Events

Park City Library: November 3 - December 22, 2006
Forever Free is a traveling panel exhibit that reexamines President Lincoln's efforts toward the abolition of slavery during the Civil War. Organized by The Huntington's John Rhodehamel, Norris Foundation Curator of American Historical Manuscripts, the exhibit will consist of reproductions of rare historical documents from The Huntington's collections and those of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, and will draw on the latest scholarship in the field.

Two copies of the exhibit will travel to 40 libraries around the country between September 2003 and December 2006. Each copy consists of two six-section, 75-foot-long panels that contain reproductions of rare historical documents, period photographs, and illustrative material, such as engravings, lithographs, cartoons, and political ephemera. The sections of the exhibition focus on young Lincoln's America, the House dividing, war for the Union, the Emancipation Proclamation, the role of black soldiers in the Civil War, and the final months of the Civil War and Lincoln's life.

Forever Free is organized by The Huntington Library and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in cooperation with the ALA Public Programs Office and funded by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).