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On Thursday, October 22, The University of Illinois Springfield Center for Lincoln Studies presents the Mary and James Beaumont Endowed Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series featuring Jon Grinspan and Saladin Ambar speaking on the topic of Abraham Lincoln and America 250. The event is free to attend, but registration is required.Jon Grinspan is the curator of political history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and author of WIDE AWAKE: THE FORGOTTEN FORCE THAT ELECTED LINCOLN AND SPURRED THE CIVIL WAR. He will discuss the often contested meaning of America through the contested nature of public events stretching from the first Fourth of July through the centennial a hundred years later.
Saladin Ambar is a professor of political science and senior scholar at the Eagleton Center on the American Governor and author of MURDER ON THE MISSISSIPPI: THE SHOCKING CRIMES THAT SHAMES ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Ambar will discuss three murders that took place in Mississippi River towns in the mid-1830s and how these killings shaped Lincoln’s worldview, one of his earliest speeches, and his relationship to America's founding principles.
This event is co-sponsored by NPR Illinois and Looking for Lincoln National Heritage Area.
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2251 Richard Wright Dr Springfield, IL 62703, 2250 Richard Wright Dr, Springfield, IL 62703-5795, United States
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