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Aug 11, 2020
Stay connected from home with “History Conversations,” periodic virtual lectures from our talented corps of speakers covering a wide variety of local history topics. Each lecture is livestreamed via Zoom and then posted to our website for a week.
“Lincoln and the Washingtons"
with Jim Johnston
Tuesday, August 11 @ 2:00 p.m.
Throughout his life, Abraham Lincoln idolized George Washington, from reading his biography as a boy to visiting Mount Vernon as a member of Congress. Imagine how disillusioned Lincoln was to discover so many members of the Washington family were fighting for the Confederacy. In this History Conversation, Jim Johnston, who has written about Lincoln’s relationship with Washington’s family for the White ... view more »
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