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Elizabeth R. Varon: George Washington Symposium
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October 28, 2020
Elizabeth Varon of the University of Virginia will talk about the extraordinarily consequential election of 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was elected president and the nation soon broke apart. She will also look at the election of 1864, when Lincoln sought re-election in the midst of civil war.