Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War
| Dates: | July 27 - September 9, 2011 |
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| Hours: | Open during regular library hours | |
| Location: | Central Piedmont Community College Central Campus Library, 2nd Floor Atrium 1201 Elizabeth Ave. (Map) Charlotte, NC 28235 Free, public parking is available in the Visitor Parking Lot, accessible from Pease Lane on CPCC's Central Campus. Please see the Central Campus Map for additional parking information. |
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For more information contact Jennifer Ballance. 704-330-6929 |
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Discussion Guide for Teachers (PDF) Film: Looking for Lincoln Opening Reception Film: Looking for Lincoln Civil War Documents: A Tour of Dillon's Personal Collection The Legacy of the Civil War Civil War Photography Lincoln and the Civil War A War with Many Voices: An Exploration of Diverse and Inclusive Commemoration African American Memory and the Civil War |
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Exhibit Description
| “Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War,” examines how President Lincoln used the Constitution to confront three intertwined crises of the Civil War—the secession of Southern states, slavery and wartime civil liberties. Lincoln is widely acknowledged as one of America’s greatest presidents, but his historical reputation is contested. Was he a calculating politician willing to accommodate slavery, or a principled leader justly celebrated as the Great Emancipator? This exhibition provides no easy answers. Rather, it encourages visitors to form a nuanced view of Lincoln by engaging them with Lincoln’s struggle to reconcile his policy preferences with basic American ideals of liberty and equality. This exhibition develops a more complete understanding of Abraham Lincoln as president and the Civil War as the nation’s gravest constitutional crisis. The CPCC Library is sponsoring free programs and other events for the public in connection with the exhibition. See below for a list of scheduled events. |
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Divided focuses on seccession. |
Bound focuses on the abolishment of slavery. |
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Dissent focuses on civil liberties during the War. |
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Schedule of Events
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Film: Looking for Lincoln |
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This film, presented and written by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., examines the life and legacy of the 16th president of the United States. By examining evidence from Lincoln’s contemporaries, as well as current Lincoln scholars, Gates looks at many of the controversies surrounding Lincoln. This film will serve as an inaugural event for the arrival of the traveling exhibit, Lincoln: the Constitution and the Civil War. Free popcorn will be available. Professional development credit will be offered for faculty and staff. |
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Opening Reception - Dr. Tony Zeiss August 9, 2011, 6:00pm |
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A review of the book, “The Real Lincoln” by Thomas DiLorenzo. Live music provided by the Flat Possum Hoppers: Mark Helms on Mandolin, Tom Estes on Claw Hammer Banjo, John Cone on Guitar and Ruth Kee Wherry on Bass. |
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Film: Looking for Lincoln |
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This film, presented and written by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., examines the life and legacy of the 16th president of the United States. By examining evidence from Lincoln’s contemporaries, as well as current Lincoln scholars, Gates looks at many of the controversies surrounding Lincoln. |
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Civil War Documents: A Tour of Dillon's Personal Collection - Loyd Dillon August 17, 2011, 2:00pm |
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Loyd Dillon, FIDS is a CQRID Board certified interior designer, an elected Fellow of The interior Design Society and a past NATIONAL President of that organization who is also a part-time CPCC faculty member in the Interior Design Department. His book collection has been featured in newspapers, magazines, in a Mint Museum exhibit and on NPR. At the invitation of UNCC, Loyd delivered their 12th Annual Julian Mason Lecture on Rare Books and Book Collecting. His interest in Abraham Lincoln began at an early age, partly because he share's Abe's February 12 birthday.
