UIS Center for Lincoln Studies director’s book named a finalist for 2024 ASALH Book Prize

Director Center Lincoln Study Jacob K. Friefeld

University of Illinois Springfield Center for Lincoln Studies Director Jacob K. Friefeld’s book, “The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders’ Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America’s Great Migration,” co-authored with Richard Edwards, has been selected as a finalist for the 2024 Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) Book Prize.

Friefeld previously served as an Illinois and Midwest studies research historian at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield before coming to UIS.

UIS to host the Beaumont Endowed Lincoln Legacy Lecture on “Abraham Lincoln and Digital Humanities”

Lincoln Actor

WHAT: The University of Illinois Springfield will host the 21st annual Beaumont Endowed Lincoln Legacy Lecture on “Abraham Lincoln and Digital Humanities” featuring Professor Christopher Oakley, leader of “The Virtual Lincoln Project” at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Asheville, and Michelle A. Krowl, the curator of the Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress. The lecture is free and open to the public.

WHEN: 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6 (refreshments and hors d’oeuvres start at 6 p.m.)

2023 Beaumont Endowed Lincoln Legacy Lecture

Christopher Oakley and Michelle A. Krowl will explore how interdisciplinary research and the digital humanities advance our understanding of Abraham Lincoln’s life and legacy. Krowl, the curator of the Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress, has experienced first-hand the impact of digitization on the preservation and use of library collections. Oakley leads "The Virtual Lincoln Project" at the University of North Carolina Asheville, where he and his students created a realistic, digital representation of Abraham Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address. Oakley’s lecture explores the digital methods that helped him locate the precise location where Lincoln delivered his famous speech in Gettysburg.

UIS art exhibit depicting the life story and legacy of Abraham Lincoln to go on display in Chicago

Logo with Lincoln and the UIS colonnade with the text "Making Our History: Artists Render Lincoln's Legacies"

The University of Illinois Springfield Center for Lincoln Studies’ exhibit “Making Our History: Artists Render Lincoln’s Legacies” will be on display Feb. 10 to March 3 at the Beverly Arts Center, located at 2407 W. 111th St., Chicago. The exhibit will be open 2-7 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 12-5 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. A reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, with cocktails and live music.

Making Our History Lincoln Art Exhibit in Springfield

Art image of legacy of Lincoln includes image of MLK, Jr.

"Making Our History" Lincoln Art Exhibit in Springfield

On August 11, 2022, the Center for Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) unveiled Making Our History: Artists Render Lincoln’s Legacies, an innovative physical and digital art exhibit funded by the University of Illinois Presidential Initiative: Expanding the Impact of the Arts and Humanities.

2022 Lincoln Legacy Lecture Workshop

The Center for Lincoln Studies at UIS is pleased to announce the second annual Lincoln Legacy Lecture Educator Workshop. The Center invites up to twenty K-12 social studies and preservice educators to participate in a 1 1/2 hour workshop on Lincoln and African-Americans at the UIS Student Union. Participants will work with professor Jonathan White to examine letters of African-Americans to Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. Prior to the workshop, they will receive a free copy of his newest book, To Address You as My Friend: African Americans’ Letters to Abraham Lincoln. The book is a remarkable new collection of over 120 letters that Professor White has discovered at the Library of Congress and the National Archives. Participants will be expected to read about 15 to 20 of the letters before the workshop.

UIS presents “Making Our History: Artists Render Lincoln’s Legacies,” an innovative physical and digital art exhibit

Lincoln artwork featuring photos of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass and the text "Abraham Lincoln, Tale of Two Cities, Government cannot endure half slave half free."

The University of Illinois Springfield is proud to announce “Making Our History: Artists Render Lincoln’s Legacies,” an innovative physical and digital art exhibit funded by the University of Illinois Presidential Initiative: Expanding the Impact of the Arts and Humanities.

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