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Lincoln: the Constitution and the Civil War – A traveling exhibition
Posted By Barbara Hood
February 1 – March 7, 2012
Library West 3rd floor
Wed., February 29, 2012 Closing Ceremony, co-sponsored with the UF History Department and the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations, Room 1A, Smathers Library (East), noon to 1:30pm
Prof. Matt Gallman (UF History), “Abraham Lincoln and Photography”
Prof. Elizabeth Dale (UF History/Levin School of Law), “Constitutional Issues of the Civil War”
Refreshments provided.
The George A. Smathers Libraries will host a major national traveling exhibit, Lincoln, the Constitution and the Civil War, in Library West on the third floor, from February 1 to March 7, 2012. Developed by the National Constitutional Center and the American Library Association, this new exhibit focuses on President Abraham Lincoln’s struggle to meet the political and constitutional challenges posed by the Civil War.
Visitors to the exhibit will walk through a series of nine museum-style panels with photographic images of Lincoln, significant historical documents, and prints and photos depicting the era of the Civil War.
An additional exhibit, “Civil War Legacies: A UF Exhibit to Accompany Lincoln, The Constitution, and the Civil War,” featuring UF’s special collections materials on Lincoln and the Civil War will run in the Special Collections Gallery in Smathers Library, 2nd floor. This exhibit offers perspectives on Lincoln as portrayed in children’s literature, propaganda directed against the president and a study of the Gettysburg Address. Other displays examine Florida’s reasons for seceding from the Union in 1861 and show examples of letters, images and memorabilia from the Civil War in Florida.
More information on the exhibit guide at http://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/lincoln
This traveling exhibition is made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): The Great Ideas Brought to Life, and was created and organized by the National Constitution Center and the American Library Association Public Programs Office.
Questions? Contact Chelsea Dinsmore, Documents Librarian at chelseaz@ufl.edu
Jan 3rd, 2012
