https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:06:25 +0000 MyBB https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5179.html Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:58:30 +0000 Anita]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5179.html https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gov-de...r-AA26Ufzp]]> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gov-de...r-AA26Ufzp]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5178.html Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:09:07 +0000 Anita]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5178.html https://www.nbcwashington.com/video/ente...h/4122027/]]> https://www.nbcwashington.com/video/ente...h/4122027/]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5177.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:03:36 +0000 J. Beckert]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5177.html Realized - $107,950

I discussed these with Blaine Houmes once and he told me he believed there were only 5 in private hands.

https://www.swanngalleries.com/auction-lot/_66585980BE]]> Realized - $107,950

I discussed these with Blaine Houmes once and he told me he believed there were only 5 in private hands.

https://www.swanngalleries.com/auction-lot/_66585980BE]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5176.html Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:57:57 +0000 Anita]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5176.html Posted: Jun 3, 2026 / 11:43 PM EDT
Updated: Jun 4, 2026 / 04:47 AM EDT

NEW LONDON, Conn. (WTNH) — A small treasure has been lost in New London. Now the rightful owner wants it back.

If you have found a black folder in New London, look inside. If you see portraits of our 18th president, Abraham Lincoln, you have stumbled across historic artifacts.

Multiple documents from the 1800s were lost at Connecticut College by a Lincoln enthusiast. The search is now on.

Details here: https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/ne...ew-london/]]> Posted: Jun 3, 2026 / 11:43 PM EDT
Updated: Jun 4, 2026 / 04:47 AM EDT

NEW LONDON, Conn. (WTNH) — A small treasure has been lost in New London. Now the rightful owner wants it back.

If you have found a black folder in New London, look inside. If you see portraits of our 18th president, Abraham Lincoln, you have stumbled across historic artifacts.

Multiple documents from the 1800s were lost at Connecticut College by a Lincoln enthusiast. The search is now on.

Details here: https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/ne...ew-london/]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5175.html Thu, 28 May 2026 08:38:16 +0000 Steve]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5175.html
https://www.kclu.org/local-news/2026-05-...exhibition]]>
https://www.kclu.org/local-news/2026-05-...exhibition]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5164.html Mon, 18 May 2026 23:32:59 +0000 Rob Wick]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5164.html
Best
Rob]]>
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Rob]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5162.html Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:52:18 +0000 wpbinzel]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5162.html Louise Oertly, president
Bill Binzel, vice president
Rebecca Morris, secretary
Dr. Nathan Willis, treasurer

In the interest of time, a motion will be offered to approve the slate en bloc (all together) so as not to have individual votes of the membership on each position.

After the business meeting, there will be two presentations. Joe Barry will discuss the audience at Ford’s Theatre on the night of April 14, 1865, and Mike Mazzeo will discuss the history and restoration of Rich Hill, which was the home of Samuel Cox and John Wilkes Booth’s third stop in his attempt to escape.

The meeting and presentations are open to all, and free.

The Zoom link to the meeting is: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84728950585?pw...ZYp5NVZk.1 .]]> Louise Oertly, president
Bill Binzel, vice president
Rebecca Morris, secretary
Dr. Nathan Willis, treasurer

In the interest of time, a motion will be offered to approve the slate en bloc (all together) so as not to have individual votes of the membership on each position.

After the business meeting, there will be two presentations. Joe Barry will discuss the audience at Ford’s Theatre on the night of April 14, 1865, and Mike Mazzeo will discuss the history and restoration of Rich Hill, which was the home of Samuel Cox and John Wilkes Booth’s third stop in his attempt to escape.

The meeting and presentations are open to all, and free.

The Zoom link to the meeting is: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84728950585?pw...ZYp5NVZk.1 .]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5160.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:36:33 +0000 Linda Anderson]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5160.html
https://hydeparkstation.org/events

There's a historic marker at the train station.

https://www.wgpfoundation.org/historic-m...RIL%2025**

"Inscription
GHOST TRAIN
PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S
FUNERAL TRAIN PASSED THROUGH
HYDE PARK ON APRIL 25, 1865.
HIS GHOST TRAIN OFTEN SEEN
HERE AT NIGHT ON APRIL 25.
NEW YORK FOLKLORE
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2024"

"Shortly before 8pm on April 25, the president’s funeral train passed through the town of Hyde Park. Ever since this momentous occasion, a story has been told of an eerie event that occurs along the tracks in Hyde Park each night on April 25. If the moon is out, clouds are said to obscure it. A black carpet seems to roll down the tracks and deadens all sound. Then, Lincoln’s funeral train, adorned in black crepe is seen slowing inching its way north to Albany. This is not the only story told of sightings of the ghost of Lincoln’s funeral train. One will hear of similar stories that have been passed along in communities located along the train’s path that still resonate with locals to this day."

