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Honoring Abraham Lincoln
Lake Forest College celebrates the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth with a series of events throughout 2009.
Please read Professor of History Emeritus Michael Ebner's essay on the importance of celebrating Lincoln.
February 5
Lecture by Eric Foner
"The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and Slavery”
Dr. Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America
Read a recent lecture on Lincoln by Foner at the British Academy
8:00 p.m., followed by a book signing
Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
Sponsored by the Edward H. Oppenheimer Family Foundation
February 12
Lincoln’s Birthday bash
12 p.m. – Celebration in the Mohr Student Center, followed by a presentation of the Gettysburg Address
8 p.m. – A showing of "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," a 1940 biography of Lincoln, in the Mohr Student Center
Sponsored by the Student Alumni Association
April 26
Concert by Lincoln String Quartet and J. Lawrie Bloom (part of Lake Forest Lyrica season)
Featuring a world premier of a piece by Composer in Residence Rami Levin, "Lincoln Quintet," with The Gettysburg Address narrated by Prof. Clayton Gray during the third movement
3 p.m., Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
Tickets are $15, free for Lake Forest College students, faculty, and staff.
October 8
Lecture by James McPherson: Listen to the lecture here.
McPherson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Princeton University professor emeritus who has published numerous books on Civil War-era history.
8:00 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, Lake Forest
Sponsored by the Oppenheimer Family Foundation