1922: The Lincoln Memorial
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Dedicated in 1922, the Lincoln Memorial is a neoclassical temple built to honour the 16th president of the United States. Lisa Mullen discovers why America chose to mark the man who led the nation in the civil war and issued the Emancipation Proclamation that freed slaves forever. Michael Goldfarb, Professor Sarah Churchwell and Dr Joanna Cohen discuss the how the Lincoln Memorial became the backdrop for the continuing civil rights movement.
Producer: Ruth Watts
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| 0:40.3 | Hello, I'm Lisa Mullan, and as part of a series exploring cultural events which took |
| 0:44.7 | place in the year of the BBC's founding, 1922, this episode of the Arts and Ideas podcast |
| 0:50.3 | looks at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial. |
| 1:08.0 | Music looks at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial. Let me transport you to Washington and to one of the most significant monuments for America's sense of itself. I'll let the journalist and broadcaster Michael Goldfarb take us there. |
| 1:12.4 | Conjure the scene. It's part of the one monumental space in all of the United States, so far as I can |
| 1:20.8 | see. It's part of the National Mall. And on the Potomac end, you have the Lincoln Memorial, |
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