The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Presidential Museum (and his home) and the Vanderbilt Mansion are also located in Hyde Park.]]>
https://hydeparkstation.org/events

There's a historic marker at the train station.

https://www.wgpfoundation.org/historic-m...RIL%2025**

"Inscription
GHOST TRAIN
PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S
FUNERAL TRAIN PASSED THROUGH
HYDE PARK ON APRIL 25, 1865.
HIS GHOST TRAIN OFTEN SEEN
HERE AT NIGHT ON APRIL 25.
NEW YORK FOLKLORE
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2024"

"Shortly before 8pm on April 25, the president’s funeral train passed through the town of Hyde Park. Ever since this momentous occasion, a story has been told of an eerie event that occurs along the tracks in Hyde Park each night on April 25. If the moon is out, clouds are said to obscure it. A black carpet seems to roll down the tracks and deadens all sound. Then, Lincoln’s funeral train, adorned in black crepe is seen slowing inching its way north to Albany. This is not the only story told of sightings of the ghost of Lincoln’s funeral train. One will hear of similar stories that have been passed along in communities located along the train’s path that still resonate with locals to this day."

The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Presidential Museum (and his home) and the Vanderbilt Mansion are also located in Hyde Park.]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5158.html Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:35:14 +0000 David Lockmiller]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5158.html PBS News Hour
Judy Woodruff: “Over the years, many presidents have been depicted as kings, including Abraham Lincoln, who during the Civil War suspended habeas corpus, a person's right to challenge their own detention.”

News and Announcements -- The chief justice takes a swipe at JD Vance (1-2-2025)

President Abraham Lincoln defied the Supreme Court, and most importantly the Chief Justice:

Team of Rivals, page 354-55:

Receiving word that the mobs intended to destroy the train tracks between Annapolis and Philadelphia in order to prevent the long-awaited troops from reaching the beleaguered capital, Lincoln made the controversial decision. If resistance along the military line between Washington and Philadelphia made it "necessary to suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus for the public safety," Lincoln authorized General Scott to do so. In Lincoln's words, General Scott could "arrest, and detain, without resort to the ordinary processes and forms of law, such individuals as he might deem dangerous to public safety." Seward later claimed that he had urged a wavering Lincoln to take this step, convincing him that "perdition was the the sure penalty of further hesitation."

Lincoln had not issued a sweeping order but a directive confined to this single route. Still, by rescinding the basic constitutional protection against arbitrary arrest, he aroused the wrath of Chief Justice Taney, who . . . blasted Lincoln and maintained that only Congress could suspend the writ.

Lincoln later defended his decision in his first message to Congress. As chief executive, he was responsible for ensuring "that the laws be faithfully executed." An insurrection "in nearly one-third of the States" had subverted the "whole of the laws . . . are all the laws, but one, to go unexecuted, and the government itself go to pieces, lest that one be violated?"

"So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch]]> PBS News Hour
Judy Woodruff: “Over the years, many presidents have been depicted as kings, including Abraham Lincoln, who during the Civil War suspended habeas corpus, a person's right to challenge their own detention.”

News and Announcements -- The chief justice takes a swipe at JD Vance (1-2-2025)

President Abraham Lincoln defied the Supreme Court, and most importantly the Chief Justice:

Team of Rivals, page 354-55:

Receiving word that the mobs intended to destroy the train tracks between Annapolis and Philadelphia in order to prevent the long-awaited troops from reaching the beleaguered capital, Lincoln made the controversial decision. If resistance along the military line between Washington and Philadelphia made it "necessary to suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus for the public safety," Lincoln authorized General Scott to do so. In Lincoln's words, General Scott could "arrest, and detain, without resort to the ordinary processes and forms of law, such individuals as he might deem dangerous to public safety." Seward later claimed that he had urged a wavering Lincoln to take this step, convincing him that "perdition was the the sure penalty of further hesitation."

