 Lincoln's Legacy and
Presidential Leadership
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From
Springfield:
Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss
talks of the legacy of Abraham Lincoln and presidential leadership.
Mr. Beschloss' address was delivered at the 100th meeting of the
Abraham Lincoln Association.
For more information on the Abraham
Lincoln Association, click
here.
Be sure to also check out our Abraham
Lincoln Bicentennial page
here.
Recorded February 12,
2008.
Aired the week of February 18, 2008. 35 minutes. |
1865 Presidential News
Conference
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From the
House Chamber of the Old State Capitol in Springfield:
famed Lincoln impersonator George Buss offers a depiction of
President Abraham Lincoln holding a Presidential News Conference in
April 1865 as the Civil War drew to a close. Members of
Springfield's Capitol press corps pepper President Lincoln with
period questions on taxes, how he plans to heal the nation's wounds,
and his future plans after he leaves the White House. This event
was organized by the Abraham Lincoln Association in Illinois as part
of the 2009 commemoration of the bicentennial of President Lincoln's
birth.
Recorded October 4, 2007.
Aired the week of February 4, 2008. 45 minutes. |
Andrew Ferguson:
Author of "Land of Lincoln:
Adventures in Abe's America"
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From
the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield:
the remarks of author Andrew Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson, who is
also an editor at "The Weekly Standard," discusses his new book,
Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America. In the book
and this lecture, Mr. Ferguson recounts his search for Lincoln's
legacy during his travels across America in which he visited
museums, monuments, and even Lincoln impersonators.
Recorded June 12, 2007.
Aired the week of June 25, 2007. 45 minutes. |
Celebrating Abraham Lincoln's
200th Birthday |
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From
Washington, DC: our one-on-one
conversation with Eileen Mackevich, Executive Director of the
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, who tells us more about
this national celebration of Lincoln's life.
For more information on the Abraham
Lincoln Bicentennial Commission,
click here.
Recorded April 16, 2007.
Aired the week of June 4, 2007. 20 minutes. |
Lincoln Scholar Douglas
Wilson:
"Lincoln's Sword: The
Presidency and the Power of Words"
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From Knox College in Galesburg:
Douglas Wilson, co-director of Knox College's Lincoln Studies
Center, delivers an address in which he discusses Abraham Lincoln's
writings, including the Gettysburg Address, and how Lincoln's words
galvanized the nation during the Civil War. Mr. Wilson
recently authored the book, "Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the
Power of Words." The book won this year's Lincoln Prize.
Recorded January 5,
2007. Aired the week of April 23, 2007. 50 minutes. |
Doris Kearns Goodwin:
Historian & Author
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From the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield:
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses her recent book, "Team of
Rivals," which chronicles the political infighting in the Lincoln
Administration. Ms. Goodwin also discusses the telling of
American history through biographies. Ms. Goodwin is
interviewed by State Historian Tom Schwartz following an
introduction by Richard Norton Smith, Executive Director of the
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum.
Recorded February 11,
2006. Aired the week of March 6, 2006. 1 hour and 5 minutes. |
Abraham Lincoln's Tomb and Oak Ridge
Cemetery
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From Springfield: Oak Ridge Cemetery is hallowed ground, not
only as the resting ground for Abraham Lincoln, but for the
memorials to the veterans of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.
The number of visitors to the cemetery each year makes Oak Ridge
second only to Arlington as the most visited cemetery in the
nation. Our cameras take you there to see what visitors see, and
what they learn.
Recorded June 27, 2005.
Aired the week of July 17, 2005. 35 minutes. |
Abraham Lincoln's Home and Neighborhood
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From Springfield: a look at the home and neighborhood where
Abraham and Mary Lincoln raised their children and lived in up until
the time they moved into the White House. We will hear what
kind of parents the Lincolns were and how the house served as a site
for many of Lincoln's important political meetings. We will
also hear about the on-going efforts to revitalize other homes in
the neighborhood.
Recorded June 6, 2005.
Re-aired the week of July 2, 2007. 30 minutes. |
Lincoln's New Salem
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From Petersburg: Springfield is known as the home of Abraham
Lincoln, but just 20 miles northwest of Springfield is the
reconstructed town of New Salem, where Lincoln spent his early
adulthood. We will show you where Lincoln's rail splitter image
was burnished, where he tried and failed in business, and where
he began his legal education. In addition to its Lincoln
legacies, New Salem's "living history" offers visitors a
fascinating look at the challenges of living and surviving in a
small Illinois town of the 1830s.
Recorded May 9, 2005.
