2022 Lincoln Legacy Lecture Workshop

The Center for Lincoln Studies at UIS is pleased to announce the second annual Lincoln Legacy Lecture Educator Workshop. The Center invites up to twenty K-12 social studies and preservice educators to participate in a 1 1/2 hour workshop on Lincoln and African-Americans at the UIS Student Union. Participants will work with professor Jonathan White to examine letters of African-Americans to Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. Prior to the workshop, they will receive a free copy of his newest book, To Address You as My Friend: African Americans’ Letters to Abraham Lincoln. The book is a remarkable new collection of over 120 letters that Professor White has discovered at the Library of Congress and the National Archives. Participants will be expected to read about 15 to 20 of the letters before the workshop.
Lincoln artwork featuring photos of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass and the text "Abraham Lincoln, Tale of Two Cities, Government cannot endure half slave half free."

The University of Illinois Springfield is proud to announce “Making Our History: Artists Render Lincoln’s Legacies,” an innovative physical and digital art exhibit funded by the University of Illinois Presidential Initiative: Expanding the Impact of the Arts and Humanities.

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Mary and James Beaumont Endowed Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series

The UIS Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series was inaugurated in 2002. It is now known as the Mary and James Beaumont Endowed Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series after a generous gift was recently given to the university by the Beaumonts. The series is a part of the UIS Center for Lincoln Studies, which opened on Feb. 12, 2021. The Center is a national base for scholarship, teaching, and public history about Lincoln’s life, leadership, and legacy. In addition, it allows students to collaborate on research, history, and public policy projects with Lincoln scholars.

Lincoln Statue

WHAT: The University of Illinois Springfield Center for Lincoln Studies invites the public to attend a Juneteenth Lecture Series discussion on “Cause & Effect: Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation” with professors Edna Greene Medford and Holly Pinheiro. This event is a collaborative program hosted by UIS, the Illinois State Museum and Juneteenth, Inc.

WHEN: 1-3:30 p.m. Friday, June 17, 2022

WHERE: Illinois State Museum, 502 S. Spring St., Springfield

The cover of Graham A. Peck's book "Making an Antislavery Nation"

Graham Peck is the Wepner Distinguished Professor of Lincoln Studies in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Springfield.  The following is a modified version of the Wepner Distinguished Professor Investiture Lecture, delivered Thursday, September 24, 2020.

The cover of Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame

Michael Burlingame, holder of the Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at University of Illinois Springfield, is the author of Abraham Lincoln: A Life, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, and Lincoln and the Civil War, as well as the editor of many collections of Lincoln primary source materials. A graduate of Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University, he taught at Connecticut College in New London for many years before joining the faculty at University of Illinois Springfield in 2009.

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