A presentation of the Nevada Historical Society, High Noon with Neal Cobb is a monthly history series that delves into Nevada topics with local experts. Neal Cobb is a passionate historian and honorary curator for the Nevada Historical Society. Each month he is joined by a different guest presenter.

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This month’s installment is an America250 Nevada program, presented by Dr. Michael Green, historian and author.

At Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln referred to Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence in describing "a new birth of freedom." Less than a year later, Nevada was a state. How were these people and events connected? This lecture will examine how Nevada reflects--and does not reflect--what Jefferson and Lincoln had in mind.

Green is chair of the UNLV Department of History. He is the author of Nevada: A History of the Silver State and several other works on Nevada, as well as books about the Civil War era, including Lincoln and the Election of 1860 and Lincoln and Native Americans. He is the executive director of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association and Preserve Nevada, and writes Nevada Yesterdays, read by former U.S. Senator Richard Bryan for Nevada Public Radio.

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