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LINCOLN EVENTS Now Through October Assassination Walking Tour, Washington, DC Now Through November 22 Lincoln/Gettysburg Exhibit, Gettysburg, PA November 15-17 Lincoln Forum, Gettysburg, PA November 16-19 Lincoln at Gettysburg Events, Gettysburg, PA November 19 Fortenbaugh Lecture, Gettysburg, PA December 8 Lincoln Lecture by Zoom February 12 Birthday Dinner, Wilmington, DE February 12-13, 2027 Birthday Banquet and Symposium, Springfield, IL LINCOLN EXHIBITIONS Smithsonian Lincoln Exhibition, Washington, DC Abraham Lincoln in Maclean County, Bloomington, IL HISTORIC SITE EVENTS Performance Schedule Ford's Theatre, Washington, DC March-October Assassination Walking Tours, Washington, DC Seasonal Events Lincoln's New Salem, Petersburg, IL Seasonal Events The Lincoln Family Home at Hildene, Manchester, VT Various Times Lincoln Assassination Walking Tour, Washington, DC Spring and Fall John Wilkes Booth Escape Route Tour, Clinton, MD LINCOLN BOOKS Online Book Reviews (updated 11/21/15) PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Updated 9/2/26 LINCOLN ISSUES Updated 4/13/15

DOCUMENT / ARTIFACT NEWS Mary Lincoln Letter Donated to ALPLM Presidential Foundation to Auction Lincoln Artifacts Picturing Lincoln Collection Available Lincolniana Expert Jonathan Mann Dies at 61 Changes Ahead for ALPLM Exhibits Gone with the Wind: Lincoln Foundation Takes Artifacts from ALPLM Artifacts Removed from ALPLM Lincoln Foundation Reboots Former ALPLM Director Mackevich Dies at 82 Lincoln Foundation Reinvents Itself Lincoln Presidential Foundation Relaunches ALPLM Receives Grant to Digitize Images Guy Fraker Donates Lincoln Letter to ALPLM Un-Civil War: Accusations Fly Between ALPLM, Foundation Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry? LaHood Resigns from ALPLM Board ALPLM Parts Ways with Board ALPLM Ends Relationship with Foundation Center for Lincoln Studies Opens Lincoln Mortgage Document Discovered Cornelius Comments on Hat Tick Tock: ALPLM Issues Go Beyond Hat Mad Hatters ALPLM to Decide Status of Lincoln Hat Report Issued on Lincoln Hat ALPLM Foundation Gets Loan Extension for Taper Collection The Truth Outs: ALPLM in Disarray Lincoln Bible Donated to ALPLM ALPLM Legislation Goes to Illinois Governor Abraham Lincoln's $6 Million Hat Campaign to Buy Lincoln Document Lincoln Foundation Director Appointment Status May Change Selling Expendable Lincoln Items Won't Erase Debt Lincoln Papers Receives Grant Another Day, Another Circus: ALPLM Foundation Goes Begging Foundation Audit Postponed ALPLM Foundation Audit Requested ALPLM Questions Not Limited to the Hat Lupton Describes Lincoln's Handwriting Lincolniana Dealer Chuck Hand Dies at 75 Lincoln Documents Donated to ALPLM Holzer Collection Auction Results Commentary: Confederacy of Dunces Lincoln Hat Hearing Delayed More on the Disputed Hat Lincoln Hat Controversy Leveraging Lincoln Endangered Artifacts: ALPLM Foundation Seeks Auction House Interment Book Impasse Resolved Interment Book Storage Status Uncertain Monroe Dress Sells for $50,000 at Auction Storage Wars: Lincoln-Era Interment Books GoFundMe for At-Risk Lincoln Artifacts Selling Lincoln: ALPLM Foundation Seeks Bailout ALPLM Foundation Puts Marilyn Monroe Dress Up for Auction ALPLM Foundation May Sell Artifacts to Pay Debt Lincoln-Era Cemetery Interment Book Restored Finally: Lincoln Papers Posted by ALPLM Lincoln Passes Donated to ALPLM Lincoln Document Purchased Through Penny Drive ALPLM Publishes Online Digital Archive Letter, Painting Donated to Lincoln Museum Lincoln Funeral Flower Discovered Tad Lincoln Ring Donated to Presidential Museum Restoration for Lincoln Campaign Banner ALPML Ends Interlibrary Loans Library of Congress Lincoln Documents Available in Color Experts: Lincoln Papers Project has Talented Staff, Poor Management Lincoln Papers a Mess Lincoln Papers Melodrama Plays On Lincoln Document Search Suspended at NARA Lincoln Papers Suspending National Archives Search Divorce Court: UIS, Lincoln Papers Parting Ways Civil War: Fights at ALPLM Hit Lincoln Papers Rebuttal to ALPLM Director by McDermott Picking the Brain of ALPLM Head Reviewing Lincoln Experts Helping with Online Release of Lincoln Documents Stowell Fights Firing at Hearing Missing Lincoln Sculpture Reappears Rare Lincoln Print Found Lawyer: Lincoln Papers Director Fighting Termination Shakeup at Lincoln Papers Project Mary Lincoln Funeral