Becoming Lincoln: From Conservative to Radical
Lecture by James Oakes, Professor of History and Graduate Center Chair in the Humanities, City University of New York
February 11, 2009 / 3:30pm to 5:00pm
2nd Floor, Levis Faculty Center
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 Speaker
James Oakes, Professor of History and Graduate Center Chair in the Humanities, City University of New York; author of two highly regarded books on the slave South, and most recently The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics.