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Fall 2009 - Spring 2010
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All events are held the third Tuesday of the month at the
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Annual Picnic
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Please reply directly to Terry and Gary at the phone number or email address below, anytime right up until the picnic date:
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This year the Lincoln Group picnic will be held in Gettysburg, PA, at the home of Terry and Gary Holahan. Their home is right near the center of town.
We’ll meet at 11 A.M. – 1 P.M. for hotdogs and hamburgers, salads, cold drinks, etc. There will be plenty of food and seating, so you don’t need to bring anything but yourselves!
After the picnic, we are planning a trip to the Gettysburg Civil War Wax Museum, which features an animated Lincoln among its exhibits. The museum also has its own parking lot and an extensive bookstore and gift shop. The museum’s entry fee is $5.50. It’s less than a 5 minute drive from the Holahans’ house. Please let Terry and Gary know if you want to attend the Wax Museum.
There are lots and lots of other sites to visit while you’re in town, of course! If you would like to go to the town square, you will probably find it easier to leave your car at Terry and Gary’s rather than drive the 4 blocks to the square and try to find parking.
See you there!
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| Past Speakers and Events |
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September 15, 2009
Anthony Pitch, author of They Have Killed Papa Dead! The Road to Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln's Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance
Renowned local tour guide and author specializing in Revolutionary and Civil War history, Mr. Pitch’s latest book has been called “a worthy contribution to the vast literature on Lincoln.” Mr. Pitch tells the story as only a Washington tour guide could, capturing the sights, sounds and feel of Civil War Washington and environs.
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October 20, 2009
Chandra Manning
Georgetown University professor Chandra Manning, author of What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War, will discuss her recent research regarding Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War soldier. Professor Manning's topic will be Loss, Lincoln's Fellow Travelers, and the Destruction of Slavery.
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November 17, 2009
Jason Emerson, author of The Madness of Mary Lincoln and Lincoln The Inventor
The journalist and free-lance author will discuss his first book, an examination of Mary Todd Lincoln's insanity case based on his discovery of Mary Lincoln's twenty "lost" insanity letters, for which historians had been looking for eighty years.
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December 15, 2009
John Stauffer will discuss his book, GIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
Harvard Professor John Stauffer writes and lectures on the Civil War era, antislavery, social protest movements, and visual culture. He is the author of seven books and more than 45 articles, including The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (2002), which won four major awards, including the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, the Avery Craven Book Award, and the Lincoln Prize runner-up. Most recently he co-authored Free State of Jones, now being adapted as a major motion picture.
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January 19, 2010
Burrus Carnahan will address the question, "Was Lincoln a War Criminal? The President and Southern Civilians." This topic parallels the topic of his new book, due out in January 2010.
Mr. Carnahan is a foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation at the U.S. Department of State. Previously, he was a private sector consultant on international arms control issues, and served for 20 years as a lawyer in the U.S. Air Force, where he specialized in the law of war. His book, Act of Justice, examines Lincoln’s approach in issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and how those actions influenced the behaviors of future presidents in time of war.
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Cancelled due to snow conditions.
After much deliberation, the decision has been made to cancel this event due to snow conditions from the Blizzard of 2010. Instead, we are rescheduling a special event at the Arlington Hilton for our Michael Maione Awards Banquet in May. We hope that you will all join us then to meet this year's award winners and share your snow stories.
February 12, 2010.
(Note day change — Friday instead of Tuesday)
Philip B. Kunhardt III will speak on his new book Lincoln, Life-Size, published in November 2009. His co-authors are Peter W. Kunhardt and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. Philip B. Kunhardt III is a writer and producer and is currently a Bard Center Fellow at Bard College. Peter W. Kunhardt is executive producer of Kunhardt McGee Productions. Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., is assistant director of the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation. They are authors of Looking for Lincoln: The Making of an American Icon and, along with their father, the late Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip and Peter are authors of Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography.
