RICHMOND —
(Editor's note: This story is one in a series the Richmond Register is publishing in conjunction with the sesquicentennial of the Battle of Richmond, which will be reenacted Aug. 25-26.)
Special to the Register
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Dr. Mark E. Neely Jr. will speak at Eastern Kentucky University as part of the 2012-13 EKU Chautauqua Lecture Series, “Crossroads,” and “Shadows of Blue and Gray: The Civil War in Kentucky,” the University’s year-long observance of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War.
Neely, the McCabe-Greer Professor of the History of the Civil War Era at Penn State, will present “Lincoln and the Constitution” on Thursday, Aug. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Success Building’s O’Donnell Hall.
The presentation, free and open to
the public, is sponsored by EKU’s Department of History.
“Since 9/11, questions of presidential power and civil liberties in wartime have led to careful scrutiny of Abraham Lincoln’s legacy,” Neely said. “This lecture will examine the most controversial parts of Lincoln’s record, and offer a system for comparing and rating presidential administrations on civil liberties in wartime.”
Neely’s 1991 book, “The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties,” won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for History, as well as the Bell I. Wiley Prize. “The Last Best Hope of Earth” received the Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award in 1997 from the National Jesuit Honor Society.
His most recent publication is “Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War” and he is at work on a history of the Democratic Party during the Civil War.
He is also the author of “Was the Civil War a Total War?” which appeared in Civil War History magazine and is considered one of the most influential articles written on the Civil War.
The Yale alumnus holds a bachelor’s degree in American Studies and a doctoral degree in history.
Neely’s lecture is the first of 15 lectures planned for this year’s Chautauqua series, which will explore the many dimensions of crossroads – including personal, public, contemporary, historical, social, political, cultural, religious, moral, scientific and economic aspects.
“Shadows of Blue and Gray: The Civil War in Kentucky” will feature numerous lectures, as well as an art exhibit, an Oxford-style debate, colloquium, concert, special displays and specially tailored academic courses throughout the academic year.
For more information about the 2012-13 EKU Chautauqua Lectures, visit www.chautauqua.eku.edu or contact Chautauqua Lecture Coordinator Dr. Minh Nguyen at minh.nguyen@eku.edu.
To learn more about EKU’s Civil War sesquicentennial observance, visit www.eku.edu/news/sesquicentennial or contact Dr. Tom Appleton at 859-622-1365 or tom.appleton@eku.edu.
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