Lincoln Bicentennial Birthday Party
Feb. 7, 2009
Iowa Wesleyan College
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa
1:00-2:00 p.m. open house at
the Harlan-Lincoln House featuring the Lincoln art at
the House; 2:00 p.m. Chadwick Library, Iowa Wesleyan
College - selections from James Harlan's personal
recollections of Lincoln will be read; 3:00 p.m.
Chadwick Library, Iowa Wesleyan College
“The Bible
in the Vault: The Iowa Abraham Lincoln Connection.”
presentation on the Hanks
family Bible recently found in a campus vault and
directly connecting Abraham Lincoln with Southeast Iowa.
Center for
Multicultural Education (University of Northern Iowa).
February 12, 2009
12:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Maucker Union Ballroom C, followed by a reception.
As a part of
the Lincoln Bicentennial celebration, renowned authors of Lincoln and
Douglass: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled
to End Slavery and Save the Union, Rev. Stephen Kendrick and his son, Paul
Kendrick, will speak at the University of Northern Iowa . This lecture will
explore the vast intricacies of Lincoln’s presidency, and the impacts he had on
race equality. The event is planned for
Iowa
Public Television Announces Broadcasts
to Mark the Lincoln Bicentennial
IPTV will broadcast two new prime
time programs plus a reprise of Ken Burns' The Civil War to mark the Lincoln
bicentennial. In addition to on-air promotion, all programs will have referenced
in the Advance program guide (sent to 70,000 members) and in IPTV's Classroom
Connection newsletter, a widely-used classroom resource.
General Audience:
Monday, February 9, 8:00 p.m.
The American Experience: THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN recounts the death
of America's first assassinated president.
On March 4, 1865 at the United States Capitol, a crowd of 50,000 listened as
President Lincoln delivered his classic second inaugural address, urging charity
and forgiveness to a nation in the final throes of war. Just two months later, a
train, nine cars long and draped in black bunting, pulled slowly out of a
station in Washington, D.C.
Dignitaries and government officials crowded the first eight cars and in the
ninth, rode the body of Abraham Lincoln. Some seven million people would line
the tracks or file past the casket to bid an emotional farewell to the martyred
president. But as the funeral train made its way across nine states and through
hundreds of cities and towns, the largest manhunt in history was closing in on
Lincoln's assassin, the famous actor, John Wilkes Booth. This 90-minute film
recounts a great American drama: two tumultuous months when the joy of peace was
shattered by the heartache of Lincoln's death. At the heart of the story are two
figures who define the extremes of character: Lincoln, who had the strength to
transform suffering into infinite compassion, and Booth, who allowed hatred to
curdle into destruction on the ultimate scale.
Additional information can be found at
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/assassination/
Wednesday, February 11, 8:00 p.m.; Sunday, February 22, 1:00 p.m.
LOOKING FOR LINCOLN dissects the myths that have grown up around Abraham
Lincoln.
The film address many outstanding questions that surround him -- questions about
race, equality, religion, depression and sexuality -- by carefully interpreting
the evidence provided by people who actually knew him. Dr. Henry Louis Gates,
Jr. leads the investigation, with help from Lincoln scholar Doris Kearns
Goodwin.
Additional information will be available after the first of the year at
www.pbs.org.
Educational Audience - Overnight Delivery:
Additional information for the titles below can be found at:
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/
http://www.iptv.org/k12catalog/list_detail.cfm?showid=48
Feb. 1
3:00-4:45 a.m.
The Civil War #101. The Cause -- 1861
Feb. 8
3:00-5:30 a.m.
The Civil War #102. A Very Bloody Affair & 103. Forever Free
Feb. 15
3:00-5:30 a.m.
The Civil War #104. Simply Murder & 105. The Universe of Battle
Feb. 22
3:00-5:30 a.m.
The Civil War #106. Valley of the Shadow of Death & #107. Most Hallowed
Ground
5:30-6:00 a.m.
The Iowa Heritage Series #105. The Civil War
Mar. 1
3:00-5:30 a.m.
The Civil War #108. War Is All Hell & #109. The Better Angels of Our Nature
5:30-6:00 a.m.
The Iowa Heritage Series #109. The Iowa Country School
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