Abraham Lincoln Institute
Fifteenth Annual Symposium - March 24, 2012
"The Latest in Lincoln Scholarship"
Sponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Institute of the Mid-Atlantic, Inc.
The 2012 Symposium was held at the National Archives II, College Park, Maryland, outside Washington, D.C.
THE PRESENTATIONS
John M. Barr - Assistant Professor of History, Lone Star College Kingwood
Symposium Topic:
"Loathing Lincoln: An American Political Tradition, 1858-2011"
Video
Michael Burlingame - Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies, University of Illinois Springfield
Symposium Topic:
"Lincoln as the Indispensable Man"
Video
Daniel W. Crofts - Professor of History, The College of New Jersey
Symposium Topic:
"The Would-Be Thirteenth Amendment of March 1861: Lincoln's Last-Ditch Overture to Arrest
Secession"
Video
Eric Foner - DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University
Symposium Topic:
"The Fiery
Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery"
Video
Jason R. Jividen - Assistant Professor of Politics, Saint Vincent College
Symposium Topic:
"American Progressivism and the Lincoln Legacy"
Video