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Abraham Lincoln : his legal career and his vision for America
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Leading Lincoln experts and Constitutional scholars will explore Lincoln's legal career from his trial lawyer days, when he handled several slave freedom cases, through his use of war powers as Pre...
Leading Lincoln experts and Constitutional scholars will explore Lincoln's legal career from his trial lawyer days, when he handled several slave freedom cases, through his use of war powers as President and his championing of Emancipation and the Thirteenth Amendment ending slavery.
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- English
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- [Chicago, Illinois] : Seventh Circuit Bar Association and the Chicago History Museum, [2009]
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- 4 DVDs ; 4 3/4 in
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- laser optical
- video file DVD video
- OCLC
- ocn826438558
- Credits
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- Hon. Anne M. Burke, Justice, Supreme Court of Illinois ; Hon. Michael A. Wolf, Judge, Supreme Court of Missouri ; Hon. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States ; Allen Guelzo, Professor of Civil War Era, Gettysburg College ; Russell Lewis, Executive Vice President and Chief Historian, Chicago History Museum ; The Hon. Ruben Castillo, Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ; David H. Zarefsky, the Owen L. Coon Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University ; Dennis Hutchinson, Senior Lecturer on Law at the University of Chicago ; Tom Sullivan, an attorney who has handled challenges to the incarceration of Guantanamo detainees ; John Rowe, the Exelon chairman, who also chairs the Chicago History Museum's board ; Walter Dellinger, who served as Assistant Attorney General and headed the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) for President Clinton from 1993 to 1996
- "A symposium sponsored by the Seventh Circuit Bar Association and the Chicago History Museum and endorsed by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission."--Container.
- Filmed February 6, 2009, at the Preston Bradley Hall in the Chicago Cultural Center.