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Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War, a traveling exhibition for libraries, was organized by the National Constitution Center and the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The traveling exhibition has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War is based on an exhibition of the same name developed by the National Constitution Center. Sponsors
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| Judge Frank J. Williams, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, is author of Judging Lincoln and other scholarly works about the Civil War President. |  |
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| Harold Holzer is one of the country's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the politics engulfing the Civil War era. Holzer is a prolific writer and lecturer, a frequent television guest, and chairman of The Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. |  |
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| Craig Symonds, professor emeritus at the U.S. Naval Academy - where he taught naval and Civil War history for 30 years - focuses on the Civl War strategic naval decisions of a president who knew "but little of ships." |  |
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| Jim Getty brings Lincoln to life: audiences see and hear the President recount his homespun stories of youth, his recollections of his personal and political life, and his special anguish for Gettysburg. |
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Dr. Bradley Gottfried will discuss his newest book, The Maps of First Bull Run: An Atlas of the First Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign, including the Battle of Ball’s Bluff, June-October 1861. The book can either take the reader on a long tour through the battlefield or just into one part of the engagement. It is detailed enough to satisfy the most demanding Civil War student, but its easy prose can captivate most casual enthusiasts. |
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| Bill Grimmette as Frederick Douglass uses the model of the fable, the legend and the folktale to arouse others to greatness. Bill travels around the globe crafting, collecting and performing stories of personal power and potential to audiences as diverse as pre-K elementary schoolers to executive leaders in Multi-national corporations. |  |
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Michael Kauffman, author of American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies, calls himself an Assassination Detective. His account of Abraham Lincoln's murder and his killer reads like a fictional thriller, but rests on a stunning amount of original sources and research. |
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Mary Ann Jung is an award-winning actress and Smithsonian scholar who has appeared on CNN, the Today Show, Good Morning America, and in newspapers around the world as famous women from history. As Clara Barton, Jung portrays Barton's passion as she relates how she became the first woman to work for the Federal Government, its first female department head, and America’s first woman ambassador. |
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Flyer and Application Special Events Schedule (PDF) Calvert Library Docent Schedule (forthcoming PDF) Helpful links:Overview of Exhibition Themes |
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