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University of Illinois Springfield, in cooperation with
the 2015 Lincoln Funeral Coalition, presents
A Scholarly Symposium
Mourning Father Abraham:
Lincoln’s Assassination and
the Public’s Response
April 30, 2015 | 7 pm | Brookens Auditorium
SPONSORS
UIS Center for State Policy and Leadership
Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies
CO-SPONSORS & DONORS
Brookens Library John Holtz Memorial Lecture
Engaged Citizenship Common Experience (ECCE) Speaker Series
Laurie and David Farrell
Jim and Linda Gobberdiel
Illinois State Historical Society
Alex B. Rabin, Sgro, Hanrahan, Durr & Rabin, LLP
Staab Funeral Home
WUIS/Illinois Issues
Event Coordinator
Dr. Barbara Ferrara
Special thanks to the 2015 Lincoln Funeral Coalition:
Katie Spindell, Chair
Jon N. Austin, Vice Chair
Judy Wagenblast, Symposium Coordinator
Margaret Strano, Public Relations
This event is presented with the support of The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial
Foundation, dedicated to perpetuating and expanding Lincoln’s vision for
America and completing America’s unfinished work.
Program cover illustration by Martha Ferrara
Projected slide: “President Lincoln’s funeral – burial service at
Oak Ridge, Springfield, Illinois,” Wood engraving after sketch by W. Waud.
Illustration in Harper’s Weekly, v. 9 (1865 May 27), p. 329. Library of Congress.
Mourning Father Abraham:
Lincoln’s Assassination and
the Public’s Response
April 30, 2015 | 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Brookens Auditorium
University of Illinois Springfield
Welcome
Dr. Susan J. Koch, Vice President, University of Illinois
and Chancellor, UIS
Opening Remarks and Introduction of Speakers
“Lincoln as Father Figure”
Dr. Michael Burlingame, Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished
Chair in Lincoln Studies, UIS (moderator)
Presentations
“Lincoln’s Last Speech and the Problem of Reconstruction”
Dr. Louis P. Masur, Distinguished Professor of American Studies
and History, Rutgers University
“Shock and Fury, Gloom and Glee: Personal Responses to
Lincoln’s Assassination”
Dr. Martha Hodes, Professor of History,
New York University
Audience Questions
Reception
Everyone attending the event is invited to the reception immediately
following in the Public Affairs Center main concourse, Level 1.
The speakers’ books will be available for purchase and signing.
Pick up a commemorative mourning armband free while supply lasts.
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Michael Burlingame
Dr. Michael Burlingame holds the Chancellor Naomi B.
Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the
University of Illinois Springfield. He joined the faculty
of the History Department at UIS in 2009 where he
teaches a course on Abraham Lincoln and a course on
the Civil War.
Dr. Burlingame is a preeminent scholar in Lincoln studies. His first book, The Inner
World of Abraham Lincoln (University of Illinois Press, 1994) has been described as
“the most convincing portrait of Lincoln’s personality to date.” His second book,
An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln (Southern Illinois University Press, 1996) was
awarded the prestigious Abraham Lincoln Association Book Prize.
His comprehensive, two-volume biography, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2008), won the 2010 Lincoln Prize awarded by Gettysburg
College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, as well as the 2009
Russell P. Strange book award from the Illinois State Historical Society for the best
book on Illinois history. It was listed as one of the five best books of the year 2009
by The Atlantic Monthly. In addition, he has edited and published a dozen volumes
of primary source materials on Abraham Lincoln and his era. His most recent
books are Lincoln and the Civil War (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011) and
A Day Long to be Remembered: Lincoln in Gettysburg (with photos by Robert Shaw;
Firelight Publishing, 2013). He is currently editing another book of Lincoln
primary source material: Lincoln as PresidentinWaiting: The Springfield Dispatches
of Henry Villard, November 1860February 1861. He is also writing a book on
Lincoln’s emotional life for the Concise Lincoln Library published by the Southern
Illinois University Press. In addition, he is working with photographer Robert Shaw
on a book on Lincoln’s years in New Salem.
