This "Interchange" discussion took place online over the course of several months in the winter of 2009. We wanted the "Interchange" to be free flowing; therefore we encouraged participants not only to respond to questions posed by the JAH but also to communicate with each other directly. What follows is an edited version of the very lively online conversation that resulted.
We are grateful to Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton, organizers of the conference "The Global Lincoln," held at St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford, July 3–5, 2009, for help in putting together this "Interchange." We hope JAH readers find it of interest.
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Eugenio F. Biagini is professor of history at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of British Democracy and Irish Nationalism, 1876–1906 (2007) and Gladstone (2000). Readers may contact Biagini at efb21@cam.ac.uk. |
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David W. Blight is professor of American history at Yale University and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He is the author of A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation (2009) and "The Theft of Lincoln in Scholarship, Politics, and Public Memory," in Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World (2008), edited by Eric Foner. Readers may contact Blight at david.blight@yale.edu. |
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Carolyn P. Boyd is professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Praetorian Politics in Liberal Spain (1979) and Historia Patria: Politics, History, and National Identity in Spain, 1875–1975 (1997). Readers may contact Boyd at cpboyd@uci.edu. |
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Richard Carwardine is Rhodes Professor of American history at the University of Oxford and fellow of St. Catherine's College. His study of Lincoln won the Lincoln Prize in 2004; it was published in the United States as Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power (2006). Readers may contact Carwardine at richard.carwardine@history.ox.ac.uk. |
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Kevin K. Gaines is professor of history and director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (2006). Readers may contact Gaines at gaineskk@umich.edu. |
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