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January 21, 2004 through March 5, 2004
New! Read the Appleton Post-Crescent article about the exhibit.
The Seeley G. Mudd Library of Lawrence University is proud to announce that it will be hosting the traveling panel exhibit "Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation." Coordinated by the American Libraries Association Public Programs Office, the Mudd is one of only forty libraries in the United States that will be hosting the exhibit, and the only library in the state of Wisconsin to do so.
Forever Free reexamines President Lincoln's efforts toward the abolition of slavery during the Civil War in light of the latest scholarship in the field. The major purpose of the exhibit is to open a discussion among visitors about slavery in the United States, its abolition and its relation to African American civil rights after the Civil War. The exhibit is centered on Lincoln's role in these events and his beliefs about what he was doing. Separate sections of the exhibition focus on young Lincoln's America, the House dividing, war for the Union, the Emancipation Proclamation, the role of black soldiers in the Civil War, and the final months of the Civil War and Lincoln's life.
"Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation" has been organized by the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York City, New York, in cooperation with the American Library Association Public Programs Office. This exhibition has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, promoting excellence in the humanities.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition and related programs do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
