Class Year
2016
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
4-17-2014
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
The annual Lincoln Lyceum Lecture took place on Thursday, March 27th at 7:30pm in Gettysburg College’s Mara Auditorium. This year’s Lincoln Lyceum guest speaker was Dr. James Oakes, two- time winner of the Lincoln Prize for his books The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass (2008 Prize) and Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics and Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861 -1865 (2013 Prize). He has previously taught at Princeton University and Northwestern University and is currently the Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. [excerpt]
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Recommended Citation
Sutter, Megan A., "“The Scorpion’s Sting”: Dr. James Oakes and the 2014 Lincoln Lyceum Lecture" (2014). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 45.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/45
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