Welcome To The

Lincoln Group

of the

District of Columbia

We are the most active and longest continuously serving Lincoln study organization in the United States of America

Winner of the 2022 Wendy Allen Award from the Lincoln Forum for bringing learning, scholarship, and enlightenment to a wide public.

OUR PURPOSE

The purpose of the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia is:

to study the life and leadership of Abraham Lincoln
to engage new generations in understanding his dedication to equality and liberty under law and his attitude “with malice toward none, with charity for all;"
to educate about his vision “that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.”

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

ABOUT

About the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia
The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia was organized in 1935. It is an active institution dedicated to the study of our 16th President.

Officers

David J. Kent: President

Debbie Jackson: VP Special Events
Jon Willen: VP for Programming
Wendy Swanson: Lincolnian Editor
Susan Dennis: Membership Secretary
Ed Epstein: Recording Secretary

Janet Saros: Treasurer

John A. O'Brien: Immediate Past President

Craig Howell: At Large

Richard Margolies: At Large

Rod Ross: At Large

Scott Schroeder: At Large

ABOUT US

UPCOMING EVENTS

Tue, Apr 16
The Virtual Lincoln Project
Apr 16, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87611626112
Professor Christopher Oakley will discuss his news-making discoveries from digitized Lincoln photographs and the implications for their lifelike animation. Find the Zoom link in the text below.
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Sat, Apr 27
Join Our Guided Tour of the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, April 27, 2024
Apr 27, 2024, 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM EDT
Chancellorsville Visitor Center, 9001 Plank Rd, Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA 22553, USA
Craig Howell will lead us through a 160th anniversary commemoration and picnic in this beautiful Fredericksburg park. See the reservation process in the event description text.
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Tue, May 21
Nancy Bradeen Spannaus on Lincoln, Hamilton, and the American System Against Slavery
May 21, 2024, 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Maggiano's Little Italy, 5333 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20015, USA
What Lincoln learned about slavery and the U.S. economy from the Hamilton and Jefferson conflict
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