ECW Podcast: Emerson and Lincoln (with Richard Smith)
The poet and the president—two of the most famous men of their age. Abraham Lincoln and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Historian Richard Smith joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast from Concord, Massachusetts, to talk about the meeting of the two orator/writers. Plus, we’ll learn about the many other Civil War connections to one of America’s most literary communities.
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