University of Illinois Springfield, in cooperation with the 2015 Lincoln Funeral Coalition, presents

A Scholarly Symposium

Mourning Father Abraham: Lincoln’s Assassination and

the Public’s Response

April 30, 2015 | 7 pm | Brookens Auditorium

SPONSORS

UIS Center for State Policy and LeadershipChancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies

CO-SPONSORS & DONORS

Brookens Library John Holtz Memorial LectureEngaged Citizenship Common Experience (ECCE) Speaker Series

Laurie and David FarrellJim and Linda Gobberdiel

Illinois State Historical SocietyAlex B. Rabin, Sgro, Hanrahan, Durr & Rabin, LLP

Staab Funeral HomeWUIS/Illinois Issues

Event CoordinatorDr. Barbara Ferrara

Special thanks to the 2015 Lincoln Funeral Coalition:Katie Spindell, Chair

Jon N. Austin, Vice ChairJudy Wagenblast, Symposium Coordinator

Margaret Strano, Public Relations

This event is presented with the support of The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial

Foundation, dedicated to perpetuating and expanding Lincoln’s vision for

America and completing America’s unfinished work.

Program cover illustration by Martha Ferrara

Projected slide: “President Lincoln’s funeral – burial service at Oak Ridge, Springfield, Illinois,” Wood engraving after sketch by W. Waud.

Illustration in Harper’s Weekly, v. 9 (1865 May 27), p. 329. Library of Congress.

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Mourning Father Abraham: Lincoln’s Assassination and

the Public’s ResponseApril 30, 2015 | 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Brookens Auditorium

University of Illinois Springfield

WelcomeDr. Susan J. Koch, Vice President, University of Illinois

and Chancellor, UIS

Opening Remarks and Introduction of Speakers“Lincoln as Father Figure”

Dr. Michael Burlingame, Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished

Chair in Lincoln Studies, UIS (moderator)

Presentations“Lincoln’s Last Speech and the Problem of Reconstruction”

Dr. Louis P. Masur, Distinguished Professor of American Studies

and History, Rutgers University

“Shock and Fury, Gloom and Glee: Personal Responses to

Lincoln’s Assassination”Dr. Martha Hodes, Professor of History,

New York University

Audience Questions

ReceptionEveryone attending the event is invited to the reception immediately

following in the Public Affairs Center main concourse, Level 1.

The speakers’ books will be available for purchase and signing.

Pick up a commemorative mourning armband free while supply lasts.

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Michael Burlingame

Dr. Michael Burlingame holds the Chancellor Naomi B.

Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the

University of Illinois Springfield. He joined the faculty

of the History Department at UIS in 2009 where he

teaches a course on Abraham Lincoln and a course on

the Civil War.

Dr. Burlingame is a preeminent scholar in Lincoln studies. His first book, The InnerWorld of Abraham Lincoln (University of Illinois Press, 1994) has been described as

“the most convincing portrait of Lincoln’s personality to date.” His second book,

An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln (Southern Illinois University Press, 1996) was

awarded the prestigious Abraham Lincoln Association Book Prize.

His comprehensive, two-volume biography, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Johns Hopkins

University Press, 2008), won the 2010 Lincoln Prize awarded by Gettysburg

College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, as well as the 2009

Russell P. Strange book award from the Illinois State Historical Society for the best

book on Illinois history. It was listed as one of the five best books of the year 2009

by The Atlantic Monthly. In addition, he has edited and published a dozen volumes

of primary source materials on Abraham Lincoln and his era. His most recent

books are Lincoln and the Civil War (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011) and

A Day Long to be Remembered: Lincoln in Gettysburg (with photos by Robert Shaw;

Firelight Publishing, 2013). He is currently editing another book of Lincoln

primary source material: Lincoln as PresidentinWaiting: The Springfield Dispatchesof Henry Villard, November 1860February 1861. He is also writing a book on

Lincoln’s emotional life for the Concise Lincoln Library published by the Southern

Illinois University Press. In addition, he is working with photographer Robert Shaw

on a book on Lincoln’s years in New Salem.

Dr. Burlingame taught History at Connecticut College from 1968 to 2001 when he

retired as the Buckley Sadowski Professor of History Emeritus. He took retirement at

that time in order to complete Abraham Lincoln: A Life for the Lincoln Bicentennial

in 2009. While at Connecticut College, Dr. Burlingame taught courses on

Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War era, 19th century American history, as well as

courses in other areas of interest, including opera and Eugene O’Neill. He studied

under eminent Lincoln historian David Herbert Donald both at Princeton

University and Johns Hopkins University where he received his Ph.D. in 1971.

Dr. Burlingame was inducted into the Lincoln Academy of Illinois in 2009. He

serves on the Board of Directors of the Abraham Lincoln Association and the

Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College. He is the former president of the Abraham

Lincoln Institute and is a member of the Ford’s Theatre Advisory Council. For

more information see www.michaelburlingame.com.

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Louis P. Masur

Louis P. Masur is Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at

Rutgers University, a position he has held since 2012. Prior to that he taught at

Trinity College, the City College of New York, Harvard University, and the

University of California at Riverside. He received his doctoral degree in History

from Princeton University (1985), and his bachelor’s degree in History and English

from the University of Buffalo.

Masur’s latest book is Lincoln’s Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of

Reunion (Oxford University Press, 2015). It is, according to Allen Guelzo, Henry

R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College, “the best introduc-

tion to the opening phases of Reconstruction we have, and one that moves to first

place in any Reconstruction reading list.” His previous book, Lincoln’s Hundred

Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for Union (Harvard University

Press, 2012), won the Lincoln Institute Book Prize for 2013. He is also the author

of The Civil War: A Concise History (Oxford University Press, 2011) and 1831: Year

of Eclipse (Hill and Wang, 2001). His essays and reviews have appeared in the New

York Times, Slate, Salon, the American Scholar and numerous other publications.

Masur has received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation and National

Endowment for the Humanities and teaching awards from Harvard University and

the City College of New York. He has been elected to membership by the American

Antiquarian Society, Society of American Historians, and Massachusetts Historical

Society and currently serves on the Historians’ Council of the Gettysburg Trust.

For more information see www.louismasur.com.

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Martha Hodes

Martha Hodes is Professor of History at New

York University, and has taught as a Fulbright

scholar in Germany and as a Visiting Professor

at Princeton University. Her latest book,

Mourning Lincoln (Yale University Press, 2015)

has received critical acclaim. It is “a stunning

piece of research, based on an extraordinary

range of materials often overlooked by traditional

historians,” observes Michael Burlingame,

Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair

in Lincoln Studies, University of Illinois

Springfield (Wall Street Journal, Feb. 6, 2015). The book is a “lyrical and important

new study,” according to Jill Lepore, Kemper Professor of American History,

Harvard University (New York Times Book Review, Feb. 8, 2015), and was named a

New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice (Feb. 15, 2015).

Hodes is also the author of The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and

War in the Nineteenth Century, a finalist for the Lincoln Book Prize, and White

Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the NineteenthCentury South, winner of the Allan

Nevins Prize for Literary Distinction in the Writing of History. She holds degrees

from Bowdoin College, Harvard University, and Princeton University (Ph.D.,

1991), and has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the

Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Charles Warren Center

at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Schomburg Center

for Research in Black Culture, and the Whiting Foundation. She is also an elected

fellow of the Society of American Historians.

For nearly 25 years, Hodes has taught courses on race, the Civil War and Recon-

struction, and the nineteenth-century United States. With a special interest in the

craft of history-writing, she also teaches courses on Writing the Civil War, History

and Storytelling, Biography and History, Reconstructing Lives, and Experimental

History. She is a winner of NYU’s Golden Dozen Teaching Award. Hodes has

presented her scholarship across the United States, in Europe, and Australia, at

universities and colleges, high schools and elementary schools, historical societies,

libraries, museums, and literary festivals, and serves as a consultant for documentaries,

television and radio shows, and museum exhibits on many aspects of American

history. She serves on the Advisory Council for Ford’s Theatre and as an advisor

for the Ford’s Theatre digital collection, “Remembering Lincoln.” For more

information see http://marthahodes.com.