Ledger Rediscovered Rare Lincoln Artifact Displayed in Indiana Lincoln-Era Music Documents Available Online Old Lincoln Newspapers Now Online Board Replaces IHPA Director A House Divided and Crumbling Lincoln Library: A Ghost of Its Former Self? Lincoln Funeral Hearse Dedication Yale Buys Meserve-Kunhardt Collection Lincoln Assassination Artifacts Reunited at Ford's Theatre Second Inaugural Viewing Lincolniana Auction - January Rietveld Gives Lincoln Coffin Photo Notes to Presidential Museum Two New Lincoln Documents Discovered Lincoln Handwriting Found in Book Slate from Lincoln's Teacher Donated to Museum Lincoln Courting Couch Temporarily at Iles House Possible Lincoln Funeral Procession Pictures Found Putting Lincoln Online is No Easy Political Task Historians Solve Lincoln Note Mystery Volunteers Help with Lincoln Scholarship Illinois Politics vs. Lincoln Scholarship Special Lincoln Stamp Available Author of Mystery Letter to Lincoln Identified Met Acquires Lincoln Sculpture Lincoln Check Discovered Rare Lincoln Check Reappears Possible Lincoln Opera Glasses at Auction Holzer on the Lowry Incident Q & A: NARA and Lowry Altered Pardon Pulled from Circulation Author Accused of Altering Lincoln Pardon Altered Pardon News Release Lost Document Returns to NARA Looking at Lincoln's Boots Lincoln Items Auctioned in NY Lincoln Fingerprint Found Lincoln Dollar Value Rises Rare Film Discovered Lincoln Note Rediscovered Lincoln Still Mesmerizes Online Exhibits Launched Digital Collection Available AUTHOR / HISTORIAN NEWS Call for Papers (JALA) 2026 Lincoln Prize Winner Announced Author and Philanthropist Lewis E. Lehrman Dies at 87 Historian Gabor Boritt Dies at 86 Historian Ronald Rietveld Dies at 88 Author James Swanson Dies at 66 Wayne Temple Obituary Historian Wayne Temple Dies at 101 Remembering "Doc" Temple ALA Board Member Brian Steenbergen Dies at 63 Historian Peter Carmichael Dies at 58 Historian Wayne Temple Turns 100 Historian Cullom Davis Dies at 87 Historian Dick Hart Dies at 79 Historian Mark Plummer Dies at 92 New ALPLM Director Announced ALPLM Breaks Barriers in Naming New Director ALPLM Board Names New Director Reynolds Wins 2021 Lincoln Prize Author Wayne Temple Active at 96 Mast Takes Helm at Museum Foundation ALPLF President Announced LIncoln Reenactor Arrested Getting Real: ALPLM Wrestles with Hat, Looks for Leadership Firing of State Historian latest ALPLM Controversy State Historian Leaves ALPLM IG Recommended Lowe Dismissal Historian Rodney Davis Dies at 87 ALPLM Director Terminated Another One Bites the Dust David Blight Wins Lincoln Prize Museum Director Cuts Personal Financial Tie to Foundation Lincoln Curator Dismissed Defending Cornelius Lincoln Curator on Leave Guelzo Wins Bradley Prize Burlingame's Lecture on Lincoln and African-Americans Carwardine's 2018 Lincoln Banquet Address Ayers Wins 2018 Lincoln Prize Making Lincoln Come Alive Frank and Virginia Williams Donate Lincoln Collection Wheeler Named Illinois State Historian Goodwin Wins Lincoln Leadership Prize Music History Professor Wins Hay-Nicolay Prize Lincoln Presenter James Getty Dies at Age 83 Guelzo: What if Abraham Lincoln had Lived? Kathryn Harris Retires from the Lincoln Presidential Library Author Harry Jaffa Dies at 96 Author David E. Long Dies at 66 Historians Contribute to Documentary Guelzo Wins Book Prize Gettysburg and the Eternal Battle for a 'New Birth of Freedom' WS Interview with Allen Guelzo Douglas Wilson on Lincoln's Power of the Negative Guelzo Reviews "Lincoln" William Lee Miller Dies at 86 Guelzo: Lincoln not Father of Big Government Podcast of O'Reilly Book Discussion O'Reilly's Book Banned At Ford's Theatre Shop Robert Johannsen Dies at Age 85 Schwartz Goes to Hoover Library Anthony Pitch: "The Conspirator" Guelzo: Lincoln and Ft. Sumter Guelzo: Lincoln's Reputation Guelzo: the Giffords Incident John Hope Franklin Dies at 94 Burlingame on Lincoln Boritt and Holzer Win Awards Goodwin: What Would Lincoln Do? Guelzo: Lincoln-Douglas Debates Carwardine: Lincoln's Global Reach Goodwin: The Lincoln Administration Wilson: Lincoln's Power with Words Interview: "Herndon's Lincoln"

