LGDC and CWRTDC Presentation TODAY by Jon Meacham

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LINCOLN GROUP OF DC and CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE OF DC

ALL ARE WELCOME TO JOIN US TONIGHT FOR A VERY SPECIAL EVENING:

THE CWRTDC'S AND LGDC'S JOINT MEETING IN-PERSON OR VIA ZOOM

The CWRTDC is delighted to host its first in-person, joint meeting since 2019 (due to the pandemic) with the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia to celebrate Lincoln's Birthday week with presentation by renowned author Jon Meacham about "Lincoln's Theology."

We are pleased to announce the following program we have planned for the evening. More details are provided below.

1. An extended social period in the elegant ballroom at Ft. Myer Officers' Club;
2. Live CW period music from GMU's 8th Green Machine Regiment Band;
3. An expanded book raffle that guarantees you will be a winner!;
4. The presentation of the Ed Bearss Preservation and Legacy Awards; and

A copy of the Program for the February 8th meeting and awards presentation is available by clicking HERE or visiting https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mGiV35I...LmDIJ/view


PRESENTATION OF THE EDWIN C. BEARSS AWARDS

The CWRTDC is also pleased and privileged to announce this year's awards to honor the extraordinary life and legacy of Civil War historian Edwin Cole Bearss. The recipient of the “CWRTDC Edwin C. Bearss Preservation Award” is the Battle of New Market Heights Memorial and Education Association, and the posthumous recipient of the “CWRTDC Edwin C. Bears Legacy Award” is Mr. Burrus “Buzz” Carnahan. These awards will be presented at the joint meeting on February 8th.

For additional information about Ed and the awards, see CWRTDC's New Release available HERE (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ypqMpmE...sAMb/view) or on its website at https://cwrtdc-calendar.blogspot.com. Additional information about the dinner meeting is available at https://cwrtdc-meetings.blogspot.com/p/jmeacham.html

PRESENTATION BY JON MEACHAM

To cap off the night's events, the CWRTDC and the LGDC is honored and privileged to co-sponsor a presentation by Jon Meacham, detailed below:

JON MEACHAM
(Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
presents
"A Sacred Effort: Lincoln's American Theology"

About the Topic:

A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.

At once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen as the greatest of American presidents—a remote icon—or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction. This illuminating new portrait gives us a very human Lincoln—an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment, essential to the story of justice in America, began as he grew up in an antislavery Baptist community; who insisted that slavery was a moral evil; and who sought, as he put it, to do right as God gave him to see the right.

This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination in 1865: his rise, his self-education, his loves, his bouts of depression, his political failures, his deepening faith, and his persistent conviction that slavery must end. In a nation shaped by the courage of the enslaved of the era and by the brave witness of Black Americans, Lincoln’s story illustrates the ways and means of politics in a democracy, the roots and durability of racism, and the capacity of conscience to shape events.

About the Speaker:

Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and the author of the New York Times bestsellers:

His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope;

Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power; and

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House


Mr. Meacham is the Rogers Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, a contributing writer for The New York Times Book Review, and a fellow of the Society of American Historians. He lives in Nashville with his wife and children.

DETAILS OF MEETING

When: Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Where: Grand Ballroom at Patton Hall Officers' Club at Fort Myer, 214 Jackson Avenue, Arlington, VA 22211

NOTE: MR. MEACHAM'S PRESENTATION WILL BE VIA ZOOM

Schedule for Remote/Zoom Attendees:

5:30 pm ET: Zoom Platform Opens for Remote Attendee Social Period (Optional)

5:55 pm ET: Remote Attendees Connected to In-Person Meeting

6:00 pm ET: Start of Meeting/Introductions

6:05 pm ET: Presentation of CWRTDC’s Ed Bearss Awards

7:00 pm ET: Start of Speaker Presentation and Q&A

8:30 pm ET: Meeting Adjourned

Meeting URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/73777333091?pw...JuMGpidz09 [click on or copy and paste in your browser]

Or point your browser to the following link and use the Meeting ID and passcode shown below:
Zoom "Join A Meeting" Page: https://zoom.us/join
Meeting ID: 737 7733 3091
Passcode: Zoom1861

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

[RJNorton]

Thanks for posting, Bill.

[wpbinzel]

The CWRTDC records and posts its meetings on its website. When it is available, I will post the link to it here as well.