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	Lincoln in His Time and Ours: A Symposium at Columbia University On November 22, 2008, Columbia University, in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, sponsored Lincoln in His Time and Ours, a symposium examining the issues of Lincoln's day and his legacy. In these video clips, Sean Wilentz, Manisha Sinha, James Oakes, and Richard Carwardine discuss their essays and the widely varying interpretations of the nation's sixteenth president.
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	About the Participants: Sean Wilentz The Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the American Revolutionary Era at Princeton University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005), which was awarded the Bancroft Prize. Manisha Sinha Associate professor of Afro-American studies and history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina (2000). James Oakes Graduate Humanities Professor and professor of history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (2007), winner of the Lincoln Prize. Richard Carwardine Rhodes Professor of American history at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power (2003), which won the Lincoln Prize in 2004.

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