Lincoln had not issued a sweeping order but a directive confined to this single route. Still, by rescinding the basic constitutional protection against arbitrary arrest, he aroused the wrath of Chief Justice Taney, who . . . blasted Lincoln and maintained that only Congress could suspend the writ.

Lincoln later defended his decision in his first message to Congress. As chief executive, he was responsible for ensuring "that the laws be faithfully executed." An insurrection "in nearly one-third of the States" had subverted the "whole of the laws . . . are all the laws, but one, to go unexecuted, and the government itself go to pieces, lest that one be violated?"

"So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5157.html Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:59:58 +0000 David Lockmiller]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5157.html
The new installation had been announced during the Biden administration, with the goal of having them on view before the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence this July.

After logistical delays and changes in leadership during the Trump administration, they were quietly installed last week in new marble cases a few steps away from the Declaration, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

New York Times reports today (April 1, 2026)]]>
The new installation had been announced during the Biden administration, with the goal of having them on view before the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence this July.

After logistical delays and changes in leadership during the Trump administration, they were quietly installed last week in new marble cases a few steps away from the Declaration, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

New York Times reports today (April 1, 2026)]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5155.html Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:40:45 +0000 Thomas Lapsley]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5155.html https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5153.html Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:57:32 +0000 Anita]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5153.html Alexander Historical Auctions LLC
Mar 11, 2026, 08:43 ET

ELKTON, Md., March 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 27, 2026 Maryland auctioneers Alexander Historical Auctions, known internationally for their sale of historic letters, documents, and relics will be offering at auction an amazing discovery made by a young Lincoln scholar: a pair of eyeglasses worn by the slain 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. The glasses were once attributed to Lincoln's son, but the young man's dogged research has proven them to have belonged to Abraham Lincoln himself.

The same auction will feature the historic large flag which covered the body of President Ulysses S. Grant from the time of his death until its arrival for burial in New York. It was given to the family of the man who donated to Grant the cabin in which the president would ultimately pass.

Details and photos:
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases...10429.html]]> Alexander Historical Auctions LLC
Mar 11, 2026, 08:43 ET

ELKTON, Md., March 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 27, 2026 Maryland auctioneers Alexander Historical Auctions, known internationally for their sale of historic letters, documents, and relics will be offering at auction an amazing discovery made by a young Lincoln scholar: a pair of eyeglasses worn by the slain 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. The glasses were once attributed to Lincoln's son, but the young man's dogged research has proven them to have belonged to Abraham Lincoln himself.

The same auction will feature the historic large flag which covered the body of President Ulysses S. Grant from the time of his death until its arrival for burial in New York. It was given to the family of the man who donated to Grant the cabin in which the president would ultimately pass.

Details and photos:
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases...10429.html]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5149.html Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:53:28 +0000 mbgross]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5149.html https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5148.html Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:07:48 +0000 Anita]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5148.html SPRINGFIELD – One of the few surviving dresses worn by Mary Lincoln is now on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
The dress is extremely fragile, so the ALPLM rarely puts it on public display. This is the first time since 2011. The last time before that was in 1985.
Known as the “strawberry dress” for its decorative pattern of berries and leaves, the dress can be seen in the special exhibit “Lincoln: A Life and Legacy that Defined a Nation.”
Read more and see a color image of the dress here.
https://presidentlincoln.illinois.gov/Ne...ws-detail/]]> SPRINGFIELD – One of the few surviving dresses worn by Mary Lincoln is now on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
The dress is extremely fragile, so the ALPLM rarely puts it on public display. This is the first time since 2011. The last time before that was in 1985.
Known as the “strawberry dress” for its decorative pattern of berries and leaves, the dress can be seen in the special exhibit “Lincoln: A Life and Legacy that Defined a Nation.”
Read more and see a color image of the dress here.
https://presidentlincoln.illinois.gov/Ne...ws-detail/]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5146.html Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:03:34 +0000 Steve]]> https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-5146.html

https://www.citizensvoice.com/2026/02/28...n-gallery/]]>

https://www.citizensvoice.com/2026/02/28...n-gallery/]]>