By John A. O'Brien Denver, Colorado Friday, May 29, 2026 Yale professor of law and political science Ahkil Reed Amar will join the regular meeting of the Lincoln Study Forum on June 13 as they complete discussion of his timely and engaging book, Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840-1920. The session is open to all Lincoln Group members. Dr. Amar is a gifted educator and legal scholar who appears frequently on television news shows to provide analysis for U.S. Supreme Court...

By John A. O'Brien Denver, Colorado Wednesday, March 18, 2026 I suspect that anyone who studies Lincoln might have wondered at some time what it would have been like to be in the crowd at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863, to hear him deliver his “few appropriate remarks” to dedicate the new cemetery. Certainly, there is no recording or time machine to allow us anything like the authentic experience. There is now, however, an amazing alternative that helps to give a glimpse of the event. Thanks...

By John A. O'Brien Denver, Colorado Thursday, January 22, 2026 The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia is proud to have a subgroup dedicated to Lincoln scholarship that has been working for a decade. The Study Forum has been meeting once each month for more than ten years, reading books about Lincoln and his era. From Michael Burlingame's 2-volume Green Monster ( Abraham Lincoln: A Life ) to Lincoln's Sense of Humor , the Forum has taken on in depth studies in an informal and most...