BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.0.5//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:92@harrisburgcwrt.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250516T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250516T213000 DTSTAMP:20241203T011317Z URL:https://harrisburgcwrt.org/events/brought-forth-on-this-continent-abra ham-lincoln-and-american-immigration/ SUMMARY:Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immi gration DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, May 16 for our annual Nye-Sommers Le cture\, presented by Professor Harold Holzer\, one of the country’s lead ing authorities on Abraham Lincoln and winner of the coveted Gilder-Lehrma n Lincoln Prize.\nIn the three decades before the Civil War\, some ten mil lion foreign-born people settled in the United States\, forever altering t he nation’s demographics\, culture\, and—perhaps most significantly— voting patterns. America’s newest residents fueled the national economy\ , but they also wrought enormous changes in the political landscape and ex posed an ugly\, at times violent\, vein of nativist bigotry. \; Abraha m Lincoln’s rise ran parallel to this turmoil. \; Tensions over immi gration would split and ultimately destroy Lincoln’s Whig Party years be fore the Civil War. Yet the war made clear just how important immigrants w ere\, and how interwoven they had become in American society.\nProfessor H olzer’s lecture will chart Lincoln’s political career through the lens of immigration\, from his role as a member of an increasingly nativist po litical party to his evolution into an immigration champion\, a progressio n that would come at the same time as he refined his views on abolition an d Black citizenship.  \;As Holzer writes in his latest book\, Brought Forth on This Continent\, “The Civil War could not have been won without Lincoln’s leadership\; but it could not have been fought without the im migrant soldiers who served and\, by the tens of thousands\, died that the ‘nation might live.’” An utterly captivating and illuminating work\ , \;Brought Forth on This Continent \;assesses Lincoln's life and legacy in a wholly original way\, unveiling remarkable similarities betwee n the nineteenth century and the twenty-first.\nThose who are unable to at tend this engagement in person are invited to tune in to the lecture and Q &\;A session via Zoom. \; Click on the following link: https://us02 web.zoom.us/j/85971439728. \; No password in required. \; To dial in by phone\, call 1-301-715-8592 or click on the following link: https:// us02web.zoom.us/u/kckM0vf7UD. The meeting ID # is 859 7143 9728. \; Zo om participants should join the meeting by 7:00 pm.\n \n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://harrisburgcwrt.org/wp-content/uploads/20 24/07/harold-holzer-web.jpg LOCATION:Central Penn College Conference Center\, 600 Valley Road\, Enola\, PA\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=600 Valley Road\, Enola\, P A\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Central Penn College Conferen ce Center:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR