Lecture - Abraham Lincoln's "Confession"Event DetailsDate(s) & Time(s):: November 4, 2012 at 2:00 PM until 4:00 PM Location: Museum of the Grand Prairie, Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve - Mahomet, IL Phone: 217-586-2612 Email: bgarvey@ccfpd.org Link: http://www.museumofthegrandprairie.org Event Description
Museum of the Grand Prairie, Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve, 600 N. Lombard, Mahomet, 2:00 P.M.
Return to event list.Stewart Winger, Professor of History at Illinois State University, is the author of Lincoln, Religion and Romantic Cultural Politics, a book which explores Lincoln’s Romantic Protestant vision for America’s identity and destiny through his major speeches. In this lecture, Winger investigates new information regarding Lincoln’s views and the Second Inaugural address. In a letter to Thurlow Weed just after the Second Inaugural, days before his death, Lincoln wrote that “whatever of humiliation there is in it, falls most directly on myself.” What was the “humiliation” Lincoln spoke of, and how did it apply to him? This remark presents an overlooked clue to the meaning of the Second Inaugural for Lincoln, and with that, the meaning of the Civil War. What was Lincoln confessing? Free. For information, (217) 586-2612 or bgarvey@ccfpd.org |
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