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Wednesday Nov 11 | Our Town NY

Honest Abe in the Big Apple

Two years ago, noted historian and author Harold Holzer was asked to create a a oewish lista of artifacts for an upcoming Lincoln bicentennial exhibition at the New-York Historical Society.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, New York Government, New York, New York Metro, US News

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Independent Weekly

It's time to reread Gore Vidal's enduring Lincoln

Gore Vidal, a self-described narrator of empire, seems to enjoy nothing more than puncturing sacrosanct American icons.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies

Mon Nov 02, 2009

The University of North Carolina Press

Lincolna s Proclamation

Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is popularly regarded as a heroic act by a great American president .

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Albany Times Union

Gates and Holzer to discuss Lincoln and race at The Egg

Issues of race are never as clear as black and white, even when you're talking about Abraham Lincoln, the "Great Emancipator," whose attitude toward African-Americans ranged across several shades of gray.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Harvard University, Albany Metro, Albany, NY

Fri Oct 16, 2009

The Stranger

Young, Dumb, and Full of Glum

ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS The Rockwell portrait, from back when Lincoln was butch.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Illinois

Wed Oct 14, 2009

KSL-TV Salt Lake City

Tycoon tales and Darwin get award nominations

The subjects of this year's National Book Award nominees were better known than the authors.

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Related Topix: The Fiction, Alternative, Wayne State University, Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Nonfiction, Arts

Sun Oct 11, 2009

New York Times

When Honest Abe Met This Querulous Metropolis

When Abraham Lincoln visited New York in February 1861, Walt Whitman noticed that an "ominous silence" greeted the president-elect as he arrived at the Astor House hotel.

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Related Topix: New York Government, New York Metro, New York, Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Verdi, Opera, Brooklyn, NY, New York, NY

Fri Oct 09, 2009

NBC New York

Lincoln and New York: A Brief History

We New Yorkers take great pride in our history. But our record on Abraham Lincoln is mixed.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, New York Government, New York Metro, New York, Manhattan, NY, New York, NY

Thu Oct 08, 2009

DVD Times

The Tall Target

While usually steeped in the anxiety which met and followed World War II, film noir can, on rare occasions, take place prior to the 20th century.

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Related Topix: Dick Powell, Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies

Tue Oct 06, 2009

News Max

Gore Vidal Predicts Military Dictatorship

Author and liberal political pundit Gore Vidal contends that the United States is headed for a "military dictatorship" because "nobody else can hold everything together." In a wide-ranging interview with the Times of London, the 83-year-old writer also commented on President Obama, George W. Bush, John McCain, and even Oklahoma City bomber Timothy ...

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, George Bush, US Politics, John McCain, US News, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton

Sun Oct 04, 2009

Indiana Law Blog

Ind. Gov't. - Harold Holzer and the closed Lincoln Museum

The ILB has a number of entries on the closing of the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne and the eventual decision to split the collection between the Fort Wayne library and the State Museum in Indianapolis.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Fort Wayne, IN

Seattle Times

The many faces of Lincoln in the arts

Intiman's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" features Mary Jane Gibson as Mary Todd Lincoln, Erik Lochtefeld as Lincoln and R. Hamilton Wright as Stephen A. Douglas.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Greenwood (Seattle, WA), Queen Anne (Seattle, WA), Wallingford (Seattle, WA), Capitol Hill (Seattle, WA)

Sat Oct 03, 2009

The Corner

Still the Charmer -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Gore Vidal, what's not like to like ? Except for maybe everything: Vidal originally became pro-Obama because he grew up in "a black city" , as well as being impressed by Obama's intelligence.

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Thu Oct 01, 2009

Technoccult

Gore Vidal: a Wea ll have a dictatorship soon in the USa

Gore Vidal: - We'll have a dictatorship soon in the US' Klint Finley Vidal now believes, as he did originally, Clinton would be the better president.

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Tue Sep 29, 2009

Times Online

Gore Vidal: America is 'rotting away'

The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is 'rotting away' - and don't expect Barack Obama to save it A conversation with Gore Vidal unfolds at his pace.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton

Mon Sep 21, 2009

The University of Western Ontario

Big names among American Studies speakers

The 2009-2010 speakers' line-up for the Centre for American Studies is slated to be a world-class affair featuring renowned scholars, a famous author and an iconic musician.

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Related Topix: R-N-B, David Clayton-Thomas, Pop/Rock, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies,

Sat Sep 19, 2009

Harper's Magazine

SCOTT HORTONa "Why Are Jews So Liberal?

Last week, the New York Times Magazine ran an intriguing interview with the longtime editor of Commentary , Norman Podhoretz, which was closely attuned to his new book Why Are Jews Liberals? The question is posed in a predictably negative way, and the interview helps us understand why.

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Thu Sep 17, 2009

A. Lincoln Blog

More movie news: Spielberg's reassurances

It seems the recent little spate of publicity over Robert Redford's new film about Mary Surratt has motivated Steven Spielberg to break the silence surrounding his long-awaited Lincoln biopic.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Western, History Movies, Heaven's Gate, Sam Waterston, Kris Kristofferson, Country

Tue Sep 15, 2009

The Victoria Star

Gore Vidal, Dave Eggers to receive honorary National Book Awards

In this May 5, 2003 file photo, author Gore Vidal arrives for the Film Society of Lincoln Center's gala tribute for actress Susan Sarandon held in New York.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Adventure, The Best Man, Gore Vidal, Lincoln Center, KS

Mon Sep 14, 2009

WYFX-TV Youngstown

Dayton, Ohio, to celebrate Lincoln speech

Scholars will help commemorate the 150th anniversary Thursday of a 90-minute speech by Abraham Lincoln during an Ohio tour.

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Related Topix: Dayton, OH, Dayton Metro, Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Cincinnati, OH, Wright State University

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