The Virtual Lincoln Project

The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia is proud to present animator, artist, and historian Christopher Oakley. He is Associate Professor of New Media at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. In 2013, his passion for history took on a new dimensions when he launched a research endeavor called . Professor Oakley and his students are digitally creating a photo-real Abraham Lincoln and animating him delivering the Gettysburg Address. While doing research into existing photographs for the project, Professor Oakley discovered a previously unknown image of Lincoln standing in the crowd at Gettysburg. This accomplishment has been featured in Smithsonian Magazine, USA Today, and on television network news. At The Lincoln Forum in Gettysburg, PA, last year, Oakley announced the results of nearly a decade of research into where Abraham Lincoln actually stood when he delivered his Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. The actual location had been…