Listening to Lincoln
You can now download the audio of Harry S. Stout’s recent Huntington lecture, “Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural as America’s Sermon to the World.” The recording includes a full reading of the address by Lincoln biographer Ronald C. White Jr.
“More Like a Sermon”
When Abraham Lincoln completed his Second Inaugural Address in the waning days of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass remarked that “the address sounded more like a sermon than a state paper.” In a lecture at The Huntington Wednesday night, historian Harry S. Stout will explain how that speech was an American sermon to the world.
The Lincoln Lawyer
At the recent conference “Civil War Lives,” historian Ronald C. White Jr. described Abraham Lincoln’s unique diary and the impact of his legal training on his presidency. You can download the talk from iTunes U.
Many Happy Returns
Abraham Lincoln never set foot in California, but the Huntington Library has become one of the premier repositories of Lincolniana—manuscripts, books, letters, and ephemera by and about our 16th president.
“Several Lives in One”
Blight is an engaging and eloquent speaker on all topics related to the Civil War. His focus tonight will be Frederick Douglass; in April 2009, he delivered a talk called “Lincoln and the American South” as part of the conference titled “A Lincoln for the Twenty-First Century.”
