Summer 2019 Lincoln Lore will be available online throughout the summer with articles by Harold Holzer on his book Monument Man, Mark B. Pohlad on Josephine Cobb of the National Archives, Frank Williams on Edwin Stanton, an interview with Jay Winik...
2019 Rolland Lecture
Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt: A Conversation on Presidential Leadership
Presented by Harold Holzer and Craig Symonds
May 16, 2019, 7 p.m.
Main Theater, Allen County Public Library
Both Lincoln and FDR faced and overcame nation-threatening crises during their presidencies—yet approached their leadership challenges from completely different life and educational experiences. One of them—Roosevelt—at least had the opportunity to study and learn from Lincoln; the other used George Washington as his model. How did each leader deal with Congress—the military—the media—a restless electorate—as well as mortal threats to the very survival of this country? Harold Holzer, an award-winning Lincoln scholar who now heads the Roosevelt House Public Policy institute in New York (in Franklin and Eleanor’s own surviving town house), and Craig Symonds, an award-winning Civil War historian who now specializes in World War II military history, are uniquely qualified to bring their combined perspectives to the most defining historical questions of all: What is leadership? What makes—or breaks—a leader?
This programs begins at 7 p.m. on May 16, 2019 in the Theater at the Allen County Public Library’s Main Library. The programs are free and open to the public.
For more information visit: http://www.lincolnbicentennial.org/event/2019-rolland-lecture-abraham-lincoln-and-franklin-d-roosevelt-a-conversation-on-presidential-leadership
Summer 2019 Lincoln Lore
Harriet Tubman Presented by Kathryn Harris
Kathryn Harris, retired library services director at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, Illinois, and past president of the Abraham Lincoln Association. Ms. Harris will portray Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman on Sunday, April 28. Programs begin at...