Abraham Lincoln: A Man for All Times - Nov. 10-Dec. 8, 2010

Abraham Lincoln: A Man of his Time, A Man for all Times
November 10-December 8, 2010

Traveling Exhibit

Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of Lincoln’s Election
More books have been written about Lincoln than any other American, yet public knowledge about our most famous president is dominated by a series of iconic images: the son of an illiterate frontier farmer who taught himself to read; the savior of the Union; the Great Emancipator; the martyred leader.

Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Time, A Man for All Times invites visitors to look beyond the myth. We hope that presenting Lincoln’s own words in speeches, letters and proclamations, will encourage a deeper understanding of the nation’s 16th president’s life, accomplishments and legacy.

Lincoln believed that America’s greatest strength lay in guaranteeing its citizens their natural rights and opportunities to succeed. Like Jefferson, Lincoln believed that “all men are created equal,” and he carried these democratic ideals to their logical conclusion further than any president had done before.

This exhibit is on loan from The Gilder-Lehrman Institute.

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana.

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Presented by the Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research and the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site as part of the 2010-2011 program series, Commemorating Our Nation's Struggle for Freedom: From Civil War to Civil Rights.