Dr. Burlingame taught History at Connecticut College from 1968 to 2001 when he
retired as the Buckley Sadowski Professor of History Emeritus. He took retirement at
that time in order to complete Abraham Lincoln: A Life for the Lincoln Bicentennial
in 2009. While at Connecticut College, Dr. Burlingame taught courses on
Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War era, 19th century American history, as well as
courses in other areas of interest, including opera and Eugene O’Neill. He studied
under eminent Lincoln historian David Herbert Donald both at Princeton
University and Johns Hopkins University where he received his Ph.D. in 1971.
Dr. Burlingame was inducted into the Lincoln Academy of Illinois in 2009. He
serves on the Board of Directors of the Abraham Lincoln Association and the
Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College. He is the former president of the Abraham
Lincoln Institute and is a member of the Ford’s Theatre Advisory Council. For
more information see www.michaelburlingame.com.
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Louis P. Masur
Louis P. Masur is Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at
Rutgers University, a position he has held since 2012. Prior to that he taught at
Trinity College, the City College of New York, Harvard University, and the
University of California at Riverside. He received his doctoral degree in History
from Princeton University (1985), and his bachelor’s degree in History and English
from the University of Buffalo.
Masur’s latest book is Lincoln’s Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of
Reunion (Oxford University Press, 2015). It is, according to Allen Guelzo, Henry
R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College, “the best introduction to the opening phases of Reconstruction we have, and one that moves to first
place in any Reconstruction reading list.” His previous book, Lincoln’s Hundred
Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for Union (Harvard University
Press, 2012), won the Lincoln Institute Book Prize for 2013. He is also the author
of The Civil War: A Concise History (Oxford University Press, 2011) and 1831: Year
of Eclipse (Hill and Wang, 2001). His essays and reviews have appeared in the New
York Times, Slate, Salon, the American Scholar and numerous other publications.
Masur has received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation and National
Endowment for the Humanities and teaching awards from Harvard University and
the City College of New York. He has been elected to membership by the American
Antiquarian Society, Society of American Historians, and Massachusetts Historical
Society and currently serves on the Historians’ Council of the Gettysburg Trust.
For more information see www.louismasur.com.
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Martha Hodes
Martha Hodes is Professor of History at New
York University, and has taught as a Fulbright
scholar in Germany and as a Visiting Professor
at Princeton University. Her latest book,
Mourning Lincoln (Yale University Press, 2015)
has received critical acclaim. It is “a stunning
piece of research, based on an extraordinary
range of materials often overlooked by traditional
historians,” observes Michael Burlingame,
Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair
in Lincoln Studies, University of Illinois
Springfield (Wall Street Journal, Feb. 6, 2015). The book is a “lyrical and important
new study,” according to Jill Lepore, Kemper Professor of American History,
Harvard University (New York Times Book Review, Feb. 8, 2015), and was named a
New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice (Feb. 15, 2015).
Hodes is also the author of The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and
War in the Nineteenth Century, a finalist for the Lincoln Book Prize, and White
Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the NineteenthCentury South, winner of the Allan
Nevins Prize for Literary Distinction in the Writing of History. She holds degrees
from Bowdoin College, Harvard University, and Princeton University (Ph.D.,
1991), and has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Charles Warren Center
at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Schomburg Center
for Research in Black Culture, and the Whiting Foundation. She is also an elected
fellow of the Society of American Historians.
For nearly 25 years, Hodes has taught courses on race, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the nineteenth-century United States. With a special interest in the
craft of history-writing, she also teaches courses on Writing the Civil War, History
and Storytelling, Biography and History, Reconstructing Lives, and Experimental
History. She is a winner of NYU’s Golden Dozen Teaching Award. Hodes has
presented her scholarship across the United States, in Europe, and Australia, at
universities and colleges, high schools and elementary schools, historical societies,
libraries, museums, and literary festivals, and serves as a consultant for documentaries,
television and radio shows, and museum exhibits on many aspects of American
history. She serves on the Advisory Council for Ford’s Theatre and as an advisor
for the Ford’s Theatre digital collection, “Remembering Lincoln.” For more
information see http://marthahodes.com.
