Historian James Oakes to Speak April 2

Historian James Oakes will present "Measure Him By the Sentiment of His Country: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics" on Thursday, April 2, at 2 p.m. on the main floor of Illinois State University's Milner Library.  The event is free and open to the public.

One of America's leading historians, Oakes has a reputation for path-breaking scholarship and has tackled some of the most important questions about the history of the United States from the Revolution through the Civil War.  He has been a faculty member in the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center since 1997 and has held the Graduate School Humanities Chair since 1998.

His publications include The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (2007), Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South (1990), The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders (1982) and chapters in Making a Nation: The United States and Its People (2001).