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William W. Freehling on April 10: Did Lincoln’s Late Mistakes Make Civil War Unavoidable?
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Did Lincoln’s Late Mistakes
Make Civil War Unavoidable?
The Potentials and Perils of Might-Have-Been-History

A  lunchtime talk with VFH Senior Fellow
William W. Freehling
Tuesday, April 10   12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Charlottesville City Council Chambers
City Hall 605 E. Main St. map it<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=%20City%20Hall%20605%20E.%20Main%20St.+Charlottesville,+VA&ie=UTF8&om=1>
Lectures are free and open to the public.

Senior Fellow William W. Freehling will explore the potential and perils of the might-have-been-method of historical analysis by using Abraham Lincoln’s three immediate pre-Civil War mistakes as a test case. Assuming that Lincoln had been capable of correcting one or more of this trio of mistakes (itself a fascinating personal question that much illuminates the man) might a civil war have been delayed or even avoided? All historians seek to explain what happened, yet only a few see history as oft-times contingent¯capable of going other ways if a coincidence or personality or circumstance had slightly differed. Join Professor Freehling as he presents his analysis of whether history might have taken another plausible shape.  For more information, contact Ann White Spencer, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, or visit our website www.VirginiaHumanities.org<http://www.VirginiaHumanities.org>.

William W. Freehling is the Senior Fellow at the Virginia Foundation of the Humanities and the author of several prize-winning books on the pre-Civil War  and Civil War South. Now turning his focus on the northern side, his analysis is taking the form of a new biography of Lincoln entitled The Falls and Rises of Abraham Lincoln.


Virginia Foundation for the Humanities www.VirginiaHumanities.org<http://www.VirginiaHumanities.org> 145 Ednam Drive, C’ville, VA 22904  434-924-3296




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