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Suggested Readings

Terry Alford, Fortune’s Fool: The Life ofJohn Wilkes Booth, Oxford University

Press, 2015

Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln:A Life, Johns Hopkins University Press,

2008

Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 18631877,

Harper & Row, 1988

Richard Wightman Fox, Lincoln’s Body:A Cultural History, W. W. Norton, 2015

William Hanchett, The Lincoln MurderConspiracies, University of Illinois Press,

1983

William C. Harris, With Charity for All:Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union,

University Press of Kentucky, 1997

Martha Hodes, Mourning Lincoln, Yale

University Press, 2015

Michael W. Kauffman, American Brutus:John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies, Random House, 2004

Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B.

Kunhardt Jr., Twenty Days: A Narrative inText and Pictures of the Assassination ofAbraham Lincoln and the Twenty Daysand Nights that followed The Nation inMourning, the Long Trip Home toSpringfield. Castle Books, 1965.

Louis P. Masur, Lincoln’s Last Speech;Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis ofReunion, Oxford University Press, 2015

John C. Rodrique, Lincoln and Reconstruction, Southern Illinois

University Press, 2013

Thomas Turner, Beware the People Weeping: Public Opinion and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln,

Louisiana State University Press, 1982

Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in

the Dooryard Bloom’d,” (1865) in

Leaves of Grass, Doubleday, Doran &

Co., 1940

Web Resources:“Remembering Lincoln: A Digital

Collection of Responses to His

Assassination”

http://www.fords.org/remembering-

lincoln

“Silent Witnesses: Artifacts of the

Lincoln Assassination”

http://www.fords.org/event/silent-

witnesses

“Lincoln Speaks: Words That

Transformed a Nation,” The Gilder

Lehrman Institute of American History

and the Morgan Library and Museum

http://abrahamlincoln.org/lincoln-

speaks-section/about/

Lincoln’s Body: A Cultural History:www.richardwfox.com (video, essays,

documents, Lincoln images)

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SundayBus drop off/pick upMonument Ave.

SundayBus pick up/drop off2nd St.

Fred Matamoros/Gatehouse Media

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Saturday, May 2*

◊ 9:00 a.m. Funeral Coffin Arrives

Amtrak Train Station, 3rd & Washington St.

Arrival of re-created hearse and replicated coffin

draped with 36 star flag

◊ 10:00 a.m. Procession

Procession steps off from Amtrak station

following historic route to 6th & Washington St.

(see map), with re-creation of original Lincoln

hearse, horse-drawn carriages, military and civilian

Civil War re-enactors, and other period groups.

(Prior registration and appropriate costume requiredto walk in procession.)

◊ 11:00 a.m. Opening Ceremony,

150th Anniversary Commemoration,

President Lincoln’s Funeral

6th & Washington St.

Dignitaries, Color Guard and Civil War

re-enactors pay tribute

(No reserved seating available.)

◊ All Night Candlelight Vigil

6th & Washington St.

◊ Dawn to Dusk Civil War Encampments

Lincoln Park – North 5th St.

Benedictine University at Springfield campus,

1500 N. 5th St.

Springfield Art Association of Edwards Place,

700 N. 4th St.

Sunday, May 3*

◊ 12:00 Noon Procession

The historic procession to Oak Ridge Cemetery

steps off from 6th & Washington St. (see map).

Procession enters Cemetery through re-created First

Street Entrance. (Prior registration and appropriatecostume required to walk in procession.)

◊ 3:00 p.m. Commemorative Funeral

Ceremony**

Old Public Receiving Vault, Oak Ridge Cemetery

Clergy, Civil War re-enactors, musicians and singers

offer eulogies, speeches, salutes and music.

(No reserved seating available.)

