Below please find a list of endorsed projects by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (ALBC). For information on the project process, please click here. For an application, please click here.
Bold programs indicate most recent endorsements.
Lesson Plans and Education Project Ideas
Professional Development for Teachers
Lectures and Conferences
- The 48th Annual Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture with Michael Burlingame. Topic: "Abraham Lincoln: New Information, Fresh Perspectives"
Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College and Gettysburg College Department of History
- Abraham Lincoln at 200: New Perspectives on his Life and Legacy
Houghton Library, Harvard University
- Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Lecture Series
The Grace A Dow Memorial Library
- Lincoln and the Civil War in Contemporary America
University of South Carolina and College of Charleston
- Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and Indiana: An Evening of Presentations for the Community
Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus (IUPUC) Division of Liberal Arts
- 2009 American Democracy Lecture at Messiah College
Messiah College
- Abraham Lincoln: An Enduring American Symbol
Northwestern Oklahoma State University
- Abraham Lincoln as War President: 11th Annual Civil War Symposium and Reenactment
National Archives—Great Lakes Region
- Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Hartwick College
Hartwick College
- Abraham Lincoln’s Life and Legacy: A Symposium
University of Southern Indiana
- Abraham Lincoln Looks West: 41st Annual Dakota Conference: A National Conference on the Northern Plains
The Center for Western Studies of Augustana College
- Abraham Lincoln Symposium
Emporia State University
- A Symposium Honoring the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee Civil War Round Table of Central New Jersey, Inc.
- A Symposium on President Lincoln’s Health
The National Museum of Health and Medicine
- The Abraham Lincoln Institute Annual Symposium
The Abraham Lincoln Institute
- Abraham Lincoln Without Borders (Parts 1 and 2) Conference
International Lincoln Center, Louisiana State University-Shreveport
- Alaska Lincoln Bicentenary Commemoration, 2007-2009
University of Alaska, Anchorage
- Creative Breakthroughs in Leadership
International Lincoln Center
- European Readings of Abraham Lincoln, His Times & Legacy/Lincoln et son temps: regards européens d'hier à aujourd'hui Université de Versailles St Quentin en Yvelines
- "A Humanitarian as Broad as the World: Abraham Lincoln's Legacy in International Context"
German Historical Institute
- Inspiring the Better Angels of our Nature
The Fetzer Institute - Kalamazoo, MI
- Legacies of the American Revolution: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War
David Library of the American Revolution
- LINCOLN AND THE SOUTH
University of Richmond Jepson Alumni Center - Richmond, VA
- Lincoln for the Ages: Lessons for the 21st Century
Washington and Lee University
- Lincoln and American Values: A Symposium - Sept. 20, 2008
National Archives and Records Administration
- Lincoln’s Constitutionalism in Time of War: Lessons for the Current War on Terror?
Chapman Law Review, Chapman University School of Law
- The Lincoln Forum Annual Conference
The Lincoln Forum
- Lincoln Highway Association Annual Conference (2008 and 2009)
Lincoln Highway Association
- Lincoln Leadership Series
Michigan Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Committee
- Lincoln’s Legacy: Enduring Lessons of Executive Power
Albany Government Law Review, Albany Law School
- Link to Lincoln: The 29th Annual Children’s Literature Conference
Northern Illinois Univeristy’s College of Education
- Seventh Circuit Bar Association Lincoln Symposium
Seventh Circuit Bar Association
- The Lincoln Symposium- "Now He Belongs to the Ages: Lincoln's America"
Abraham Lincoln Museum and Library
Lincoln Memorial University
- National Council on Public History- 2008 Annual Conference
NCPH
- Presentations of an 1865 Washington, D.C. African-American History Event
The Crusor Family Historical Research Corporation - Washington, D.C.
