Abraham Lincoln Institute Symposiums
“The Latest in Lincoln Scholarship”
Fourth Annual Symposium
Abraham Lincoln Institute, Inc. (ALI), provides free, ongoing education on the life, career, and legacy of President Abraham Lincoln. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., ALI offers resources for educators, governmental and community leaders, and the general public through symposia, seminars, lectures, and special events.
National Museum of American History
Washington, D.C.
March 23, 2001
Co-sponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Institute of the Mid-Atlantic, Inc. and the Smithsonian
Professor Robert Bray (Introduced by the late Steven Lee Carson) › ‘He Will be Good/ But God Knows When’: Lincoln, ‘Infidelity,’ and Nineteenth Century Evangelicalism
Illinois Wesleyan University
Professor Howard Jones (Introduced by Edward C. Smith) › Abraham Lincoln: Racist?
University of Alabama
Professor Manisha Sinha (Introduced by Jennifer Fleischner) › Allies for Emancipation?: Lincoln and Black Abolitionists
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
David W. Blight (Introduced by Terry Alford) › ‘Kin’: The Political and Rhetorical Relationship Between Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
Amherst College
Professor Michael Vorenberg (Introduced by William C. Harris) › ‘The King’s Cure’: Abraham Lincoln, the Thirteenth Amendment, and the Fate of Slavery
Brown University
Speakers’ Panel › Responding to Informal Comments From Each Other, and Questions From the Audience
Moderator: Paul H. Verduin
