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Exhibit: “Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War”

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Repeats M-F (to October 29, 2014)
Free.
The public is invited to view the American Library Association’s (ALA) traveling exhibit, “Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War.” hosted by the West Texas Collection.

The grand opening, on September 18, is open to the public and will feature Dr. Brian Dirck as speaker. He is a noted Lincoln scholar and teaches at Anderson University in Indiana. This is the first event in the 2014-15 Civil War Lecture Series presented by the ASU history department.

The exhibit will be open free for public viewing from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 19 and Sept. 22-26 in the C.J. Davidson Center. The exhibit will be open Sept. 29-Oct. 29 in the West Texas Collection Lobby, second floor, Houston Harte University Center. Members of Friends of the Porter Henderson Library and West Texas Collection will serve as docents.

About the Exhibit

“Using the Constitution as the cohesive thread, ‘Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War’ offers a fresh and innovative perspective on Lincoln that focuses on his struggle to meet the political and constitutional challenges of the Civil War.

“Organized thematically, the exhibition explores how Lincoln used the Constitution to confront three intertwined crises of the war—the secession of Southern states, slavery, and wartime civil liberties.

“Visitors will leave the exhibition with a more complete understanding of Abraham Lincoln as president and the Civil War as the nation’s gravest constitutional crisis.”

American Library Association, www.ala.org

Location

Houston Harte University Center, West Texas Collection Lobby (second floor), 1910 Rosemont