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Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
| Tuesday, September 18, 2007 |
Dinner Meeting
Featured speaker and topic:
Edgar Farr Russell III: Abraham Lincoln, Superstar
A multi-media presentation by our own First Vice-President will look at how Lincoln has been depicted on stage, film, radio, and television. Our Lincoln Group dinner meeting promises to offer history mixed with a touch of Broadway theatricality and Hollywood excitement!
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| Tuesday, October 16, 2007 |
Dinner Meeting
Featured speaker and topic:
Edward H. Bonekemper, III: George B. McClellan: Lincoln's Worst Nightmare
Military historian Bonekemper discusses the disastrous generalship of McClellan whose brilliance and organizational abilities were overcome by his fear of defeat and his lack of respect for Lincoln and other superiors.
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| Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
Dinner Meeting
Featured speaker and topic:
Julie M. Fenster: The Case of Abraham Lincoln
In this book, best selling historian Fenster looks at the pivotal year of 1856, in which Lincoln publicly refuted those who would expand slavery and made the controversial decision to join the fledgling Republican Party. At the same time, she offers the first-ever account of the suspenseful Anderson Murder Case of Springfield, Illinois, and Lincoln’s role in it.
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| Tuesday, December 18, 2007 |
Dinner Meeting
Featured speaker and topic:
Tom Wheeler: Mr. Lincoln's T-Mail
The untold story of how Abraham Lincoln used the telegraph to win the Civil War. Wheeler tells how, less than two decades after Samuel Morse's famous first telegraph message was sent from the U.S. Capitol, Lincoln adopted the new technology and applied it in ways that were revolutionary in his time and that still have meaning in regard to our contemporary use of electronic messaging.
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| Tuesday, January 15, 2008 |
Dinner Meeting
Featured speaker and topic:
Steven L. Carson: If Lincoln had Lived
An examination the political, social, and medical implications our country might have faced if President Lincoln had been disabled instead of killed the night of April 14, 1865.
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| Saturday, February 9, 2008 |
Lincoln Birthday Banquet
Cash bar opens: 6:00 P.M.
Dinner: 6:45 P.M.
Program: 8:00 P.M.
Featured speakers and topic:
Bob Zeller and John J. Richter: Lincoln in 3D
Take a fascinating 3-D journey into the presidency of Abraham Lincoln when Civil War photo experts Bob Zeller and John J. Richter present Lincoln in 3D, a photographic history of our greatest president, in stereo.
Wearing 3-D glasses, you will feel as if you can literally step into the tableaus of many of the most famous photographs of Lincoln and the Civil War as the images are projected on a large screen in their original stereoscopic format. Hand-tinted images are shown in color. Many images are seen in the exquisite sepia tones of original albumen stereographic prints more than 140 years old.
In the 30-minute, fully digitized Lincoln in 3D show, viewers see about 160 stereoscopic images, including more than a dozen portraits of the president, images of both of his inaugurations, his visits to Antietam and Gettysburg, his summer home, the White House, the city of Washington, the hanging of the assassination conspirators and more.
The show also includes a dramatic, in-depth 3D look at the two images taken at the Gettysburg Address ceremony that were recently found to show Lincoln on horseback. John Richter made this discovery after examining high resolution scans of two stereoscopic negatives previously thought to show only the crowd at the ceremony.
Zeller, who narrates the show, is the president of the non-profit Center for Civil War Photography and is one of the leading collectors of original Civil War photography.
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| Tuesday, March 18, 2008 |
Annual Lincoln Group Auction
March will feature our Annual Lincoln Group Auction to raise money for our various programs. More than 100 vintage and recent books, pictures, busts, and many other items about Abraham Lincoln, his family, and Civil War subjects will be offered at Auction. Come for dinner and stay for the fun! You may find that special Lincoln item for yourself or a friend!
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| Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
Dinner Meeting
Featured speaker and topic:
Dr. Frank D. Milligan: Washington in Crisis: Civil War Diaries of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1864
Dr. Milligan will talk about his new book, Washington in Crisis: The Wartime Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865, which he expects will be published in 2009. Dr. Taft was one of the doctors attending Abraham Lincoln after the events at Ford's Theatre. This is a new topic from a speaker new to the Lincoln Group, so please join us.
Dr. Milligan holds a Ph.D. in American and Canadian history, and is the newly appointed Director of the newly opened museum, President Lincoln's Cottage, located on the grounds of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington, D.C.
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| Tuesday, May 20, 2008 |
Dinner Meeting, Annual Mike Maione Lecture, and Lincoln Award presentation
Lecturer and topic:
Dr. Douglas L. Wilson: Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words
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Lincoln Award recipients:
Dr. Douglas L. Wilson and Dr. Rodney O. Davis
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Douglas L. Wilson, Ph.D., taught English and American Literature at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, for 33 years, where he also served for an extended period as Director of the Knox Library. He is Co-Director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College, and is the George A. Lawrence Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of English at Knox College. Dr. Wilson is a two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize for Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words (2006) and Honor’s Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln (1999). Dr. Wilson is also the author, editor, or co-editor of numerous other books and articles on Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and related topics. |
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Rodney O. Davis, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. He taught American History at Knox College from 1963 until 1997, before becoming Co-Director of the Lincoln Studies Center. Dr. Davis has co-edited, with Dr. Wilson, Herndon’s Informants: Letters, Interviews and Statements About Abraham Lincoln, and Herndon’s Lincoln. Dr. Davis is also the editor or co-editor of five other books and some 60 essays and reviews on Illinois History, Abraham Lincoln, and the United States in the Nineteenth Century.
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Drs. Davis and Wilson recently published a new edition of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, which address two realities about those encounters: the debates have long since ceased to be self-explanatory, and the divergent newspaper texts — as originally recorded — require editorial treatment. To allow the debates to be accessible and appreciated by contemporary readers, Drs. Davis and Wilson have striven to place them in historical context through introductions, extensive annotations, and a glossary. They have reconciled many discrepancies in existing versions to more reliably relate what the speakers actually said.
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| June 7, 2008 |
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Annual Picnic
Maps:
• Google™ Map
• Yahoo™ Map
• MapQuest™ Map
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We will have lunch at Terry and Gary's home, and then carpool to the New Visitor's Center. Carpooling will start at approximately 1:00 P.M.
See you there!
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