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VCU Year of Freedom Lecture: Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation
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| Date and Time
| | Wednesday, October 3, 2012
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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University Student Commons
- Theater, First Floor, Monroe Park Campus
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Humanities & Sciences:History
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| Speaker | |
Louis P. Masur, Professor, Rutgers University
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All
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| Description | |
In 2012-2013 Virginia Commonwealth University sponsors a Year of Freedom: Confronting Our Past, Facing Our Future as the university's commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War and Emancipation. Dr. Masur, a cultural historian, will base his lecture on his new book "Lincoln's Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union (Harvard Press, 2012). A reception and book signing will follow in Commonwealth Ballroom A on the second floor of the Commons. Free and open to the public. For additional information, contact: John Kneebone, jtkneebone@vcu.edu, or 828-1635.
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Contact
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McDaniel, Shirley R.
8048270867
srmcdani@vcu.edu
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Kathleen Murphy
828-1636
kmmurphy@vcu.edu |
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