USM, National WWI Museum and Memorial to Co-Host Annual Lincoln Event
Since 1999, the University of Saint Mary has hosted the annual Lincoln Event speaker series to spotlight the Hall Lincoln Collection, housed in USM’s Keleher Learning Commons (formerly De Paul Library).
Now, for the first time, USM will host the Lincoln Event off campus thanks to a partnership with the National WWI Museum and Memorial.
The 24th Lincoln Event, “The Unfinished Business of Democracy: Lincoln, Wilson, and the Issue of Race,” is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Feb. 21 at the National WWI Museum and Memorial Auditorium (2 Memorial Dr., Kansas City, MO 64108). The event is free with RSVP and will also be livestreamed through the Museum and Memorial YouTube account. Register at www.theworldwar.org/events/unfinished-business-democracy-lincoln-wilson-and-issue-race
Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson are two presidents who led the nation in fighting for a united democracy in wars of unexpected magnitude and duration. Dr. Chris Capozzola, Dr. Randall Jelks, and Dr. Kate Masur will lead the conversation on presidents, American history, and democracy.
About Kate Masur, Professor of History and Board of Visitors Professor at Northwestern University
Kate Masur specializes in the history of race, politics, and law in the United States. Her recent book, “Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction” (W. W. Norton, 2021), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History and winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize from the American Historical Association, the John Phillip Reid Book Award from the American Society for Legal History, and the John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History.
About Chris Capozzola, Professor of History, MacVicar Faculty Fellow, and Senior Associate Dean for Open Learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chris Capozzola’s research interests are in the history of citizenship, war, and the military in modern American history. His first book, “Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen” (Oxford University Press, 2008), examines the relationship between citizens, voluntary associations, and the federal government during World War I. “Uncle Sam Wants You” won the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize of the New England American Studies Association.
His next book, “Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century,” was published by Basic Books in 2020. A portion of this project won the annual Cold War Essay Prize given by the John Adams Center at the Virginia Military Institute.
About Randal Jelks, Professor of American Studies and African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas
Randal Jelks is the author of the two award-winning books “African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights Struggle in Grand Rapids” and “Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography.” His latest book is titled “Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans: Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver and Muhammad Ali.” Jelks has recently contributed to a collection of essays titled “42 Today: Jack Robinson and His Legacy” edited by Michael Long. His forthcoming book is “Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America” (Lawrence Hill Books, Chicago, Fall 2021). His writings have appeared in the Boston Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, as well as blogs, journals, newspapers, and periodicals. He is the co-editor of the academic journal “American Studies.” Jelks serves as an executive producer of a documentary film, “I, Too, Sing America: Langston Hughes Unfurled.”
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