Diana Schaub on how Lincoln moved the nation

Diana Schaub, on “His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation.” Diana J. Schaub is professor of political science at Loyola University Maryland, where she has taught for almost three decades. She is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where her work is focused on American political thought and history, particularly Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, African American political thought, Montesquieu, and the relevance of core American ideals to contemporary challenges and debates. She has contributed chapters to multiple books on Shakespeare, liberal education, women, and religion. Her most recent book is His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation (2021). Diana Schaub has a PhD and an MA in political science from the University of Chicago. Her BA in political science is from Kenyon College.
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on April 1, 2022.