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The first group of landgrant universities created in 1867 by the acts signed into law by lincoln five years earlier, and the only in lincolns home state. One reason i was drawn to take the job as law dean is the prospect that the university of illinois can he come linked with ellington in the way that the university of virginia is associated with Thomas Jefferson mind, was not as great of a president or person. Why bob woodward . That might be the easiest. Many consider the New York Times the newspaper of record. Bob woodward is americas reporter of record at the post. He is responsible for tw...

At the university of richmond on the subject of her latest book remembering the civil war. She returned to richmond the following june to accept the Jefferson Davis award for the same book. Her first book, burying the dead but not the past, is a personal favorite of mine kerry as she well knows. She also edited an edition of a travel account which unfortunately is outofprint and unavailable. As carrie knows, i have given a talk on her first book i think as many times as you have. [laughter] it is a branch of history that so many people do not know about and since we are in the postwar period a...

Combat ourselves for racial peac peace. The trenches that we have dug together around santiago shall the eternal resting place for all that separates us in our business and civil situations. Heres booker t. Washington offering the ultimate reconciliationist message trying to unite the United States in sectional and racial peace, not in a purposeful forgetting of the past, but in acknowledgment of the sacrifice of the devotion of black men that they had always shown to the United States. Of course, this reconciliation between the races was not to be at that moment, but neither was there as much...

Successors, including richard nixon, Ronald Reagan and barack obama. This focuses on president relevance,ontinuing 150 years after his death. This is about an hour. I am the dean of the college of law here at the university of illinois. On behalf of the law school in entire university, i am pleased to welcome you here today for the first lecture in a new series hosted by the college of law and title the new lincoln lectures, what lincoln means in the 21st century. During this series, we will come over the next few years, bring in 10 or so ideologically Diverse National thought leaders to refle...

Dead but not the past, is a personal favorite of mine kerry as she well knows. Also edited an addition edition of a travel account which unfortunately is outofprint and unavailable. Carriey knows as knows, i have given a talk on her first book i think it many times as you have. [laughter] branch of history that so many people do not know about and since we are in the postwar sesquicentennial timeframe, it is especially important. Coeditedney also with gallagher, our last speaker, a book about the overland campaign. We keep it all in the family here at the museum. Chance today if you are intere...