KU News Release

KU, Seward County 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 Seward County Community College/Area Technical School 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. The community college is located at 1801 N. Kansas in Liberal.

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 in Room SW 229 C&D. 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 in Room SW 229 C&D.

Los Angeles-based historian Ronald C. White Jr., author of the newly published “A. Lincoln,” will speak at 7:30 p.m. March 3 in Room SW 229 C&D.

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. in Room S214EW.

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

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