By President Lincoln’s Cottage Staff
As we noted in our first President Lincoln’s Cottage Book List, so many new books have come out the Lincoln bicentennial year. We keep on top of the latest for staff reference and to select items for the Museum Store, but visitors are as interested in the new as they are in [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Catherine Clinton’
September 17, 2009
Visitor’s Top 10 Book Selections at President Lincoln’s Cottage
July 17, 2009
Global Perspectives on Lincoln
By Frank Milligan
From July 3-5 I had the pleasure of participating in a unique conference held at St.Catherine’s College in Oxford, England. “The Global Lincoln” was organized by Lincoln scholar Professor Richard Carwardine, the Rhodes Professor of American History at the University of Oxford. Carwardine is no stranger to President Lincoln’s Cottage, having spoken here [...]
June 29, 2009
Your Lincoln Summer Reading List
By President Lincoln’s Cottage Staff
It’s the Lincoln bicentennial year and new books about Lincoln are published every month. How do you decide what books to read? President Lincoln’s Cottage staff stay abreast of new publications on Lincoln to make sure we have a great selection available in the Museum Store. Of course we don’t spend [...]
April 25, 2009
Cottage Conversations: Catherine Clinton
Join us for Cottage Conversations: Inside the Lincoln Household, part III, featuring author Catherine Clinton on May 20, 2009. Clinton will speak about her new book, Mrs. Lincoln, A Life (Harper Collins, 2009). The talk is immediately followed by a book signing with the author.
Event Details:
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
6:00pm Reception, 6:30pm Program
President Lincoln’s Cottage, 2nd floor
Free for [...]
March 23, 2009
Mary Lincoln, Another Side to Her Story
By Erin Carlson Mast
Mary Lincoln, a deeply controversial figure of her day, continues to draw an intense amount of public interest, sympathy, and even scorn. As much as we continue to debate Abraham Lincoln and his presidency, so too do we dissect his wife’s actions and role in the Lincoln story.
Mary Lincoln was intelligent and highly [...]
February 19, 2009
“Cottage Conversations” Speaker Series 2009
By Erin Carlson Mast
The President Lincoln’s Cottage speaker series, “Cottage Conversations,” will continue throughout the Lincoln Bicentennial. Past speakers include Chandra Manning for What This Cruel War Was Over (2008), Stephen Berry for House of Abraham (2007), and Burrus Carnahan for Act of Justice (2007).
Cottage Conversations: Inside the Lincoln Household, part I
Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: [...]
