I received an e-mail this past week from a friend who is a director at a Federal period, ritzy house museum asking why the wave of Lincoln- and assassination-related attention all of a sudden. I mentioned a little thing like the 2009 Bicentennial of Lincoln's birth and the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War maybe being contributing factors. Or, maybe Americans (especially media type) are finally learning to appreciate history and Lincoln is the best-known place to start. Dare we hope?

Monday, May 26th, at 9PM EST, on PBS. Death and the Civil War. I believe much of this is based upon the book "This Republic of Suffering"

See thread "Death and the Civil War" under "OTHER"
http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussio...+suffering

THANK YOU GENE!!

This afternoon at 2PM eastern standard time

C Span 3 - Hampton Roads Conference of 1865, James Conroy talks about his book "Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865"

http://www.c-span.org/video/?317311-1/di...rence-1865

Mercy Street, a civil war hospital drama, starts tonight on your local PBS station
http://www.pbs.org/show/mercy-street/

Looks good - and I'll be watching...but OMG - BAD costuming on the one lady....nothing like that frilly confection would have been allowed in a hospital - much less worn on a muddy, manure-filled street....MEOW!!

(01-17-2016, 03:22 PM)BettyO Wrote: Looks good - and I'll be watching...but OMG - BAD costuming on the one lady....nothing like that frilly confection would have been allowed in a hospital - much less worn on a muddy, manure-filled street....MEOW!!

And boy, did Miss Dix make that quite clear in the early scenes! Looks very good so far.

Yes, this does look interesting. 5 episodes in all.
PBS is already selling the boxed set

I just watched the first episode while looking for tickets to Ice Nine Kills' Baltimore show at the same time and was surprised that the guy who played Ted Mosby on How I Met Your Mother is in it.

PS: My parents said no to letting me go because they think Ice Nine Kills' music is garbage. It is not garbage.