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The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is getting ready to celebrate Lincoln’s 200th birthday this Independence Day weekend, July 2 through 5, 2009. Lincoln 200 just might be the biggest of…

By now it’s fairly old news that the environmentalist group Greenpeace staged a protest yesterday about global warming at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota. Members of the organization used rappelling anchors…

The Abraham Lincoln Blog is taking a bit of a break over the next couple of weeks. I’m heading to the country of Turkey tomorrow morning so my wife and…

I found an article online here from the Chicago Sun-Times which tells about a limited edition poster issued by the Ravinia Festival in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday. The…

Today marks the 191st anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln’s biological mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln. She died on October 5, 1818, when her two children, Sarah and Abraham, were…

The centerpiece of the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in Lincoln City, Indiana is the Memorial Building. Completed in 1944, it also serves as the Visitor Center at the park. Constructed…

I hope the readers of The Abraham Lincoln Blog will forgive me another post about The Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial. There’s simply too much to cover about the park in…

One of the nation’s newest memorials to Abraham Lincoln is located in Lincoln State Park, Indiana, almost immediately across the state highway from the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial. The Abraham…

Today marks the 201st anniversary of the birth of our nation’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. It also brings to a close this past year which has seen countless celebrations of…

More than 201 years after his birth, and 145 years after his death, Abraham Lincoln continues to fascinate people around the world. His story has been told countless times in…