of lincoln's hair. not for himself, but for mary jane wells, the wife of the secretary of the navy, one of mary lincoln's few close friends in washington. and he sealed it in an envelope, wrote her name on it and later mrs. wells framed the lock of hair with dried flowers that add dourned lincoln's coffin at the white house funeral. that was the first blood relic taken from abraham lincoln in this room by the secretary of war. then, it was time to bring lincoln home to the white house. the secretary of war sent for what was needed to convey the body of a dead president home to the white house. soldiers were sent. and they returned from a military shop, a few blocks away, carrying a rectangular, plain pine box. a rifle crate with a screwtop lid. when those soldiers rounded the corner with that box, the crowd moaned. they knew that the president had died. they saw the cabinet members leaving, they knew, but the sight of that coffin was the real refutation of their hopes that lincoln would live. so that co

gurley lincoln's minister doctor. will you speak? he said a prayer for lincoln. and then edwin stanton pronounced words that really were immortal and remembered wrong for the last 150 years. the secretary of war stood in this room and looked at abraham lincoln's body and said now he belongs to the angels. we remember today as now he belongs to the ages. but extensive research has revealed. that it's best to remembered by the stenographer tanner who's pencil broke? his only lead pencil broke as he was writing down. what was said in this room, but he remembered that stanton said angels plus it's characteristic with stanton's temperament how we viewed his faith how we viewed the world. he wouldn't have said something as profound is now he belongs to the ages. i have no doubt that in this room stanton said now he belongs to the angels. people filtered out of the room one by one. stanton remained here alone with the president and at that point he took a small scissors or razor and he approached lincoln's body. and he cut off a lock of lincoln's hair. not for himself,

lincoln resumed the stand. he acknowledged he was young but he said his critics remember i am older in years that i am in the tricks and trades of politicians. i desire to live and i desire a place of distinction but i would rather die now then, like the gentleman, live to see the day i would change my politics for an office worth $3000 a year then feel compelled to erect a lightning rod to protect a guilty conscience from an offended god. [laughter] during the same phase of life, lincoln learned a painful lesson that self-indulgent, aggressive humor could injure its author as well as its target. in september of 1842, he wrote for a journal. a satire ridiculing 36-year-old james shields, the state auditor. he was an impetuous man with a short fuse. he had good reason to freight at the insult with its sexual assault on his character. lincoln reluctantly accepted the challenge of a duel. we cannot be sure how he intended the dark humor in his selection of weapons. cavalry broad swords with the largest of size. ei

lincoln. it was as characteristic of him as his stovepipe hat, but unlike his hat, it was an intrinsic element of the man, a way of life, a habit of mind. it expressed his essential humanity, his sense of proportion, his understanding of human foibles. what prompted my research and my inquiry was a remark lincoln made to david ross locke. locke was a young ohio newspaper man and merciless satirest of the peace democrats, the copper heads. locke's satire centered on a copperhead grotesque. petroleum v. nasby. a pastor of a pro-slavery church, he was a drunken, greedy, sordid, lying racist. locke called him a nickel plated son of a bitch. the v stood for vesuvius. an allusion to his bigoted and racist eruptions on the issues of the day which were syndicated in union newspapers. locke's use of the appalling nasby to ridicule disloyal opponents of the administration delighted lincoln. the nasby papers were his constant companion. the pamphlet copy in the library of congress has singe marks made by

abraham lincoln was there. and he spoke.put he apologized for being an inter loper as he put if and cast himself as a subject of t a sto about a man and i quote with ro features theth ladies could not call handsome. riding through the woods he met a lady on horseback, he waited n for her to pass, but instead, she stopped and scrutinized him before saying, wow, for land's sake, you are the homeliest man i ever saw. yes, ma'am, but i can't help it, he replied. no, i suppose not said the ladyn but youce the might stay at hom. once the editors had stopped --s laughing, lincoln said he felt that with propriety, he might t home.tayed atat well, the story is, i chose it, because it's particularly apt. i was scheduled to speak here last year at the symposium, but when it came to it, i stayed ata home. and now, i may possibly be the ugliest man you've ever seen, trough i certainly hope not. but that wasn't why i stayed away. i simply wasn't well enough to travel. so i'm especially grateful to president john white, and t

