Abraham Lincoln at Peoria

The Gilder Lehrman Institute just added a new podcast on Abraham Lincoln’s political career during the early 1850s. In “Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point,” Lewis E. Lehrman explains how in October 1854 Lincoln “argu[ed ] that slavery was incompatible with the Founders’ vision of America as articulated in the Declaration of Independence.”  While House Divided does not have a transcript of Lincoln’s speech, one is available through the University of Michigan Digital Library.

Other lectures are also available at the Gilder Lehrman Institute (full list here), including James McPherson’s “Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam” and David Blight’s “The Civil War in American Memory.”