Lincoln Legacy Lecture will examine "Lincoln and the Environment"

WHAT: The 2009 Lincoln Legacy Lecture presented by the University of Illinois Springfield featuring Dr. Mark Fiege, associate professor of History at Colorado State University.

WHEN: Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

Media Interview Availability: 5:00 – 5:30 p.m. (Outside the PAC Restaurant on the lower level of the Public Affairs Center at UIS)

WHERE: Brookens Auditorium on the lower level of Brookens Library at UIS
(The event will be available via live webcast and video on demand at http://www.uis.edu/technology/uislive.html)

DETAILS: The Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series brings nationally known scholars to Springfield to discuss issues that, while they are of contemporary interest, also engaged Abraham Lincoln and citizens of his era.

This year’s featured speaker – Dr. Mark Fiege, associate professor of History and William E. Morgan Chair of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University, Ft. Collins – will focus on Lincoln’s experience of nature. Dr. Michael Burlingame, professor of History and Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at UIS, will make opening remarks and moderate the discussion.

In his lecture, “Land of Lincoln: Environmental History and the 16th President," Dr. Fiege will examine how Lincoln’s unique political thought, rhetoric and leadership were grounded in his experience of nature – both the natural environment and human nature – while growing up and working in the forests, fields and rivers of pioneer settlements.

For more information, contact Barbara Ferrara at the Center for State Policy and Leadership at 217/206-7094.