Lincoln, Life-Size is a collection of photographic portraits of Abraham Lincoln, in a striking format, from the foremost family of Lincoln pictorial scholarship. These images were taken over 20 years, from 1846 to 1865, and show how Lincoln aged and the toll taken by the Civil War in the last four years of his life. These images illuminate his personality and character.
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March 16, 2010
Annual Auction
Start saving your money! Members have contributed their most precious Lincoln memorabilia in order to raise funds for special Lincoln Group projects throughout the year. Bargains abound, so don’t miss your chance to make a bid on history.
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April 20, 2010
Professor Stephen Vladeck will speak on the well-known 1861 case Ex Parte Merryman, which arose out of Lincoln’s secret suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland in response to riots, local militia actions, and the threat that the border slave state of Maryland would secede from the Union, leaving Washington, D.C., surrounded by hostile territory. His action was challenged in court and overturned by the federal circuit court of Maryland, led by Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who also issued the opinion in the Dred Scott case. In his opinion, Taney raged against Lincoln unconstitutionally granting himself easily abused powers. Lincoln simply disregarded the ruling.
Professor Vladeck is a law professor at American University Washington College of Law. He specializes in U.S. constitutional law, national security law, international law, and has done considerable work defending the rights of persons imprisoned in the war on terrorism, including working on a landmark case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Please note: this event will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.
May 18, 2010
The Annual Mike Maione Lecture and
Lincoln Award Presentation
The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia Annual Awards Banquet and Mike Maione Lecture will be held on Tuesday, May 18, 2010, in honor of Clark Evans, Head of Reference Services, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, and Dr. John R. Sellers, Lincoln Curator and Historical Specialist on the American Civil War in the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, for their contributions to the preservation of the legacy of Abraham Lincoln at the Library of Congress. They will offer remarks on their lives with Lincoln at the Library of Congress.
The Banquet will be held at the Hilton Hotel, 950 Stafford Street, Arlington, VA 22203. Social Hour 6:00 P.M., Dinner 7:00 P.M. Price $50 per person. Look for your invitation in the mail. To reserve, contact Susan Dennis: 703-532-6188; e-mail: dennisu@si.edu; mail: 3119 N. Harrison St., Arlington, VA 22207. Reservations, Menu Selection, and Payment required by Thursday, May 13. Menu: April Chili Glazed Chicken; Peppercorn London Broil; or Four Cheese Ravioli with Marinara Sauce. Driving and Metro directions with parking information are included in the invitations.
Dr. John R. Sellers is the Historical Specialist on the American Civil War and the Lincoln Curator at the Library of Congress. Dr. Sellers began his career at the Library in June 1969, working first with the locating and identifying manuscript sources in the Library on the American Revolution, and since 1982, the American Civil War. Sellers’ publications in progress are "Lincoln's Washington: the Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft," and "John G. Nicolay." Dr. Sellers has played a major role in the digitization and online presentation of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln and serves as curator of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln in the Library of Congress. He is chairman and past president of the Abraham Lincoln Institute. Sellers was also on the team responsible for the Library of Congress Lincoln Bicentennial exhibition “With Malice Toward None.”
Clark Evans served as the Lincoln Group of D.C.'s president in the 1990s. He is a long-time employee of the Library of Congress where he is the Head of Reference Services in the Rare Book Reading Room, home of the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana, and the Special Collections Division. In this capacity, he is featured on the Library of Congress website (loc.gov). and its Hidden Treasures feature. Here four Clark Evans videos introduce the public to the contents of Lincoln’s pockets during his April 14, 1865 visit to Ford’s Theatre; the Lincoln inaugural Bible; a wanted poster for the Lincoln assassins; and Lincoln’s first owned book still in existence today. Clark has been a featured speaker not only at our Lincoln Group and the Library of Congress but also at Lincoln Memorial University, the Maryland Historical Society, the Popular Culture Association and The Surratt Society. He was the first president of the Abraham Lincoln Institute and currently serves as the organization’s general secretary.
About Mike Maione
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