Press Release - Tuesday, February 07, 2006
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"THE LINCOLN FAMILY" SUBJECT OF FEBRUARY 12 ABRAHAM LINCOLN SYMPOSIUM
SPRINGFIELD, IL - The best-selling author of a recent Lincoln book and an expert featured in the new History Channel documentary "Lincoln" will take part in the annual Abraham Lincoln Symposium being held on Lincoln's Birthday, Sunday, February 12 at the Old State Capitol State Historic Site in Springfield.
The Symposium is sponsored by The Abraham Lincoln Association, the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. It is free and open to the public.
The day's events will begin at 11:30 a.m. with a book signing by Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of the national bestseller Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Goodwin will also be the keynote speaker at the Symposium Banquet that evening. The Symposium sessions begin at 1 p.m. in the Old State Capitol's Hall of Representatives with Kim Matthew Bauer of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library presiding.
Catherine Clinton will present "Wife v. Widow: Clashing Perspectives on Mary Lincoln's Legacy." Clinton's biography Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom was selected by the Chicago Tribune and the Christian Science Monitor as the best non-fiction work in 2004. She is the author of The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South (1983) and The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century (1984). Clinton is currently working on a Mary Todd Lincoln biography.
Daniel Mark Epstein will present, "The Road to Washington, 1847." Epstein is an award-winning poet and biographer whose books include Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson (1994); Nat King Cole (2000); What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (2002); and Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington (2004). He is currently working on a book involving Abraham Lincoln.
Joshua Wolf Shenk, an expert featured on the new History Channel biography "Lincoln," will present "Lincoln's Emotional Life." Shenk is a writer whose articles and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Time, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His essay about his own experience with depression can be found in Unholy Ghost (2001), and his interest in Lincoln's bouts of depression led to the first full-length study of the topic, Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness (2005).
Comments on the presentations will be made by Gerald Prokopowicz, author and Lincoln scholar who oversaw the creation of "Abraham Lincoln and the American Experiment" at the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is the author of All For the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861 - 62 (2001), and has contributed to numerous journals, magazines, and essay collections.
The annual Abraham Lincoln Association Banquet will be held at 7 p.m. at the President Abraham Lincoln Hotel and Conference Center in downtown Springfield. The banquet speaker will be Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of the New York Times bestseller Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2005). Her other books include Lyndon Johnson & The American Dream (1976); The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (1987, made into a six-hour T.V. miniseries); No Ordinary Times: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (1995, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History); and Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir. Goodwin is a frequent commentator on political events and issues for "Meet the Press" and MSNBC.
The Abraham Lincoln Association is one of the oldest and the largest group devoted to the study of Abraham Lincoln and his times. Founded in 1908 to celebrate the Lincoln centennial, the Abraham Lincoln Association is the leader in Lincoln research and publications. It publishes the distinguished Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association as well as a quarterly newsletter.
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