Frank and Virginia Williams Lecture on Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies

Leading Abraham Lincoln authority Harold Holzer is delivering the inaugural Frank and Virginia Williams Lecture on Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies at Mississippi State University. Free to all, Holzer’s lecture takes place in the Old Main Academic Center’s Turner A. Wingo Auditorium. Free parking is available at the Old Main Parking Garage on Barr Avenue and behind the John C. Longest Student Health Center on Hardy Road. Holzer's lecture precedes the unveiling ceremony for a $10 million addition to MSU’s Mitchell Memorial Library, home of the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and the prestigious Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana. The 21,000-sq.-ft. library addition contains a state-of-the-art museum chronicling Grant’s life and his significance in American history and a gallery dedicated to the Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, a recent donation considered the largest privately owned Abraham Lincoln collection in America. The new space also contains MSU’s Congressional and Political Research Center, which houses nine congressional collections. Click the "Link" below for more information.