Aired the week of June 12, 2005. 1 hour. |
Lincoln and Civil Liberties |
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From Knox College in Galesburg:
Frank Williams, Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and
noted Lincoln scholar, presents a speech entitled Lincoln and
Civil Liberties. Williams examines similarities between
legal questions that arose in the Civil War to those now arising
from the fighting in Iraq and the war on terrorism.
Recorded March 25, 2005.
Aired the week of April 17, 2005. 50 minutes. |
Abraham Lincoln Presidential
Museum Preview |
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From Springfield: we take a look
at some of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum's displays and
how they use 21st Century technology to tell the story of Lincoln's
life and his presidency. We also talk with Bob Rogers, whose
firm designed the displays that educate visitors on Lincoln's
legacy.
Recorded March 24, 2005.
Aired the week of April 10, 2005. 10 minutes. |
Tours
of Old State Capitol & Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices
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From Springfield:
Downtown Springfield actually holds two state
capitol buildings. One is the current home of state government. But
another building, known as the "Old State Capitol," once housed the entire
structure of state government. It was also in this building that Abraham
Lincoln and Stephen A Douglas began to develop their ambitions and merge
their futures. Just across from this building, Abraham Lincoln practiced
law for nine years. In this video tour, we hear the history of the
buildings and learn of the men and issues that led to Illinois being called,
"The Land of Lincoln."
Recorded
February 15, 2005. Aired the week of February 27, 2005.
60 minutes. |
Progress
Report on the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum
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From
Springfield: a progress report on the Spring opening of the
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and its potential impact on
the city of Springfield. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential
Library and Museum are two separate buildings. The
research library recently opened, while the museum is scheduled
to open in April 2005. We hear more about the details from
the Museum's Executive Director, Historian Richard Norton Smith.
Recorded
November 30, 2004.
Aired the week of December 5, 2004. 30 minutes.
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Abraham Lincoln's
Presidential Virtues
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From Knox College in Galesburg: he is often cited
by historians as our nation's best president. But what were
the principles that guided Abraham Lincoln's Presidential
leadership? Lincoln's actions and leadership style are
recalled and analyzed in this address by William Miller, author of
Lincoln's Virtues.
Recorded
September 10, 2004.
Re-aired the week of July 2, 2007. 40 minutes. |
Lincoln
Presidential Library Move
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From
Springfield: The Lincoln Presidential Library prepares
to open at the end of September. We speak with Curator Kim
Bauer on what items are included in the move and with the
movers, who specialize in tracking thousands of irreplaceable
documents and artifacts.
Recorded
August 26, 2004.
Aired the week of September 5, 2004.
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A
Tour of the Lincoln Presidential Library and Nearby Museum |
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From
Springfield: Maynard Crossland, Director of the Historic
Preservation Agency, takes us on a guided tour of the yet unopened
Presidential Library. He discusses how anyone may research family
histories and Illinois history, in addition to researching
Lincoln's life, with materials available when the
Presidential Library opens in Summer of 2003. We also hear from
State Historian Tom Schwartz on the Lincoln Museum which will open
in 2004.
Recorded
May 6, 2003. Aired the week of May 11, 2003. 30
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Tour
of the Lincoln Collection
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From
the Old State Capitol in Springfield: In a vault under the Old
State Capitol, the state holds priceless artifacts from the life
and times of Abraham Lincoln. These rarely seen remnants
include his son Tad's toy cannon and a bloodstained swath of cloth
from actress Laura Keene, who cradled Lincoln's head in her lap
following the fatal shot from John Wilkes Booth. Viewers get
a rare view at these and other parts of the Lincoln collection
that will be on display when the Lincoln Library and Museum are
completed.
Recorded
February 6, 2003. 25 minutes.
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Lincoln and Race
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From the
University of Illinois at Springfield: in this first annual “Lincoln
Legacy Lecture,” the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Center for
Governmental Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield hosts
U.S. Civil Rights Commission Chair Mary Frances Berry and Professor
Phillip Paludan. They discuss Lincoln’s record on race issues
and the continuing impact of race relations on modern American society.
Recorded
November 19, 2002. 1 hour and 55 minutes. |
Lawyer Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation
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From the Union League Club
in Chicago: Lincoln
scholars, including Frank Williams, Chief Justice of the Rhode Island
Supreme Court; John Lupton, Assistant Director of the Papers of Abraham
Lincoln; and Vibert White, Chair of African-American Studies at the
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Center at the University of Illinois at
Springfield, discuss the history, law and politics surrounding the
issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Recorded
October 17, 2002. 1 hour and 35 minutes. |
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