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Presented by the Center for State Policy and Leadership

The Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series is sponsored annually by the UIS Center for State Policy and Leadership,in cooperation with the Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn

Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies.

We gratefully acknowledge this year’s cosponsors:

Abraham Lincoln AssociationBrookens Library John Holtz Memorial Lecture

ECCE Speaker SeriesIllinois State Historical Society

Illinois State LibraryLooking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition

NPR IllinoisSpringfield Branch of the NAACP

UIS College of Education and Human ServicesUIS College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

UIS College of Public Affairs and AdministrationUIS Office of Advancement

and donors:

Mary BeaumontShelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund

Clark and Carol EsareyDavid and Laurie Farrell

Barbara FerraraJim and Linda GobberdielDennis and Marilyn Lawler

Don and Wanda Tracy

Cover Image:“The Freedmen’s Bureau,” Alfred R. Waud, Harper’s Weekly,

July 25, 1868. LC-USZ62-105555.

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14th ANNUAL LINCOLN LEGACY LECTURES

October 20, 2016 • 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’s Changing Thoughts on Reconstruction”

Dr. Michael Burlingame, Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished

Chair in Lincoln Studies, UIS moderator

Lectures“Reconstruction as a Bourgeois Revolution”

Dr. Allen C. Guelzo, Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era,

Gettysburg College

“Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction:Did Booth’s Bullet Change History?”

Dr. Brooks D. Simpson, Foundation Professor of History,

Arizona State University

Audience QuestionsMembers of the audience seated in an overflow room: Please print your question on the card

provided. It will be collected at the time of the Q & A and brought to the Auditorium.

Book Signing and ReceptionEveryone attending the Lectures is invited to the reception

immediately following in Brookens Concourse.

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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 Inner World of Abraham LincolnUniversity 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, twovolume 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 magazine. 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 photographs by Robert

Shaw, Firelight Publishing, 2013. He has recently finished editing another book of

Lincoln primary source material: Lincoln as PresidentinWaiting: The SpringfieldDispatches of 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 about Lincoln’s years in New Salem.

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

he retired as the May 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.

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Allen C. Guelzo

Dr. Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce

Professor of the Civil War Era, and Director of

Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College.

He is the author of Abraham Lincoln: RedeemerPresident, which won the Lincoln Prize for 2000,

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End ofSlavery in America, which won the Lincoln Prize

for 2005, and Lincoln and Douglas: The DebatesThat Defined America, which won the Abraham

Lincoln Institute Prize for 2008. His book on the

battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg: The Last Invasion,

was a New York Times best seller in 2013.

He is also the author of Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction Oxford University Press, 2012. His forthcoming books include

Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction, also for Oxford University Press.

His articles and essays have appeared in scholarly journals, and also in The WallStreet Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, The Atlantic, TheWashington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, and he has been featured on NPR, the

Discovery Channel, the National Geographic Channel, Brian’s Lamb’s BookNotes

on CSPAN, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In 2005, he was nominated by

President Bush to the National Council on the Humanities. He has been a fellow of

the American Council of Learned Societies 19912, the McNeil Center for Early

American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania 19923, the Charles Warren

Center for American Studies at Harvard University 19945, and the James Madison

Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University 20023. He

has served on the board of directors of the Abraham Lincoln Association since 2000.

Together with Patrick Allitt and Gary W. Gallagher, he teamtaught The Teaching

Company’s new edition of its American History series, and has completed four

other series for The Teaching Company: Mister Lincoln, on the life of Abraham

Lincoln, The American Mind, on American intellectual history, The American

Revolution, and Making History: How Great Historians Interpret the Past.

Dr. Guelzo provided the voiceover introduction for the BBC Audio boxed set of

The LincolnDouglas Debates with David Straithern as Lincoln and Richard

Dreyfuss as Stephen A. Douglas which was one of five finalists in that category

nominated for the 2010 Grammy Awards.

He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986.

