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BICENTENNIAL CALENDAR

5/11/2008

Mother's Day Celebration
Lincoln City, IN

National Signature Event: Mother's Day Celebration
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City, Indiana

5/13/2008

The Legacy of 1858: The Lincoln and Douglas Debates
Kirby Auditorium - Annenberg Center for Education and Outreach

5/15/2008

Bite of History
The Frazier International History Museum

5/18/2008

Lincoln Speaker Series: Facing Lincoln's Neighbors
Lincoln City, IN

5/22/2008

Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America
New York Historical Society

5/24/2008

Lincoln Bicentennial Concert Featuring Suzy Bogguss
Lincoln City, IN

5/31/2008

Unveiling of "young Lincoln" statue
Hodgenville Town Square

6/1/2008

97th Regimental String Band
Throughout the US

6/3/2008

Lincoln and the Frontier Interpreters Workshop
Lincoln City, IN

6/4/2008

Lincoln and the Frontier Interpretive Workshop
Hodgenville, KY

6/5/2008

Jefferson Davis Bicentennial Luncheon & Program
Riverview at Hobson Grove

6/6/2008

Exhibition Opening: "Portraying Lincoln"
Madden Art Center, Decatur, Illinois

Stitches in Time Series
Springfield, IL

6/7/2008

Jefferson Davis 200th Birthday Commemoration
Kentucky

Kentucky Historical Society's HistoryMobile
Old Fort Harrod State Park

6/8/2008

History in Stone
Shelbyville, IL

Vintage Style Show
Mt. Pulaski, IL

6/9/2008

Lincoln and the Frontier Interpretive Workshop
Springfield, IL

WHAT LINCOLN'S LEGACY MEANS TO ME

Dr. Wayne C. Temple

President Abraham Lincoln left several huge legacies which have been passed down to the latest generation of Americans.  Too often, however, we simply remember him as the one who issued the Emancipation Proclamation.  That action finally led to the freeing of all the slaves when the 13th Amendment was passed at the insistence of Lincoln.

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Lincoln's Legacy
Lincoln's Legacy
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Abraham Lincoln Mothers Day Tribute
Indiana's celebration of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday will kick off with a Mothers Day Ceremony Sunday, May 11, at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial.  More >>> 

IL's Mobile Museum Hits the Road
Unique traveling Lincoln museum was recently in Denver and will travel the U.S. for the next two years.  More >>>

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