21st-Century Abe was active February 12, 2009-August 31, 2009.
To mark Lincoln’s 200th birthday we explored why we in the 21st century are still obsessed with this 19th-century man. Abe is everywhere, from advertising to political punditry. What does this popular Abe have to do with the historical Abe? 21st-Century Abe took six months to tackle these questions. We asked scholars and artists to get the ball rolling, but visitor responses have defined 21st-Century Abe.
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The 21st-Century Abe blog is the place to find out what’s been happening on 21stcenturyabe.org and what fun, exciting or downright ridiculous things the curatorial team have discovered in their search for Lincoln.
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This project has been funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Heritage Philadelphia Program with additional support from the Marketing Innovation Program. Additional support has come from the Samuel S. Fels Fund and The Raab Collection.
This week’s document is a letter from Lincoln to U.D. Grant written four days after the fall of Richmond. He’s informing Grant of a meeting he had with a Judge Campbell, who had served as Assistant Secretary of War for the Confederacy. Their conversation had concerned the reassembly of the rebel Virginia legislature for reuniting with the Union and withdrawing Virginian troops from the field.
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Wow, very nice handwriting.