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The Life and Legacy of Abraham Lincoln

April 10-15, 2005

 

 

our host
Lincoln Land Community College

 

Welcome by Rosalind Bruce
Assistant Vice President, Adult & Community Education
Lincoln Land Community College

 

we heard about the
Influences of Early Life
told by
Byron Andreasen, Research Historian
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library


Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

 

greeted by David Blanchett
Public Information Officer
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency

 

the library

 

the museum

More Photos of the Presidential Museum


Lincoln's home in Springfield, Illinois

 

toured Lincoln's home

More Photos of Lincoln's Home

its Interior

Photos of Lincoln's Church

Along Historic 8th street

 

Mary Wheeler, Professor of English, Lincoln Land Community College
told us about

Mary Todd in Lexington

 

Mary Todd as Mrs. Lincoln

 

Mary Todd Lincoln after the death of her husband


Lincoln's Law Office

 

on the corner

 

just across from the Old State House

More Photos of the Law Office

More Photos of the Old State House

 

R. Dan Monroe, Adjunct Professor of History
Milliken University, told us about

Lincoln-Douglas Debates and the
Presidential Election Campaign

 

Charlie Starling
introduced us to New Salem

More Photos of New Salem

Photos of Lincoln's Tomb

 

Bryon Andreason told us about the Law Circuit
(shown here sitting in the Judge's chair at the
Christian County Courthouse)

More Photos of the Law Circuit Courthouses

 

Lt. Col. (Ret) Mark DePue
and

Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief

 

told us of his search for the right Civil War commander


Harriet Tubman

 

Harriet Tubman and her friend Fredrick Douglas
(at the new Lincoln Presidential Museum)

 

we had a visit from Harriet
who made one of us read from the book about her
(re-enactor, Kathryn Harris, Division Manager for Library Services
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library)

 

and to sum it all up
Collum Davis, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois-Springfield
talked about

Lincoln's Legacy

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