By Staff Reports on 22 February 2009
Abraham Lincoln was a town postmaster in New Salem, Ill., before he became President and guided the United States through the Civil War, signed the Emancipation Proclamation and delivered the Gettysburg Address. To celebrate Lincoln’s 200th birthday, the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum highlights his life in the featured collection “From Postmaster to President: Celebrating Lincoln’s [...]
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By Linda Goin on 11 February 2009
On the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, many papers would wax poetic about this great man and his legend. Newspapers, however, have become less poetic than they were during the nineteenth century and definitely more cynical as they plod through the twenty-first century. I’ll mirror that cynicism and state that nothing like the following article will appear in any paper today like it did on this same day in 1936.
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By Staff Reports on 8 January 2009
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) celebrated its grand reopening with a special display of the Gettysburg Address in November 2008. This copy of the Gettysburg Address is on loan from the White House collection for limited public viewing through the generosity of First Lady Laura Bush. The document was on view in the museum’s new Albert H. Small Documents Gallery through Jan. 11, 2009.
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