur next speaker is dr. Alan professor of the civil war era. He is the author of Abraham Lincoln, redeemer president. Lincoln and douglas, the debate that defined america. Gettysburg, the last invasion was a bestseller. Three of those four books earned the lincoln prize. They are worth your attention. His most recent publication is redeeming the great emancipator. It was the lectures for the w. E. B. Dubois. It considers what lincolns reputation as the great emancipator indicates about how americans have dealt with race over the many years since the end of the civil war. His argument is simple. Do not view lincoln is the great emancipator would signify that we as americans are slipping in our ability to see each other as fellow americans. Lincoln could be the glue that holds us together on race as well as other issues. The key to unders
But she has the beads of the garnet wound around her fingers. Its a lovely portrait. Youll see as we go through the galleries that many times the husband and wife were painted or children, son and daughterinlaw were painted. These were family portraits or efforts to portray the whole family. I think they would have been the only way of recording a likeness because photography wasnt available yet. So they were there and probably hung in homes unless they were in some cases commissioned for political like for a state house or Something Like that, but these are personal that were looking. Copley lived on beacon hill in boston. Hed had a quite lucrative business as a portrait painter. This is one of the last ones actually, i do remember that he painted her husband as well, mr. Adam babcock. These paintings were done in 1774, which were some of the last ones copley painted before he left boston for europe. He had a lucrative practice. 1774, he knew torreys and he knew patriots. He didnt see
Massachusetts merchant and political figure. He was 82 when this was painted. Copleys shown him just as he was. Youll notice the way hes painted the face and the hands is a little different. This is 12 years later. Copleys changed his technique, so the hands are painted with al little bit more fluid paint and in the face as well. Its easier to show the details, so copley is changing and developing as he goes along through his career in boston. Il so copleys portraits of men po show you these very substantial realistic figures that look ial comfortable in their setting an you have a sense that they had, these two men especially, that , theyve had successful lives and theyre in a good place. His paintings of women sometimee are just so ravishingly beautiful in their attention to fabric and texture and the o beauty of the skin, like this portrait of Anne Fairchild bowler. Ms. Metcalfe bowler. This was painted in 1763, so about the same time he was proac painting epes sergeant, but its a t
The only filter is what we might bring to them. If we look carefully and try to understand them, i think theyre a great source for understanding who the people were and what life was like at that time. This was the first of a twopart look at american hor traits at the National Gallery of art. You can view this and all other American History tv programs at our website, cspan. Org history. Join American History tv on saturday, november 7th for tours and live interviews from the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans. Well explore the u. S. S. Tang submarine experience, the road to berlin, and the africanamerican story. And well take your questions for historians joining us from new orleans throughout the day. World war ii 70 years later live from the National World War Ii Museum saturday, november 7th beginning at 11 00 a. M. Eastern here on American History tv on cspan 3. Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Located on the National M