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this happened a while back in the beautiful capital mountain country of new mexico on the lincoln national forest. it was my time on the carpet and ryan hot, but still nice and peaceful. all the animals in the forest were having a grand old time on the sunshine of spring. there was one little three month old brother in particular who didn't have a care in the world. he was spending his time having fun at all. a growling and up growling and a scratch on. that's right. and bear cub didn't have a care in the world. and somebody, a two legged somebody, got careless. like. that back. when. you know, one or more close round. you know, and. it took several hundred men five days to lick that fire. 17,000 acres of timber were destroyed. timber that could have been used for homes and furniture along with the mills that could have turned it out. a lot of wild animals lost their home. many lost their lives. but there was one little fellow who somehow survived that terrible fire. yes, the little bear cub came through the farm, clinging to what was left of a small tree. new mexico game warden ray bower
this happened a while back in the beautiful capital mountain country of new mexico on the lincoln national forest. it was my time on the carpet and ryan hot, but still nice and peaceful. all the animals in the forest were having a grand old time on the sunshine of spring. there was one little three month old brother in particular who didn't have a care in the world. he was spending his time having fun at all. a growling and up growling and a scratch on. that's right. and bear cub didn't have a...
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there was something else going on for, lincoln, that wasn't immediately apparent in the national press, though he was obscure and had been defeated repeatedly in the political realm. he was well-known and well-liked in illinois during his years working the eighth district court circuit in central illinois. he had been going to small towns and making friends with his funniest and his fairness, his kindness and his intelligence. as a result, david davis could oversee a team of diehard hard supporters ready to work themselves close to exhaustion in for him in chicago. and they could afford to do that because convention was taking place in. state and that kind of personal loyalty made all the difference. now, early in convention, the chief alternative to seward seemed to be this man. a missouri judge named edward bates, a conservative who did not like all this agitation about slavery. his argued he would calm the south and negate all threats of secession. and he had the backing of some powerful, including the most influential newspaper editor in the country horace greeley. unfortunately fo
there was something else going on for, lincoln, that wasn't immediately apparent in the national press, though he was obscure and had been defeated repeatedly in the political realm. he was well-known and well-liked in illinois during his years working the eighth district court circuit in central illinois. he had been going to small towns and making friends with his funniest and his fairness, his kindness and his intelligence. as a result, david davis could oversee a team of diehard hard...
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and the same with lincoln of choruses for his first inaugural he's calling for national democracy. one of the key examples he uses is national democracy for the sake of overcoming the dred scott. so is it just how should we understand that balance of national majorities? but national majorities for the sake of individual liberty or my overstating it a i think you're overstating your respect. i think that there is a significant sense in which majority rule for fort madison and to a similar extent for lincoln, is in fact a right. it's a liberty of a of a people. it the way i might phrase it differently is that they believe a national majority properly seasoned, as lincoln says, frequently changing, which is something madison spoke about as well. with popular sentiment changing with with appropriate checks and balances under those circumstances is a natural a national majority is likelier to protect individual rights. but madison's certainly also says, as is lincoln in the first inaugural, that majority rule is a is madison says the end of the very definition of government and you alw
and the same with lincoln of choruses for his first inaugural he's calling for national democracy. one of the key examples he uses is national democracy for the sake of overcoming the dred scott. so is it just how should we understand that balance of national majorities? but national majorities for the sake of individual liberty or my overstating it a i think you're overstating your respect. i think that there is a significant sense in which majority rule for fort madison and to a similar...
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it was lincoln's showing to the nation, to the world. how thoroughly he was set on destroying great evil that had been taking place for more than a century now the nathaniel gordon story familiar to many in the lincoln world. my friend rod stewart alter has done an excellent book called a hanging captain gordon and at one point i wanted to do history of the slave trade during the war, and i was going to write about gordon and a lot of other people and i eventually captivated by another story of a man named appleton oak smith and appleton oaks. and the story up until now has been virtually unknown. and as i began to research it, i found that it unfolds more. how much lincoln to kill off the slave trade. and so what i'll do with the remainder of my is tell you about captain appleton smith and some of what i tell this story in this book called shipwrecked now appleton oak smith was born into a prominent literary family in portland, maine. his mother was a very important first wave feminist named elizabeth oak smith, and she was prominent wr
it was lincoln's showing to the nation, to the world. how thoroughly he was set on destroying great evil that had been taking place for more than a century now the nathaniel gordon story familiar to many in the lincoln world. my friend rod stewart alter has done an excellent book called a hanging captain gordon and at one point i wanted to do history of the slave trade during the war, and i was going to write about gordon and a lot of other people and i eventually captivated by another story of...
