Abraham Lincoln's Competing Political Ideals: The Union, Constitution, and Antislavery

The conference on Lincoln's political thought is being hosted in conjunction with the exhibit, "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War." The exhibit, which will be featured in Jereld R. Nicholson Library, April 2 - May 16, explores how Lincoln used the Constitution to confront three intertwined crises of the war - the secession of Southern states, slavery and wartime civil liberties. The exhibit was organized by the National Constitution Cener and the American Library Association Public Programs Office and made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. "Lincoln: the Constitution and the Civil War" is based on an exhibition of the same name developed by the National Constitution Center. The Conference, "The Political Thought of Abraham Lincoln," is sponsored by Linfield College Nicholson Library, the Office of Academic Affairs and the Frederick Douglass Forum on Law, Rights and Justice. This lecture features Manisha Sinha, Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachussets, Amherst. She is the author of many books including, "The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina. The discussant is Bill Curtis, an Associate Professor of Politcal Science at the University of Portland. He is author of many articles and is completing a book entitled "Defending Rorty: Pragmatism, Anti-Authoritarianism and Liberal Virtue. Subject: Lincoln Exhibit 2014 Run Length: 01:25 Author: Manisha Sinha;Bill Curtis Publisher: Linfield College Copyright: 2014