CANCELLED Learning to Love Lincoln: Frederick Douglass's Journey from Grievance to Gratitude

A talk by Diana J. Schaub (Loyola University in Maryland)

Diana J. Schuab is Professor of Political Science at Loyola University in Maryland. Her recent work is focused on American political thought, particularly Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, African American political thought, and the relevance of core American ideals to contemporary challenges and debates. Concurrently, she is visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

An expert in political philosophy, Prof. Schaub is author of Erotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu’s “Persian Letters” and editor, with Leon and Amy Kass, of What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song. A prolific essayist, she has treated themes as varied as bioethics, friendship, liberal education, and the American founding. Her writings have appeared in popular press outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The Baltimore Sun, the Claremont Review of Books, Commentary, and The Weekly Standard.

Prof. Schaub is a contributing editor to The New Atlantis and a member of the Hoover Institution’s Task Force on the Virtues of a Free Society. She was an appointee of President George W. Bush to the President’s Council on Bioethics, and she has held research fellowships at Harvard University and Princeton University. A graduate of Kenyon College, Schaub received a PhD and an MA in political science from the University of Chicago.