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Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
My new most favorite T-shirt. It’s an exclusive from the Signals catalog, which supports public TV ( it’s on the page 56, along with “The New York Times Complete Civil War Book and DVD.”).
Today’s squashed pennies
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Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
The Washington Post’s excellent new blog, “Civil War 150,” on Sunday replayed Fred Kaplan’s 2009 list of the indispensable books about Abraham Lincoln. You want to read the whole article, but here are Kaplan’s recommendations...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
Salon, the online magazine, says its story about a goofball Oregon artist who is painting all the presidents holding a ham was prompted by an e-mail “that was so strange, so unexpected and so wonderful that we just couldn’t look away.” N...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
The New York Times’ new Civil War blog, Disunion, on Friday reprinted the 1882 reminiscences of a St. Louis reporter who had spent Election Day 1860 with Abraham Lincoln in Springfield. Here it is.
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
Both the New York Times and the Washington Post have just added regular commentaries about the election of Abraham Lincoln and the United States’ slide toward the Civil War. Indications are both will continue throughout the war’s 150th anniver...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
“The canvass for the Presidency of the United States terminated last evening, in all the States of the Union, under the revised regulation of Congress, passed in 1845, and the result, by the vote of New-York, is placed beyond question at once. It el...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
James Cornelius, historian and curator of the Lincoln Collection at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, apparently is good at anticipating the future too.
Cornelius presciently wrote a post Oct. 19 for From Out of the Top Hat, the Abraham...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
Nov. 6 is the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s first election as president, and Springfield’s cast of “History Comes Alive” performers has a full schedule of appearances. Here’s the list.
*10:30 a.m., Fritz Klein and Pa...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
Columnist Walter Williams’ thesis on the op-ed page of this morning’s State Journal-Register (always Abe’s friend) — that blacks fought as soldiers for the Confederacy in the Civil War — comes pre-debunked, all over the place...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
This stoneware version of the Abraham Lincoln Home is among nine similar depictions of Springfield historic buildings that go on display starting this weekend at the Prairie Art Alliance’s H.D. Smith Gallery in the Hoogland Center for the Arts.
All ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
The Abraham Lincoln Association has announced that its speaker for the 2011 Abraham Lincoln Banquet will be Allen Guelzo, two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize and three-time winner of the Abraham Lincoln Institute Prize. Director of Civil War Studies at G...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
There’s not a lot at Lincoln Trail Homestead near Decatur.Some plaques …A wayside marker about the Big Snow of 1830-31 (which includes the smelly information that a neighbor woman cured Abe’s frozen feet with an ointment compounded of go...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
Takepart.com explains its rationale for posting this nicely symbolic animation of the Gettysburg Address.
“As the election season draws to its heated end, (animator Adam) Gault’s inspired nod to Lincoln’s call for unity provides a refuge from th...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
Coin Update News reports that the Abraham Lincoln Presidential $1 Coin (I don’t know why they don’t call it the Presidential Dollar) will be formally released Nov. 18 in ceremonies at the President Lincoln Cottage at the Soldiers Home in Washi...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
The title quote comes from a long profile in this week’s New York magazine of famed playwright Tony Kushner, who won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for “Angels in America,” and wrote “Caroline, or Change” and the movie “Munich...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
You never know where Abe will turn up, or what his influence will be.
Robb Provost, founder of the Abraham Lincoln Foundation of Albania, will speak at 7 p.m. Nov. 4 at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum. (Free and public, but make reservations at 55...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
In “Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln’s Corpse,” author James Swanson lambastes the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum’s exhibit depicting Lincoln’s coffin lying in state in the O...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
As I mentioned yesterday, local lawyer Kent Gray is acting as point man for the Sangamon County Bar Association’s effort to raise funds to install three busts of Abraham Lincoln in the Sangamon County Building — specifically on the three floor...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
The Sangamon County Bar Association has identified the three busts of Abraham Lincoln it plans to donate for installation in the Sangamon County Complex.
One of the sculptors is pretty famous, at least to people interested in in Lincoln imagery. The other...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
The National Park Service has three openings for guides at the Lincoln Home NHS. Full-time but temporary (it’s a six-month gig), probably starting next spring. $15 an hour. Yup, you’d get to wear the ranger uniform.
Apply by Nov. 1. (But don&#...
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