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Mr. Dillon’s collection will be on display in the CPCC Central campus library in the second floor Atrium from July 27th- September 9th 2011. Items in the collection include: a very rare 1865 first edition of "Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln" which even has in its index the May 1865 offer of reward money for the capture of the assassination conspirators, a large, framed first edition 1872 broadside "The Autobiography of Abraham Lincoln", first editions (some signed) of Lincoln books by Carl Sandburg, Ida Tarbell, A.K. McClure, Elbert Hubbard, Horatio Alger, Schurz & Bartlett, and E.E. Cummings, Sr., as well as rare original newspapers (1860 and 1863) and magazines along with more recently produced Lincoln books, an antique wooden stereopticon (3-D viewer) and early stereoviews of (A) Lincoln's birth cabin and (B) Lincoln himself, who posed for only two stereo photos, this being one of them, even though he loved stereoviews and had a stereopticon in the White House. bookends, figurines, and even a commemorative carnival glass bottle. |
The Legacy of the Civil War - Eileen Woodward August 18, 2011, 11:00am |
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| Eileen Woodward became interested in the Civil War during the Civil War centennial anniversary while in junior high school. Throughout her education she has remained enamored by it; earning a Bachelor of Arts from Georgia State University and Master’s of Arts in Teaching from UNC Chapel Hill with a concentration in History. She has visited over 30 Civil War sites from Andersonville and Harper's Ferry to Gettysburg and Vicksburg. Woodward taught for 19 years before coming to Central Piedmont Community College in 1999 to teach history. She retired in 2010 and returned just a few semesters later to continue teaching a Civil War course. Woodward revived the Civil War course (HIS 226) at CPCC; which had not been taught for years and now fills to capacity each semester it is offered. Ms. Woodward has been selected for several National Endowment for the Humanities seminars, including "Civil War and Remembrance" in 2008 at University of Mississippi. When asked about her interest in the Civil War: “Like Tony Horwitz in Confederates in the Attic, I remain curious about why Americans are perennially interested in this "unfinished war "(Horwitz) which "defined us as a nation." (Shelby Foote) | |
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Civil War Photography - James Spence September 1, 2011, 4:00pm |
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| The Civil War was one of the first wars to be widely photographed. Spence will discuss the role photography played in the War. | |
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Lincoln and the Civil War - Dr. James Houge September 7, 2011, 11:00 am |
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James K. Hogue earned his B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army in 1980. His active duty military service included combat unit assignments in Europe from 1981 to 1986, and command of a heavy artillery battery in Augsburg, Germany. Dr. Hogue has an M.A. in European history from Ohio State University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American history from Princeton University. After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Hogue was a post-doctoral fellow in the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs at Princeton, where he co-taught an interdisciplinary seminar on civil wars and their resolutions. Dr. Hogue has taught American history, military history, and the history of the Civil War era at West Point, Princeton, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he is currently Associate Professor of History. His first book, Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles in and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction, was published in 2006. It is a study of the problems of peacekeeping, insurgency, and counterinsurgency in the Deep South after the end of the American Civil War. He is co-author with James M. McPherson of Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction, 4th edition. He is a member of the Bibliographie Internationale d’Historie Militaire and in 2007 he was elected Vice President of the United States Commission on Military History. |
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A War with Many Voices - Michelle Lanier September 8, 2011, 11:00am |
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A War with Many Voices: An Exploration of Diverse and Inclusive Commemoration African American Memory and the Civil War As Acting Director of the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission and Curator of Multicultural Initiatives with North Carolina's State Historic Sites, Michelle Lanier uses her background as an oral historian and folklorist to connect communities around the state's rich cultural resources. She also brings the ethical issues of public history and documentary work into the classroom, as an instructor since 2000 with Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies. Michelle's work with Gullah communities, begun at Spelman College and completed through UNC-Chapel Hill's Curriculum in Folklore, paved the way for her to become one of North Carolina’s liasions to the federal, Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor. She also serves as a member of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources “Civil War 150” Committee. Michelle is currently involved in the powerful work of engaging communities towards envisioning the future of African American heritage in the state of North Carolina. |
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Lincoln: the Constitution and the Civil War , a traveling exhibition for libraries, was organized by the National Constitution Center and the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The traveling exhibition has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Lincoln: the Constitution and the Civil War is based on an exhibition of the same name developed by the National Constitution Center.
