June 9, 2007

• Budapest To Gettysburg Pre-Premiere Screening on June 29th

  Last October I wrote about a new documentary about Gabor Borritt being produced (see: Budapest to Gettysburg). Jack Boriit, producer, director, photopgrapher, and Gabor' son, sent me an email to let me know about the upcoming release and a pre-premiere screening on Friday June 29th at the Majestic Theater in Gettysburg.  More information on the [...]

June 8, 2007

• Found Lincoln Note Gets Tons of Press

     National Archives July 7, 1863, three days after the Battle of Gettysburg and the fall of Vicksburg, President Abraham Lincoln penned this note to his General-in-Chief Henry Halleck expressing his belief that if Gen. George Meade could follow up his recent victory in Pennsylvania by defeating Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's army the Civil War would [...]

March 8, 2007

• More Abraham Lincoln Websites

  I recently stumbled across a collection of excellent Abraham Lincoln websites by The Lincoln Institute.  The Lincoln Institute concentrates on providing support and assistance to scholars and groups involved in the study of the life of American's 16th President and the impact he had on the preservation of the Union, the emancipation of black slaves, and [...]

February 14, 2007

• Historian Douglas L. Wilson Receives 2007 Lincoln Prize

  Historian Douglas L. Wilson receives 2007 Lincoln Prize GETTYSBURG, Pa. - The author of a book that examines the Civil War president's most famous writings, including his farewell address to Springfield, the First Inaugural Address and the Gettysburg Address, has won the 2007 Lincoln Prize, which is endowed by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman and administered [...]

February 13, 2007

• Tom Wheeler On Lincoln

  Tom Wheeler authors a column for the Washington Post in honor of Lincoln's birthday on the 12th. Lincoln Online The Telegraph as a Window Into the Mind of the 16th President The Abraham Lincoln whose birthday we celebrate today is known for his soaring prose. What we remember, however, is Lincoln's planned prose; he kept no diary [...]

December 12, 2006

• Simon & Schuster Launches "Lincoln Library"

  With the upcoming Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial, we're going to see plenty of Lincoln marketing and products surfacing.  Book publisher Simon & Schuster has already gotten the ball rolling.  They have rebranded and reissued a collection of their books on Abraham Lincoln and dubbed it the "Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library".  These books prominently display this [...]

December 11, 2006

• Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

  Though Abraham Lincoln's birthday bicentennial is still 2 years and 3 months away, you can keep tabs on the government's plans to celebrate this historic event over on the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission website. The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission was created by Congress to inform the public about the impact Abraham Lincoln had on the development of our [...]

December 4, 2006

• Gabor's "The Gettysburg Gospel" Makes New York Times

  Gabor Boritt?s The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows makes The New York Times Book Review section.  Plowing Hallowed Ground: The Address, Word by Word The main text of Gabor Boritt?s new Lincoln book concludes on Page 206. So more than half of this 415-page volume is devoted to appendices, acknowledgments, bibliography, index [...]

November 26, 2006

• Gabor Boritt on The "Gettysburg Address"

  Gabor Boritt, author of The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows, has written a lengthy article about the Gettysburg Address for the latest issue of U.S. News and World Report.  Gettysburg's Good News (U.S. News and World Report) Schoolkids learn Lincoln's words at the scene of the epic battle by heart. But what did [...]

October 15, 2006

• Gabor Boritt Provides New Insight into Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

  Speaking of Gabor Boritt, his new book,The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows, on Abraham Lincoln and Gettysburg, will be released November 7th.  Book Description The words Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg comprise perhaps the most famous speech in history. It has been quoted by [...]

February 12, 2006

• Great Lincoln Websites

  For those fascinated by Abraham Lincoln and have a desire to learn more,  The Minneapolis Star Tribune ran this article, A Lincoln memorial, with the top Lincoln sites on the Web. Abraham Lincoln helped end slavery, delivered one of our nation's most famous speeches and was shot by an assassin. These websites help explain why our [...]