Ive noticed several similarities between Presidents James Garfield and Gerald Ford. 1-Both of them served in THE BIG WAR, when both of them were in their early 30s. Garfield was a Civil War General. Ford was a Naval Officer with the rank of Lieutenant Commander. (However, i think that if Ford were alive during the War, i think Ford would have achieved the wartime rank of Brigadier General. ) 2-Both of them served as Members of Congress for a long times. Both of them sat on the Appropriations Committee. Garfield was chairman of the committee at one point. Ford was Ranking Minority Member on the Defense Subcommittee. Ford was in line to become Ranking Minority Member of the full committee in 1965, but left the committee upon being elected to the post of Minority Leader. rose to the position of Minority Leader. 3-Both of them served on Special Commissions before assuming the Presidency. Ford was a member of the Warren Commission (and the last surviving member). Garfield was a member of the Electoral Commission of the 1877. 4-Both of whom are seen as "dark horses" and "compromise candidates" when it came to achieving the Presidency. Garfield reached the Presidency, because of his skills as an orator, in the 1880 Convention. Garfield was rooting for John Sherman. But the delegates preferred to choose Garfield as the compromise candidate. Ford was the "compromise candidate" when it came to becoming The Vice Presidency. Some Republicans of the era would prefer Goldwater or Rockefeller. Nixon wanted Connally. But Ford came off as ideologically compadible to Nixon. Ford was a party man that all factions loved. 5-Both of their terms were relatively short. Garfield had the 2nd shortest term --199 days. Ford had the shortest term of all the accidential Presidents--895 days. 5--Garfield was known for being able to write with one hand in greek and write in Latin with the other hand. 6--They were both Presidents in times where the Republicans tended to dominate the Presidency for several terms.

Thx Jon

Rest in Peace, Dr. Carmichael. The War for the Common Soldier is a great work. It will endure.

He just recently died July 2024. He will be missed.

Our book club selection this month-thanks to me! Longstreet fascinates me because he was written out of my 50s and 60s Virginia history lessons by white southerner historians. When he showed up as a central figure in Killer Angels I had no idea who he was.

i just got a signed copy from styple in gettysburg, pa can’t wait to read on kearny

Thank you for presenting such intelligent, well-rounded authors. Good luck to Mr. Cozzens and to the Lincoln Book Shop.

I could listen to Dr. Guelzo talk forever.

Great video! We added it to our rare bookstore directory at Rare Book HQ.

Excellent interview, and a book worth reading, especially if you are Canadian.

Rise of Theodore Roosevelt is like my favorite book. Edmund Morris is an amazing author

What a fabulous way to to interest children to History.

Very well done. If Phil Kearny had lived, he would have become a corps commander if not the commander of the Army of the Potomac.

Wonderful presentation!

The mule shoe is a must visit.

It's quite a struggle when your husband leaves you at the altar as he isn't sure whether he wants to tell you he has Syphilis. He eluded you (Mary) for a year, contemplating whether he will be upfront or remain in concealment mode. He comes back to wed you one year later, but chooses to conceal his infection. Years later, your husband has his late stage syphilis infection occur, in which his body is plastered with huge blisters. You now realize your husband knew he had the Great Pox infection all along, and did not tell you. It has now affected not only his health but YOURS. Sadly, she realizes her children are now immunocompromised, as well. Your doctors tell you all to continue to take the poisonous blue mass mercury pills, which further destroy your families health, both mentally and physically! By the 1860's, Mary realized that one lie had been the cause for so much tragedy. Her angry outbursts upon her husband, which were looked at undeserving, were actually entirely deserving. History was eventually crafted to show that Mary was an awful person, but, if only Abe had been honest, we may have seen a different Mary. How sad Abe would be to know his concealment would be cause for his Wife's eternal damnation. How angry he would have been to know how historian’s who love him, who are cult-like about his life, have trashed his sweet Mollie! Like Momma said, the truth always comes out in the end, no matter how hard anyone tries to hide it or stop it- Lies are just a temporary delay to the inevitable! Respect and listen to your Momma, or your daughter will end up like poor sad Mary!

I can't believe I'm able to sit like a fly on the wall and listen to these two great Lincoln historians "talk shop". Priceless! And the timing of Holzer's new book on Lincoln and immigration couldn't more relevant in today's political climate. I look forward to reading it. Daniel, it would be terrific if you could give a video tour of your bookshop with all the books, relics, etc.

Fascinating! I just picked up Tom Horn which was 1987.... Never knew about these until now....

Scheming? Was he really scheming though? 😂

Quite interesting.

Engaging, entertaining, and amusing Lincoln book. I especially loved the newspaper editorial quotes. I look forward to reading his previous "Every Drop Of Blood" work. Another great interview by Daniel Weinberg.

McClernand was robbed!! :) lol, just kidding. But seriously, buy this book!! And support Timothy B Smith and Bjorn Skaptason's work! These guys are great!

Awesome! Hi there my friends! Thanks for making these videos! Can't wait to get this one!

I've just finished one quarter of the book.

Great talk! Thank you for opening to the public so everyone can access. gotta get the book now!!

