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Exercise your brain with history in 2016
Lincoln Presidential Library announces books for brown-bag history discussions
 

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[January 15, 2016]  SPRINGFIELD – The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum invites anyone with a love of history and books to join its brown-bag book discussions throughout 2016.

The books will take readers from the 1860 presidential election to the violent streets of Chicago, from modern Washington, D.C. to a fateful moment of violence in American religion.

The discussions take place in the classroom of the Lincoln Presidential Library (112 N. Sixth Street, Springfield) from noon to 1 p.m. Participants are welcome to bring lunch.

The first discussion takes place Tuesday, Jan. 19, and actually covers two brief books from Southern Illinois University Press: “Lincoln and the Immigrant” by Jason Silverman and “Lincoln and the Election of 1860” by Michael S. Green.

The first examines Lincoln’s personal attitudes and official policies during a period when America saw a huge influx of immigrants from around the world. The second takes a close look at Lincoln’s political maneuvering to secure the Republican presidential nomination in 1860 and then win the White House with the nation on the brink of civil war.

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The rest of the books and discussion dates are:

March 15: “Seeking Bipartisanship: My Life in Politics” by Ray LaHood. (Cambria Press)

May 17: “American Crucifixion: the Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church” by Alex Beam. (Public Affairs)

July 19: “Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City” by Richard C. Lindberg. (Rowman & Littlefield)

Sept. 20: “Lincoln’s Greatest Case: the River, the Bridge, and the Making of America” by Brian McGinty. (Liveright Publishing)

Nov. 15: “Dividing the Union: Jesse Burgess Thomas and the Making of the Missouri Compromise” by Matthew W. Hall. (Southern Illinois University Press)

[Christopher Wills, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum]

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