Library of Congress Symposium on March 4 Commemorates Lincoln Bicentennial

Award-Winning Scholars Gather on 148th Anniversary of Lincoln's First Inauguration

(Vocus/PRWEB ) February 25, 2009 -- Law and backroom bedeviled Abraham Lincoln's accessible life, yet accepting admiral brought little reward, for he could not escape the weight of war and the affair of ancestral inequality. However, his words and accomplishments that shaped the country abide to bell today.

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The Library is allotment an all-day appointment on Wednesday, March 4, from 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. in the Coolidge Auditorium on the arena attic of the Thomas Jefferson Building, amid at 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C. Reservations may be beatific to specialevents (at) loc.gov.

Commemorating the 148th celebration of Lincoln's aboriginal countdown address, Harold Holzer will present a allocution at 9:30 a.m. blue-blooded "Lincoln Comes to Washington: The Journey of a President-Elect." Holzer, co-chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and chief carnality admiral for alien address at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is author, co-author, or editor of 33 books on Lincoln and the political ability of the Civil War era.

James M. McPherson will allege on "Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief" at 10:30 a.m. McPherson is the columnist of added than 15 books on the era of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. He has won abundant prizes including the Pulitzer Prize in History for his book "Battle Cry of Freedom" and the Pritzker Award for Lifetime
Achievement in Military Writing.

William Lee Miller will altercate Lincoln's attempt to transform ethics and accompany about a bigger compassionate of abandon at 11:20 a.m. Miller is a academic of belief and institutions at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and the columnist of "President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman."

At 1:30 p.m., Lucas E. Morel will present "Lincoln on Race, Equality and the Spirit of '76." Morel is the Garwood Visiting Research Fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University and the columnist of "Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government."

Lincoln's constant absorption in accent will be the accountable of a allocution accustomed at 2:30 p.m. by Douglas L. Wilson, columnist of "Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln" and "Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words."

At 3:20 p.m., Elizabeth D. Leonard will bear the final presentation of the symposium, "Ally on the Team of Rivals: Lincoln and His Point Man for Military Justice," in which she will altercate Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt, the president's arch of the War Department's Bureau of Military Justice. Leonard is the columnist of three books on the Civil War era, including her a lot of recent, "Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion After the Civil War."

The appointment is featured as accompaniment programming to the Library exhibition "With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition," which opened on Feb. 12 and runs through May 9. More advice can be begin at www.loc.gov/lincoln/. The exhibition and its civic bout are fabricated accessible by the acceptable abutment of Union Pacific Corp.

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