From left to right: Dr. Charles Hubbard & Dr. Michael Toomey
Recently, a couple esteemed Professors of History at Lincoln Memorial University sat down with one another in the Guerry Center Reading Room on the campus of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga for a conversation about Abraham Lincoln's dilemma—how to end the peculiar institution of slavery without doing irreparable damage to the United States Constitution and the foundations of the American Republic. Dr. Charles Hubbard, Emeritus, Professor of History and Lincoln Historian and Dr. Michael Toomey, recently retired Professor of History and a former Assistant Dean of the Paul V. Hamilton School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, noted Lincoln's status as not only one of America's greatest leaders, but also discussed the role he played in bringing about the end of slavery and the dilemma he faced in achieving that goal. To achieve emancipation, meant Lincoln had to draw on his own moral convictions while employing his political skill to challenge constitutional realities that obstructed the path forward to the abolishment of slavery.
Ahead of their presentation, both Dr. Charles Hubbard and Dr. Michael Toomey took time to sit down with WUTC for an interview, which you can listen to at the following link.