Civil Wars The Nation and New York

Presented By Kenneth T. Jackson

Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences and Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History, Columbia University

Brian Carlin Teaching American History Project Director, NYCDOE

Lincoln at the Cooper Union

Photographed by Matthew Brady February 27, 1860

“The Speech of Abraham Lincoln at the Cooper Institute last evening was one of the happiest and most convincing political arguments ever made in the City, and was addressed to a crowded and most appreciating audience. ...No man ever before made such an impression on his first appeal to a New-York audience”

New York Tribune; February 28, 1860

Lincoln and The Election of 1860

Brooklyn Navy Yard, Harpers Weekly June,1861

Brooklyn Navy Yard, Harpers Weekly June,1861

Brooklyn Navy Yard, Harpers Weekly June,1861

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