gurley lincoln's minister doctor. will you speak? he said a prayer for lincoln. and then edwin stanton pronounced words that really were immortal and remembered wrong for the last 150 years. the secretary of war stood in this room and looked at abraham lincoln's body and said now he belongs to the angels. we remember today as now he belongs to the ages. but extensive research has revealed. that it's best to remembered by the stenographer tanner who's pencil broke? his only lead pencil broke as he was writing down. what was said in this room, but he remembered that stanton said angels plus it's characteristic with stanton's temperament how we viewed his faith how we viewed the world. he wouldn't have said something as profound is now he belongs to the ages. i have no doubt that in this room. stanton said now he belongs to the angels. people filtered out of the room one by one. stanton remained here alone with the president and at that point he took a small scissors or razor and he approached lincoln's body. and he cut off a lock of lincoln's hair. not for himself,

his mother mary todd lincoln certainly was mary todd lincoln is a very controversial and fascinating figure and she plays an important part in our book. of course, she had already suffered the loss of her beloved son willie in 1862. she was a woman of some nervous temperament, very brilliant woman in my opinion passionate woman devoted to her husband. and prone to emotional excess problematical figure we were talking about it earlier rod and i different scholars have different takes on her, but she said in an interview later in her life. she said that that last day april 14th. she had never seen her husband in the presidency look so happy. that the weight of the war was lifting from his shoulders that even suggested they go on a carriage ride together just the two of them very rare event for them. and they had talked about their future together what they would do after the war after the presidency. there was a sense of of relief. and he had even said to her mary we must not be as miserable as we've been between the war and the loss of willy. we've been both been very miserable. we ne

lincoln douglas debates lincoln makes a tour through ohio. he gives five speeches in ohio follows it up with two in, indiana. four in wisconsin seven in kansas territory and so by the time he goes out to new york city cooper union is part of this tour and if you step back and look at it, it's pretty obvious. what's going on here? remember what i said between the 1854 and a summer of 1859 160 speeches in those five years only one of them had been given outside the state of illinois now from september of 1859 to march of 1860 in that six month period 30 speeches in eight states. is that a coincidence? that's somebody running for president and he's doing it under the radar and it's working beautifully. he gets coast to coast coverage of his speeches north and south east and west more than any lincoln douglas debate and he's doing it without having to share the stage with the little giant who had counterpunched him. so beautifully to win that senate race in 1858. so the cooper union speech is part of that. 30 speech tour. he's very the reason why

lincoln was a friend of mine, and i am no abraham lincoln. >> lincoln said hardy look relieves you. again, we are in the middle of a pandemic, the horrors of 9/11, how do you fire up a tragic event like that? >> i think you have to keep in mind though to that lincoln himself lived through the most traumatic period in our history as a country, as a nation. and the attempt to break up the union, the civil war, based on slavery and life was much more difficult back in those days. in terms of survival itself, there wasn't a mcdonald's or starbucks at every block in those days. so solves arrival was different. and this goes more to the point in terms of, it's not so much humor, but using wet, that lincoln did, in terms of slavery when he said, whenever i hear anyone arguing for slavery, i feel a strong impulse to see him tried on him personally. it's spoke directly to that issue as to what the morality of it was without having to go through a long dissertation of it. and so, the times are tough today and i recognize that, but it is not as bad as the civil war, it's not as bad as -- even

