Williams Lecture Series
Photo by Beth Wynn
Susannah Ural, left, MSU’s inaugural Frank and Virginia Williams Endowed Chair of Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies, is presented with a print of a Lincoln etching, a token of appreciation for her presentation as a speaker during the annual Williams Lecture Series. A military historian focusing on Civil War soldiers and families, Ural is shown with, from left, Lis Pankl, MSU dean of libraries; Frank Williams, former Rhode Island Chief Justice who donated the Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana to the university; and MSU President Mark E. Keenum.