Join Our Author Book Talk with Akhil Reed Amar

Yale professor of law and political science Ahkil Reed Amar will join the regular meeting of the Lincoln Study Forum on June 13 as they complete discussion of his timely and engaging book, Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840-1920. The session is open to all Lincoln Group members. Dr. Amar is a gifted educator and legal scholar who appears frequently on television news shows to provide analysis for U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

Born Equal recounts the dramatic events and constitutional debates that unfolded across eight decades and which reimagined the meaning of the Declaration of Independence proposition that "all men are created equal." It relates the stories of several remarkable nineteenth century women and men, black and white, who elaborated a new vision of what this ideal demanded. Their debates played out through such events as the Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, the Buffalo Free Soil Convention of 1848, in…