Abraham Lincoln Institute

12/05/2025

We know Thanksgiving is over, but take a look at this amazing video using AI to animate Abraham Lincoln reciting his Thanksgiving Proclamation. Made by Karen Needles, director of the Lincoln Archives Digital Project:

https://youtu.be/_IwEo5ZvIGE?si=T_efXd-Ve7Q8zp8-

Lincoln proclaims a Thanksgiving.

12/01/2025

Mark your calendars: The ALI's 29th Annual Symposium is scheduled for March 21, 2026 at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. As we focus on Lincoln and the Declaration of Independence next year, our lineup will include an amazing array of Pulitzer Prize and Lincoln Prize winners on stage in multi-person discussions. You will not want to miss this event! Details will be announced in January...

11/10/2025

Hello everyone, welcome to the Abraham Lincoln Institute's new LinkedIn page. If you don't know, we are a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting scholarship on the life, times, and legacy of Abraham Lincoln through an annual symposium (held in historic Ford's Theatre), book and dissertation prizes, and a lifetime achievement award. Our board is made up of some of the best Lincoln and Lincoln-era historians out there. Please like and follow this page to start getting great information about Lincoln and his times, the historians who write about him, and more. Want to know more? Send us a note!

https://lincoln-institute.org/

March 21, 2026