lincoln. notable among them, with charity for all: lincoln and the restoration of the union. winner of the 1998 lincoln prize. lincoln's last months, which came out in 2004 and received our own institute's book award. lincoln's rise to the presidency, which was awarded the henry adams prize by the society for history and the federal government. lincoln and the border states, 2011, which was co-winner of the lincoln prize, and his latest book, lincoln and congress, which treats the sometimes contentious, sometimes cooperative relationship between lincoln and capitol hill, although perhaps more cooperative than we sometimes think. lincoln, according to bill's work, really only had one important veto to deliver during his time as president. i could tell you that bill writes with intelligence, great insight, solid judgment, good humor, and popular appeal. bill has an active web presence, and if you enter his name, he comes up in a number of predictable categories for, you know, for his affiliation

and these are lincoln this is not lincoln at his finest lincoln replied quote. i expect to let the friends of george b mcclellan managed their side of this contest in their own way and i will manage my side of it in my way. endemic the democrats who met with lincoln from tennessee. they said that this undignified and rude response from our course despite. was was an exhibition exhibition of party spite and petulance? about a week later lincoln sent them a letter where he somewhat disingenuously said i don't have any control over what andrew johnson does in his state, of course lincoln had appointed a military governor, but never mind. oh one other controversy i forgot about so i told you about the soldiers votes and how soldiers how four states allowed soldiers to mail their ballots back home. this led to a really big controversy with new york soldiers. new york had state agents that worked in different cities that would care for the wants of soldiers. and the state agents in baltimore and washington dc were caught forging soldiers ballots creating just fake nam

place for the 1998 lincoln prize, lincoln's last months which came out in 2004 and received our own institutes book award. lincoln's rise to the presidency, which was awarded the henry adams prized by the society where history and the federal government, lincoln at the border states, 2011, which was co-winners of the lincoln price, and his latest book, lincoln and congress, which treats the sometimes contentious, sometimes cooperative relationship between lincoln and capitol hill, although perhaps more cooperative then we sometimes think. lincoln, according to bill only had one important veto to deliver during his time as president. i could tell you that bill writes with intelligence, great insight, solid judgment, good humor and popular appeal. bill has -- if you enter his name he comes up on a number of predictable categories for his affiliations, for himself. as well as these three, which i find interesting. historians of the american civil war. american military historians will turn him up. finally, when category called living people will turn him up. i am so glad bill is alive

lincoln. the life of john wilkes booth is a must read, not only for the life of this assassin, but also for the history of american theater during the 19th century. abraham lincoln, en route to washington in february 1861 to become president, drafted the following words regarding his perspective relationship with congress. by the constitution, the executive may recommend measures which he may think proper, and he may veto those measures he thinks improper. and it is supposed he may add to these certain indirect influences to effect the action of congress. however, my political education he met, stronger times against a free use of any of these means by the executive to control the legislation of the country. as a rule, i think it's better that congress should originate as well as perfect its measures without external bias. former wiigs, who were a majority in lincoln's republican party and would be in congress after the southern states left the union, had a similar political education. lincoln

lincoln spoke there. he apologized for being an interloper, as he put it, and cast himself as the subject of a story about a man, and i quote, with features the ladies could not call handsome. riding through the woods, he met a lady on horseback. he waited for her to past, but instead she stopped and scrutinized him before saying, you are the homeliest man i ever saw. yes, madam, but i can't help it he replied. i suppose not, said the lady. but you might stay at home. [laughs] [laughs] once the editors had stopped laughing, lincoln said he felt with propriety he might have stayed at home. i chose that story because it's particularly apt. i was asked to speak here last year at the symposium. when it came to, it i stayed at home. and now i may possibly be the ugliest man you have ever seen, though i certainly hope not, but that was not why i stayed away. i am especially grateful to president john white and the executive committee of the abraham lincoln institute for extending the invitation a second time. i