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Suggested Readings
Terry Alford, Fortune’s Fool: The Life of
John Wilkes Booth, Oxford University
Press, 2015
John C. Rodrique, Lincoln and
Reconstruction, Southern Illinois
University Press, 2013
Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln:
A Life, Johns Hopkins University Press,
2008
Thomas Turner, Beware the People
Weeping: Public Opinion and the
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln,
Louisiana State University Press, 1982
Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s
Unfinished Revolution, 18631877,
Harper & Row, 1988
Richard Wightman Fox, Lincoln’s Body:
A Cultural History, W. W. Norton, 2015
William Hanchett, The Lincoln Murder
Conspiracies, University of Illinois Press,
1983
William C. Harris, With Charity for All:
Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union,
University Press of Kentucky, 1997
Martha Hodes, Mourning Lincoln, Yale
University Press, 2015
Michael W. Kauffman, American Brutus:
John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln
Conspiracies, Random House, 2004
Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B.
Kunhardt Jr., Twenty Days: A Narrative in
Text and Pictures of the Assassination of
Abraham Lincoln and the Twenty Days
and Nights that followed  The Nation in
Mourning, the Long Trip Home to
Springfield. Castle Books, 1965.
Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in
the Dooryard Bloom’d,” (1865) in
Leaves of Grass, Doubleday, Doran &
Co., 1940
Web Resources:
“Remembering Lincoln: A Digital
Collection of Responses to His
Assassination”
http://www.fords.org/rememberinglincoln
“Silent Witnesses: Artifacts of the
Lincoln Assassination”
http://www.fords.org/event/silentwitnesses
“Lincoln Speaks: Words That
Transformed a Nation,” The Gilder
Lehrman Institute of American History
and the Morgan Library and Museum
http://abrahamlincoln.org/lincolnspeaks-section/about/
Lincoln’s Body: A Cultural History:
www.richardwfox.com (video, essays,
documents, Lincoln images)
Louis P. Masur, Lincoln’s Last Speech;
Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of
Reunion, Oxford University Press, 2015
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Sunday
Bus drop off/
pick up
Monument Ave.
Sunday
Bus pick up/
drop off
2nd St.
Fred Matamoros/
Gatehouse Media
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The 2015 Lincoln Funeral Re-enactment
May 2 and 3, 2015
Schedule of Events Free and Open to the Public
Saturday, May 2*
Sunday, May 3*
◊ 9:00 a.m. Funeral Coffin Arrives
Amtrak Train Station, 3rd & Washington St.
Arrival of re-created hearse and replicated coffin
draped with 36 star flag
◊ 12:00 Noon Procession
The historic procession to Oak Ridge Cemetery
steps off from 6th & Washington St. (see map).
Procession enters Cemetery through re-created First
Street Entrance. (Prior registration and appropriate
costume required to walk in procession.)
◊ 10:00 a.m. Procession
Procession steps off from Amtrak station
following historic route to 6th & Washington St.
(see map), with re-creation of original Lincoln
hearse, horse-drawn carriages, military and civilian
Civil War re-enactors, and other period groups.
(Prior registration and appropriate costume required
to walk in procession.)
◊ 11:00 a.m. Opening Ceremony,
150th Anniversary Commemoration,
President Lincoln’s Funeral
6th & Washington St.
Dignitaries, Color Guard and Civil War
re-enactors pay tribute
(No reserved seating available.)
◊ All Night Candlelight Vigil
6th & Washington St.
◊ Dawn to Dusk Civil War Encampments
Lincoln Park – North 5th St.
Benedictine University at Springfield campus,
1500 N. 5th St.
Springfield Art Association of Edwards Place,
700 N. 4th St.
◊ 3:00 p.m. Commemorative Funeral
Ceremony**
Old Public Receiving Vault, Oak Ridge Cemetery
Clergy, Civil War re-enactors, musicians and singers
offer eulogies, speeches, salutes and music.
