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Lincoln Symposium to air on C-SPAN

On Saturday, December 6th at 8 p.m., selections from "Lincoln in His Time and Ours," a symposium held on November 22nd at Columbia University, will air on C-SPAN. Featured speakers will include Columbia University professors Andrew Delbanco and Eric Foner, and James McPherson, Professor Emeritus of U.S. History, Princeton University.

This is the first in a series of programs and projects about Lincoln that the Gilder Lehrman Institute is sponsoring over the next year, as part of the Lincoln Bicentennial celebration. The Institute will launch a new Lincoln podcast weekly beginning in January, 2009.