Definitely a fractious relationship. Definitely sounds like Lincoln got his most profound intimacy from selected men around him.

Tim Smith is the definitive author on Shiloh, even more than Shelby Foote, although Dr. Smith would probably scoff at that. He gets it.

Excellent interview.

America has had some critically important Presidents since Lincoln: FDR above all, then maybe Truman and Eisenhower for their war and post-war contributions, then maybe LBJ (excluding his unspeakable crime of Vietnam). Now, given the first existential threat since Lincoln and FDR, the underrated Joe Biden.

So true. How I’d love, for example, to read a post-war account from Cleburne, J.E.B. or AP Hill…

Tim is an excellent author and a gift to us civil war thirsty readers

Longstreet was so terrible to everyone except to Lee...the Longstreet hate is so bizarre

It’s always hard to write a biography of a general or any great leader when they died in battle and can’t tell their own story. We can go through a long list of Civil War leaders ( generals) that it would be equally as hard. Have to give Dr. Smith credit in doing this one.

This was a fantastic conversation.

HELLO!! I too am from Kearny NJ Was raised in Hillside Avenue beside Veterans Field!

Longstreet simply fascinates me at so many levels. A combination of so many experiences, skills, humors, pains and courage. Deeply misunderstood but beloved. Tragic he has been forgotten by the modern mind.

More priceless discussions for us captured by the topics of this war. Much gratitude to you both

This video is very interesting and nice. Thanks. . If a person looks up their ancestor's service record in the National Park Service, Battle Unit Details, and their Service Record falls under one of the following 1863 categories, then they may be very interested in the book. . Expedition to West Point and White House January 7-9. Occupation of West Point May 5-31. Reconnoissance to the Chickahominy June 9-17. Skirmishes at Diascund Bridge June 10 and 20. Expedition to South Anna Bridge June 23-28. Dix's Peninsula Campaign June 24-July 8, Capture of Brig. Gen. W. H. F. Lee June 26. Dix's Peninsula Campaign June 24-July 8, Expedition from White House to South Anna River July 1-7. Expedition from White House to Bottom's Bridge July 1-7. Battle of Baltimore Cross Roads July 1-2. Expedition from Williamsburg to Bottom's Bridge August 26-29. . For example, the 6th Regiment, New York Cavalry, shows the following: Expedition from Yorktown to West Point and White House January 7-9, 1863 (Detachment). Pamunkey River January 8. West Point May 7 (Detachment). Dix's Peninsula Campaign June 24-July 7 (3rd Battalion). Expedition from White House to Bottom's Bridge July 1-7 (3rd Battalion). Crump's or Baltimore Cross Roads July 2 (3rd Battalion). .

Very interesting talk.

Chase is my ancestor and both my Dad and I both struggle with hand writing.

Good show. Visited Spotsylvania CH back in 2010 and if you possess some knowledge of what happened there, it can be haunting. Read "The Heart Of Hell" a few months ago and just finished Mr. Wert's "Gettysburg Day Three", both of which were excellent reads.

Ken is such a cool nerd. And unique; who else Zoom's from their attic room.

Brilliant as always. Bringing everything into a very human and relatable context is truly the greatest gift that grows out of Jon Meacham's incredible intellect. He tells entire stories and uses them to demonstrate that imperfect people (all of us) are capable of making the world a better place.

We had Chase as the ego driven abolitionist, Lincoln understood he had to bring everyone along, and had to preserve the partnership of the boarder states, so he took slow steps. When there is a big issue that we have no idea how to actively resolve, we hold to a notion about it. That notion in the north was that slavery would eventually die where it lived, isolated in the south. This hope faded when the south pushed slavery western. This issue was coming to a head in both north and south. The north was unwilling to yield to the southern democrat vision of slavery everywhere.

Lincoln may have been able to envision an egalitarian society, he just thought it would take 150 years for the resentments to be resolved. Was he wrong?

It wasn't political, it was Constitutional! Lincoln and his contemporaries were still living in the great experiment of self governance. The Constitution allowed for slavery and they couldn't just throw it off even though Lincoln knew that was the right thing all along. Prior to 1861 there was not the political will to amend it, so it wasn't a discussion. He was obviously gearing towards an ammendment to end slavery as the war progressed. I will say Lincoln like many since the country's founding also could not imagine where and how free slaves would live. His expectation was that the solution was a new country in the Gulf of Mexico. In the heat of the war, this was probably his expectation. Only after talking to black leaders was that idea rejected. Did Lincoln forms another vision before he was killed? Yes or no we went into reconstruction without such a vision.

This book starts out in the Greek war, which evidently every European country had a king George-was one of the most tragic episodes in America history, leading in the greatest loss of Native American life on what is now U.S. Soil. The Creek Indians metastasized like a conflict, of 1813-1814 shattered Native American control of the Deep South. The Indians are educated, combat military, and are a recovery for America. It is not a condemnation but a way of life-no matter what you write about, the proud and hard work sticks out & this is forever.

After a tour at the Capitol , the tour guide recommended that we read this book 📚, I ordered it on line !

Thank you for this perspective on traveling to fairs as a dealer - interesting history too, as always!

To quote Churchill - It was the beginning of the end..