Tonight: Lectures To examine Lincoln’s Presidency
Emporia State University
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
The first in a series of lectures on the presidency of Abraham Lincoln begins Wednesday in Emporia. The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Symposium features lectures each Wednesday night at Emporia’s historic Granada Theatre.
Organized by Brian Craig Miller, assistant professor of history at Emporia State University, the symposium features historians, graduate students, and other invited guests addressing Lincoln’s legacy.
Speaking Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. will be Jennifer Weber, assistant professor of history at the University of Kansas. Weber will explain how Lincoln dealt with civil liberties and anti-war opposition.
Additional Lincoln Symposium speakers include:
• Feb. 11 — John R. Neff, associate professor of history at the University of Mississippi, who will speak about how the nation mourned the death of Lincoln and the affect of his death on Reconstruction.
• Feb. 18 — Paul Finkelman, a distinguished professor of law at Albany Law School, will speak about Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
• Feb. 25 —Jean Baker, professor of history at Goucher College, who will speak about the role that Mary Lincoln played in the White House.
Each of the presentations begins at 7 p.m. in the Granada Theatre. The programs are free and open to the public.
The program is sponsored by Emporia State University and is funded in part by the Kansas Humanities Council. A complete listing of events and activities is available at www.emporia.edu/lincoln. For more information, contact Miller at bmiller4@emporia.edu.