Abolitionist Smithsonian Institution Building Lecture Hall

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Chronology of Smithsonian HistoryFor Smithsonian Annual Report references to Joseph Henry's lecture policy and to this lecture series, see http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7921174, http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8893183, http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9990607, and http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8889755.For further discussion, see Dorman's "'Interruptions and Embarrassments': The Smithsonian Institution during the Civil War" on Henry web site http://siarchives.si.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/jhpp/JHP_Interruptions_and_Embarrassments_-_The_Smithsonian_during_the_Civil_War.pdf or Alyssa DesRochers, "Controversy in the 'Castle" http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/controversy-%E2%80%9Ccastle%E2%80%9D. Citations here are pulled from noted 21 and 22 of Dorman's paper.Rothenberg, Marc, et al, eds. The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 10, January 1858-December 1865: The Smithsonian Years. Washington, D.C.: Science History Publications, 2004, pp. 249-51, 274-76.Michael Conlin, "The Smithsonian Abolition Lecture Controversy: The Clash of Antislavery Politics With American Science in Wartime Washington," Civil War History - A Journal of the Middle Period, Vol. 46, No. 4 (December 2000), pp. 301-23.Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, 4 vols. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939, 1:400.Smithsonian Annual Report for 1857, p. 36; 1861, pp. 47-48; 1862, pp. 43-45; 1863, pp. 41-43.National Intelligencer, December 12, 1861; New York Daily Tribune, January 17, 1862.James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988, pp. 494-496.Thomas Coulson, Joseph Henry: His Life and Work. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950, p. 242.The Washington Lecture Association receives permission to hold a lecture series at the Smithsonian after agreeing their purpose was "consistent with the character of the Institution," and that they would exclude "any subject connected with sectarianism, discussions in Congress and the political questions of the day." The lecture series soon reveals itself to be a forum on abolition...

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