Williams Lecture Series

Williams Lecture Series

Susannah Ural, left, MSU’s inaugural Frank and Virginia Williams Endowed Chair of Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies, is pres

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.