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Endorsement of your program includes listing the event on our webpage, a reciprocal link, and the opportunity to use our logo in all of your publicity. If you would like to have your program endorsed by the PA ALBC see our endorsement criteria and email your response to tgrim@gettysburg.edu.

02/10/2008

6000 -Acre Classroom of Democracy Will Open April 15th

The new Gettysburg Visitor Center will open April 15th, 2008. This visitor center is said to link the 6000-acre classroom that is the entirety of Gettysburg into an educational "battleground," full of background information and insights on events during Abraham Lincoln's time, before and after his presidency.

Among the Civil War Exhibit Galleries is a room that will be dedicated to the "Gettysburg Address: A New Birth of Freedom for America." This gallery is solely focused on the monumental importance of the Gettysburg Address and its impact on Americans throughout history. A two-minute audio presentation of the speech and interactive computers will help visitors interpret the text of the Address. The exhibit will also show reactions from the North and South to Lincoln's famous speech.

Along with this exhibit specifically focused on Lincoln, the Visitors Center is to include an education center, bookstore, museum shop, orientation theater, ATM machine, refreshment saloon with a dining terrace, cyclorama and mezzanine exhibits, and 10 other galleries focused on the Civil War.

More information can be found at www.gettysburgfoundation.org/.

04/15/2008

Where Lincoln Sought Refuge In His Darkest Hours

"Where Lincoln Sought Refuse in His Darkest Hours"

by Edward Rothstein, New York Times

If you look out the windows of President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home - the idiosyncratic and intriguing museum that is opening to the public on Tuesday after a ceremonial event on Monday - you have to imagine what Abraham Lincoln might have seen during those summer evenings when he stood here. The cottage is on a hilltop, the third highest in the area. And when Lincoln first came here, seeking a respite from the summer heat, the swampy air and the incessant bustle of the White House, he could have looked out over the expanding city below him, with the unfinished Washington Monument and incomplete Capitol dome rising in the distance.

To read more of this article, click here.
02/14/2008

Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of the Civil War

Explore PA history . . . Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of the Civil War. This site has video, audio and image files, as well as stories from PA History, sites to visit, and information for teachers wishing to teach PA history.

President Lincoln's Cottage opens to the public in February 2008. For more information . . . Click here.

02/20/2008