- Speaker
- Steve Inskeep
- Lecture date
- April 8th, 2025
- Time
- 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Title
- Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR’s Morning Edition as well as its morning news podcast Up First. Since joining Morning Edition in 2004, Inskeep has hosted the program from New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, Cairo, and Beijing; investigated Iraqi police in Baghdad; and received a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for “The Price of African Oil,” on conflict in Nigeria. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Inskeep and NPR’s Michele Norris conducted “The York Project,” groundbreaking conversations about race that received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton for excellence.
Inskeep is the author of Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi as well as Jacksonland, a history of President Andrew Jackson’s long-running conflict with John Ross, a Cherokee chief who resisted the removal of Indians from the eastern United States in the 1830s.
In his newest book, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America, Inskeep illuminates President Abraham Lincoln’s life through 16 encounters, some well known, some obscure, but all imbued with new significance. A compelling and nuanced exploration of Lincoln’s political acumen, Differ We Must illuminates a great politician’s strategy in a country divided — and lessons for our own disorderly present.