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Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 10 hours 38 minutes ago.
The most recent issue is online now. Here’s the table of contents, including reviews of a half-dozen more or less recent books. The review I found most germane was a combined look at of the Kunhardts’ “Looking for Lincoln” and Barr...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 days 7 hours ago.
This 1909 VDB Lincoln cent (not S-VDB, somewhat surprisingly) sold for something over $200,000 at auction March 4. Details from Numismatic News.
Today’s squashed pennies (a bargain at 50 cents)
The record-setting penny was sold at the Whitman Balti...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 4 days 8 hours ago.
First, Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln were dissed at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference by, respectively, Glenn Beck and crank economist Thomas DiLorenzo.Now the Texas School Board has dropped Thomas Jefferson from history books. (...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 5 days 7 hours ago.
In what seems to have been a very brief e-mail exchange with Daily Beast writer Samuel P. Jacobs, Richard Norton Smith, ex-director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, totally dumped on “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” calling the bo...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 6 days 7 hours ago.
I didn’t make it last Saturday to see Seth Grahame-Smith’s presentation on his book, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” at the presidential museum. Too much else going on, but, according to the “AL:VH” Facebook page, I ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 week 8 hours ago.
Speakers at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month in Washington, D.C., found a lot of things to gripe about in connection with the Obama administration. No surprise there.But there were at least two surprises among their other targets.(T...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 week 2 days ago.
Andy Thomas, the Missouri artist whose “Grand Ol’ Gang,” a painting of poker-playing Republican presidents (which included the back of Abe’s head) went viral among conservatives following President Obama’s election, is back w...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 week 6 days ago.
Michael Krebs as Abraham Lincoln at the presidential museum on Lincoln’s bicentennial birthday, Feb. 12, 2009. Gov. Quinn isn’t really a vampire. I think.
I received the following e-mail from the star of the “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hun...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 weeks 8 hours ago.
A Springfield man designed the Feb. 12 coin cancellation postmark
Chuck Taylor, a Springfield coin collector, was busy autographing his U.S. Postal Service design during the 2010 Lincoln penny release ceremony, held in Springfield Feb. 11.
That’s ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 weeks 1 day ago.
Honest, I thought I was done with “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.” But then, dang it …
*Los Angeles Times bookster Gina Mcintyre gives AL:VH a rave review. Writer Seth Grahame-Smith, Mcintyre says, “delivers a well-constructed, s...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 weeks 3 days ago.
Every other Lincoln blog under the sun is posting this trailer, so why shouldn’t I Besides, it’s the first video I’ve ever heard of that flogs a book. Just another first for Abe, I guess.
“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” of...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 4 weeks 2 days ago.
The presidential museum’s exclusive “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” T-shirt is $19.99 for most sizes ($21.99 for XXL). The design actually is kinda cool, though The ALO isn’t sold on some other aspects of the deal.
A “Ladie...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
Fox News talker Bill O’Reilly, claiming he has “startling new information,” is planning to write — OK, be picky, co-write — his own book on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, to be titled “Killing Lincoln.”
Re...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
A reproduction of Saint-Gaudens’ “Lincoln the Man” is part of the Lincoln Prize. The original stands in Lincoln Park, Chicago.Congratulations to UIS’s Michael Burlingame on being named winner of the 2010 Lincoln Prize, awarded by G...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
Here’s another event that wasn’t in my earlier list of Lincoln’s birthday commemorations:
“Emancipation & the Dream of Freedom – From Slavery to the White House,” sponsored by the Springfield NAACP, will be perfor...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
The Sangamon County Bar Association announced Thursday it is raising money to install three busts of Abraham Lincoln in the county courthouse. The busts — each will be different, depicting Abe at different points in his Springfield legal career R...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
Coin blogger Michael Zielinski predicts a relatively light turnout by collectors and dealers at the official 2010 Lincoln penny rollout, which starts at 9:30 a.m. today (Thursday, Feb. 11) at the presidential museum. As The ALO suggested a couple weeks ag...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
With Washington D.C.’s record snowfall, the Ski Channel called on capital-area skiers last weekend to take advantage of a not-to-be-missed opportunity for a ski first.
“First off, all respect due one of America’s greatest men, President...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
Right after the New Year, Joshua Patty over at Lincolniana wrote a post about the Illinois Preservation Agency’s build-your-own Lincoln sites. These are a dozen buildings related to Abraham Lincoln for which the IHPA web site offers patterns that yo...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
National Geographic magazine has a full-page takeout on The ALO’s favorite cheap souvenir, the squashed penny, in its February issue. Among other things, I learned that the first penny was squashed at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, ...
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