11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
The Old State Capitol, 6th and Adams, Springfield, Illinois
Lincoln, Immigrants and the Atlantic World
Dr. Louise Stevenson
Professor of History and American Studies
Franklin and Marshall College
Louise L. Stevenson writes about 19th century American cultural and intellectual life and transatlantic context. Lincoln in the Atlantic World follows her Scholarly Means to Evangelical Ends: the New Haven Scholars and the Transformation of Higher Learning in American, 1830-1890 (1986);
The Victorian Homefront: American Thought and Culture, 1860-1880 (1991, new edition 2001), and many ariticles and books on reading in everyday life including James Thomson's The Seasons in the 18th century, Uncle Tom's Cabin in the 19th century, and Harry Potter in the 21st century.
The Victorian Homefront: American Thought and Culture, 1860-1880 (1991, new edition 2001), and many ariticles and books on reading in everyday life including James Thomson's The Seasons in the 18th century, Uncle Tom's Cabin in the 19th century, and Harry Potter in the 21st century.
Dr. Jason Silverman
Ellison Capers Palmer, Jr. Professor of History
Winthrop University
Jason H. Silverman has taught History at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC, for 31 years. Previously he taught at Yale University for four years. Author or editor of 11 books, his recent work is Lincoln and the Immigrant, a 2015 publication by Southern University Press that inspired an exhibit in 2015 at President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldier's Home in Washington, D.C.
http://www.abrahamlincolnassociation.org/Symposium.aspx
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