- The 2008-09 Jepson Leadership Forum
The Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond
- The Twelfth Annual Symposium
The Abraham Lincoln Institute
- Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: Lincoln, the NAACP, and the World They Created - The 29th Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series
Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience
- UCLA Lincoln Celebration
Center for the Liberal Arts and Free Institutions
The Arts
- Abraham Lincoln’s Beardstown Trial
Authors: Georganne B. Burton and Orville Vernon Burton
- Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Concert
Queens College Orchestra & Chorus, New York City Labor Chorus, Riverside Church Gospel Choir
- A LINCOLN LETTER
Long Beach Central Area Association
- Abraham Lincoln's Love of Music and Song
Cameo Productions, Ltd. - Sparta, NJ
- Abraham and Mary: A Dramatic Character Study of the Lincolns
Bo Metzler, author
- Apart From That Play
Manhattan Youth Players - New York, NY
- American Heritage
The Topeka Symphony
- A Man Named Abraham Lincoln Children's Song Greg Cherone
The Foundation for the Advancement of Malden Education - Malden, MA
- American Musical Salute to Abraham Lincoln
American Musical Salute
- Civil War Medicine: A Documentary Series
JAMCO Films
Abraham Lincoln Foundation of the Union League of Philadelphia
- Commissioned Piece of Classical Music
Michigan Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Committee
- The Day Carl Sandburg Died
The Friends of Carl Sandburg at Connemara
- Fanfare for the 4th: A Bicentennial Tribute to Abraham Lincoln
The Louisville Chorus
- His Terrible Swift Sword - Music for orchestra
Charles R. Widdersheim - Butler, PA
- Homer’s Celebration of Lincoln in Print and Paint
Homer (NY) Educational Foundation
- Kentucky Music and the Lincoln Family
Lexington Philharmonic - Lexington, KY
- Kentucky Repertory Theatre Presents Abraham Lincoln
Kentucky Repertory Theatre - Horse Cave, KY
- The Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration
The Monmouth Civic Chorus
- Lincoln Bicentennial Project
National League of American Pen Women
- Lincoln Opera
ImaginationSound, George Andoniadis, composer
Manhattan Choral Ensemble
- Lincoln & Oz
Roosevelt High School
- Lincoln Plays and Musicals
National Historic Theater - Mifflinburg, PA
- Lincoln SOS! -- Saving Abraham Lincoln's Monumental Legacy
Save Outdoor Sculpture!
- Lincoln: The Untold Story - Dramatic Production
The Lincoln Story, Inc. - Elizabethtown, KY
- Lincoln Ideals in a New Century
Spokane Symphony
- Lincoln and Shakespeare: Politics and Art
The Shakespeare Theatre Company
- The Little Orchestra Society Lincoln Bicentennial Project
The Little Orchestra Society/Orpheon Inc.
- Looking for Lincoln Documentary and Companion Volume
Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation
- "The Life Abraham Lincoln" - Painting by Thomas Kennedy
Lincoln Legacy, LLC
- The Little Orchestra Society Lincoln Bicentennial Project (LOS)
Lincoln Bicentennial Concert Series
- MENC - A Music Tribute to Lincoln
MENC – National Association for Music Education
- Music of Lincoln and His Era
97th Regimental String Band
- “Music for Abraham Lincoln: Campaign Songs, Civil War Tunes, Laments for a President”
Enslow Publishers
- Mystic Chords of Memory: Abraham Lincoln and the Performing Arts
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- Our American Cousin Opera
American Singers Theater
Old Deerfield Productions
- “Partners in Freedom” concert
The Rochester Oratorio Society
- Rise Up and Hear the Bells
The Southeastern Festival of Song
Exhibits
- Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America Exhibit
Lehigh Valley Heritage Center and Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
- Abraham Lincoln Manuscripts Exhibit
Oregon Historical Society
- Abraham Lincoln: The Image - Traveling Exhibition
The Lincoln Museum
- Farmington Historic Home Exhibition and Three Weeks at Farmington Event
Exhibition - Lincoln & Farmington: An Enduring Relationship
Farmington Historic Home - Louisville, KY
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of America Exhibition for Underground Railroad Freedom Tour Free at Last: A History
Pennsylvania Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
- His Name Was Lincoln
National Center for Presidential Studies, American Presidents Museum
- Jewish Life in Mr. Lincoln’s City Exhibition
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington
- Lincoln for All Ages
The Blair County Historical Society
- Lincoln’s Legacy at VA
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VHA)
- Last Measure of Devotion: The Lincoln Presidency
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
- Liberty on the Border: A Civil War Exhibit
Frazier International History Museum
- Lincoln and Alexander: Martyrs to Freedom Traveling Exhibition
American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation - Washington, D.C.
