Past Rolland Lectures

2012­—James H. Madison on “Three Reasons Why Lincoln Is My Hero”

2013—Sara Gabbard on “1863: Lincoln’s Pivotal Year”

2014—Bill Bartelt on “Reflections of Lincoln’s Youth in Indiana”

2015—David Reynolds on “Killing John Brown, Killing Lincoln: Secrets of the Assassination”

2016—Judge Randall Shepard on “What Indiana Civic Life Likely Taught Young Mr. Lincoln”

2017—Mitch Daniels on “Divided We Fail: The Importance of Civil Discourse in the Nation’s Polarized Political Climate”

2018—Wendy Allen on “Searching for the Exact Location of America’s Soul: An Artist’s Pursuit”

2019—Harold Holzer and Craig Symonds on “Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt: A Conversation on Presidential Leadership”

[2020, 2021 no Rolland Lecture]

2022—Susannah Koerber on “Agency and Urgency: Lincoln, the Black Community, and the Fight for Emancipation and Citizenship”

2023—James Oakes on “Dueling Constitutions”

2024—Jonathan White on “Abraham Lincoln, Juneteenth, and the Power of the Emancipation Proclamation”

2024—Joe Jordan, George Hicks, Susannah Koerber, and Sarah Schoolman on “The Emancipation Proclamation Comes to Indiana: Civil Rights, Ian Rolland, and the Lincoln Legacy Curriculum”