Frank & Virginia Williams Lecture Series on Abraham Lincoln & the American Civil War
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Mitchell Memorial Library
Address: 395 Hardy Rd, Mississippi State, MS, 39762
Organizer: Mississippi State University
@ The title of this year’s lecture is “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War,” and the guest is Dr. Michael Vorenberg, professor of history at Brown University. He will discuss his recent, award-wining book of the same title with Williams Chair, Dr. Susannah J. Ural, as they explore Vorenberg’s analysis of President Lincoln’s vision for how the Civil War should end, how that plan evolved after his assassination, and how the Civil War’s end (or multiple endings) shaped how w