The annual Lincoln Lecture will be on Founders' Day, Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Washburn Room of the Memorial Union. Author and professor Manisha Sinha will present "Race and Equality in the Age of Lincoln."
The Lincoln Lecture is one of several special events instituted in anticipation of Washburn University’s sesquicentennial celebration in 2015. It is free and open to the public.
Washburn was established as Lincoln College by a charter issued by the State of Kansas and the General Association of Congregational Ministers and Churches of Kansas on Feb. 6, 1865.
Manisha Sinha is a professor of Afro-American studies at the University
of Massachusetts Amherst.
Recently, Sinha was a featured commentator on “The Abolitionists” part of the “American Experience” series on PBS. Sinha consulted on the script for the series and is featured prominently on screen discussing the era and her upcoming book on the abolitionists. Sinha is the author of “The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina” (University of North Carolina Press, 2000) and “To Live and Die in the Holy Cause: Abolition and the Origins of America’s Interracial Democracy” (Forthcoming, Yale University Press).
She was born in India and received her doctorate from Columbia University where her dissertation was nominated for the Bancroft prize. In 2011, she was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal, the highest honor bestowed on faculty at the University of Massachusetts, and delivered the Distinguished Faculty Lecture. In 2006, she was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society and in 2003, she was appointed to the Organization of American Historians’ Distinguished Lecture Series.
