[View ALL News Press Releases] The Elizabethtown Community and Technical College "Lincoln Bicentennial Speakers Series" will present an address on "Lincoln's Wartime Leadership and Presidency" by Prof. Charles P. Roland, at 6 pm on 19 Feb, 2009 in room 112A of the Administration Building. The talk is free and open to the public.

Dr. Roland is one of the nation's most distinguished and respected authorities on the Civil War. Among the nearly dozen books Dr. Roland has published are American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War, Grant, Lee, Lincoln, and the Radicals: Essays on Civil War Leadership, The Confederacy, and No Band of Brothers: Problems in Rebel High Command. Now retired from the classroom, Dr. Roland taught for over 36 years at Tulane University and then the University of Kentucky, with stints as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Alabama, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and the U.S. Army War College.

Dr. Roland's contributions to Civil War studies have won him top awards from the national Civil War Education Foundation, the Chicago Civil War Roundtable, and the Kentucky Civil War Roundtable. Professor Roland has served as the Chair of the Department of Army's Historical Advisory Committee, as a member of the Advisory Board of Civil War Programs at Gettysburg College, and as past President of the Southern Historical Association.

In addition, Dr. Roland has received the US Military Academy Commander's Metal for Outstanding Service, the Outstanding Civilian Service Metal and Citation from the Department of the Army, and the Secretary of the Army's Decoration for Distinguished Civilian Service.

Previous speakers in the series have been State Historian and Georgetown College Professor James Klotter, and ECTC History Professor Douglas Cantrell. For more information, contact Professor Gary Stearns at 270-706-8561 or e-mail gary.stearns@kctcs.edu.