Lincoln expert speaking at UI celebration
By Greg Kline
Monday March 10, 2008
You won't find James McPherson's name on a biography of Abraham Lincoln per se, but when the University of Illinois History Department was thinking of speakers to kick off a bicentennial celebration of the 16th president's birth, McPherson was at the top of the list.
The Civil War scholar and author – UI history Professor Bruce Levine calls him "the most sophisticated interpreter of Lincoln's presidency around" – will give the Lincoln Bicentennial Lecture, the first of a series of events spreading into next year, at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the auditorium of the Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Ave., U.
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