A Lincoln-Filled Wonder —The Abraham Lincoln Book Shop!
By Debbie Jackson Washington, D.C. October 9, 2024 Many, if not most, may already be familiar with one of the longest-operating Lincoln...
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Welcome To The
Lincoln Group
of the
District of Columbia
We are the most active and longest continuously serving Lincoln study organization in the United States of America
Winner of the 2022 Wendy Allen Award from the Lincoln Forum for bringing learning, scholarship, and enlightenment to a wide public.
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OUR PURPOSE
The purpose of the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia is:
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to study the life and leadership of Abraham Lincoln
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to engage new generations in understanding his dedication to equality and liberty under law and his attitude “with malice toward none, with charity for all;"
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to educate about his vision “that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
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About the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia
The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia was organized in 1935. It is an active institution dedicated to the study of our 16th President.
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Board of Directors and Officers
Ed Epstein: President
Debbie Jackson: VP Special Events
Jon Willen: VP for Programming
Kelsey Johnston: VP for Education and Outreach
Wendy Swanson: Lincolnian Editor
Susan Dennis: Membership Secretary
Rachel Riley: Recording Secretary
Janet Saros: Treasurer
David J. Kent: Immediate Past President
John A. O'Brien: Website Manager
Craig Howell: At Large
Richard Margolies: At Large
Thomas Horrocks: At Large
Scott Schroeder: At Large
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Tue, Oct 15Oct 15, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDThttps://bit.ly/4eDFqA6Was the soldier vote that was so vital to Lincoln's 1864 re-election enthusiastic or coerced? Recent scholars disagree and two Lincoln Group presidents will discuss the political context and arguments. (The illustration is an 1864 sketch of soldiers voting by Alfred Waud for Harper's Weekly)
Tue, Dec 10Dec 10, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PMhttps://bit.ly/3B5c6TEThis new book describes how once bitter rivals President Lincoln and Stephen Douglas came together in an effort to stop the war.
Fri, Dec 20Dec 20, 2024, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PMArlington National Cemetery , 1 Memorial Ave, Fort Myer, VA 22211, USAJoin us as master tour guide Craig Howell leads the Lincoln Group over hallowed ground on Columbus /Indigenous Peoples Day
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PO Box 5676
Washington, D.C
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