Civil War Muster Weekend Speaker Dr. Allen Guelzo

A tantalizing historical might-have-been will be the focus of the address “What if Lincoln Had Lived?” by world-renowned Lincoln scholar Dr. Allen C. Guelzo of Princeton University.

Guelzo is the Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities and Director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship in the James Madison Program at Princeton.

He has won book awards for “Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President,” “Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America,” and “Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America.” His articles and essays have appeared in scholarly journals, and also in The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The National Interest, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. He has been featured on NPR, the Discovery Channel, the National Geographic Channel, Brian Lamb’s Booknotes and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

He was a member of the National Council on the Humanities, a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Charles Warren Center for American Studies at Harvard University.

His most recent books are “Reconstruction: A Concise History” and “Robert E. Lee: A Life.” His website is allenguelzo.com.

Guelzo’s presentation on Friday, Sept. 16, is through the “Holland Van Raalte Farm Civil War Muster Community Education Initiative,” a partnership between Hope and the Van Raalte Farm Civil War Muster. The partnership is funded by a sub grant through “There’s No Place Like Home: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Community-Based Partnerships Presidential Initiative of Hope College and Holland, Michigan.”

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