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Know before you go. A title that just did not sing for some reason. [laughter] i want to thank our longsuffering panelists for bearing with me as i arrived at a workable concept and title. I didave a clear idea have a clear idea what i wanted the symposium to be. A blend of wellknown beakers. Blended with excellent lesserknown speakers who you should want to know well and will want to know well and have them speak about their Exciting New Research and their contributions to civil war scholarship. I stumbled on a title and a 2020. Sing the year way of providing hindsight and insight into the st...

Further. In 1889, they established the Illinois State Historical Library and since that time we have been collecting all the treasures that help illustrate the wonderful past of illinois. As you might imagine, the illinois story is not complete without a really close look at the life of Abraham Lincoln. In the lincoln collection we have 52,000 uses the cover every aspect of his life. The collection would include about 18,000 autographs written about Abraham Lincoln. He is the most written about american ever, which is quite staggering. On any given day a visitor to the museum is able to see ab...

Controversial, emotional, and something that we need to talk about. And from time to time when ive done this panel with friends and colleagues, ive called it on or off their pedestals. The debate over statues, memorials, memory and meaning. And i discussed this topic maybe twice or three times with edna medford and it is evolving even between us as we proceed over a year and a half. A and its a pleasure to welcome not only edna medford, but also liz varon and Gary Gallagher to join the discussion. Memorials in 22 states and the district of columbia, 110 have him and been removed in the past fe...

Good evening. Welcome and thank you so much for being here. My name is kevin butterfield, director of the library at mountvernon its my pleasure to invite you , to welcome you, not to welcome you because youve already come, welcome you to our first michelle lecture. Within days of leaving the presidency of the United States toward washington was entertained at gatsbys tavern in alexandria. Posted by the mayor, and as large a company to partake as we have ever seenin this town on any occasion , someone n reported. Its a remarkable moment in march 1797 for many reasons to not least of which was ...

Remarkable moment in 1797 for many reasons not least of which that the group offered toast to the constitution, the president and the Vice President and to the congress and then to our illustrious neighbor. He truly had retired from Public Service. His words and response are words that i think of often. I can entertain no doubt of it being so if all of us act the part of good citizens. He included himself in that occasion. He too was now a citizen. But he was a a citizen of that came of both rights and duties, particularly in the next sentence say, do i need to act to maintain to constitution ...