Ken Lyftogt will speak about Abraham Lincoln and the politics of command.

Ken Lyftogt is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Northern Iowa. Lyftogt teaches introductory and advanced courses on humanities, American civilization and U.S. history. He specializes in the American Civil War, and is the author of four books including "Iowa¹s Forgotten General: Matthew Mark Trumbull" (University of Iowa Press, 2005), "From Blue Mills to Columbia: Cedar Falls and the Civil War" (Iowa State University Press, 1993), "Left for Dixie: The Civil War Diary of John Rath (Mid Prairie Books, 2004) and "The Sullivan Family of Waterloo (Sunseri with the Waterloo Public Library, 1998).