lincoln is an insider. he is trying to say this is going to be harder than you think it is because of politics involved, institutions involved. so the play was commissioned via the new center for education of leadership that was going to open across the street. i hadn't ridden a couple things for the theater, a couple short things. one destiny, some of them you may know. so i got an email in the fall of 2010. asking if i would be interested in writing a play for 2012. the thing you need to realize is that commissions often come with parameters. and there are things the theater wants you to do when you write the play. it's almost like an assignment. so, one destiny, lincoln assassination, half hour, two actors, go. so i have been to find my assignment for this play. the original email, we would like it to be an exploration of leadership, we would like it to focus on lincoln, three to five characters, simple set. we would like one of the characters to be african american a possible. and we go into rehearsal i

and then he signed it a, lincoln. here's what lincoln is saying. the democrats have not yet had their convention. he does not know who the democratic nominee will be, though he pretty much has a hunch it will be george mcclellan, a union general. lincoln saying it so clear that i am going to lose the selection , that i'm going to have to work with the president elect, whoever that may be, to save the nation between november 8, when the election is held, and march 4, 18 65 at the next inauguration. he says, because whatever happens after the inauguration, the new president is not going to be able to save the country. so i've gotta sacrifice my pride and work with the person who defeated me in order to save the union. he has his whole cabinet sign this and they don't know what they are signing, but he's essentially getting them to pledge to work with him and to work with their political enemy. around this same time, lincoln calls frederick douglass, the great abolitionist, to come to the white house to have a meeting. in lincoln says to him, douglas,

the last words of lincoln again. it's it's always dangerous to say the last of the first or the greatest, but what we what we think maybe his last words were were turning to his wife and saying well, he put his arm around her at one point. and his wife looked at him and said what will mrs. harris think of you? of us, you know. with your arm around me. and he said looked at her and said she won't think a thing. thank you very much. from virginia beach weeknights this month. we're featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span 3 on wednesday night. we look at vietnam war oral histories clyde romero served as a pilot during the vietnam war in our first interview. he recalls is first tour as a us army helicopter scout pilot and describes what it was like to be shot down. and he discusses the high risk associated with the job and remember some of his fellow pilots who didn't come back watch wednesday beginning at 8pm eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-

i mean, lincoln was -- i'm no lincoln. lincoln was a friend of mine and i'm no abraham lincoln. >> lincoln said a hearty laugh -- but that anticipated a question. we're in the middle of a pandemic. you know, you keep -- the horrors of 9/11. i mean, how do you fire up after a tragic event be like that? it's pretty tough. >> i think you have to keep in mind, though, too that lincoln himself lived through the most traumatic period in our history as a country, as a nation. the attempt to break up the union, the civil war. and based on slavery. and life was much more difficult back in those days. you know, in terms of survival itself. there wasn't a mcdonald's on every block or starbucks every block in those days. so, self-survival was different. but, you know, and this goes more to the point of it's not so much humor but using wit that lincoln did in terms of slavery when he said, whenever i hear anyone arguing for slavery, i feel the impulse to see it tried on him personally. it spoke directly to that issue as to what the imm

these two men -- abraham lincoln. these two men were born in the first decade of the 18th century, and it was a time when the attitude towards slavery had not quite slavery. a lot of people kind of thought slavery was wrong and unfortunate, but not at the top of priorities of things that needed to be removed. a lot of people looked at slavery as a necessary evil. thomas jefferson took that view, george washington, henry clay later of kentucky. but, so the story of john brown and abraham lincoln is in part how they came to their views about a slavery. now, before the story ends john brown is probably the most vehemently or quite possibly the most violently opposed to slavery person in the united states, and he literally wages war against slavery. abraham lincoln is equally opposed to slavery, but he has a very different view on how slavery should be combated. and so how they position and the difference, thediverging views they take, okay, we agree slavery is wrong, what are you going to do about it, that's the differen

lincoln told stories. he told jokes but he realized that in politics, when you tell jokes, jokes often had a target. the person who is being joked about or being pieced and lincoln understood that in politics, in democratic politics, the only safe target of a joke is you, yourself. if you target anybody else, while you're going to alienate them and their friends and people who fear an affinity towards them. if you tell a joke about yourself, at the first thing happens is that you avoid that and the second thing is, you make people think, he doesn't have a big ego. he can tell jokes about himself. he humanizes these presidents for the people. and we see the beginning of a trend that would set in, really in full and the 20th century whereby the 20th century, certainly by the second half of the 20th century, if you have to figure out who was going to win any, and you give an election, you can look at things like unemployment rates and you can look at political platforms and you can look at out of the things,

and it comes to lincoln. and lincoln was always rather thrifty with his money. and he didn't want to give any money away for causes that didn't require it. so he declined to contribute. and he said, he just wrote instead, i cannot contribute to the end in view. [ laughter ] when lincoln would introduce himself to audiences, in one of his coming-out speeches for the new republican party, lincoln began his political life as a whig, but the whig party declined early why his career and it was replaced bit by the republican party. they held their first convention in bloomington, illinois. lincoln attended, he wasn't well-known, he needed to introduce himself to the group there. he began by saying when he was coming -- he was riding his horse to the convention, he encountered a woman on the road, who was coming the other way. and the woman stopped him and said, sir, i believe you are the ugliest man i have ever seen. and lincoln says, well, i responded, what could i say? i said, well, this is the way god made me, and i'm sorry, but i don't have an excuse for that. she

lincoln told stories. he told jokes but he realized that in politics, when you tell jokes, jokes often had a target. the person who is being joked about or being teased and lincoln understood that in politics, in democratic politics, the only safe target of a joke is you, yourself. if you target anybody else, well you're going to alienate them and their friends and people who feel an affinity towards them. if you tell a joke about yourself, at the first thing happens is that you avoid that and the second thing is, you make people think, he doesn't have a big ego. he can tell jokes about himself. it humanizes these presidents for the people. and we see the beginning of a trend that would set in, really in full by the 20th century whereby the 20th century, certainly by the second half of the 20th century, if you have to figure out who was going to win any, and you give an election, you can look at things like unemployment rates and you can look at political platforms and you can look at out of the things, bu

lincoln's administration. because the democrats had nothing bad to say about the confederates, rumors started spreading in the newspapers that the confederates had written this platform for them. and in fact, the new york times said the convention was made up entirely of quote "placarded traders" -- placarded traders -- "black-hearted traitors." -- sunday on the presidency, harry s truman presidential library and museum curator kurt graham talks about the new exhibits visitors can expect to find when they return to the museum. here is a preview. >> it is important to harry truman because he comes home from the war knowing that he can lead. he had this battery he mentioned, a bunch of, by their own count, rowdy irish catholics who were fond of drink and not their new, bespectacled southern baptist leader. he won them over. it was because of that when truman came up from the war that he realized, though he lacked charisma, stature, a commanding voice, a commanding presence, there were things about him that were

there's so much racial conflict, racism among whites, somebody like lincoln acknowledged as well that actually going forward it's beyond our imagination to imagine that this could ever really work out and so, that's kind of where lincoln was. in some ways as the civil war started. but the other thing worth seeing and i think that this is to try to say it it seems complicated but a lot of those people, and i would include lincoln also thought as long as african-americans were here in this country, the basic civil rights shouldn't be violated and so you have lincoln saying even before he is elected president he will say things like everyone is entitled to the fruits of their labor. nobody should be enslaved. everyone is entitled to marry. he has a kind of famous statement about interracial marriage and i would never want to marry a black woman and that is quoted but part of the statement is he thinks everyone is entitled to basic civil rights and no one should be enslaved. there are a number of moderates on race that i write about. from montgomery blair from the kind of family that they

