Lincoln and the Origins of the New Birth of Freedom
Tue, Jan 16
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Mississippi State University Professor Andrew Lang will speak on Lincoln's long process in coming to his concept of an American "New Birth of Freedom." A Zoom-only Event.
Time
Jan 16, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86907990379
Guests
About the Event
Join us for the first Lincoln Group of DC meeting of the new year on January 16.
Andrew F. Lang, associate professor of history at Mississippi State University will present "When Americans Could Not Escape History: Abraham Lincoln and the Origins of the New Birth of Freedom." This talk will explore Lincoln's philosophy of history and Americans' duty to accord to the demands of history rather than living only in the relativistic present. Professor Lang argues that long even before his presidency—and thus certainly long before the Gettysburg Address—Lincoln had already formulated his concept of a "new birth of freedom." This program is not to be missed.
Professor Lang is the author of In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America (LSU Press, 2017), which received the Tom Watson Brown Book Award from the Society of Civil War Historians. His recent book, A Contest of Civilizations:…