- The Lincoln Family Album - Traveling Exhibit
The Lincoln Museum
- The Lincoln Flag from Pike County Exhibit at the Historic Gettysburg Railroad Station
Pennsylvania Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
- Lincoln and the Constitution Traveling Exhibit
National Constitution Center and The Lincoln Museum
- Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration
Orange County Regional History Center
- Lincoln in New Hampshire Exhibit (Feb. to Dec. 2009)
New Hampshire Historical Society
- Lincoln in New York Traveling Exhibit
New York Historical Society
- Lincoln’s Legacy
Forbes House Museum (Milton, MA)
- Lincoln in Washington
Historical Society of Washington, D.C. (HSW)
- “Lincoln – the Early Years”
Riverside County Library System
- Louis D. Carman Lincolniana Collection Exhibition
The House of the Temple Library
The Supreme Council, 33° Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Southern Jurisdiction, USA
- “Manhunt: Chasing Lincoln’s Killer”
Newseum - Washington, DC
- Portraying Lincoln Exhibition
Michael Fowler, University of South Carolina Aiken and Verve Editions
Special Events
- 64th Annual Lincoln Pilgrimage
Boy Scouts of America - April 24-26, 2009
- "Lincoln"
The Lincoln Amphitheatre & the Lincoln Boyhood Drama Association
- Abraham Lincoln: From Rail-Splitter to President
Lou Del Bianco
- Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration
Spencer County Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Committee
Spencer County Visitor's Bureau - Spencer County, Indiana
- Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Weekend at the Asa Waters Mansion
Friends of the Asa Waters Mansion
- Abraham Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address and Remembrance Day
Friends of History & the Oregon Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
- Annual Lincoln Days Celebration
City of Hodgenville, KY
- Annual National American Legion Pilgrimage- February 2008, 2009
Springfield (IL) Post #32, The American Legion
- The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (a film from PBS’s flagship history series, American Experience)
American Experience/WGBH Boston
- Lincoln Bicentennial Benefit Run
Log Inn - Warrenton, IN
- The Bicentennial Celebration of the Marriage of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks
Lincoln Homestead State Park, Kentucky Department of Parks
Community of Springfield, KY
- Celebrating Lincoln’s 200th birthday and the 150th Anniversary of his speech in Dayton
The Lincoln Society of Dayton
- Children's Lincoln Penny Week
Louisiana Abraham Lincoln Commission
- Dedication Day 2009
Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
- Dedication Day Ceremony - November 2008
Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania, Civil War Institute
Gettysburg National Military Park
- Dinner Party with History
Lightbeam Studio Institute - Vienna, VA
- Friends of the Asa Waters Mansion
“Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Weekend at the ASA Waters Mansion”
- FOR THE PEOPLE: World Premiere
Pennsylvania Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
- GAR Cemetery and Civil War Statue Dedication
Colonel Edward D. Baker Camp 6, Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War
- The Gettysburg Festival
The Gettysburg Festival, Inc.
- Gettysburg Addressed
Longfellow National Historic Site
- Grand Review of November 20, 1861 at Bailey’s Crossroads: A Tribute to President Lincoln
Lincoln at the Crossroads Alliance
- Happy 200th Birthday President Lincoln: From the People
Wendy Allen
- Journey of Remembrance
RLD Enterprises and Spencer County, IN - video.
- Lincoln Addresses the Oregon Legislature
Oregon Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
- Lincoln Bicentennial Bike Tour
FirstServePress - Ottawa, IL
- A Lincoln Celebration: The KY Humanities Council Presents an Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Event
Kentucky Humanities Council
- Lincoln Legacy: A Cincinnati Celebration of Freedom
Cooperative of Cincinnati Organizations
- Lincoln’s Legacy
Forbes House Museum (Milton, MA)
- Lincoln Reenactment
Lincoln County, KS Historical Society
- Lincoln Society - Day & Evening Commemoration Events
Lincoln Society in Peekskill New York
- Lincoln’s Treasurer: Hugh McCulloch of Fort Wayne
Allen County-Fort Wayne (IN) Historical Society
- Lincoln Tomb Ceremony- 2007, 2008, 2009
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
- The Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration at The Mary L. Cook Public Library
The Mary L. Cook Public Library
- The Lincoln, Virginia, Bicentennial
The Lincoln Preservation Foundation, et al.
- A Meeting of the Minds of the Presidents of Mount Rushmore
Lincoln-Hanks Wedding Celebration Committee and St. Catherine College
- MVPA 2009 Transcontinental Motor Convoy.
Military Vehicles Preservation Association (MVPA)
- New/Replacement Gettysburg Address Tablets for National Cemeteries overseen by the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs
- One State, One Story – Indiana Reads About Lincoln
Indiana Humanities Council, Center for the Book at the Indiana State Library, Indiana Department of Education
- Our Favorite Lincoln: Favorite Stories of Lincoln, by Lincoln and for Lincoln
La Crosse County Historical Society
- Period 1860 Bicentennial Ball
10th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry Regiment Band - Springfield, IL
- Profiles in Leadership: Abraham Lincoln’s Leadership and Legacy for a New Generation
Georgia Historical Society
- Reading Lincoln: Exploring Lincoln and the Civil War Through Books
Edgewater Historical Society and Museum
- Remembrance Day Activities - 2007, 2008, 2009
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
- “Remembrance Day”, Mt. Zion Methodist Meeting Cemetery
Friends of Darby Methodist Meeting Cemetery
- Restaging of Abraham Lincoln rally at Logan County Courthouse
Illinois ALBC
- Riverfest Celebrates Lincoln’s Bicentennial
Riverfront Recapture
- Savannah Book Festival
Savannah Book Festival, Inc.
- The Abolition Unfinished: Lincoln’s Legacy Revived in the Movement Against Modern Day Slavery
Free the Slaves
- Town Hall Meetings
Oregon Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
- Welcome to Lincoln’s Louisville
Jefferson County (KY) Clerk's Office
- The Year of Lincoln at the Ohio Statehouse
Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board
Books
Programs for Students
Commemoratives
State Commissions
Historic Sites
