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Latest Edition of the Cottage Courier
The latest edition of the Cottage Courier is now available on our website! Stay up-to-date with all that is happening at President Lincoln’s Cottage by subscribing to receive our quarterly e-newsletter. In the fall edition, readers can preview two upcoming exhibits that will be on view in the Robert H. Smith Vistior Education Center at the Cottage. “Seat of War: …
Read MoreA Lincoln Family Thanksgiving
By Kerry Plunkett Every year around this time, I start to think of traditions. Every family has their own. This week as families and friends across the country gather to celebrate Thanksgiving together, I was inspired to start a new tradition with my family. Watching people scour the markets and grocery stores desperately trying to find the last ingredients for …
Read MoreLincoln’s Veterans
By Niles Anderegg and Rebecca Downes As we celebrate our veterans and remember those who are no longer with us, it is important to think about how we, as a country, have dealt with our veterans in the past. Veterans Day as a national holiday is a 20th century invention born out of the tragedy of the First World War. …
Read MorePAST EVENT: Upcoming Program with the U.S. State Department
President Lincoln’s Cottage and the Office of the Historian of the U.S. Department of State are hosting a public program to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), the flagship publication of the Department’s Office of the Historian. Join Burrus Carnahan, noted Civil War and Lincoln author and scholar as he interviews Dr. Aaron Marrs, …
Read MoreSpooky Encounters at Historic Houses
By Rebecca Downes It is a chilly and foreboding afternoon. A host of withered brown leaves scratch and skitter across the pavement and crunch eerily underfoot. You walk slowly up to the looming old house and hesitantly turn the door knob. The front door swings open with a loud, echoing squeeeaaaakkkk. Dim lights flicker as you make your way through …
Read MoreNew Exhibit Now Open!
President Lincoln’s Cottage is proud to announce that the temporary exhibit, Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Time, A Man for All Times opened yesterday in the Robert H. Smith Visitor Education Center. On loan from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, this exhibit will be open until November 14, 2011. More books have been written about Lincoln than …
Read MorePAST EVENT: Heritage Trail Unveiling and Celebration October 15, 2011
President Lincoln’s Cottage is proud to be included in the latest Cultural Tourism DC Heritage Trail – Georgia Avenue/Pleasant Plains. President Lincoln regularly commuted to the White House from his Cottage at the Soldiers’ Home, using present-day Georgia Avenue. This story of his commute to and from the Cottage will be available on sign #19 of the trail. Other highlights of the …
Read MoreCottage Featured on WETA
On Friday, October 7 at 9pm and Monday, October 10 at 9pm WETA TV 26 and WETA HD will feature President Lincoln’s Cottage in the TV special on “The WETA Guide to More Unusual Attractions.” The Cottage isn’t usually considered “unusual” but it is certainly unique! As are the other attractions that will be featured, including Titanic Memorial, The Maine Lobsterman Statue, …
Read MoreLast weekend to see “Being Lincoln”
Being Lincoln, the current temporary exhibit in the Robert H. Smith Visitor Education Center will close on October 2, 2011. Visitors to the exhibit over the past year have learned more about Lincoln’s iconic image and how it shaped the way we view him today. Being Lincoln explores the world of Lincoln presenters (those who dress up like Lincoln for public presentations) and …
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