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In the spirit of Lincoln’s bicentennial and our own PQ being the home of Ford’s Theatre, we wanted to let you know about the Library of Congress’ exhibition “With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition” opening to the public tomorrow, February 12, between 5 pm and 9 pm. The exhibit is on the second floor of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building at 10 First Street SE. Normal visitor hours of 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Saturday, pick up again the following day. A portion of the press release follows the break.
From the press release,
This major exhibition, made possible through the generous support of Union Pacific Corporation, runs through May 9, 2009, after which it will travel to five U.S. cities.
“With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition” will chart Lincoln’s growth from prairie lawyer to preeminent statesman and address the monumental issues he faced, including slavery and race, the dissolution of the Union, and the Civil War.
The exhibit will reveal Lincoln the man, whose thoughts, words, and actions were deeply affected by personal experiences and pivotal historic events. By placing Lincoln’s words in a historical context, the exhibition will give visitors a deeper understanding of how remarkable Lincoln’s decisions were for their time and why his words continue to resonate today.
The exhibition will draw on the vast and varied collections of Lincoln material in the Library and will include letters, photographs, political cartoons, period engravings, speeches, and artifacts. The actual grammar book studied by Lincoln in his effort to master English, the notes he prepared in advance of his debates with Senator Stephen Douglas, and the personal scrapbook he assembled of newspaper clippings of the debates bring this iconic figure to life.
Other items include campaign and election ephemera and such treasures as an autobiography which Lincoln supplied to admiring biographers, his penciled “Farewell Address” as he boarded the train from Springfield, Ill., his first and second Inaugural Addresses, the Bible upon which he took the oath of office on March 4, 1861, his unforgettable Gettysburg Address, and his impassioned letter to Albert Hodges in defense of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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