Lincoln Birthday Event

[RJNorton]

Thanks to Laurie for sending:

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The Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia and The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia jointly and proudly sponsor

KATE MASUR

who will speak on "They Knew Lincoln: The Research of John E. Washington"

Tuesday, February 12, 2019
at Patton Hall Officers' Club, Fort Myer, VA
(see directions on how to reserve and to access Ft. Myer below)

6 pm: Social Hour (cash bar)
7 pm: Dinner ($36 for dinner and lecture)
8 pm: Lecture ($5 for lecture only)
(please arrive at 7:30pm for the lecture)

Instructions to make your reservation:

http://cwrtdc-meetings.blogspot.com/

The first two pages of this form must be completed and presented at the Hatfield Gate:

https://www.army.mil/e2/c/downloads/465241.pdf

Directions to access Ft. Myer - please note and be prepared to provide this information before entering:

(Non DoD attendees will need to enter through security at the Hatfield gate.)
http://cwrtdc-meetings.blogspot.com/p/di...tmyer.html

[David Lockmiller]

Happy Birthday, Abraham Lincoln!

He lives on in spirit. Did you know?

1. The Abraham Lincoln Battalion, a volunteer effort to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War in the mid-1930s, was the first racially integrated U.S. military force.
2. His famous definition of democracy — “government of the people, by the people, for the people” — was invoked in the first Czechoslovak Republic after World War I, in Hungary in 1956, in Iran in 1979, and at Tiananmen Square in China in 1989.
3. After World War II, he was an inspiration for many decolonization movements in Africa and Asia. Jawaharlal Nehru, considered the architect of modern India, even owned a bronze cast of Lincoln’s hand.
   

All of these items reported in my "Today's Briefing" from the New York Times.

President Abraham Lincoln sat for a portrait in 1865, the week before his 56th birthday and two months before his assassination. CreditAlexander Gardner/Library of Congress

[RJNorton]

Lincoln, Darwin: Same birthdates, different fates

https://www.wnd.com/2019/02/lincoln-darw...ent-fates/

[RJNorton]

In honor of Lincoln's Birthday, thank you to Joe Di Cola for sending these images:

[Eva Elisabeth]

Cool - can you tell us when they were published?

[L Verge]

(02-12-2019 05:14 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Cool - can you tell us when they were published?

Yes, please do tell the age. They remind me of clippings from the early-1900s. I love the tell-tale signs of tape or glue.

[AussieMick]

Further to David's
"His famous definition of democracy — “government of the people, by the people, for the people” — was invoked in the first Czechoslovak Republic after World War I, in Hungary in 1956, in Iran in 1979, and at Tiananmen Square in China in 1989."

The French Constitution (as does Japan's) uses those words . I dont know when the current French one came into being, but I see that Japan's was 1947.
Also (according to Wikipedia) Sun Yat Sen, first President of China, used the words in his Three Principles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Prin...the_People

[Steve]

I did a quick search and the first cartoon was printed nationwide on the weekend of February 11-12, 1956.

The second set of cartoons are from an article in the February 11, 1956 edition of the Chicago Tribune which was republished in a few other newspapers. The cartoon on the right ("I heerd Nancy") was a reprint and had first been published on page one of the February 12, 1929 edition of the Tribune. It was drawn by cartoonist John T. McCutcheon:

https://indianaillustrators.blogspot.com...inney.html

[Joe Di Cola]

(02-12-2019 08:24 PM)L Verge Wrote:  

(02-12-2019 05:14 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Cool - can you tell us when they were published?

Yes, please do tell the age. They remind me of clippings from the early-1900s. I love the tell-tale signs of tape or glue.

Laurie,

When I was a kid (it's been a few years ago!), the Chicago Tribune re-printed/printed Lincoln "cartoons" on the front page on February 12. In those days both Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays were celebrated on separate days. When I began my Lincoln journey at age 10, I kept scrap books into which I placed any and all Lincoln-related newspaper and magazine items--including the Parrish and McCutcheon cartoons. I still have those scrapbooks and go through the first one every February 12. And on that day I always watch the film based on Robert Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." Sherwood was also one of FDR's speechwriters.

Nowadays, no one seems to care except for us Lincoln "nerds." Hope this finds you well.

Joe

[David Lockmiller]

(02-13-2019 01:51 PM)Joe Di Cola Wrote:  I still have those scrapbooks and go through the first one every February 12. And on that day I always watch the film based on Robert Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." Sherwood was also one of FDR's speechwriters.

Joe

The 1939 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Drama

For the original American play, performed in New York, which shall best represent in marked fashion the educational value and power of the stage, preferably dealing with American life, $1,000.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois, by Robert E. Sherwood

[L Verge]

(02-13-2019 01:51 PM)Joe Di Cola Wrote:  

(02-12-2019 08:24 PM)L Verge Wrote:  

(02-12-2019 05:14 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Cool - can you tell us when they were published?

Yes, please do tell the age. They remind me of clippings from the early-1900s. I love the tell-tale signs of tape or glue.

Laurie,

When I was a kid (it's been a few years ago!), the Chicago Tribune re-printed/printed Lincoln "cartoons" on the front page on February 12. In those days both Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays were celebrated on separate days. When I began my Lincoln journey at age 10, I kept scrap books into which I placed any and all Lincoln-related newspaper and magazine items--including the Parrish and McCutcheon cartoons. I still have those scrapbooks and go through the first one every February 12. And on that day I always watch the film based on Robert Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." Sherwood was also one of FDR's speechwriters.

Nowadays, no one seems to care except for us Lincoln "nerds." Hope this finds you well.

Joe

Thanks, Joe. Since I suspect that you and I are of the same generation, my guess was off by about 25 years. My family a generation or two earlier were big scrap bookers also, especially my grandmother who kept every history-related article she could. The generation before passed down 2-3 old scrapbooks with Victoriana.

When I was teaching in what is now considered the Dark Ages, February used to be American History Month, and we did celebrate both Lincoln and Washington's birthdays separately. Even when they merged into one, we still had a day off from school. I miss those days.

[wpbinzel]

(02-13-2019 01:51 PM)Joe Di Cola Wrote:  

(02-12-2019 08:24 PM)L Verge Wrote:  

(02-12-2019 05:14 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Cool - can you tell us when they were published?

Yes, please do tell the age. They remind me of clippings from the early-1900s. I love the tell-tale signs of tape or glue.

Laurie,

When I was a kid (it's been a few years ago!), the Chicago Tribune re-printed/printed Lincoln "cartoons" on the front page on February 12. In those days both Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays were celebrated on separate days. When I began my Lincoln journey at age 10, I kept scrap books into which I placed any and all Lincoln-related newspaper and magazine items--including the Parrish and McCutcheon cartoons. I still have those scrapbooks and go through the first one every February 12. And on that day I always watch the film based on Robert Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." Sherwood was also one of FDR's speechwriters.

Nowadays, no one seems to care except for us Lincoln "nerds." Hope this finds you well.

Joe

For those of you who may not know, Joe Di Cola is the author of a brilliant book, New Salem - a History of Lincoln's Alma Mater, the best history of Lincoln's formative years in New Salem. I regret that Joe and I have not met, but we are indeed kindred spirit "Lincoln nerds." Joe, my best regards to you. Bill

[Gene C]

Not sure if these are the same "cartoons" but,

https://archive.org/details/lifeofabraha...ns/page/n1

[Eva Elisabeth]

Neat, Gene!

[Gene C]

It's that time of the year for another Birthday celebration

https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-...562CF7CD65