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Lincoln Bicentennial Lecture Series « University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

History Department at the University of Illinois University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

2008

Wednesday October 9 / 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Levis Faculty Center, 910 W. Illinois



Photograph of Civil War Soldiers

From Slavery to Emancipation Abraham Lincoln in African American Memory

Lecture by James O. Horton,
Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History Emeritus at The George Washington University,
and
Lois E. Horton,
Professor of History at George Mason University

The lecture is free and open to the public. This event is co-sponsored by a gift in honor of Timothy Garmager, the History Department, Chancellor's Office and Center for Advanced Study (www.history.uiuc.edu)

About the SpeakerS

James O. Horton, Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History Emeritus, George Washington University, director of the African American communities project of the National Museum of American History, and past president of the Organization of American Historians; and Lois E. Horton, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University. They are co-authors of two books on free blacks in the pre-Civil War North plus Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America; A History of the African American People; and co-editors of Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory.