Join us Thursday, February 6, 2025, at 7 p.m. CT, for a great conversation with author Dr. Jonathan White on his soon-to-be-released adult book, A Great and Good Man: Rare, First-Hand Accounts and Observations of Abraham Lincoln, co-edited with William J. Griffing. White will also share insight on his latest children’s book, tentatively titled At the White House with President Lincoln.

One hundred sixty years after Abraham Lincoln’s death, it can be difficult to find sources that shed new light on his life, but that is exactly what Jonathan W. White and William J. Griffing have done. A Great and Good Man provides excerpts from more than 200 previously unpublished accounts written by men and women who lived during the Civil War. Some saw Lincoln deliver speeches, review the troops, or light up cigars with soldiers. Others offer pointed commentary on his policies and decisions. Through these selections, readers get an in-depth and, at times, startling view of the Civil War era, from the Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 to the assassination in 1865.

Jonathan W. White is a professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University. He is the author or editor of 17 books, including A House Built By Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House, and co-winner of the 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. He serves as vice chair of The Lincoln Forum, and in 2019, he won the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia’s Outstanding Faculty Award.

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