With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition Tour Schedule

  • February 12–May 9, 2009, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
  • June 24–August 22, 2009, The California Museum, Sacramento, CA
  • October 10–December 19, 2009, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
  • February 12–April 11, 2010, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN
  • September 4–November 7, 2010, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA
  • January 8, 2011–March 5, 2011, The Durham Museum, Omaha, NE

Programming

A broad array of programming was presented in conjunction with this exhibition. A series of noontime gallery talks were given by Library curators on focused topics in the exhibition from February 18 through May 6, 2009. Other programs included book lectures, poetry readings, special tours, and a film series.

Symposium March 4, 2009

Six award-winning scholars participated in the March 4, 2009, Lincoln Symposium in the Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building: Harold Holzer, “Lincoln Comes to Washington: The Journey of a President-elect”; James M. McPherson, “Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief”; William Lee Miller, “A New Birth of Freedom”; Lucas E. Morel, “Lincoln on Race, Equality, and the Spirit of ‘76”; Douglas L. Wilson, “Words Fitly Spoken: Lincoln and Language”; and Elizabeth D. Leonard, “Ally on the Team of Rivals: Lincoln and His Point Man for Military Justice.”

Lincoln Exhibition Webcasts

Webcast: Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Symposium - Part I and Part II

Download symposium brochure (PDF, 651KB)

Gallery Talks

Noon in the exhibition

February 18, 2009
Barbara Bair (Manuscript Division)
“Lincoln’s Family: His Wife Mary and Their Sons”
With Malice Toward None exhibition, 2nd Floor, South Gallery, Jefferson Building

February 25, 2009
John Sellers, curator of the With Malice Toward None exhibition
“Abraham Lincoln’s Inaugural Addresses”
With Malice Toward None exhibition, 2nd Floor, South Gallery, Jefferson Building

March 11, 2009
Clark Evans (Rare Book and Special Collections Division)
“Lincoln Campaign Memorabilia”
With Malice Toward None exhibition, 2nd Floor, South Gallery, Jefferson Building

March 18, 2009
Carol Johnson (Prints and Photographs Division)
“The Changing Image of Lincoln”
With Malice Toward None exhibition, 2nd Floor, South Gallery, Jefferson Building

March 25, 2009 
John Sellers, curator of the With Malice Toward None exhibition
“The Gettysburg Address: 145 Years Later”
With Malice Toward None exhibition, 2nd Floor, South Gallery, Jefferson Building

April 1, 2009
Adrienne Cannon (Manuscript Division)
“Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln”
With Malice Toward None exhibition, 2nd Floor, South Gallery, Jefferson Building

April 8, 2009 
John Sellers, curator of the With Malice Toward None exhibition
“The Civil War Comes to an End”
With Malice Toward None exhibition, 2nd Floor, South Gallery, Jefferson Building

April 15, 2009 
Sara Duke (Prints and Photographs Division)
“Sketch Artists in the Time of Lincoln”
With Malice Toward None exhibition, 2nd Floor, South Gallery, Jefferson Building

April 16, 2009 
Pam Craig (Law Library)
“Emancipation Proclamation” (Emancipation Day Presentation)
With Malice Toward None exhibition, 2nd Floor, South Gallery, Jefferson Building

April 22, 2009
Georgia Higley (Serial and Government Publications Division)
“The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln”
With Malice Toward None exhibition, 2nd Floor, South Gallery, Jefferson Building

April 29, 2009 
Ford Peatross (Prints and Photographs Division)
The Making of the Lincoln Memorial
With Malice Toward None exhibition, 2nd Floor, South Gallery, Jefferson Building

May 6, 2009
Betsy Haude and Dana Hemmenway
Preserving Lincoln Materials
With Malice Toward None exhibition, 2nd Floor, South Gallery, Jefferson Building

Teacher Institutes

A cooperative endeavor between the Library’s Interpretive Programs Office and the Office of Strategic Initiatives, teacher institutes invited educators from across the country to learn about Abraham Lincoln through the Library’s exhibition and its related primary and web-based materials. Participants received strategies and materials to use in their schools.

Film Series

Films were screened in the Mary Pickford Theater in the Library’s James Madison Building and in the Mount Pony Theater in the Library’s newly constructed facility at the Packard Campus in Culpeper, Virginia.

February 12, 2009—Culpeper
ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS (RKO, 1940). Dir John Cromwell. With Raymond Massey (110 min, 35mm)
Quintessential Americana with Raymond Massey repeating his role from the successful Broadway run of Robert Sherwood’s play.

February 17, 2009—Culpeper
YOUNG MR. LINCOLN (Twentieth Century-Fox, 1939). Dir John Ford. With Henry Fonda (100 min, 35mm)
The most widely shown and best known dramatization of Lincoln's life.

February 19, 2009—Washington, DC
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (Feature Productions/United Artists, 1930). Dir D. W. Griffith. With Walter Huston (96 min, 16mm)
To date, the only feature-length sound motion picture that follows Lincoln’s life from birth until death.

THE CALL TO ARMS (Charter Features Corp., 1917). Dir & With Benjamin Chapin (19 min, 35mm)
One of a series of two-reelers written, directed, produced and starring noted Lincoln impersonator Benjamin Chapin.

February 22, 2009—Culpeper
THE LITTLEST REBEL (Twentieth Century-Fox, 1935). Dir David Butler. With Frank McGlynn, Sr. (73 min, 35mm)
Shirley Temple charms a Union officer to protect her Confederate father. Shirley’s dance numbers with Bill “Bojangles” Robinson are a delight.

THE TALL TARGET (MGM, 1951). Dir Anthony Mann (78 min, 35mm).
A NYC police detective works to foil an assassination attempt on President-elect Lincoln during the latter's train trip from Springfield to Washington, D.C. in 1861.

February 26, 2009—Washington, DC
THE IRON HORSE (Fox, 1924). Dir John Ford. With Charles Edward Bull (115 min, 16mm).
An epic on the building of the transcontinental railroad and one of the true classics of American silent cinema.

March 5,2009 - Washington, DC
ARE WE CIVILIZED (Raspin Productions, 1934). Dir Edwin Carewe. With Frank McGlynn, Sr. (70 min, 35mm)
A low-budget independent production about a fictitious European country moving towards fascism and the efforts of a newsman to convince his old friend, the head of the national censorship bureau, to cease with the oppression of his people. Lincoln and other historical figures are used as examples of the positive side of human nature.

THE PERFECT TRIBUTE (MGM, 1935). Dir Edward Sloman. With Charles “Chic” Sale (19 min, 16mm).
A short based on the 1906 story by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews in which Lincoln helps a Southern boy trying to find a lawyer to write a will for his older brother, who is dying in prison after being wounded while fighting for the Confederacy.

March 11, 2009—Washington, DC
OMNIBUS. ABRAHAM LINCOLN—THE EARLY YEARS (TV-Radio Workshop of the Ford Foundation/CBS, 1952). Dir Norman Lloyd. With Royal Dano (150 min or 90 min - depending on which version we decide to show, 3/4").
Written by James Agee and originally broadcast in five segments as part of the OMNIBUS series, this was one the earliest TV productions on Lincoln, and remains one of the finest.

March 19, 2009—Washington, DC
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME. ROBERT E. SHERWOOD'S ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS (NBC, 1964). With Jason Robards (90 min, Digital Betacam).
Fourth screen adaptation of Sherwood’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, this time with Jason Robards as Lincoln.

March 26, 2009—Washington, DC
STAR TREK. THE SAVAGE CURTAIN (Paramount/NBC, 1969). (51 min, 16mm).

TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL. BEAUTIFUL DREAMER (CBS, 1998). (60 min, 3/4")
Two examples of Lincoln’s involvement with popular television: in the first, a replica of Lincoln invites Capt. Kirk and Mr. Spock to an alien planet where the three must battle Genghis Khan and other forces of evil, and in the second, a pair of angels tries to prevent Lincoln’s assassination.

April 2, 2009—Washington, DC
THE LITTLEST REBEL (Twentieth Century-Fox, 1935). Dir David Butler. With Frank McGlynn, Sr. (73 min, 35mm).
Shirley Temple charms a Union officer to protect her Confederate father. Shirley’s dance numbers with Bill “Bojangles” Robinson are a delight.

SOUTHERN FRIED RABBIT (Warner Bros. Cartoons, 1953). With Bugs Bunny (7 min, 35mm)

April 9, 2009—Washington, DC
ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS (RKO, 1940). Dir John Cromwell. With Raymond Massey (110 min, 35mm).
Quintessential Americana with Raymond Massey repeating his role from the successful Broadway run of Robert Sherwood’s play.

April 16, 2009—Washington, DC
THE AMERICAN HERITAGE. LINCOLN—TRIAL BY FIRE (David Wolper Productions/ABC, 1973). Dir Ed Spiegel. With John Anderson. (52 min, 16mm).
Dramatization of the first two years of Lincoln’s presidency, focusing on his disagreements with Gen. McClellan over military strategy and his decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

SMALL WORLD. SANDBURG, DIRKSEN, PARKINSON (CBS, 1960). (28 min, 16mm).
Edward R. Murrow hosts a discussion on how Lincoln would be viewed in the modern world; participants: poet Carl Sandburg, Senator Everett M. Dirksen, and historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson.

April 23, 2009—Washington, DC
YOUNG MR. LINCOLN (Twentieth Century-Fox, 1939). Dir John Ford. With Henry Fonda (100 min, 35mm).
The most widely shown and best known dramatization of Lincoln's life.

April 30, 2009—Washington, DC
THE TALL TARGET (MGM, 1951). Dir Anthony Mann (78 min, 35mm).
A NYC police detective works to foil an assassination attempt on President-elect Lincoln during the latter’s train trip from Springfield to Washington, D.C. in 1861.

PORTFOLIO. THE LINCOLN PAPERS (WTOP-TV, 1961). (38 min, 16mm).
A TV documentary on the Lincoln manuscript collection at the Library of Congress, with David C. Mearns.

May 7, 2009—Washington, DC
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (MGM, 1959). Dir Alfred Hitchcock (136 min, 35mm)
One of the most popular Hitchcock thrillers was referred to as “The Man on Lincoln’s Nose” during production.

THE SHRINE OF DEMOCRACY AT MOUNT RUSHMORE, SOUTH DAKOTA—A MEMORIAL TO GUTZON BORGLUM. (22 min, b&w, 16mm).
A compilation of newsreel footage on the building of the Mt. Rushmore monument.

More film events

Other Events

Law Day Program: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
May 1, 2009 at 1:00pm
Congressional Members' Room, 1st Floor, Jefferson Building

Poetry at Noon
March 10, 2009
“Poems related to Abraham Lincoln”
Pickford Theater
Sponsored by the Poetry Office

February 20, 2009 (Friday), 12 noon, Mumford Room, Madison Building
Books & Beyond program. Anthony Pitch discussed and signed his new book “They Have Killed Papa Dead!:” The Road to Ford’s Theater, Abraham Lincoln’s Murder and the Rage of Vengeance (Steerforth Press, 2008). This was one of several Library of Congress programs marking the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth.

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