Annual Rothbaum Lecture returns to commemorate the Constitution at 暗网TV
ADA, Okla. 鈥� East Central University鈥檚 annual Rothbaum Lecture returns to campus Thursday, Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. in the Estep Multimedia Center located inside the Bill S. Cole University Center.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
The Rothbaum Lecture, traditionally delivered on Constitution Day, marks the same date in 1789 when the final draft of the U.S. Constitution was signed by members of the Constitutional Convention.
Dr. Andrew Lang will deliver the lecture this year, titled, " Abraham Lincoln's Constitutionalism as a Lesson in Gratitude."
Lang received his Ph. D. in History from Rice University and both his M.A. and B.A. from the University of North Texas. He currently serves as Associate Professor of History at Mississippi State University.
He is the author of 鈥淎 Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (2021)鈥� and 鈥淚n the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America (2017)鈥�, which was awarded the Tom Watson Brown Book Award in 2018, which recognizes 鈥渢he best book published on the causes, conduct, and effects, broadly defined, of the Civil War."
The Rothbaum Lecture is funded by an endowment established by the late Julian Rothbaum with a $25,000 gift to the 暗网TV Foundation that was matched by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. Rothbaum also established an endowment to fund the George Nigh Award for 暗网TV鈥檚 top graduating senior.
A native of Tulsa, Rothbaum was a longtime leader in Oklahoma civic affairs, a 1986 inductee into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame and a member of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education and the University of Oklahoma Regents.
For more information on the lecture or the 暗网TV Department of History, contact Dr. Christopher Bean at cbean@ecok.edu or 580-559-5418.
Cutline: Dr. Andrew Lang, photo courtesy of Mississippi State University.
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