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>>oh, incredibly. 25 to 1. >> reporter: but surrendering sumpter, lincoln wrote, would be our national destruction consummated. for three months, the tense standoff persisted. >> major anderson was frustrated with the communication from washington? >> very. he was left here to determine the fate of america. >> reporter: at 4:30 a.m. on april 12th, 1861, confederate guns opened fire. over two days, more than 3,300 shells and balls would rain across the harbor. how badly did they damage the fort. >> in the course of the attack, they never breached the walls. >> reporter: fire ultimately forced major anderson so surrender. remarkably, no one died in the bombardment. but 750,000 americans would be killed before the civil war ended in 1865. ♪ four years to the day after sumpter fell, anderson, by then a retired general, returned to raise the american flag over the fort. >> the north greeted him with open arms. he was an absolute hero. >> reporter: that night, in washington, president lincoln was assassinated. >> i need everyone to line up right here. >> reporter: visitors to the fort toda
>>oh, incredibly. 25 to 1. >> reporter: but surrendering sumpter, lincoln wrote, would be our national destruction consummated. for three months, the tense standoff persisted. >> major anderson was frustrated with the communication from washington? >> very. he was left here to determine the fate of america. >> reporter: at 4:30 a.m. on april 12th, 1861, confederate guns opened fire. over two days, more than 3,300 shells and balls would rain across the harbor. how...
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these taiwan lincoln's visit, began just as washington promised, more than a $1000000.00 of ministry aid for it's in the pacific. bought knows with taiwan, chief among them badging news, taiwan as its own to 3 and has threatened to seize it by force. the douglas east to assure correspondent james j to looks at the impact of the funding and lincoln's visit on taiwan. we don't walk away from our allies, we stand with him. it's back is described it as an inflection point in history. the, the world us president joe biden, this week assign since a lot of phone minute tree. a package was more than 95000000 us store that motion more than a 1000000000, if that is a marks for washington's in the pacific pond. this, it includes on supports in front of military financing for taiwan. the self for democracy, the china claims has its own. on the same day, the us secretary of state, america's top tips, not just me bring can visits china based on this thing, not included on the agenda page, things, ministry threats to tie one percent badging. make a what it thoughts about the us funding for taiwan i
these taiwan lincoln's visit, began just as washington promised, more than a $1000000.00 of ministry aid for it's in the pacific. bought knows with taiwan, chief among them badging news, taiwan as its own to 3 and has threatened to seize it by force. the douglas east to assure correspondent james j to looks at the impact of the funding and lincoln's visit on taiwan. we don't walk away from our allies, we stand with him. it's back is described it as an inflection point in history. the, the world...
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lincoln did so national academy of sciences. president carter turned to them and said the nation that the jasons just freak me out. is this going to happen. and i just. i was i wasn't texting during the the presentations. i just did. i wanted to read this because this is the reason i did the book and then i'll go to the title and i've been a very quick, sideways way in the second run out the clock. what's what's okay. so no, that's okay you know i'll leave the title enigmatic then so that the group that met in is this is 45 years ago in july of 1979. and they met at the cape cod research, the national academy of sciences. i imagine a very lovely place to work. the charney panel, a guy named jules charney, who is a climate change skeptic, was leading the panel. the charney panel had taken care find. this is from their report. quote, unvarnished, unbiased viewpoints. this important and much studied issue. they reported the conclusions of this brief but intense investigation and may be comforting to scientists but disturbing to pol
lincoln did so national academy of sciences. president carter turned to them and said the nation that the jasons just freak me out. is this going to happen. and i just. i was i wasn't texting during the the presentations. i just did. i wanted to read this because this is the reason i did the book and then i'll go to the title and i've been a very quick, sideways way in the second run out the clock. what's what's okay. so no, that's okay you know i'll leave the title enigmatic then so that the...
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gathered on the road to capture lincoln, lincoln attended an event outside, the national hotel john wilkes booth own hotel. so lincoln was speaking to soldiers from boots hotel while they were waiting on the road to capture her when he was going to a remote performance of a military play at campbell hospital and that they feared that their plot had been discovered. so they rushed back to mary surratt house tavern in washington, d.c. her boardinghouse, and they threw their weapons on the bed and they were disconsolate. i thought it was all over. but john surratt, on the night of the assassination was not here or in washington. he was in canada. he was in new york and then canada on a mission to free confederate prisoners from elmira prison in new york. so john surratt was not present at all, but he was a confederate operative, a loyalist, and a friend of john wilkes booth. and he was part of black booth's original plan to kidnap the president. so john wilkes booth and his coconspirator, david herold, make it here. you mentioned john wilkes booth injuring himself in that dive out of t
gathered on the road to capture lincoln, lincoln attended an event outside, the national hotel john wilkes booth own hotel. so lincoln was speaking to soldiers from boots hotel while they were waiting on the road to capture her when he was going to a remote performance of a military play at campbell hospital and that they feared that their plot had been discovered. so they rushed back to mary surratt house tavern in washington, d.c. her boardinghouse, and they threw their weapons on the bed and...
