The Afterlife of Abraham Lincoln
Thomas J. Brown is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Institute for Southern Studies. He is a Distinguished Lecturer with the Organization of American Historians. In this lecture, Brown examined the ways in which debates over regionalism, race relations and governmental power have influenced how America has remembered Abraham Lincoln, particularly in public monuments. Brown’s research on Civil War monuments has produced a variety of publications, including The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration: An Introduction with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004).
This lecture was part of the Legacy of Lincoln symposium co-presented by the Maine Humanities Council, Maine Historical Society, and American & New England Studies Program at USM on March 21, 2009.