HISTORIC SITE NEWS Illinois Commits Funds to Restore New Salem New Salem to Get Funds for Improvements Lincoln Home NHS Partners with Lincoln Presidential Foundation Lincoln Statue Unveiled in Kalamazoo Sculpture Installed Outside ALPLM Old State Capitol Closed for Renovation Old State Capitol Renovation Hellmers: The Truth about the Lincoln Cottage Proposal House Bill Introduced to Expand Lincoln Home Historic Site Senate Bill Introduced to Expand Lincoln Home Historic Site Lincoln Home Neighborhood Boundaries to Expand Plan Seeks to Expand Lincoln Home Historic Site Commentary: Hellmers on the Lincoln Cottage Plan Lincoln Cottage Replica Planned ALPLM Reopens Illinois Governor's Mansion Reopens ALPLM Foundation CEO Resigns LaHood to Lead ALPLM Board Governor Names ALPLM Board Members New Salem is Getting Old Again Springfield Welcome Center Opens Tourist Center in Lincoln Law Office Building New State Superintendent of Springfield Sites Wide Awakes Parade Reenactment in Springfield Opening Day Pictures at Governor's Mansion Lincoln-Todd Courtship Tours Blandford Named Illinois Governor's Mansion Curator Governor's Mansion Shines Again Springfield Aldermen Approve Re-Opening Lincoln Law Office as Visitor Center New Superintendent at Lincoln Home UIS Announces Center for Lincoln Studies Illinois Senate Approves ALPLM as a Separate Agency Lincoln Portrait Added to Springfield Building Oak Ridge Cemetery Raising Money for Lincoln-Era Interment Books Illinois House Ok's Bill to Make ALPLM Separate Agency Groups Hold Lincoln Memorial Ceremony for 61st Year ALPLM Removes John Wilkes Booth Statue ALPLM to be Separate Agency ALPLM Director Considers What Can be Added Madigan Proposes Making ALPLM Stand-Alone Operation Illinois Governor Proposes Independent ALPLM High-Tech Security System at Lincoln Tomb Bourland Tapped to Oversee Historic Sites Most Recent ALPLM Director Arrives Budget Impasse Stalls Lincoln Law Office Renovations Comments from Latest ALPLM Director Lincoln Statue Dedicated at UIS New ALPLM Director Appointed Lincoln Memorial Renovations Scheduled Lincoln Law Office Renovation in Limbo The Piano Lincoln Heard Lincoln Home Displays Newly Conserved Items ALPLM Director Out ALPLM Director Resigns ALPLM Finances Reviewed Lincoln Museum Bill Goes to Illinois Governor Illinois House Passes Lincoln Museum Bill New Legislation Proposed for ALPLM Springfield Funeral Procession Photos Lincoln Funeral Train Car Replica Arrives in Springfield How Boston Embraced the Booth Brothers Lincoln Funeral Train Unable to Make Trip from Washington Lincoln Funeral Train Struggles to Reach Springfield NEH Challenge Grant for Gettysburg College Governor Proposes Changes for Lincoln Presidential Museum Administration Lincoln Funeral Train Car Nears Completion Repairs Needed for Illinois Governors Mansion Springfield Funeral Hearse Nears Completion Study Recommends Against Separate Presidential Museum Agency Lincoln Home to Re-create Funeral Appearance Restored Oak Ridge Cemetery Gate Dedicated Lincoln Depot Museum Opens in Peekskill Springfield Lincoln Statue Mystery Renovation Plans for Lincoln Law Office Building Endowment Fund Created for New Salem Repairs Ahead for Lincoln Tomb Receiving Vault Illinois Budget Woes to Slash Hours at Lincoln Sites Lincoln Tomb Documentary Planned More Squabbling Over ALPLM Control Oakridge Cemetery Entrance Restoration to Get Donated Materials and Labor Presidential Library/Museum Oversight to be Reviewed Plans for Lincoln Springfield Funeral Anniversary Changes Ahead for Lincoln Law Office Lincoln Funeral Reenactment Banners Created Contentious ALPLM Board Meeting Volunteering at the Lincoln Tomb Lincoln Home Needs New Archive Center Editorial: Illinois Governor's Mansion in State of Neglect Temporary Respite for Presidential Museum Legislation Editorial: Presidential Museum Legislation "Stinks" Apparent Political Power Grab for Presidential Museum New Lincoln Museum at Lincoln College New HVAC System for Lincoln Home Update on Lincoln Funeral Coalition Man Reads Gettysburg Address at All 50 Capitols Lincoln Living Historical Farm Reopens "The Conspirator" Review "Lincoln" Arrives in Washington No Casino Gettysburg: The Gettysburg Address A Living Memorial Keckly Gravemarker Unveiled NPS Lincoln Booklet Wins Awards Update: Keckly Goals Met Ford's Theatre Museum Celebrates Lincoln's Life Ford's Theatre Museum Reopens Wills House Opens in Gettysburg Lincoln Centennial in Lincoln, Illinois Ford's Theatre Renovations A Doctor's View of the Assassination Illinois Channel Lincoln Videos Anderson Cottage Restoration "Uncle Joe" Cannon vs. the Lincoln Memorial Lincoln "Bedroom" Redecorated Abraham Lincoln's Classroom

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