Posted by Lincoln Studies 18 hours 58 minutes ago.
There is a town in Illinois named after Abraham Lincoln. Though that may not come as a shock to many of you, the circumstances surrounding the naming of Lincoln, Illinois are a bit strange.
It is the only town named after Lincoln before he was elected ...
Posted by Lincoln Studies
Today marks the beginning of a new semester. For the next four months, I will be teaching Illinois History here at Southern Illinois University. I’m really looking forward to the course.
For the last two years, I’ve been writing my dissert...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 5 days 22 hours ago.
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the darkest day in Springfield history. A two-day race riot ravaged Abraham Lincoln’s hometown.
We’ve talked about the race riot before on this site. As I recall, the topic came up during a series of po...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 1 week 1 day ago.
The Journal Gazette-Times Courier in Charleston, Illinois ran an interesting piece on Friday. The article details Abraham Lincoln’s last visit to Coles County to visit his stepmother in late January 1861. It’s worth taking a look at.
Posted by Lincoln Studies 2 weeks 3 days ago.
WASHINGTON The fifth installment of C-SPANs Lincoln 200 Years programming initiative airs on Saturday, August 2 from 8 - 10 p.m. ET. (The program re-airs at 11 p.m. ET).
This month, the program features two segments focusing on Lincoln and his polit...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 2 weeks 4 days ago.
It looks like we had good reason to be worried about historic sites in Illinois.
According to the State Journal-Register in Springfield, all seasonal workers at New Salem have been let go. In addition, the site will be now be closed on Mondays and Tues...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 3 weeks 14 hours ago.
United States Senate
July 25, 2008
Mr. President, in 1887, 2 years after the death of Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman wrote in a letter to his old Army Chief of Staff, “Grant’s whole character was a mystery, even to himself....
Posted by Lincoln Studies 3 weeks 2 days ago.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, August 24, 2008, in Shryock Auditorium on the SIUC campus.
CARBONDALE - John Younker Simon died at 9:12 a.m. Tuesday, July 8, 2008, at Memorial Hospital of Carbondale. He was 75.
John was born June 25, 1...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 3 weeks 4 days ago.
How about another fast-paced edition of “Odds & Ends” to round out the week that wasI have enjoyed reading the first few reviews of Daniel Mark Epstein’s new book on the Lincoln marriage. Washington Post, New York Times, and a new...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 3 weeks 6 days ago.
Several weeks ago I received an email from the folks at Studio Macbeth. They told me they had created new digital images of “Lincoln.” My curiosity was peaked, so I took a look at them. I was impressed. However, it seems some folks did no...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 3 weeks 6 days ago.
I suppose I see the resemblance to Barack Obama a little more clearly in this print; however, I still say this strange character looks more like Lincoln than Obama.
Ron English, the artist responsible for this image, has signed a few hundred of these...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 4 weeks 1 day ago.
I was trying to find a picture of the new Wal-Mart Supercenter in Springfield, Illinois when I came across this bone-chilling representation of the sixteenth president, at least I think that is supposed to be him.
Dubbing the doll “Goth Lincoln,&#...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 1 month ago.
More details on Governor Rod Blagojevich’s plan to slash $1.4 billion from the Illinois budget are starting to leak out. The message is startling: history be damned, the governor could care less.
State historic site managers could tell a discer...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 1 month ago.
A big “thank you” to everyone who commented on the story about Professor Simon. Your comments were so thoughtful and I know his family and friends will be pleased to read them. He lived a wonderful life, reached out to many people, and will...
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