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web site of The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia, Inc. The Lincoln Group was founded in 1935, and is a non-profit, historical society with a nationwide membership devoted to the study of Abraham Lincoln. It holds monthly dinner programs (except during June, July and August) in Washington, D.C., featuring nationally and locally recognized Lincoln scholars and specialists. In addition, The Lincoln Group sponsors a variety of Lincoln-related social events throughout the year, and membership includes a June picnic at an historic site in the Washington, D.C., area and a subscription to The Lincolnian, our bi-monthly newsletter.
The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia is the oldest, continuously active Lincoln society in America. It is actively involved in supporting the preservation of historic monuments and battlefields and in assisting authors, writers and lecturers in their research by providing them with historic information and sources. The Lincoln Group played a key role in the major, three-volume reference work, Lincoln Day by Day 1809 - 1865, and has been publicly credited with being instrumental in the decision to permanently illuminate the Lincoln Memorial at night.
The Lincoln Group has been honored by Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and George W. Bush.
The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia
Guide to Lincoln Sites In and Around Washington, DC
The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia has published The Guide to Lincoln Sites In and Around Washington, DC as one of our Lincoln Bicentennial initiatives. Authored by former Lincoln Group President Burris Carnahan, the guide made its debut in 2009. Those who attended the Lincoln Bicentennial Banquet on February 12, 2009, received a copy of the guide as a remembrance of the evening.
The 44-page publication describes Lincoln-related sites not only in the city of Washington but also in the neighboring states of Maryland and Virginia...
Take a Thumbnail Tour of Abraham Lincoln Treasures, presented by The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia, courtesy of the National Museum of American History, Behring Center.
In honor of the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, the Smithsonian Institution is exhibiting to the public its rare holdings of treasured Lincoln artifacts. The LGDC was privileged to view these items in advance. Harry Rubenstein, Chair and Curator of the Division of Politics and Reform, along with his staff, presented these items from Mr. Lincoln's early life, political life, and his death.
The Lincoln exhibit can be viewed at The National Museum of American History on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., through December 2010.
The Lincoln Award
The Lincoln Award is the highest honor bestowed by the Lincoln Group for contributions to Lincoln studies and/or the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia, Inc. The Lincoln Award was created in 1996, and is presented each May at The Annual Mike Maione Lecture and Lincoln Award presentation.
elcome to the
web site of The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia, Inc. The Lincoln Group was founded in 1935, and is a non-profit, historical society with a nationwide membership devoted to the study of Abraham Lincoln. It holds monthly dinner programs (except during June, July and August) in Washington, D.C., featuring nationally and locally recognized Lincoln scholars and specialists. In addition, The Lincoln Group sponsors a variety of Lincoln-related social events throughout the year, and membership includes a June picnic at an historic site in the Washington, D.C., area and a subscription to The Lincolnian, our bi-monthly newsletter.
