“Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America,” 5/13 Kinder Institute Distinguished Lecture with NPR’s Steve Inskeep

STEVE INSKEEP: 2025 KINDER INSTITUTE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE

DIFFER WE MUST: HOW LINCOLN SUCCEEDED IN A DIVIDED AMERICA

Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR’s Morning Edition as well as its morning news podcast Up First. Since joining Morning Edition in 2004, Inskeep has hosted the program from New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, Cairo, and Beijing; investigated Iraqi police in Baghdad; and received a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for “The Price of African Oil,” on conflict in Nigeria. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Inskeep and NPR’s Michele Norris conducted “The York Project,” groundbreaking conversations about race that received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton for excellence.

In his newest book, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America, Inskeep illuminates Lincoln’s life through 16 encounters, some well known, some obscure, but all imbued with new significance. A compelling and nuanced exploration of Lincoln’s political acumen, Differ We Must illuminates a great politician’s strategy in a country divided—and lessons for our own disorderly present.

A full bio for Steve Inskeep can be found here.

About the Distinguished Lecture

A biennial tradition at the Kinder Institute, which has in the past featured talks by David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Andrew Roberts, the 2025 Distinguished Lecture will be held on Tuesday, May 13, at 6pm at the Missouri Theatre.

The event is free and open to the public. Informing about ticketing will be posted here in the coming weeks.