Center’s Video-on-Demand Archive

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• UIS Live Webinar: "Before the Ballots Are Cast: Previewing Key 2026 Primary Races" (February 24, 2026)
• UIS Live Webinar Panel: "From City Halls to Statehouses: Lessons from the 2025 Elections" (November 20, 2025)
• UIS Webinar "What You Need to Know About the 2025 Government Shutdown" (Oct. 21, 2025)
• UIS Lunch and Learn: “Understanding Political Polarization” (October 16, 2025)
• Samuel K. Gove Legislative Internship Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony - 10/27/2025
• The First Amendment Under Stress: Constitution Day Panel - 09/17/2025
• CSPL Constitution Day Showcase - 09/17/2025
• Raising Politically Engaged Kids Community Panel - 09/16/2025
• CSPL Showcase 2024 - 09/25/2024
• Sangamon Experience and NPR Illinois "Echoes of Change" - 07/26/2024
• Policy Summit and Social Innovation Workshop - April 23-24, 2024
• CINRC Seminar: "Board Fundraising Fundamentals" - 02/23/2024
• The Next 10: Local Journalism Panel - 11/06/2023
• Celebrating Constitution Day: How the Constitution Relates to Two Contemporary Issues - 09/18/2023
• CSPL Showcase 2023 - 09/14/2023
• CSPL Showcase 2022
• Public Policy Forum Webinars: Gun Violence and Mass Shootings
• Public Policy Forum Webinars: The Conflict in Ukraine
• Community Health Roundtable Webinars
• Reform: Restoration, Revitalization, and Representation Webinars
• Citizens Club of Springfield: Public Policy Forums
• CSPL Vision 2021 and Beyond
• Lincoln Legacy Lecture 2016: Lincoln & Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Equality-10/20/2016
  Dr. Michael Burlingame, Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies, presented opening remarks on “Lincoln’s Changing Thoughts on Reconstruction,” and delivered the first lecture, “Reconstruction as a Bourgeois Revolution,” prepared by Dr. Allen Guelzo, Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College, who was unable to attend.  Guest speaker, Dr. Brooks Simpson, Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University, presented the second lecture, “Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction: Did Booth’s Bullet Change History.”
• Lincoln Legacy Lecture 2015: Lincoln and Voting Rights–10/15/15
  The featured speakers were 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’s Associates Presidential Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Oklahoma. Vorenberg spoke on “Voting Rights and the Meaning of Freedom: The View from the Civil War Era” and Gaddie spoke on “Citizenship and Voting Rights in the Modern Era.”
• Lincoln Legacy Lecture 2014: Lincoln’s Funeral – 10/16/2014
  This year’s featured speakers — James L. Swanson, senior legal scholar at The Heritage Foundation, spoke on “‘I give you my sprig of lilac’: The Death and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln” and Dr. Richard Wrightman Fox, Professor of history at the University of Southern California, spoke on “What We’ve Forgotten about Lincoln’s Funeral, and What We’ve Never Known.”
• Lincoln Legacy Lecture 2013: Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address- 11/19/2013 This year’s featured speakers — Dr. Martin P. Johnson, Assistant Professor of history at Miami University of Ohio-Hamilton, spoke on “Lincoln’s Journey to Gettysburg” and Dr. Joseph R. Fornieri, Professor of political science at Rochester Institute of Technology, spoke on “Abraham Lincoln’s Political Faith in the Gettysburg Address.”
• Lincoln Legacy Lecture 2012: Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation- 10/11/2012 This year’s featured speakers — Dr. Allen Guelzo, Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College, spoke on “Four Roads to Emancipation” and Author Ron Soodalter, spoke about “A Blight on the Nation: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today.”
• Lincoln Legacy Lecture 2011: Lincoln and the Civil War -10/13/2011 This year’s featured speakers — Dr. Michael Burlingame, the Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies, UIS, spoke on “Lincoln as the Indispensable Man: The Central Role of His Leadership in Determining the Outcome of the Civil War” and Dr. Lucas Morel, the Lewis G. Term Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University, spoke about “War and Remembrance in Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address.”
• Lincoln Legacy Lecture 2010: Lincoln and Race –10/7/2010
  This year’s featured speakers — Dr. Michael Burlingame, the Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies, UIS, spoke on “Abraham Lincoln: ‘The White Man’s or the Black Man’s President’?” and Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr., the Margaret L. Wepner Distinguished Professor in Political Science, UIS, spoke on “After Lincoln: The Counter-Attack of White Supremacy.”
• Lincoln Legacy Lecture 2009: Lincoln and the Environment – 0/15/2009
  This year’s featured speaker — Dr. Mark Fiege, associate professor of History at Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, spoke on “Land of Lincoln: Environemental History and the 16th President.”
• Lincoln Legacy Lecture 2008: Lincoln and Presidential Campaign Politics – 10/15/2008
  This year’s featured speakers — Dr. Jennifer Weber, assistant professor of History at the University of Kansas spoke on “How Lincoln Handled the Antiwar Movement”, and Dr. Silvana Siddali, associate professor of History at St. Louis University spoke on “Lincoln and the Constitution in Civil War Era Presidential Campaigns.”
• Lincoln Legacy Lecture 2007: Lincoln and the Law – 10/4/2007 Dr. Mark E. Steiner, professor of law at South Texas College of Law, will speak on “‘The Sober Judgement of Courts’: Lincoln, Lawyers, and the Rule of Law”; and Dr. Brian R. Dirck, associate professor of history at Anderson University in Anderson, Indiana, whose topic will be “Abraham Lincoln: The Lawyer in the White House.” This year’s 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.
• Lincoln Legacy Lecture 2006: Lincoln and America’s Faith – 10/26/2006 Dr. Mark A. Noll on “Lincoln, Providence and the Bible” and Dr. Ronald C. White, Jr. on “Abraham Lincoln’s Sermon on the Mount”.
• Lincoln Legacy Lecture 2005: Lincoln and Economic Opportunity – Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series on Lincoln and Economic Opportunity featuring Dr. Allen C. Guelzo on “Lincoln’s Declaration of Economic Independence” (10/13/05), Dr. Michael F. Holt on “Lincoln’s Whigs: Expanding Economic Opportunities” (10/20/05), and Dr. Gabor S. Boritt on “Lincoln and the Right to Rise” (10/26/05)
• Lincoln Legacy Lecture 2004: Civil Liberties and Lincoln's Presidency  – 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 “Lincoln’s Presidential Virtues” (10/21/04).