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Brooks D. Simpson

Dr. Brooks D. Simpson is ASU Foundation

Professor of History at Arizona State University,

where he teaches in the College of Letters and

Sciences as well as Barrett, The Honors College.

He specializes in nineteenth century American

history, especially the Civil War and Reconstruc

tion period, as well as the American presidency.

He is a leading scholar of both Abraham

Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.

Among his 15 books are The Civil War in theEast: Struggle, Stalemate, and Victory Praeger,

2011; Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 18221865 Houghton Mifflin,

2000; The Reconstruction Presidents University Press of Kansas, 1998, paperback

2009, and The Political Education of Henry Adams University of South Carolina

Press, 1996. In addition, he is the author of more than 45 published articles and

book chapters and has made numerous television appearances on CSPAN, PBS

and other channels.

Many of his books have been History Book Club Selections, including The Reconstruction Presidents, Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War andReconstruction, 18611868 University of North Carolina Press, 1991, Gettysburg:A Battlefield Guide University of Nebraska Press, 1999, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumphover Adversity, 18221865, The Collapse of the Confederacy University of Nebraska

Press, 2001, and The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It Library

of America, 2011.

His honors and awards include an NEH Travel to Collections Award, Huntington

Library Fellow, Newberry Library Fellow, Dirksen Congressional Research Center

Grant, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship,

Leiden University, ASU Professor of the Year Finalist, and ASU Foundation Chair,

2009present. His professional service includes serving on the board of directors of

the Abraham Lincoln Association 19982015, Lincoln Prize Advisory Council

1993present, series coeditor, “Great Campaigns of the Civil War,” University of

Nebraska Press 1994present, series coeditor, “This Hallowed Ground: Guides to

Civil War Battlefields,” University of Nebraska Press 1995present, advisor to

WGBHTV Boston for The American Experience 19992002, and Civic

Literacy Board of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute 2003present.

He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of WisconsinMadison

in 1989.

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Further Reading

Burlingame, Michael. Abraham Lincoln: A Life. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, paperback2012.

Cox, LaWanda C. Lincoln and BlackFreedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1981.

Du Bois, W. E. B. Black Reconstruction in America 18601880. NewYork: Simon & Schuster: 1935,1995.

Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America'sUnfinished Revolution, 18631877.New York: Harper Collins, 1988,2014.

Guelzo, Allen C. Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2012.

Harris, William C. With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of theUnion. Lexington: University Pressof Kentucky, 1997.

Masur, Louis P. Lincoln’s Last Speech:Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisisof Reunion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

McCrary, Peyton. Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction: The Louisiana Experiment. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.

Richardson, Heather Cox. West fromAppomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War. NewHaven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Simpson, Brooks D., The Reconstruction Presidents. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998,paperback 2009.

Simpson, Brooks D. “Wartime Reconstruction: Constructing theUnion’s New Cornerstone.” InStephen D. Engle, ed., The WarWorth Fighting: Abraham Lincoln’sPresidency and Civil War America.Gainesville: University Press ofFlorida, 2015, 20222.

Stampp, Kenneth M. The Era of Reconstruction, 18651877. NewYork: Knopf, 1965, 1982.

Summers, Mark Wahlgren. The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction. ChapelHill: University of North CarolinaPress, 2014.

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Annual Lincoln LegacyLecture Series

The UIS Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series, inaugurated

in 2002 with the dedication of the Abraham Lincoln

Presidential Library in Springfield, brings scholars

and policy experts of national renown to Springfield

to present a lecture on a contemporary public

policy issue. Unique to this series is that each topic

is one that both engaged Abraham Lincoln and the

citizens of his era and remains timely today.

The inaugural lectures were on “Lincoln and Race.”

Other topics in the series have included Ethics and

Power, Economic Opportunity, America’s Faith,

Lincoln and the Law, Presidential Campaign

Politics, Environmental History, the Civil War,

the Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettysburg

Address, Voting Rights, and Lincoln’s Funeral.

