Abraham Lincoln

Recent discovery.......

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/05/dr-charles-leale-abraham-lincoln-report...

A fine example of historical researchers rediscovering our past. Documents from 1865 found in 2012.

I heard the woman who found the papers on NPR yesterday. She told the story of the discovery very matter of factually but you could tell that the interviewer was as impressed (overwhelmed?) by it as I was.

I am going to be in DC next week and will be spending some time in the Archives doing some research. I don't expect to find anything new, just looking at the original version of documents I already know about but, after hearing this story, I have to say you never know what you will find there.

TL, Do you have a link to the NPR piece?

Apropos of Lincoln in name only...
I was at the movies with my wife on Tuesday night to waste a couple of hours watching "superheroes" battle interdimensional armies when a preview for a movie about Lincoln came on. Very exciting, strange (not in a good way), lots of action, something about an axe, etc. And then the movie title came on the screen. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer.

The theatre exploded into laughter.

I must admit, it's about the worst idea for a movie I have ever heard. It's already its own parody!

Daniel

Daniel, I heard it on the air while commuting but I managed to find a link to it.

http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=154368042

How do you like Cambridge?

Tim, thanks for asking what we are all wondering...........

Daniel, can you start a thread or a blog to tell us what it is like? A thousand questions re what you are seeing and thinking as you go around. Are you going to go for a degree there?

Please don't forget us back here and in the meantime best wishes to you and the wife in all your pursuits.!!

Urquhart

So, can we assume he really is dead?

Kidding, old documents turning up are great - even when they don't add much to what we already know.