+Vote!
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
BURBANK, CA.- Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich today announced that Bob Rogers, founder and chief creative officer of BRC Imagination Arts, one of the world's leading creators of educational experiences that engage, teach, and inspire, is among the 30 people from around the world who will receive a special Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial edition of The Order of Lincoln from the Lincoln
+Vote!
Civil War Bookshelf (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
It's a marketer's dream team, a publicity combination that comes around just once per lifetime: the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum and the Illinois Soybean Association. The ALPLM's underappreciated chief has gotten accolades in the Southeast Farm Press, AgriMarketing, Prarie Farmer, and Indiana Ag Connection. Pure. Marketing. Genius. We will remember this as the soybean
+Vote!
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
GETTYSBURG.- The Gettysburg Foundation and the National Park Service will welcome visitors -- for the first time in more than a century -- to a complete "Battle of Gettysburg" Cyclorama experience, beginning September 26 at the new Museum and Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Military Park. A three-day Grand Opening weekend not only celebrates the completion of the
+Vote!
Examiner (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
This is the "Pretzel City," thanks to German bakers who settled here in the 1850s. It's appropriate, given the way a lightweight named Abraham Lincoln twisted up a political colossus here and began cementing his place in American myth.
+Vote!
Hip Hop Caucus Blog (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
CHICAGO - Two days of bloody race riots that shook Abraham Lincoln's hometown a century ago led to a critical development in the struggle for racial equality: the creation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. While racially motivated crimes were common in the South, the 1908 riots stood out because they happened in Springfield, Ill. -- a northern city and Lincoln's
+Vote!
The Eleventh Hour (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Yes, let’s cram more people into a smaller area. Dumb idea . [Springfield] City officials decided to use “close proximity” fireworks — the same kind used during the grand opening of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in 2005— so the public can get closer and to allow for the opening up of Capitol Avenue. … Robbie Johnston, event chair for Springfield’s Fourth festivities, said close-proximity...
1Vote!
Article Master (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
If you and your family are planning to go on a vacation, or may be you're looking for a place to move in, check-out Illinois. With its ethnically and culturally diverse community, great economic hub and breathtaking scenery, many have said that Illinois is the most accurate description of the rest of the United States. [...]
+Vote!
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
HO "Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America" by Allen C. GuelzoAbraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas are about to go at it again. And again. And again.Illinoisans will soon start seeing a lot more stovepipe hats and mustache-less beards as the state hosts a series of events celebrating the landmark Lincoln-Douglas debate over the morality of slavery.Reunion Tour '08 kicks off June 14-16...
1Vote!
Civil War Bookshelf (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
What a striking news story. As discussions of Lincoln enter the classroom in tandem with Bicentennial programs, Lincoln criticism is not only allowed but encouraged. That has to be a wholly unintended outcome for the organizers of this observance. Moreover, it looks like we have the beginnings of an institutionalized skepticism toward Lincoln (a school authorized viewpoint) that will be
1Vote!
LisNews (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
The state of Illinois is getting back $3 million and saving millions more as part of the settlement ending a long-running dispute with contractors over construction of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. The state's settlement with three contractors over cost overruns and delays at the popular tourist attraction returns $3 million in payments and deflects $7 million in claims the...
