Professor of English James Basker Featured in
C-Span Broadcast from High School
NEW
YORK, N.Y. - James Basker, Professor of English
at Barnard and President of the Gilder
Lehrman Institute of American History, is
featured in a C-Span2 broadcast of a discussion
on the Civil War between a panel of historians
and high school students.
The
show, featuring winners of The Lincoln Prize awarded
by The Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg
College, will be broadcast at 9:09 a.m. on C-Span2
on Saturday, April 21. It was earlier broadcast
on Sunday, April 15.
The
program features presentations by winners of the
Lincoln Prize and questions by students at Manhattan's
Notre Dame High School. The event was moderated
by Basker, a Lincoln Prize Board member.
Participants
included Russell F. Weigley, professor emeritus
at Temple University, who won first place for
his book A Great Civil War: A Military and
Political History (Indiana University Press),
which examines wartime strategy and tactics as
well as the broader operational modes used in
Civil War theaters; Gabor Boritt, director, The
Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College.
Also
participating were the two winners of the e-Lincoln
Prize: Virginia Ayers, Edward Professor at the
University of Virginia; and Anne Sarah Rubin,
assistant professor at the University of Maryland.
Ayers and Rubin, who along with their colleague,
Professor William Thomas (not present), created
the CD-ROM, book and web site Valley of the
Shadow: The Eve of War, published electronically
by W.W. Norton & Company and the University of
Virginia.
The
Lincoln Prize and the e-Lincoln Prize were founded
and endowed by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman,
businessmen with a long-standing interest in Lincoln
and the Civil War. The $100,000 awards are the
most generous in the nation in the field of history.
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