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but notice they have harsher wars for lincoln, much harsher words, and -- words for lincoln, much harsher words and nothing criticizing the confederacy. when i read through this, i do not really see any criticism of the confederacy, who is up in arms. i see an olive branch appeal, hey, let's get together and have a convention of the states and negotiate peace, and bring you back in the union. but the democrats don't understand the confederates are not going to compromise. they do not want to compromise or come back into the union. they want to be their own pro-slavery republic. so i think there's a naivety on the part of the democrats here, and also, a sense that they see a connection between themselves and the confederates, whereas the republicans see the confederates as the enemy. to the points that jeremiah and kim pointed out, when they talk about revolution here, they are saying, if lincoln keeps violating our rights, we have a right to revolution. we have a right to overthrow lincoln's administration. because the democrats had nothing bad to say about the confederates, rumors starte

many of you an trodden paths how do my name is abraham lincoln. i am your 16th president of these great united states. i am standing before you to proclaim that as the president. i have taken the solomo to uphold our constitution our bill of rights and our declaration of independence of which i was sworn to do. i believe that in contemplation of universal law and of this constitution the union of these states is perpetual. it is my duty to preserve protect and defend this country against all aggressors foreign. and domestic my intent is a free and prosperous people in a free and prosperous land. now these are my standards. these are the rules that i govern by as president of the united states. but they have been challenged recently. though it is not the first time. since our founding fathers there have been disagreements on how this country should be run. and we've up to this time pretty much come up with. compromises according to or because of henry clay we have had the missouri compromise of 1820 we have the tariff compromise of 1833. now the co

they know what lincoln really believed, self delusional, they're self delusional. they are deluding themselves. he was the most shut-mouth man. he wasn't a shut-mouth man in the sense that he wrote he was wonderful speeches, he was wonderful company, but in termsh of the personal, being personally forthcoming and emotionally forthcoming i think davis was right. >> and you can certainly think about the impact on his marriag. in relation to that. >> i think that's, i think that was, that was the last question. [ applause ] >> thank you. >>> the c-span city's tour travels the country exploring the american story. since 2011, we've been to more than 200 communities across the nation. like many americans, our staff is staying close to home due to the coronavirus. next, a look at one of our cities tour visits. ♪ >> the black hills of south dakota are a very sacred area as a whole. >> in the black hill, i believe that at one time or another, there is a piece of the rest of the world here somewhere. >> we're in the epicenter of sometimes testy relations between native an

abraham lincoln stood up on the floor of the house in 1848 as pokes. about to go is about to go out. i had a great conversation with doris currents goodwin who's doing i think a similar book on lincoln. about this and the question is whether lincoln lost as he was a freshman congressman. and he stood up on the floor and virtually called james k polk a liar. and he said and he considers and the whigs considered that land between the nueces. and the rio as disputed land and lincoln wants to be sure where the first drop of blood was spilled and demands. literally issues an interrogative or an iraqatory for the president to respond to which he doesn't. he makes the case that that l'oreal was our line, and we were attacked on this side on the american side of the us side of the rio. and and that it's really a sort of i mean it echoes a little bit of today president bush's concept of preemptive defense. i mean they're there at war with us. and if they if they if they attack us. we're going in now. so taylor is down there and goes at the same time poke is hav

first class at lincoln university's police academy. thank you both very much for joining us tonight. and chief hill, let me just start with you and why you decided in a historically black college and university needed a police academy. >> it came to me in the sense of, we have a large minority community on our campus and in order to increase our minority footprint and law enforcement, i thought this would be a great place to start recruiting people for the police academy for our local and local agents against agencies around the. state i just thought it would be perfect because lincoln university's history, because of our criminal justice program that is already in place. it just only made sense. >> joseph foster, what drew you to the police academy? >> well, would you mean to the police academy first and foremost, the bible tells us that we need to be servants first. and i have always wanted to serve people, serve others in the community and just around me. to just be an impactful person that somebody can look up to and they can draw

