1861: Lincoln’s Defining Year as President
A FREE Lincoln Lecture series presented by Professor, Ron Keller at the Lincoln Heritage Museum

[November 04, 2016]  LINCOLN - The Lincoln Heritage Museum on the campus of Lincoln College is hosting its third lecture in the lecture series, Learn from Lincoln, Live like Lincoln: The Nation’s Choice Lecture Series. On Monday, November 7 at 6:30 p.m. Ron Keller will present “1861: Lincoln’s Defining Year as President.”

Keller’s lecture, “1861: Lincoln’s Defining Year as President,” encompasses President Lincoln’s first year in office as president. No other incoming president has faced a comparable challenge to the strength of the country.

Highlights from the lecture include party structures, tensions between Republicans and Democrats, and Lincoln’s “team of rivals.” The lecture will give attendees a better understanding of the highest office in the country in 1861.

The Learn from Lincoln, Live like Lincoln Lecture series provides a unique examination of what we can learn from the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln today.

The Lincoln Lecture series is free and open to the public Attendees should enter the Lincoln Center through the Lincoln Heritage Museum’s entrance and volunteers will direct the public to the lecture room.

Keller is associate professor of history and political science at Lincoln College, and managing director of the Abraham Lincoln Center for Character Development and past director of the Lincoln Heritage Museum. Keller co-authored several books including “Abraham Lincoln in Logan County,” and “A Respect For the Office: Letters From the Presidents”. Keller is presently writing “Abraham Lincoln as State Legislator”, due out in late 2017. Keller’s specialty is in American political history, and has presented on the subject of Abraham Lincoln statewide and nationally.

For more information, please contact the Lincoln Heritage Museum at [phone] or [e-mail].

[Christina Xamis
Public Relations & Media Manager
Lincoln College]