Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War - A Traveling Exhibition to Libraries

FAIN: LL-50066-09

Curry Public Library District (Gold Beach, OR 97444-8732)
Corey Bard (Project Director: February 2009 to May 2024)

Using the Constitution as the cohesive thread, the 1000-square-foot panel exhibition offers a perspective on Abraham Lincoln that focuses on his struggle to meet political and constitutional challenges of the Civil War. Organized thematically, the exhibition explores how Lincoln used the Constitution to confront three intertwined crises of the war -- the secession of Southern states, slavery, and wartime civil liberties. Reproductions of significant documents signed by Lincoln, including the Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth Amendment, and the Order to Blockade the Southern Ports -- the official start of the Civil War -- are included in the exhibit.