A Pulitzer Prize winner and other experts on Abraham Lincoln will participate in a series of events early next year surrounding Kansas’ sesquicentennial celebration.

“Lincoln Week,” presented by the Dole Institute of Politics at Kansas University, will run Feb. 8 through Feb. 12.

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The schedule of speakers will be:

• Feb. 8 — Douglas Wilson, director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. He is the author of “Honor’s Voice,” which details Lincoln’s life before entering the White House.
• Feb. 9 — Allen Guelzo, professor of American history at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pa. Guelzo was a co-winner of the 2001 Lincoln Prize for his biography, “Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President.”
• Feb. 10 — Harold Holzer, director of public affairs at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and co-chair of the Lincoln bicentennial commission. Holzer has written or edited 19 books including “The Lincoln Image” and “Lincoln on Democracy.”
• Feb. 11 — Jean Baker, professor of history at Goucher College in Baltimore. Baker is author of “Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography.”
• Feb. 12 — James McPherson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of “Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era.” He is professor of history at Princeton University and also has won the Lincoln Prize for “For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War.”

All lectures are free and open to the public.

The first four lectures will be at 7 p.m. in Hanson Hall of the Dole Institute. McPherson’s lecture — which is on the 195th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth — will be at 7 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom.