Lincoln Symposium features Lowry
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The Abraham Lincoln Birthday Symposium will be held remotely this year due to the ongoing pandemic.
Abraham Lincoln Association President Michael Burlingame said the annual symposium will be commemorating Lincoln s 212th Birthday and will feature a full slate of speakers and will be available on-line at https://abrahamlincolnassociation.org/2021-symposium-events/. The February 12 and 13 events feature main speaker Richard S. Lowry, the editor of “National Review” and session speakers who will address several aspects of Lincoln s life and Legacy. The Symposium may be accessed on-line free of charge.
The Abraham Lincoln Association s annual Benjamin P. Thomas Symposium begins at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 12 with the virtual opening of the University of Illinois Springfield Center for Lincoln Studies. The first session will feature a presentation by onetime New York magazine editor Elizabeth Mitchell, “Lincoln and the Press: The Myster
National Review editor keynote speaker for Lincoln symposium
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An annual symposium celebrating the birthday of President Abraham Lincoln will take place remotely Feb. 12-13.
The main speaker will be Richard S. Lowry, editor of National Review. Session speakers will address several aspects of Lincoln’s life and Legacy free of charge.
The Abraham Lincoln Association’s annual Benjamin P. Thomas Symposium will begin at 10 a.m. Feb. 12 with the virtual opening of the University of Illinois Springfield Center for Lincoln Studies. The first session will feature a presentation by onetime New York magazine editor Elizabeth Mitchell, “Lincoln and the Press: The Mystery Behind His ‘Bogus Proclamation.’” Mitchell’s newest book, Lincoln’s Lie: A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News, Wall Street, and the White House, was published in October.
Photo by David Blanchette The historic Elijah Iles House at Seventh and Cook streets may soon become part of the Lincoln Home National Historic Site. The Lincoln Home National Historic Site may soon be larger and tell more of Springfield s history if several local organizations are successful in their efforts to expand the site s boundaries to encompass the old and the new. The Elijah Iles House Foundation Board on Dec. 29 passed a resolution encouraging the National Park Service to expand the historic site boundary to include the Iles House at Seventh and Cook streets and the soon-to-be-reconstructed Lincoln Cottage on Eighth Street, across the alley from the Iles House.
Abraham Lincoln s father, Thomas Lincoln, was an ensign in the Kentucky state militia.
According to Abraham Lincoln s public accounts, his father, Thomas Lincoln, came off as a shiftless, jobless wanderer who could barely scratch out his name, said Springfield historian and author Wayne C. Temple.
Like a lot of politicians, Temple said, Lincoln wanted to show how he had risen above childhood disadvantages to the highest office in the land, but he did so at the expense of his father.
Thomas Lincoln s reputation only disintegrated, Temple said, because of Lincoln biographies like the one written by his former law partner, William Herndon.
candidate. 1856, loses the vice presidential nomination. no, again, that wasn t even a primary let alone an election. 1858, loses a race for the united states senate. no, senators were not elected by popular vote in illinois until 1918. neither douglas nor lincoln appeared on the 1858 ballot. lincoln, seven electoral wins, one electoral loss. don t besmirch the greatest president s record. it tells us so much about the national review that it would be willing to so con tort the truth to serve its prejudices. either that or it is aggressively ignorant. daniel foster of the national review online, i am a member of the abraham lincoln association, don t mess with us. today s worst person in the world.