the lincoln memorial is actually a national park. you may have passed by or even through one of these national park areas on your way here today. in fact, there's a good probability. the small circles and squares where so many d.c. residents and workers commute, stroll, take your lunch, eat your friends, walk your dogs, places with names such as thomas and farragut, mcpherson, logan, dupont, franklin, stanton, and banneker are such a part of the rhythm of our lives, that using these spaces here is really as natural as breathing. and on any given day, how many people travel and to from the city on the george washington memorial parkway? the suitland parkway? the baltimore washington parkway? all of these places are national parks. how many metro riders use the stations at fort totten? navy memorial? mcpherson square? farragut? dupont circle? suitland? u street? our smithsonian? in each of these metro sites delivers riders to a national park. how many joggers, bikers, and hikers explore rock creek park, theodore roosevelt island, or th

notice they have harsher wars for lincoln, much harsher words, and -- words for lincoln, much harsher words and nothing criticizing the confederacy. i don't see any criticism of the confederacy up in arms. i see an olive branch appeal, let's get together and have a convention of the state and negotiate peace and bring you back in the union. but the democrats don't understand the confederates are not going to compromise. they do not want to compromise or come back into the union. they want to be their own pro-slavery republic. so i think there's a naivety on the part of the democrats here and a sense that they see a connection between themselves and the confederates, whereas the republicans see the confederates as the enemy. to the points jeremiah and kim pointed out that this secession in revolution. when they talk about revolution here, they are saying, if lincoln keeps violating our rights, we have a right to revolution, we have a right to overthrow lincoln's administration. because the democrats had nothing bad to say about the confederates, rumors started spreading in the newspape

but also and here's where lincoln's last best. hope of earth comes in but also for the western world, which is the world they cared about if the confederate succeeded it would prove. to the oligarchs of europe. the people aren't capable of self-government. they can't even disagree during a presidential election without pulling the nation apart. that's why it's important to make south carolina, which nobody liked basically to come back into the union. why not? let south carolina go who cares about south carolina because if they're allowed to go that means that the union can be centered just because somebody's not happy. with the result of a presidential election that that concept it's everywhere. i'm i was writing an sm writing an essay for civil war times. on wb duboises black reconstruction, which is a landmark book that most most people don't know about. and he gets union and he i mean he has a great section in his chapter the general strike on what motivates the white population of the loyal states and it is union and they come

was genuine when lincoln was assassinated mrs. lincoln gave douglas. her husband's favorite walking stick. so i think that speaks of their great friendship together. so 85 frederick comes back to nantucket at this stage. he still doesn't know his age, but he's in his late 60s. he's an old man and in some ways his speech reflects some of his disappointments the is even though there had been a civil war his people did not enjoy equality. there was lynching. there was jim crow. so in some ways he was disappointed and he spoke at that point about all the friends. he had lost. he also spoke about his former friend john brown you all know about john brown john brown who led the rise in the harpers ferry frederick tried to dissuade him, but when he couldn't he gave him some financial support and apparently the final words that frederick said to john brown were i will meet you in heaven. and i hope that happened so at that point when in nantucket 1885 frederick spoke on these themes and he also again urged that ending slavery in itself wa

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lincoln university police chief gary hill. he's the director of the lincoln university police academy and joseph foster, who is a student in the first class at lincoln university's police academy. professor hill, let me start with you and why you decided an historically black university needed a police academy? >> it came to me in the sense that we have a large minority community on campus. in order to increase our law enforcement footprint, i thought this would be a great place to start recruiting people in our local police academy and agencies around the state. i just thought it would be perfect because of lincoln university eaves history, because of our criminal program that is already in place. it just already made sense. >> and joseph foster, what drew you to the police academy? >> what drew me to the police academy first and foremost the bible tells us we need to be servants first. i always wanted to serve people and serve others in the community and around me just to be an impactful person that people can look up to and

