A.L. Center Mission Statement
The Abraham Lincoln Center for Leadership and Public Policy will provide an intellectual environment to encourage research and study into leadership theory, ethical practices, and public policy making. The Center seeks to raise public awareness of the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln and inspire civic engagement through Lincoln’s enduring example of values-based leadership.
Executive Director
William E. Hardy is Assistant Professor of History and Lincoln Scholar in the History Department, Paul V. Hamilton School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Lincoln Memorial University. He received his B.A. and M.A. in History at the University of Louisville and earned his Ph.D. in 19th Century American History from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Hardy specializes in the political, constitutional, and cultural history of nineteenth-century America and Tennessee history. His teaching and research interests include the life and times of Abraham Lincoln; the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras; nineteenth-century American sports; and military, Southern, and Tennessee History; He has recently completed a history of Civil War era baseball in Tennessee and is currently at work on a study of Tennessee's Reconstruction Era and a destructive fire that destroyed Knoxville, Tennessee's business district at the turn of the twentieth century.
Dr. William E. Hardy can be contacted by phone (423) 869-6841 or email: William.Hardy@lmunet.edu
