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Lincoln Symposium
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The
Lincoln Symposium is the Abraham Lincoln Association's
most important event of the year. Featuring renowned Lincoln
scholars, the Symposium represents the latest
scholarship on the life and times of Abraham Lincoln.
In 2008, a special two-day Symposium will be held on February
11th and 12th in the House of Representatives
chamber in the Old State Capitol in Springfield,
Illinois. The Symposium is free and open to the
public.
2008 Symposium
Monday, February 11, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Old State
Capitol
Jean H. Baker, "Finding Abe: The Elusive Mr. Lincoln"
 Jean
Harvey Baker is Elizabeth Todd Professor of History at
Goucher College. A specialist in nineteenth century
political and cultural history, Baker is best known for
her innovative look at cultural politics,
Affairs of Party,
and her definitive biography,
Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography.
She wrote the introduction to the late Dr. C. A. Tripp’s
The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln.
Her current interest is in exploring the suffragist
movement resulting in
Sisters: The Lives of Americas
Suffragists.
Mark E. Neely, Jr., "A Life in Politics: Lincoln and the
American Party Systems"
Mark E.
Neely, Jr., is McCabe-Greer Professor of Civil War
History at Pennsylvania State University. A prolific
writer on Lincoln and the Civil War era, Neely is best
known for his Pulitzer Prize winning
The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and
Civil Liberties.
His recent research has explored party organization and
behavior in the Civil War, as reflected in
The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the
Civil War North
and
The Boundaries of American Political
Culture in the Civil War Era.
Douglas L. Wilson, "Lincoln's Rhetoric"
Douglas L. Wilson taught English and
American Literature for 33 years at Knox College, where
he is now co-director of the Lincoln Studies Center.
His work on Abraham Lincoln has appeared in The
Atlantic Monthly, American Heritage, Time,
and The American Scholar. He has written or
edited six books on Lincoln, including three in which he
collaborated with Rodney O. Davis—Herndon’s
Informants: Letters and Interviews about Abraham Lincoln,
Herndon’s Lincoln, and The Lincoln-Douglas
Debates (forthcoming). Two of his books, Honor’s
Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln and
Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words,
won both the Abraham Lincoln Institute Prize and the
Lincoln Prize.
Tuesday, February 12, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Old State
Capitol
Brian R. Dirck, "Abraham Lincoln's Ethic of Distance"
Brian R.
Dirck is an Associate Professor of History at Anderson
University. His special areas of interest are Abraham
Lincoln, the Civil War era, and American political and
legal history. He is the author of numerous books and
articles, including Lincoln
and Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865,
and
Lincoln the Lawyer.
He is currently working on a study of Lincoln and
American race relations, which will be published
sometime in 2009. Dirk is the publisher of the
informative
A. Lincoln Blog
(http://alincolnblog.blogspot.com/)
containing commentary on Lincoln appearances in
contemporary media as well as historical controversies.
Brooks D. Simpson, "Abraham Lincoln: Commander-in-Chief"
Brooks D. Simpson is Professor of History
and Humanities at Arizona State University. He is
author of several books on the Civil War and
Reconstruction era including
Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and
the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868,
The Political Education of Henry Adams,
America’s Civil War,
The Reconstruction Presidents,
and
Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity,
1822-1865.
Simpson has edited a
volume of Abraham Lincoln’s letters and
speeches, a volume of letters of advice to Andrew
Johnson, and a volume of William T. Sherman’s letters.
He is currently working on the second and final volume
of his biography of Ulysses S. Grant.
Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln the Citizen--Or Lincoln the
Anti-Citizen?"
Michael
Vorenberg is an Associate Professor of History at Brown
University. His interests are in the intersection of
three
topics: Civil War and Reconstruction; Legal and
Constitutional History; and Slavery, Emancipation, and
Race. His first book,
Final Freedom: The Civil War, the
Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment,
was widely acclaimed. His current book project is
Reconstructing the People: The Invention
of Citizenship During the American Civil War.
Past Symposia
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