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abraham lincoln 1861. >> the cartoon from the. summarize the situation. uncle sam is using a squadron of sailing ships to the south to enforce the blockade. >> helping uncle sam, taxes, more taxesea and tariffs. >> one surprising thing i learned during the series of the deep relationship between federal taxation. from prohibition to the roaring 20s, alcohol and taxes are intertwined sithroughout her history. we will look at that after the break. - freedom of speech is under attack. - we always find a way to persevere. - we use conservative to have ultimate faith in people. - this is bethlehem, the birthplace of jesus. - give it to god, he is doing this for a reason. - this is about veterans as they see themselves. - this is one sick person. - there is a way to find justice. - absolutely beautiful. - and it all leads to this. - at home with me colliding. - do we have a history? and we should learn from the history. - i think the best way you can thank me for being a veteran is to be a good american. - [man] (indistinct) tear down this war. the lexus es, no

my part was to explain some of the american indian policies saying -- that washington had or lincoln had, or roosevelt had, and jefferson. >> today we still have tribal people who are concerned about the black hills being carved. we try to honor that, some of it through our interpretive programming. we also have a place we set up in the park that is called the lakota heritage village. every summer, we hire cultural interpreters. these are people who are lakota, they come in and talk about the lakota story. we are trying to share the importance of the black hills for all of these people, as well as what these culture means. it is a balance. [speaking foreign language] >> grandfather thank you very much. crazy horse's first name -- >> that is like mount rushmore, same thing with the rocks. disturbed and -- so, as a family member myself i would not support that as far as from the crazy horse and home families. >> what you tell some people, some neighbor megan's spoken with where the issues they had with this memorial is that it is taking the native geology of the land and the rock and c

words for lincoln much harsher words. and really nothing. criticizing the confederacy. i mean when i read through this, i don't really see any criticism of the confederacy who is up in arms. i see an olive branch appeal. hey, let's get together and have a convention of the states and try to negotiate peace and bring you back in the union. but the confederate the democrats don't understand that the confederates aren't going to compromise. they don't want to compromise. they don't want to come back into the union. they want to be their own pro-slavery republic. and so i think there's a naivete on the part of the democrats here. and also a sense that they see a connection between themselves and the confederates. whereas the republicans see the confederates as the enemy and to the points that jeremiah and kim pointed out about the secession and revolution when they talk about revolution here. they're saying if lincoln keeps violating our rights, we have a right of revolution. we have a right to overthrow. linkage administrati

lincoln center president henry timms -- >> hurting so badly. we closed first, we'll open last. across this country, one of the things we need to see next is as much support as possible for local arts organizations. for all those people who make up that big pot of our soul, we all need to reclaim. ♪ >> reporter: for musicians, the concert serving as a reminder of the importance in coming together. >> music is something that gives us an opportunity to do that regularly, and i hope everybody remembers how magical it is to gather together in the same space and experience something beautiful. ♪ >> reporter: a note of a community in concert. [ applause ] >> reporter: nancy chen, cbs news, new york. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," the top general at ft. sill, oklahoma, speaks with david martin in his first interview about the suspension of a group of army instructors in an alleged sexual assault. >>> plus, a former speaker of the house, john boehner, tells us about his book "on the house: a washington memoir." >>>>> and vladad duthiers s spe wiwith two of f the breakokout "ma

tuesday evening of programs on the life and legacy of abraham lincoln. we begin with the tour of peterson house where president later died. williams boot shot the president as he wants to play across the street at fort theater. watched tuesday beginning at 8 pm eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span 3. johnny carson hosted the tonight show from 1962 to 1992, with millions of americans tuning in every night. he is up next, stephen farnsworth examines carson's use of political humor and how it shape the narrative on political issues. this top is part of the great lives lecture series, presented by the university of mary washington, who also provided the video. >> doctor steven farnsworth received a b. a. in his three from the university of missouri, in kansas city. the being government from dawn, followed by both mma, ph. d. degrees from georgetown university. he was a newspaper journalist before becoming a professor, and has lectured widely on the news media, presidency and elections before u.s. and international audiences. a prolif