Members of the Speakers' Pool

Professor of History, Goucher College
Baltimore, Maryland

Commissioner, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Professor of History, University of Southern Indiana
Director, Historic Southern Indiana
Evansville, Indiana

Andrew Jackson Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

Library Director
A.K. Smiley Public Library and Lincoln Memorial Shrine
Redlands, California

Professorial Lecturer in Law, George Washington University
Washington, DC

Rhodes Professor of American History, University of Oxford
Fellow, St. Catherine's College
Oxford, United Kingdom

Civil War Round Table
Chicago, Illinois

President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy
Senior Fellow in the Government Law Center
Albany Law School
Albany, New York

Commissioner, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
President and CEO, Presenting the Past
Huntington, Indiana

DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University
New York, New York

Associate Professor of Political Science, Rochester Institute of Technology; author of Abraham Lincoln's Political Faith

Attorney at Law
Bloomington, Illinois

Assistant Director, Lincoln College Museum
Lincoln, Illinois

Presidential Historian and Best-Selling Author
Massachusetts

Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era
Director of the Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Co-Chairman, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Senior Vice President for External Affairs, Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, New York

Lincoln Historian and Professor of History
Lincoln Memorial University
Harrogate, Tennessee

Director and Professor, University of Kentucky
Martin School of Public Policy and Administration
Lexington, Kentucky

Associate Professor of History and Political Science, Lincoln College
Director/Curator, Lincoln College Museum
Lincoln, Illinois

Author and Producer

New York

J. G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of African American Studies Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

History Department, East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina

Professor of History, University of Louisville
Adjunct Professor of Law, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
Louisville, Kentucky

Robert Penn Warren Professor of Creative Writing
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of History, Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana

Director and Mentor of Distinguished Scholars, Mississippi State University
Starkville, Mississippi

Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor emeritus at the University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Associate Professor of Politics, Washington and Lee University
Lexington, Virginia

American Studies Chair in Liberal Arts, Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Shreveport, Louisiana

Associate Professor of History, East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina

Professor of History Emeritus, California State University, Fullerton
Fullerton, California

Essayist and Independent Scholar
New York, New York

President, Bridgewater College
Bridgewater, Virginia

Chief Historian, Monitor Center, Mariners' Museum
Annapolis, Maryland

Author of The Unpopular Mr. Lincoln: The Story of America's Most Reviled President

Historian, Lincoln Home National Historic Site
Springfield, Illinois

Associate Professor of History, Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

Assistant Professor of History, Kansas State University
Lawrence, Kansas

Owner, Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois

The Huntington Library
San Marino, California

Commissioner, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Rhode Island Supreme Court
Providence, Rhode Island

Associate Professor of the American Jewish Experience
Executive Director of The Jacob Marcus Rader Center of the American Jewish Archives
Cincinnati, Ohio