Examining Lincoln's racial attitudes

Sponsorship from the National Machinery Foundation and Croghan Colonial Bank makes possible a lecture by noted authority on African-American history Edna Greene Medford, Ph.D., at the Hayes Presidential Center’s Lecture on the Presidency 7 p.m Sunday, February 14.

Medford, who is an associate professor and former director of Howard University’s Department of History, discusses “Lincoln’s Evolving Racial Attitudes.” Admission to the lecture is $10. Advance reservations are required. Call 419-332-2081.

Medford is a nationally recognized expert on 19^th-century African-American history. She teaches courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, Colonial America, the Jacksonian Era, and African-American history. Since 1996, Medford has been director for history of New York’s African Burial Ground Project. Her publications include more than a dozen articles and book chapters on African-Americans, most focusing on the era of the Civil War. She is co-author of The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views.

Medford is both a member of the Lincoln Forum and the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia and serves on the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission’s Advisory Council. She was a member of the Scholars’ Advisory panel for the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum and the Education Committee of the Education Center at Mount Vernon Plantation. Medford’s expertise has led to frequent appearances on the History Channel’s Civil War Journal and on a number of C-SPAN programs. Her research awards include a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to complete a study of community building across international boundaries among 19^th-century African Americans and African Canadians.