Freehling to Lecture on Lincoln, April 26-27
On April 26 and 27, William W. Freehling will deliver the Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History in the Hill Memorial Library Lecture Hall on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge. Dr. Freehling’s lectures are entitled “Lincoln’s Room for Growth: A Great President’s Early Presidential Falterings.”
A dynamic lecturer and leading historian of the 19th-century South, Dr. Freehling has written several books on the sectional crisis and the Civil War, including The Road to Disunion and The South Versus the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War. Dr. Freehling’s books have received many awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Frank L. Owlsey Award, and the Jefferson Davis Prize.
Dr. Freehling will deliver three lectures in the Hill Lecture Hall:
Wednesday, April 26, 7:30 p.m., “Lincoln and Fort Pickens”
Thursday, April 27, 10:30 a.m., “Lincoln and Prewar Compromise”
Thursday, April 27, 2:00 p.m., “Lincoln’s Three Thirteenth Amendments”
The Fleming Lecture series was established in 1936 and is named in memory of Walter Lynwood Fleming, a former professor of history at LSU who distinguished himself as a scholar of the Reconstruction period. In the more than half century since their founding, the Fleming Lectures have helped revise many of the interpretations held by historians in the 1930s, including those of Professor Fleming, on the evils of the Reconstruction era. Not without irony, then, the lectures named in his memory have come to testify to the changing nature of the southern past and southern history. The Fleming lectures are free and the public is invited.
