Like a fugitive slave slipping silently through the night toward freedom, the prospect of emancipation was secretly moving toward reality after Union failure at Richmond 150 years ago. Gen. George B. McClellan had retreated at the beginning of July. Militarily, the Civil War was a stalemate. Something more had to be done. The key to [...]
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FORD’S THEATRE SOCIETY COMMEMORATES ANNIVERSARY OF LINCOLN ASSASSINATION APRIL 14 and 15, 2012
March 30th, 2012 
javal The Ford’s Theatre Society commemorates the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 14 and 15, 2012. Events include an 8:45 a.m. wreath-laying ceremony on April 14 and interpretive talks by the National Park Service, as well as performances of the Society’s one-act play One Destiny and History on Foot walking tour, both of which [...]
Ex-Idaho AG donates Lincoln articles to exhibit
March 9th, 2012 javal Former Idaho Attorney General David Leroy is an Abe Lincoln buff, collecting articles including a life mask of the 16th U.S. president made five years before he was assassinated. Since it was Lincoln’s presidential pen stroke that created Idaho Territory in 1863, Leroy is donating items from his personal collection to an exhibition that will [...]
BU professor’s book looks at how we capitalize on 16th president
November 29th, 2011 javal In the Land of Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln stands far taller than his 6-foot, 4-inch frame, a fact that encouraged Jackie Hogan to write a book about it. Hogan, a professor at Bradley University who heads the school’s sociology department, said that she got the idea for her book, “Lincoln, Inc.: Selling the 16th President in [...]
Who held Lincoln’s head?
November 28th, 2011 javal There is an old legend in Newark that her own John Veach was present during the shooting of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, and that Veach held Lincoln’s head in the theater. Veach was serving as inspector of military passes in Ford’s Theater during the close of the Civil War in 1865. At [...]
Lincoln and the Mormons
November 18th, 2011 javal Mormons! America just can’t get enough of them. They are running for president — not one, but two of them. They have a runaway hit on Broadway. And 150 years ago, they were running in the opposite direction of the Civil War. Read More>>
Ford’s Theatre’s Upstairs/Downstairs Problem
November 15th, 2011 javal In my roundup this morning, I pointed to a Washington Post report that the museum store at Ford’s Theatre has opted not to sell Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America, by Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, because it doesn’t meet the shop’s standards for accuracy and attribution. The Ford’s site—and the museum and [...]
Visitors keep ‘Looking for Lincoln’
August 15th, 2011 javal Washington Square in downtown Ottawa was the first destination Friday afternoon for the Hart family of Moline. Their goal was to find the Looking for Lincoln storyboard in the park and then go on to look at the other three in town. While most residents may no longer give the familiar storyboards about the life [...]