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his book, giants the parallel lives of frederick douglass and abraham lincoln, was a national bestseller. this introduction could go on much, much longer, but it stops. there because it is a pleasure for me to welcome manisha sinha back to a to welcome john stauffer here for conversation and now over to manisha. thank you, scott, for that very generous introduction and i thank everyone who showed up here in the middle of the week to help me launch this book. i'd really like to begin by thanking all the staff at the american antiquarian society as scott just mentioned, i did much of my research for this book here in the archives and the whole world was shut down because of the pandemic. i had the privilege of being able to research this book, so i'm extremely grateful to the people at the american antiquarian society, and i think it's only appropriate that i'm launching this book here today. i thank nan will return for inviting me to do this program and i thank my good friend who in my opinion. is one of the best historians and literary scholars of 19th century america today. and for him
his book, giants the parallel lives of frederick douglass and abraham lincoln, was a national bestseller. this introduction could go on much, much longer, but it stops. there because it is a pleasure for me to welcome manisha sinha back to a to welcome john stauffer here for conversation and now over to manisha. thank you, scott, for that very generous introduction and i thank everyone who showed up here in the middle of the week to help me launch this book. i'd really like to begin by thanking...
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lincoln decided he had to do something, but he had to prepare the nation for emancipation. northerners were not keen on emancipation because they were fearful that hordes of formerly enslaved people would descend on them and would take jobs and all of the rest. and so he invites this delegation consists of why a five black leaders in the community and he tells them to come to the white house they there listening to him there's not a dialog between the president and the he's telling them why they need to leave the country and he's saying to them that because of their presence in country, the war has started. so he's blaming black people as as the cause, the war. and so he tells men that even if they are freed, even when get their freedom, if they ever get they are still not going to be treated fairly. and they're you know, he gives them examples of that. and so he encourages them to go back. the african-american community, these are people from d.c. he tells them to go back to their community and try to convince their neighbors and friends that it would be in their best inte
lincoln decided he had to do something, but he had to prepare the nation for emancipation. northerners were not keen on emancipation because they were fearful that hordes of formerly enslaved people would descend on them and would take jobs and all of the rest. and so he invites this delegation consists of why a five black leaders in the community and he tells them to come to the white house they there listening to him there's not a dialog between the president and the he's telling them why...
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the national mall. dave laval. >> this comes as israel is pulling back troops from gaza, but only to send them north towards lebanon. and tonight, iran is preparing to strike back. >> after an embassy was destroyed by israel this week. ron told israel that now none of its embassies are safe in response, president benjamin netanyahu says israel will do whatever it takes to defend itself. that update on the cleanup of the baltimore bridge today. crews started removing containers and the cargo ship that struck the bridge. crews are removing those containers to allow access to the part of the francis scott key bridge that fell on top of the ship this weekend. crews cleared wreckage from the site to give more container ships, port access crews will continue removing containers this week. if weather permits. 6 construction workers were killed when this cargo ship slammed into the bridge, the bodies of 3 workers have been recovered. tesla set to go on trial this week in san jose over the safety of its electric
the national mall. dave laval. >> this comes as israel is pulling back troops from gaza, but only to send them north towards lebanon. and tonight, iran is preparing to strike back. >> after an embassy was destroyed by israel this week. ron told israel that now none of its embassies are safe in response, president benjamin netanyahu says israel will do whatever it takes to defend itself. that update on the cleanup of the baltimore bridge today. crews started removing containers and...
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of our angel of the nation. and lincoln must have thought, well, know you're a smart man, but let me try it this way. the chords of memory from every battlefield, patriot grave to every heart and hearthstone all over this broad land will yet swell the chorus of the union, when again touched. surely they will be by the better angels of our nature. now, when lincoln finished the gettysburg address, the story is told. i can't vouch to say it's completely true that a woman said to william seward, who was there, sir, you must have write that address. and he said back to her, no, madam. only abraham lincoln could have written that address. excellent. by way, speaking of reading aloud on the morning, as the recollection went as he attended to his toilet, which i believe means he was getting dressed and shave. abraham lincoln subjected his son to a complete oral of the first inaugural address, so he was still practicing it, not by reading it to himself, but in fact by reading it aloud to his oldest son. harold did did p
of our angel of the nation. and lincoln must have thought, well, know you're a smart man, but let me try it this way. the chords of memory from every battlefield, patriot grave to every heart and hearthstone all over this broad land will yet swell the chorus of the union, when again touched. surely they will be by the better angels of our nature. now, when lincoln finished the gettysburg address, the story is told. i can't vouch to say it's completely true that a woman said to william seward,...
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what does have the elegance of lincoln? but reagan has a particular for narrative and, a particular gift for describing a nation that includes all of us. i think that's a lot important than the eloquence find in the kennedy inaugural, at least reassure our allies and warn our enemies. we were at a time of grave danger and the cold war and he spoke directly. our allies in europe, japan, australia, around the world to those neighbors and allies who share our freedom. we will strengthen our historic ties and assure them of our and firm commitment. we will match loyalty with loyalty. there's a phrase in there i want to highlight to those neighbors and allies. share our freedom. you for reagan that it's values that are always most important and the values of our allies that they believed in democracy too. he spoke to the soviets as potential adversaries and first tried to lower the tensions. he said they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the american people. he then went on to add, we won't negotiate for i
what does have the elegance of lincoln? but reagan has a particular for narrative and, a particular gift for describing a nation that includes all of us. i think that's a lot important than the eloquence find in the kennedy inaugural, at least reassure our allies and warn our enemies. we were at a time of grave danger and the cold war and he spoke directly. our allies in europe, japan, australia, around the world to those neighbors and allies who share our freedom. we will strengthen our...