KU News Release

KU, Labette Community college team up to celebrate Abraham Lincoln

LAWRENCE — Continuing Education and the Dole Institute of Politics, both at the University of Kansas, are partnering with Labette County Community College to present a series of broadcasts on the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth.

The series will feature four of the nation’s leading experts on the 16th president. All programs are free and open to the public. All broadcasts will air at the Student Union Conference Room 1 at Labette Community College, 200 S. 14th St., in Parsons.

Richard Norton Smith, the Dole Institute’s first permanent director and former director of the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill., will kick off the series at 4 p.m. Feb. 8. His talk is titled “Abraham Lincoln: 200 Years.”

Michael Burlingame, a professor emeritus at Connecticut College, will discuss his long-awaited two-volume biography “Abraham Lincoln: A Life” at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 17.

Los Angeles-based historian Ronald C. White Jr., author of the newly published “A. Lincoln,” will speak at 7:30 p.m. March 3.

KU assistant professor of history Jennifer Weber will conclude the series March 10 with a discussion of Lincoln’s challenging 1864 campaign for re-election. The program begins at 7:30 p.m.

For more information about the series or the speakers, visit the Dole Institute's Web site.

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