James O. Horton to deliver keynote at exhibit opening
“Abraham Lincoln and Slavery in American History and Memory” will be the topic of the keynote address delivered by renowned historian and author Dr. James Oliver Horton at the opening of the exhibit, “Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation” on Thursday, October 2, 2008, at 4:30 PM in the Mary Dod Brown Chapel. Doors to the exhibit will open at 3:45 PM, and light refreshments will be served.
Dr. Horton is widely known and respected as the editor and author – often in collaboration with his wife, Dr. Lois E. Horton – of numerous books, the most recent being Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory (New Press, 2006). Members of the campus and surrounding communities may remember his previous visit to Lincoln University in the late 1990s, shortly after the publication of the Hortons’ book, In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860 (Oxford University Press, 1997), which was a nominee for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in History. Another Horton collaboration, Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America (Rutgers University Press, 2001) was a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2001.
The Hortons also co-authored the book Slavery and the Making of American History (Oxford University Press 2004), the companion book for the WNET PBS series of the same name which aired in February, 2005.
Dr. Horton, who is the Benjamin Banneker Professor Emeritus of American Studies and History at The George Washington University (Washington, D.C.), is also a member of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, appointed by the President, the Senate, and the House of Representatives.
Organized by the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York City, in cooperation with the American Library Association (ALA), the traveling panel exhibition, which will remain on Lincoln University’s campus through November 14, 2008, has been made possible through major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, created by Congress and charged with planning the national celebration of Lincoln’s 200th birthday. “Forever Free” draws upon original documents in the collections of the Huntington Library and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. It was curated by John Rhodehamel, Norris Foundation Curator of American historical manuscripts at the Huntington Library. The large panels that make up the exhibit feature facsimile copies and enlargements of these original documents.
Lincoln University of Pennsylvania’s Langston Hughes Memorial Library was selected as one of 63 libraries nationwide to host the exhibit for six weeks during the period between 2006-2009 (with 2009 marking Abraham Lincoln’s bicentennial). Because of the closure of the library for renovations, the exhibit will instead be mounted in the Fellowship Hall of the Mary Dod Brown Memorial Chapel, which is across the street from the library’s current temporary quarters. In addition to Dr. Horton’s keynote address, the opening program will also feature the performance of Civil War era music by the Lincoln University concert choir. The public is warmly invited to attend this event and is urged to contact Special Collections Librarian Susan Pevar (484-365-7266, spevar@lincoln.edu) for more information, or to schedule a visit to the exhibit at another time.
Dr. Horton is widely known and respected as the editor and author – often in collaboration with his wife, Dr. Lois E. Horton – of numerous books, the most recent being Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory (New Press, 2006). Members of the campus and surrounding communities may remember his previous visit to Lincoln University in the late 1990s, shortly after the publication of the Hortons’ book, In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860 (Oxford University Press, 1997), which was a nominee for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in History. Another Horton collaboration, Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America (Rutgers University Press, 2001) was a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2001.
The Hortons also co-authored the book Slavery and the Making of American History (Oxford University Press 2004), the companion book for the WNET PBS series of the same name which aired in February, 2005.
Dr. Horton, who is the Benjamin Banneker Professor Emeritus of American Studies and History at The George Washington University (Washington, D.C.), is also a member of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, appointed by the President, the Senate, and the House of Representatives.
Organized by the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York City, in cooperation with the American Library Association (ALA), the traveling panel exhibition, which will remain on Lincoln University’s campus through November 14, 2008, has been made possible through major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, created by Congress and charged with planning the national celebration of Lincoln’s 200th birthday. “Forever Free” draws upon original documents in the collections of the Huntington Library and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. It was curated by John Rhodehamel, Norris Foundation Curator of American historical manuscripts at the Huntington Library. The large panels that make up the exhibit feature facsimile copies and enlargements of these original documents.
Lincoln University of Pennsylvania’s Langston Hughes Memorial Library was selected as one of 63 libraries nationwide to host the exhibit for six weeks during the period between 2006-2009 (with 2009 marking Abraham Lincoln’s bicentennial). Because of the closure of the library for renovations, the exhibit will instead be mounted in the Fellowship Hall of the Mary Dod Brown Memorial Chapel, which is across the street from the library’s current temporary quarters. In addition to Dr. Horton’s keynote address, the opening program will also feature the performance of Civil War era music by the Lincoln University concert choir. The public is warmly invited to attend this event and is urged to contact Special Collections Librarian Susan Pevar (484-365-7266, spevar@lincoln.edu) for more information, or to schedule a visit to the exhibit at another time.
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