Noted historian and Abraham Lincoln scholar Dr. Matthew Pinsker, the Evansville Museum’s 2023 Historian in Residence, will present the talk “Getting Right with Lincoln, Now More than Ever” on Tuesday, April 18, at 6:30 pm at the Museum. He will discuss what Americans today might learn from Lincoln’s response to the challenge of national division and partisan polarization during the secession crisis of 1860-61. Pinsker will draw upon his expertise in Lincoln studies to help shed fresh light on the great president’s political leadership while also highlighting some new materials from his free summer program for low-income high school students: the Knowledge for Freedom seminar.
Dr. Pinsker holds the Brian Pohanka Chair of Civil War History at Dickinson College and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford.