2022 Lincoln Legacy Lecture Workshop

The Center for Lincoln Studies at UIS is pleased to announce the second annual Lincoln Legacy Lecture Educator Workshop. The Center invites up to twenty K-12 social studies and preservice educators to participate in a 1 1/2 hour workshop on Lincoln and African-Americans at the UIS Student Union. Participants will work with professor Jonathan White to examine letters of African-Americans to Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. Prior to the workshop, they will receive a free copy of his newest book, To Address You as My Friend: African Americans鈥� Letters to Abraham Lincoln. The book is a remarkable new collection of over 120 letters that Professor White has discovered at the Library of Congress and the National Archives. Participants will be expected to read about 15 to 20 of the letters before the workshop.
Lincoln artwork featuring photos of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass and the text "Abraham Lincoln, Tale of Two Cities, Government cannot endure half slave half free."

The University of 缅北禁地 Springfield is proud to announce 鈥淢aking Our History: Artists Render Lincoln鈥檚 Legacies,鈥� an innovative physical and digital art exhibit funded by the University of 缅北禁地 Presidential Initiative: Expanding the Impact of the Arts and Humanities.

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Mary and James Beaumont Endowed Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series

The Mary and James Beaumont Endowed Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series is the Center for Lincoln Studies' flagship event. It brings our community together to learn about a single topic each year. One speaker deals with that topic in Lincoln's time, and the second speaker discusses how the topic is relevant in our contemporary moment. The lecture is generously supported by a gift from Mary and James Beaumont.

Lincoln Statue

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

The cover of Graham A. Peck's book "Making an Antislavery Nation"

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.

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