The American Library Association Public Programs Office has chosen the Aurora Historical Society to host Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War, a traveling exhibition developed by the National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, and the American Library Association Public Programs Office, with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. AHS President John Kudley said that the exhibition will tour the country from October 2011 through the fall of 2015. It will appear in Ohio only eleven times. The exhibition will be on display in AHS’s museum from February to April 2013.

The historical society will spend the next year creating many programs featuring speakers and re-enactors to accompany the exhibition and AHS will create a mini-exhibit of Civil War Era fashions, photographs, and other artifacts. “We hope to partner with several local organizations, businesses, and groups to make this a community event which will educate, entertain, and delight people of all ages,” stated Kudley.

Possible events include humanities scholars discussing the topics of states’ rights versus federal rights, slavery, abolition, and the Underground Railroad, among other Continue reading Lincoln Is Coming in 2013