The Newberry Library (Venue Partner)
60 W Walton St
312.943.9090
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Abraham Lincoln painting, Healy Portrait
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Saturday Oct 10, 2009 (11am–noon)
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Directions: The Newberry Library is located at 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL, directly across from Chicago’s famed Washington Square Park and just a few blocks west of Michigan Avenue.
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Speaker: Douglas L. Wilson, Knox College
The George A. Lawrence Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and Co-director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College will open the Newberry's Lincoln exhibitions, With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition (a Library of Congress exhibition) and Honest Abe of the West, an exhibition of Newberry Library materials. Dr. Wilson will lecture on how Lincoln used words—in his public speeches, private correspondence, jokes, and stories—to persuade, disarm, criticize, comfort, inspire, and lead a nation. How did the folksy, self-educated "rail-splitter" become one of America's most eloquent and powerful writers? A question and answer period with the audience will follow the program.
Admission is free. No reservation is required.
