Durham Noon Lectures return with seminar on Abraham Lincoln

More has been written about Abraham Lincoln than about any other American. Yet very little of this literature sees Lincoln as he was in his times — as a man of ideas, deep intellectual curiosity and a textbook Victorian “doubter.”

Partnership information The lecture is sponsored by sponsored by the Durham Museum and is offered through the Time Travelers partnership, which provides free museum admission for medical center employees, students, and their immediate family with a valid identification badge, while also offering lectures, workshops and other events on the medical center campus.

UNMC employees are invited to a noon lecture on Tuesday, Jan. 18 to hear Dr. Allen Guelzo, Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and a professor of history at Gettysburg College, present a truly fresh look at the nation’s 16th president.

The lecture will be in the Sorrell Center, Room 2018.

Dr. Guelzo offers the first “intellectual biography” of a man whose grasp of the powerful currents of religion, philosophy and political economy shaped not only the outcome of a great civil war but also the outlines of American national development for the following generation.

Dr. Guelzo, won both the Lincoln Prize and the Abraham Lincoln Institute Prize in 2000 for his book “Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President.” He did it again in 2005 with his book, “Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America,” making him the first double Lincoln Laureate in the history of both prizes.

Employees are encouraged to bring lunch.