Finding Abe

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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Lincoln Media by the Numbers

By: Kathy Haas
August 27, 2009

People like numbers. They especially like big numbers. Whenever someone writes a book about Lincoln, or reviews a book about Lincoln, they like to note how many books have been written about him already–14,000 is the number that keeps being thrown about. Who knows if that’s an accurate number, but it’s an impressive one. So I thought I’d round up a few more Lincoln numbers for your enjoyment (all website numbers are from today 8/27):

Hits for “Abraham Lincoln” in a keyword search of the Library of Congress online catalog=7,417
Ebay results for “Abraham Lincoln”=2,214
Youtube results for Abraham Lincoln=13,100
Flickr results for “Arbrahm lincoln”= 30,663
Google hits for “Abraham Lincoln= 11,200,000

How ’bout a few numbers from the 21st-Century Abe website:

# of site visits: 28,014
# of unique visitors:22,016
# of countries represented by visitors: 126
# of blog posts written thus far=173
# of items in the Found Abe section=202

Any other Lincoln numbers you’d like to see?

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