UIS presented a special scholarly symposium on

the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s funeral in 2015,

“Mourning Father Abraham: Lincoln’s Assassination

and the Public’s Response.”

Guest lecturers have included Mary Frances Berry,

Gabor S. Boritt, Michael Burlingame, Brian R.

Dirck, Mark Fiege, Joseph R. Fornieri, Richard

Wightman Fox, Ronald Keith Gaddie, Allen C.

Guelzo, Martha Hodes, Matthew Holden Jr.,

Michael F. Holt, Martin P. Johnson, Louis P. Masur,

William L. Miller, Lucas E. Morel, Mark E. Neely,

Jr., Mark A. Noll, Phillip Shaw Paludan, Silvana R.

Siddali, Ron Soodalter, Mark E. Steiner, Mark W.

Summers, James L. Swanson, Michael Vorenberg,

Jennifer L. Weber, and Ronald C. White, Jr.

The Lincoln Legacy Lectures are organized and

presented annually by the Center for State Policy

and Leadership, in cooperation with the Chancellor

Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln

Studies, Department of History, at UIS. The

lectures honor the memory of Professor Phillip

Shaw Paludan who was the first to hold the Lynn

Chair 200107.

For comments or suggestions about this event, contact

Dr. Barbara Ferrara, Associate Director, Center for State

Policy and Leadership: bferr1uis.edu, 217 2067094.

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endowments, and grants, including generous donations from the public. We greatly appreciate your support.

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Oct 20, Thurs. | 7 pm |Brookens Auditorium14th Annual Lincoln Legacy Lectures |Lincoln & Reconstruction: America’s

Struggle for Equality

Oct 27, Thurs. | 7 pm |Brookens AuditoriumPatrick Griffin | The Townshend

Moment: How Two Brothers Started

an Age of Revolution

Oct 28, Fri. | 1 pm | PublicAffairs Center – ConferenceRoom GPanel Discussion & Workshop | Social

Justice Activism

Nov 1, Tues. | 7 pm | BrookensAuditoriumLauren J. Silver | Social Welfare, Young

Mothers, & the Failure of the System:

Engaging & Changing Urban

Bureaucracies

Nov 3, Thurs. | 6 pm | Brookens AuditoriumCarolyn Finney | Radical Presence

Black Faces, White Spaces, & Other

Stories of Possibility

Nov 7, Mon. | 7 pm | StudioTheatreCurt Tofteland | Shakespeare

Behind Bars

Nov 14, Mon. | 6 pm | Brookens AuditoriumRichard Gilman-Opalsky & KamauKemayo | Black Power: The Cry

of Jazz

Fall2016

All events are free and open to the public .For more information: www.uis.edu/speakerseries/

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UIS Center for State Policy and Leadership

The mission of the Center for State Policy and Leadership is to promote

evidencebased policy and practice in the public sector. This mission is

carried out through research that informs public decisions and understand

ing; internships, training programs, and applied problem solving that

strengthens public leadership; and journalism that educates and engages

citizens in public affairs. Center units include:

Institute for Legal, Legislative and Policy Studies

Illinois Innocence Project

NPR Illinois

Office of Electronic Media

Office of Graduate Intern Programs

Papers of Abraham Lincoln

Survey Research Office

To learn more about the Center, contact Dr. David Racine, Executive Director: draci2@uis.edu, (217) 206-8417, or visit the Center’s website:www.uis.edu/cspl/, where you can read the most recent annual report.

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Video of Tonight’s Lectures

You can view tonight’s lectures again through video on demand. A link will be available at the Center’s website:

www.uis.edu/cspl/.

You can purchase a DVD of the lectures and of prior events in the series for $10 per DVD or $100 for the complete set of 15 DVDs,

plus shipping and handling. To order, call the UIS Office of Electronic Media at (217) 206-6799.

UIS Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series

• 2016 Lincoln & Reconstruction• 2015 Lincoln & Voting Rights• 2015 Mourning Father Abraham• 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, visit:www.uis.edu/cspl/initiatives/lincoln-legacy/.

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