The Museum of the Grand Prairie has participated in the Remembering Lincoln Digital Collection by contributing pieces from its own collections, and those of local Lincolniana collector Kent Tucker.  Located in Champaign County, Illinois, the museum is in one of the counties of the 8th Judicial Circuit, where Lincoln practiced law.

Planning a funeral is a difficult task under normal circumstances. Planning the funeral of a recently assassinated U.S. president brings that task to another level of complexity. That responsibility fell to 50-year-old George R. Harrington, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

This month we take a look at primary sources from our Remembering Lincoln partners at the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee. 

Remembering Lincoln brings a range of primary sources that show how people in 1865 responded to the first-ever presidential assassination and death of Abraham Lincoln. 

This month we take a look at primary sources from our Remembering Lincoln partners at the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries. 

One of our partners for the Remembering Lincoln digital collection is the Newseum. In the below post, learn more about The New York Herald editions now on display at the Newseum and what’s remarkable about each of them.

On April 14 and 15, 2015, the streets of Washington, D.C., were filled with thousands of people paying tribute to Abraham Lincoln and his legacy. Learn all about our 36 hours of continuous programming on the Ford’s campus that marked the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination and death.

We at the Minnesota Historical Society are very excited to be participating in the Ford’s Theatre project Remembering Lincoln!

Want to know more about what happened in Civil War history 150 years ago, and why it is still poignant today? Look no further! Below you will find a collection of Fords 150-related digital resources. 

As Lincoln’s shocked and shattered mourners struggled to understand God’s inscrutable intentions and to absorb the incomprehensible, they understood that they—each one of them—stood as witnesses. Whether or not you were inside Ford’s Theatre that terrible night, history was being made before your very eyes.