A Nation in Tears: 150 Years After Lincoln’s Death, opened on Lincoln's birthday and will close on May 4, the anniversary of the day of the President's burial in Springfield, Illinois.
Special programming is also scheduled for the exhibition. On April 17, 2015, Guy Fraker, author of Lincoln's Ladder to the Presidency: The Eighth Judicial Circuit (2013), will talk about the long, sad journey of the President's funeral train from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, IL in Room 308 of the Library.
A handout was produced to accompany the exhibition and it can be viewed at: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/73170
Thanks to Dennis Sears of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library for this information item.
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