(No reserved seating available.)
◊ 4:30 p.m. 36 Cannon Salute
Conclusion, 150th Anniversary Commemoration
* All times are approximate.
** No vehicle traffic or parking allowed in Oak Ridge
Cemetery on Sunday, May 3. SMTD will operate
shuttle bus service on Sunday from downtown (pick
up/drop off on 2nd St. between Washington and
Jefferson) to cemetery. Fare is $1.25 each way.
For more information and the full
schedule of events on May1-3 visit:
http://lincolnfuneraltrain.org.
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Lincoln Funeral Sheet Music
Courtesy of Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
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2015 Lincoln Funeral Re-enactment
Keynote Presentation
Sponsored by The Abraham Lincoln Association
“Lincoln’s Legacy of Justice and
Opportunity: Our Challenge a
Century and a Half Later”
Saturday,
May 2, 2015
Dr. Edna Greene Medford
Professor and Chair, Department
of History, Howard University
Presentation only | Free and open to the public
Seating is limited and is on a first come, first seated basis.
1:30 p.m. Doors open | 1:45 p.m. Program begins
Ballroom, President Abraham Lincoln Hotel
701 East Adams Street | Springfield, Illinois
Note: Due to the possibility of dignitaries attending this event,
you may be asked to show photo ID when you arrive.
For more information:
http://lincolnfuneraltrain.org
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ANNOUNCING
The Fifth Wepner Symposium on the
Lincoln Legacy and Contemporary Scholarship
“Emancipation, Counter-Emancipation,
and the 21st Century: Is Racial
Inequality Disappearing?”
June 25-27,
2015
University of Illinois
Springfield
Speakers:
Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr., Wepner Distinguished
Professor in Political Science, UIS
Dr. David Bateman, Assistant Professor of
Government, Cornell University
Lorena Johnson, Director, Certified Public
Manager Program, Institute for Legal,
Legislative and Policy Studies, UIS
Dr. James W. Ingram III, Lecturer, Dept. of
Political Science, San Diego State University
Dr. Shoon Lio, Assistant Professor,
Sociology/Anthropology, UIS
Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr.
Free and open to the public
www.uis.edu/wepner/symposium/ • (217) 206-8519
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Video of Tonight’s
Program
You can view tonight’s program
again through video on demand.
A link will be available at
the Center for State Policy and
Leadership’s website:
http://cspl.uis.edu.
You can purchase a DVD of the
program and programs in the
UIS Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series for
$10 per DVD or $100 for the complete
set of 13 DVDs, plus shipping and handling.
Contact the UIS Office of Electronic Media at
(217) 206-6799 to order.
UIS Annual Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series
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2014 Lincoln’s Funeral
2013 Lincoln & the Gettysburg Address
2012 Lincoln & the Emancipation Proclamation
2011 Lincoln & the Civil War
2010 Lincoln & Race
2009 Lincoln & the Environment
2008 Lincoln & Presidential Campaign Politics
2007 Lincoln & the Law
2006 Lincoln & America’s Faith
2005 Lincoln & Economic Opportunity
2004 Ethics & Power
2002 Lincoln & Race
For more information on past lectures, please visit:
http://cspl.uis.edu/OfficeOfExecutiveDirector
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SAVE THE DATE
1 3 T H A N N UA L L I N C O L N L E G AC Y L E C T U R E S
Lincoln & Voting Rights
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary
of the U.S. Voting Rights Act
October 15,
2015
7 p.m.
Brookens Auditorium
University of Illinois
Springfield
Speakers:
Dr. Michael Burlingame,
Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn
Distinguished Chair in
Lincoln Studies, University
of Illinois Springfield
Dr. Michael Vorenberg,
Associate Professor of
History, Brown University
Dr. Ronald Keith Gaddie,
Professor and Chair,
Dept. of Political Science,
University of Oklahoma
“The first vote.” Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Free and open to the public
http://cspl.uis.edu • (217) 206-7094
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