Civil War Sesquicentennial

FREE Events Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War

Lincoln and His Times: A Pan-American View
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 • 7 p.m.
Aurora Campus, Multipurpose Room
Antonio Delgado, Ph.D.,
Illinois Humanities Council Road Scholar
Delgado relates the commonality of crises and the turbulent nature of relations between the United States and Latin America during the time of Lincoln.

Images of Lincoln
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 • 7 p.m.
Sugar Grove Campus, Auditorium
Mark Pohlad, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture, DePaul University
Lincoln was the first President to be extensively photographed. He once described his most frequent photographer, Mathew Brady, as "the man who put me in the White House." Using vivid, large-scale images, Pohlad will trace images of Lincoln and his circle while describing the nature and challenges of photography in the mid-19th century.