Lectures tagged "Abraham Lincoln"

Eternally Green: Natural Burial and New Cemetery Landscapes
Mark Harris
February 13, 2010
01:05:00
Environmental journalist Mark Harris presents a history of the changes in American burial practices, from natural burials in the 17th and early 18th century, to the beginning of the funeral industry during the Civil War, to today's modern funeral with embalming (and its toxic chemicals), metal caske
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part II
Hill Harper
October 3, 2009
01:31:12
CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincol
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part I
Malik Neal
October 3, 2009
00:50:40
CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincol
Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson
David O. Stewart
June 23, 2009
01:08:54
Writer David O. Stewart delves into his latest work, Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy.
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Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy
David O. Stewart
June 15, 2009
00:54:29
Author and Constitutional lawyer David O. Stewart reveals how the first President Impeachment Crisis was wrought with corruption and greed. In 1868 when the nation was healing from a bloody civil war, the US Congress impeached Lincoln's successor, President Andrew Johnson.
Looking for Lincoln: In His Time and Ours
Adam Gopnik
February 9, 2009
01:58:22
A panel moderated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University Professor and Director of the W.E.B.
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Lincoln, The Reader
Douglas Wilson
October 14, 2008
00:58:44
Douglas L. Wilson examines the legend of Abraham Lincoln's self-education.
Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin
December 18, 2005
01:28:28
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin explains how the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rose from obscurity to become one of the most significant presidents in this nation's hi