By Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. Tuesday, November 11, 2025 Names by the thousands were read aloud today as the Lincoln Group joined in honoring the 209,154 men -- mostly freed slaves -- who enlisted in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War to fight against the pro-slavery Confederacy. USCT names were read aloud simultaneously at 10 microphones. The reading of names went on for long hours on a cold, blustery Veterans Day at the African American Civil War Memoria

By Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. Monday, November 3, 2025 It's been a few weeks since Lincoln250.org and Instagram's A.Lincoln250 launched to spread the word--next year's 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is very much about Abraham Lincoln, who was a fierce advocate of the Declaration's daring proposition that "all men are created equal." The logo for Lincoln250.org . Help spread the word. We assume that if you're reading this, you are interested in Lincoln

By David J. Kent Washington, D.C. Monday, October 27, 2025 The Lincoln Group of DC reached out to all of the Abraham Lincoln-related groups in 2023 seeking collaborations on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence—and the United States—occurring in 2026. We recently announced  one of those collaborations in which we teamed up with the Abraham Lincoln Association (ALA) to create Lincoln250.org , a website to highlight Abraham Lincoln's strong admiration for th

By Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. Oct. 23, 2025 A museum that tells the story of the 209,154 members of the United States Colored Troops who fought for the Union cause in the Civil War after President Abraham Lincoln called for their enlistment in the Emancipation Proclamation will reopen next month. Statue of Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation, outside the new museum The private, non-profit African American Civil War Memorial museum in Washington, D.C.'s historic Sha

Washington D.C. Oct. 13, 2025 Author Richard Carwardine joined the Lincoln Group on Oct. 11 to discuss his thought-provoking new book "Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union." The recording of his presentation and of the question-and-answer session that followed is now available on the Lincoln Group's YouTube channel: Carwardine, a Welshman by birth, is a professor emeritus at Oxford University, where he served as Rhodes Professor of Ameri