Center鈥檚 Video-on-Demand

  • - 09/25/2024
  • - 07/26/2024
  • - April 23-24, 2024
  • - 02/23/2024
  • - 11/06/2023
  • - 09/18/2023
  • - 09/14/2023
  • -10/20/2016
    Dr. Michael Burlingame, Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies, presented opening remarks on 鈥淟incoln鈥檚 Changing Thoughts on Reconstruction,鈥� and delivered the first lecture, 鈥淩econstruction as a Bourgeois Revolution,鈥� prepared by Dr. Allen Guelzo, Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College, who was unable to attend.听 Guest speaker, Dr. Brooks Simpson, Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University, presented the second lecture, 鈥淎braham Lincoln and Reconstruction: Did Booth鈥檚 Bullet Change History.鈥�
  • 鈥�10/15/15
    The featured speakers were听Dr. Michael Burlingame, Chancellor Naomi Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies, UIS; Dr. Michael Vorenberg, Associate Professor of History, Brown University; and Dr. Ronald Keith Gaddie, President鈥檚 Associates Presidential Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Oklahoma. Vorenberg spoke on 鈥淰oting Rights and the Meaning of Freedom: The View from the Civil War Era鈥� and Gaddie spoke on 鈥淐itizenship and Voting Rights in the Modern Era.鈥�
  • 听鈥�听10/16/2014
    This year鈥檚 featured speakers 鈥� James L. Swanson, senior legal scholar at The Heritage Foundation, spoke on 鈥溾�業 give you my sprig of lilac鈥�: The Death and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln鈥� and Dr. Richard Wrightman Fox, Professor of history at the University of Southern California, spoke on 鈥淲hat We鈥檝e Forgotten about Lincoln鈥檚 Funeral, and What We鈥檝e Never Known.鈥�
  • 听11/19/2013 This year鈥檚 featured speakers 鈥� Dr.听Martin P. Johnson, Assistant Professor of history at Miami University of Ohio-Hamilton, spoke on 鈥淟incoln鈥檚 Journey to Gettysburg鈥� and Dr. Joseph R. Fornieri, Professor of political science at Rochester Institute of Technology, spoke on 鈥淎braham Lincoln鈥檚 Political Faith in the Gettysburg Address.鈥�
  • 听10/11/2012 This year鈥檚 featured speakers 鈥� Dr.听Allen Guelzo, Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College, spoke on 鈥淔our Roads to Emancipation鈥� and Author Ron Soodalter, spoke about 鈥淎 Blight on the Nation: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today.鈥�
  • 听-10/13/2011 This year鈥檚 featured speakers 鈥� Dr. Michael Burlingame, the Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies, UIS, spoke on 鈥淟incoln as the Indispensable Man: The Central Role of His Leadership in Determining the Outcome of the Civil War鈥� and Dr. Lucas Morel, the Lewis G. Term Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University, spoke about 鈥淲ar and Remembrance in Lincoln鈥檚 Second Inaugural Address.鈥�
  • 听鈥�10/7/2010
    This year鈥檚 featured speakers 鈥� Dr. Michael Burlingame, the Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies, UIS, spoke on 鈥淎braham Lincoln: 鈥楾he White Man鈥檚 or the Black Man鈥檚 President鈥�?鈥� and Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr., the Margaret L. Wepner Distinguished Professor in Political Science, UIS, spoke on 鈥淎fter Lincoln: The Counter-Attack of White Supremacy.鈥�
  • 听鈥� 0/15/2009
    This year鈥檚 featured speaker 鈥� Dr. Mark Fiege, associate professor of History at Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, spoke on 鈥淟and of Lincoln: Environemental History and the 16th President.鈥�
  • 听鈥� 10/15/2008
    This year鈥檚 featured speakers 鈥� Dr. Jennifer Weber, assistant professor of History at the University of Kansas spoke on 鈥淗ow Lincoln Handled the Antiwar Movement鈥�, and Dr. Silvana Siddali, associate professor of History at St. Louis University spoke on 鈥淟incoln and the Constitution in Civil War Era Presidential Campaigns.鈥�
  • 听鈥� 10/4/2007 Dr. Mark E. Steiner, professor of law at South Texas College of Law, will speak on 鈥溾�楾he Sober Judgement of Courts鈥�: Lincoln, Lawyers, and the Rule of Law鈥�; and Dr. Brian R. Dirck, associate professor of history at Anderson University in Anderson, Indiana, whose topic will be 鈥淎braham Lincoln: The Lawyer in the White House.鈥� This year鈥檚 lectures are presented in memory of Professor Phillip Shaw Paludan, Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at UIS, who had served as host of the series and who passed away on August 1.
  • 听鈥� 10/26/2006 Dr. Mark A. Noll on 鈥淟incoln, Providence and the Bible鈥� and Dr. Ronald C. White, Jr. on 鈥淎braham Lincoln鈥檚 Sermon on the Mount鈥�.
  • 听鈥� Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series on Lincoln and Economic Opportunity featuring Dr. Allen C. Guelzo on 鈥淟incoln鈥檚 Declaration of Economic Independence鈥� (10/13/05), Dr. Michael F. Holt on 鈥淟incoln鈥檚 Whigs: Expanding Economic Opportunities鈥� (10/20/05), and Dr. Gabor S. Boritt on 鈥淟incoln and the Right to Rise鈥� (10/26/05)
  • 听鈥� Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series on Ethics and Power featuring Mark E. Neely, Jr. on "Civil Liberties in Lincoln's Presidency" (10/7/04), Mark W. Summers on "The Politics of Patronage in Lincoln's Era" (10/14/04), and William L. Miller on 鈥淟incoln鈥檚 Presidential Virtues鈥� (10/21/04).