| NEW YORK,
NY (May 5, 2008) – The Gilder Lehrman Institute
has selected forty sites—including public libraries,
academic libraries, and national park sites—to
host its new Abraham Lincoln Traveling Exhibition, offered
free through a grant from the NEH. “Abraham Lincoln:
A Man of His Time, a Man for All Times” comes
with an exhibition brochure and multimedia resource
kit, as well as programming for public audiences and
online access. It will also include an interactive DVD,
“Decoding Lincoln’s Legacy,” produced
by the History Channel for the exhibition and featuring
historians David Blight, James O. Horton, Doris Kearns
Goodwin, and Richard Norton Smith.
The National Endowment for the Humanities is supporting
the exhibition as part of its We the People program
aimed at reinvigorating the teaching, study, and understanding
of American history and culture. The Gilder Lehrman
Institute developed the exhibition to mark the 2009
bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. The exhibition
will travel to communities across the nation, including
sites in Maryland, Michigan, and Oregon.
“Public knowledge about Lincoln is dominated by
a series of iconic images,” said Lesley Herrmann,
Executive Director of the Gilder Lehrman Institute.
“This exhibition will encourage a deeper understanding
of Lincoln’s life, policies, accomplishments,
and legacy by drawing on Lincoln’s own words.”
Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American
History promotes the study and love of American history.
The Institute serves teachers, students, scholars, and
the general public. It helps create history-centered
schools, organizes seminars and programs for educators,
produces print and electronic publications and traveling
exhibitions, sponsors lectures by eminent historians,
and administers a History Teacher of the Year Award
in every state through its partnership with Preserve
America. The Institute also conducts awards including
the Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and George Washington
Book Prizes, and offers fellowships for scholars to
work in the Gilder Lehrman Collection. The Institute
maintains two websites, www.gilderlehrman.org
and the quarterly online journal www.historynow.org.
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