Sulgrave Manor Trust is delighted to be joined by Richard Carwardine as part of our Sulgrave Series and we are delighted to invite you. The seminar will take place virtually on Monday 21st March 2022 and will once again be free of charge.

At various times since his death Abraham Lincoln has been adopted as a democratic talisman by each of the main American political parties. Most recently, in 2020, when anti-Trump Republicans formed a Political Action Committee to stop the reelection of a president they judged a threat to democracy, they took the name The Lincoln Project. Lincoln’s public career coincided with the emergence of mass democratic politics in the United States. Running for office during the 1830s and 1840s, he did much to develop the art of party management and winning elections. As an Illinois state legislator and a US congressman, he handled adroitly the interplay of public opinion and law-making. Victorious in the 1860 presidential election, Lincoln inherited a political crisis that would culminate in civil war. As the Union’s commander-in-chief he adapted his leadership to the new realities of constitutional government in wartime, battlefield carnage, and turbulent public opinion. Yet state and national elections in the North went ahead largely as prescribed. In an ultimate test of democratic practice, the president himself stood for re-election in 1864 – and won.  This lecture will examine Lincoln’s political values and practice, and ask: what kind of a democrat was he? Click here for the brochure (Please note: Times will be listed in UK time zone on brochure.)

Please book your place online by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__co-23SwS1ui7VJWs7wZaw.