◊ 4:30 p.m. 36 Cannon Salute

Conclusion, 150th Anniversary Commemoration

* All times are approximate.

** No vehicle traffic or parking allowed in Oak Ridge

Cemetery on Sunday, May 3. SMTD will operate

shuttle bus service on Sunday from downtown (pick

up/drop off on 2nd St. between Washington and

Jefferson) to cemetery. Fare is $1.25 each way.

For more information and the full schedule of events on May1-3 visit: http://lincolnfuneraltrain.org.

The 2015 Lincoln Funeral Re-enactmentMay 2 and 3, 2015

Schedule of Events Free and Open to the Public

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Lincoln Funeral Sheet Music

Courtesy of Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

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“Lincoln’s Legacy of Justice and Opportunity: Our Challenge a

Century and a Half Later”

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Dr. Edna Greene MedfordProfessor and Chair, Departmentof History, Howard University

For more information: http://lincolnfuneraltrain.org

Presentation only | Free and open to the public Seating is limited and is on a first come, first seated basis.

1:30 p.m. Doors open | 1:45 p.m. Program begins

Ballroom, President Abraham Lincoln Hotel701 East Adams Street | Springfield, Illinois

Note: Due to the possibility of dignitaries attending this event, you may be asked to show photo ID when you arrive.

2015 Lincoln Funeral Re-enactmentKeynote Presentation

Sponsored by The Abraham Lincoln Association

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Free and open to the publicwww.uis.edu/wepner/symposium/ • (217) 206-8519

Speakers:

Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr., Wepner Distinguished

Professor in Political Science, UIS

Dr. David Bateman, Assistant Professor of

Government, Cornell University

Lorena Johnson, Director, Certified Public

Manager Program, Institute for Legal,

Legislative and Policy Studies, UIS

Dr. James W. Ingram III, Lecturer, Dept. of

Political Science, San Diego State University

Dr. Shoon Lio, Assistant Professor,

Sociology/Anthropology, UIS

ANNOUNCINGThe Fifth Wepner Symposium on the

Lincoln Legacy and Contemporary Scholarship

Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr.

“Emancipation, Counter-Emancipation,and the 21st Century: Is Racial

Inequality Disappearing?”

June 25-27, 2015University of Illinois Springfield

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Video of Tonight’s Program

You can view tonight’s programagain through video on demand. A link will be available at the Center for State Policy andLeadership’s website:http://cspl.uis.edu.

You can purchase a DVD of the program and programs in the UIS Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series for $10 per DVD or $100 for the complete set of 13 DVDs, plus shipping and handling. Contact the UIS Office of Electronic Media at (217) 206-6799 to order.

UIS Annual Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series

• 2014 Lincoln’s Funeral• 2013 Lincoln & the Gettysburg Address• 2012 Lincoln & the Emancipation Proclamation• 2011 Lincoln & the Civil War• 2010 Lincoln & Race• 2009 Lincoln & the Environment• 2008 Lincoln & Presidential Campaign Politics• 2007 Lincoln & the Law• 2006 Lincoln & America’s Faith• 2005 Lincoln & Economic Opportunity• 2004 Ethics & Power• 2002 Lincoln & Race

For more information on past lectures, please visit:http://cspl.uis.edu/OfficeOfExecutiveDirector

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SAVE THE DATE

13T H ANNUAL LINCOLN LEGACY LECTURES

Lincoln & Voting RightsCommemorating the 50th Anniversary

of the U.S. Voting Rights Act

Free and open to the publichttp://cspl.uis.edu • (217) 206-7094

October 15,20157 p.m.

Brookens Auditorium

University of Illinois

Springfield

Speakers:Dr. Michael Burlingame,

Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn

Distinguished Chair in

Lincoln Studies, University

of Illinois Springfield

Dr. Michael Vorenberg,

Associate Professor of

History, Brown University

Dr. Ronald Keith Gaddie,

Professor and Chair,

Dept. of Political Science,

University of Oklahoma“The first vote.” Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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