For the 86th year, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine will honor Abraham Lincoln at the Watchorn Lincoln Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 12, in the University of Redlands Orton Center.
The largest event of its kind in the United States, the Lincoln Dinner brings together Lincoln and Civil War enthusiasts, and has featured some of the most prominent names in the field of Lincoln scholarship.
“It’s always exciting to learn more about our shared past, and understand new and different perspectives about this critical point in our nation’s history,” said Nathan Gonzales, Curator of the Lincoln Memorial Shrine.
Dr. Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair of American History at University of Connecticut, will deliver this year’s keynote address, “Lincoln and the Abolitionists.”
A graduate of Columbia University, Dr. Sinha has focused her research in United States history, with an emphasis on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition and the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction. She has authored and co-authored a variety of publications, including “The Slave’s Cause,” which was awarded the 2017 Frederick Douglass Book Prize. In addition to her published works, Dr. Sinha appeared on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show in 2014 in a segment focusing on myths about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War.