Lincoln on the Civil War

This series allows participants to examine and appreciate anew the rhetoric, political skill, and moral transformation of the sixteenth president. His words are a window into the mind of a canny politician and deep thinker considering the central questions of Civil War era: the nature of democratic participation; how to navigate the turbulent partisanship and regionalism of the antebellum era; the secession crisis and outbreak of civil war; the meaning of the nation's bloodiest conflict; and, finally, the task of "binding up the nation's wounds" and protecting the newly won citizenship of African Americans at the close of the war.