Lincoln before the war
Streaming video - 2021
One Day University presents a series of video lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice. Harold Holzer will present an overview of Abraham Lincoln's pre-presidential life and career through the lens of 19th-century partisan journalism, a world Lincoln inhabited with gusto and extraordinary results. Public sentiment is everything, he said a few years before he won the White House. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes and pronounces decisions. Lincoln really believed in this idea. From the outset, he te...thered his ambitions to rise from obscurity to power, to the idea of mastering the press. This lecture will cover the full development of the early, pre-war Lincoln-even his courtship and marriage to Mary Todd (a courtship based on newspaper writing!)-but will strike an original chord by emphasizing what historians have long neglected: the importance of the press to politicians, readers, and voters throughout the nation during the volatile antebellum period.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Published
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[United States] :
Dreamscape Media, LLC
2021.
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
- Online Access
- Instantly available on hoopla.
Cover image - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 70 min.)) : sd., col
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Audience
- Not rated.
- Production Credits
- Directed by One Day University.
- Access
- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).