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.
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OUR PURPOSE
The purpose of the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia is:
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to study the life and leadership of Abraham Lincoln
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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;"
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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.
Board of Directors and Officers
Ed Epstein: President
Debbie Jackson: VP Special Events
Jon Willen: VP for Programming
Kelsey Johnston: VP for Education and Outreach
Wendy Swanson: Lincolnian Editor
Susan Dennis: Membership Secretary
Rachel Riley: Recording Secretary
Janet Saros: Treasurer
David J. Kent: Immediate Past President
John A. O'Brien: Website Manager
Jeffrey Boutwell: At Large
Craig Howell: At Large
Richard Margolies: At Large
Thomas Horrocks: At Large
Scott Schroeder: At Large
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sat, Mar 22This will be a full day of great speakers on the latest books and Lincoln scholarship. See below for information on the required advance registration.
Tue, Apr 08Lincoln Group's Past President John O'Brien will review the main conspiracy theories that continue to suggest we still don't know the real story.
Tue, Apr 22Native Hoosier and our own board member Scott Schroeder will present on how 14 years in Indiana influenced the development of the future president.
Tue, May 20Author John Bicknell discusses his book, The Pathfinder and the President: John C. Frémont, Abraham Lincoln, and the Battle for Emancipation
Get in Touch
The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia
PO Box 5676
Washington, D.C