Lecture by Lincoln Scholar Richard Carwardine

Renowned Lincoln scholar Richard Carwardine will give the 2015 Lincoln Studies Center Lecture, "Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation," at 4 p.m., Friday, September 11, in the Trustees Room, Alumni Hall, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College, the annual event features a lecture by a member of the Center's Board of Advisors.

Carwardine is president of Corpus Christi College at Oxford University in England. He taught American history for 30 years at the University of Sheffield and most recently held the Rhodes Professorship of American History at Oxford. Among his five books is the highly-acclaimed biography, "Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power," which was awarded the 2004 Lincoln Prize. He also co-edited "The Global Lincoln," a collection of essays that explores how Lincoln transcended 19th-century American history "to become a symbol of the common people's universal struggle."

The Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College is co-directed by Rodney Davis and Douglas Wilson, both emeritus professors at Knox. A member of the Center's Board of Advisors, Carwardine gave the Lincoln Studies Center Lecture at Knox in 2006 and spoke again on campus in 2013 for a meeting of the Lincoln Colloquium.