March 07, 2008
ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND ABOLITIONISM
"ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND ABOLITIONISM" IS TOPIC OF FREE MARCH 7 LECTURE AT PSU BY JAMES BASKER, PRESIDENT OF GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY.
WHAT: Free lecture by Dr. James G. Basker at PSU as activity of the Oregon Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and the Civil War Round Table.
WHEN: Friday, March 7, 2008 starting at 2:30pm
WHERE: Smith Memorial Student Union Room 333 (1825 SW Broadway )
COST: Free and open to the public
INFO: Call (503)725-3917
The guest speaker is James Basker, PhD, president of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History at the New York Historical Society, who will talk about Lincoln, abolitionism and his connection to William Wilberforce. Basker is an Oregon native, and a graduate of Grants Pass High School who went on to complete his education at Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He is now a professor of Literary History at Barnard College, Columbia University. He has been awarded fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society, Yale University and Cambridge University. Basker is an elected fellow of the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Society of American Historians. He has published several books, including Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery (1660-1810), is currently working on a book about Samuel Johnson, Boswell and the problem of slavery; and is editing a series of reprints of antislavery texts from the period of 1760-1820.
