WHAT: The University of 缅北禁地 Springfield Center for Lincoln Studies invites the public to attend a Juneteenth Lecture Series discussion on 鈥淐ause & Effect: Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation鈥 with professors Edna Greene Medford and Holly Pinheiro. This event is a collaborative program hosted by UIS, the 缅北禁地 State Museum and Juneteenth, Inc.
WHEN: 1-3:30 p.m. Friday, June 17, 2022
WHERE: 缅北禁地 State Museum, 502 S. Spring St., Springfield
An American Marriage
An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president鈥檚 life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Abraham Lincoln鈥檚 marriage to Mary Todd.
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People
Graham Peck is the Wepner Distinguished Professor of Lincoln Studies in the Department of History at the University of 缅北禁地 at Springfield. The following is a modified version of the Wepner Distinguished Professor Investiture Lecture, delivered Thursday, September 24, 2020.
Michael Burlingame, holder of the Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at University of 缅北禁地 Springfield, is the author of Abraham Lincoln: A Life, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, and Lincoln and the Civil War, as well as the editor of many collections of Lincoln primary source materials. A graduate of Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University, he taught at Connecticut College in New London for many years before joining the faculty at University of 缅北禁地 Springfield in 2009.
Michael Hogan is the author of He is a former professor of International Relations at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, and Emeritus Humanities Chair at the American School Foundation of Guadalajara, Mexico.
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